
Working student (all genders) in Healthcare R&D Portfolio Planning & Valuation Excellence
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Job description
Merck Healthcare posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Darmstadt: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by Merck Healthcare
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
We are looking for a talented individual with a keen interest in project management and business analytics to support our global R&D Portfolio Planning & Valuation Excellence group. You will support our global team in optimizing workflows and be responsible for selected operational processes. In addition, you will support the preparation of tailored analyses and management presentations to enable data-driven decision making and optimized R&D operations. Finally, supporting interdisciplinary teams in the implementation of improvement initiatives will also be part of your responsibility. Working in our team will expose you to a variety of project and portfolio management topics in an international environment. You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse and agile group, contribute your own ideas and get to know the challenges of steering a global biopharmaceutical R&D organization.
Who You Are
- Graduate/ Advanced student in natural sciences, medicine, pharmacy, computer science, business administration, economics, or a related field
- Strong interest in project management and business analytics
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- High degree of independence and strong communication and teamworking skills
- Openness to get involved in a wide range of tasks and taking joy in developing creative solutions
- Fluency (C1) in English, both written and spoken
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Working student essentials
What this Operations working student role in Darmstadt means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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