
Working Student Business Analytics (all genders)
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Job description
Merck Healthcare published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Darmstadt, Germany.
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.
We are seeking a Working Student Business Analytics to join the Digital, Data & IT (DDIT) function. Our particular team is responsible for the maintenance and development of the central project management tool within Healthcare R&D. This central tool supports clinical study project planning and demand forecasting within the Healthcare R&D business sector.
Your Role
As a Working Student (all genders) in Business Analytics, you will gain hands-on experience in data analysis, requirements engineering, and application configuration/evolution while collaborating with international project management and demand forecasting experts from diverse cultural backgrounds. Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the team in translating business needs into clear requirements and actionable insights
- Preparing reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate findings to internal stakeholders
- Coordinating deliverables across internal teams and external partners worldwide
- Working with the Planisware Enterprise platform and related digital tools
This role offers a unique opportunity to develop highly sought-after skills in a dynamic, international environment. You can expect to gain experience in:
- Business Analysis – requirements gathering, stakeholder communication, and functional documentation
- Data Analytics – working with project data to derive meaningful insights
- Project Management – supporting end-to-end project delivery in a complex, multicultural setting
- Technology – gaining exposure to industry-leading platforms such as Planisware Enterprise
- Currently enrolled as an active student in Computer Science, (Business) Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field
- Practical experience as a working student or intern, ideally in a corporate IT or business analytics role
- Proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks
- Strong analytical mindset with an eye for detail and structured approach to problem-solving
- Excellent (C1) verbal and written English communication skills; additional languages are a plus
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Reliable, curious, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment
- Able to work onsite in Darmstadt, Germany
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Working student essentials
What this Tech working student role in Darmstadt means for you — the weekly-hours rules, 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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