Job Description

Description

An internship with GSW gives you the opportunity to work side by side with passionate problem solvers on powerful and fulfilling work. Our collaborative culture inspires you to learn from the expertise surrounding you and to share your own knowledge and experience with colleagues. You'll be asked to speak up and challenge the status quo - you have a voice and will be encouraged to use it.

Additionally, over the summer, there will be opportunities to participate in events just for our interns: social events with other interns, career development workshops, and networking with senior leaders - just to name a few!

This Opportunity

GSW is a full-service healthcare communications agency that goes beyond advertising to create personalized brand experiences. We develop strategic marketing solutions for pharmaceutical, biotech and health-and-wellness clients around the world. We create experiences that involve, inspire, educate and activate people through ongoing brand journeys.

Our GSW team is looking for an intellectually curious problem solver to join our team to help us continuously deliver strategic and data-driven solutions to our business unit partners and clients.

GSW's goal for this internship is to provide a full view of what it is like to work in the healthcare communications field as part of a creative agency. During your time with the agency you will get exposed to all aspects of a projects lifecycle, from writing briefs to learning about compliance requirements, you will gain a basic understanding of what it takes to bring an array of marketing materials to life. As an Account Management intern you will gain a comprehensive understanding of our business while working on real client deliverables, receiving 1-on-1 mentorship from experienced advertising industry professionals, developing your professional skills to meet both day-to-day agency and client expectations, and more.

Responsibilities:

• Serving as an active member of the account team, learning the fundamentals of account management, understanding what principled account management looks like, and how to confidently provide client service support
• Contributing to roles that bring projects to completion effectively & efficiently cross-functionally, under the supervision of an account team member
• Completing day-to-day tasks associated with running projects, including capturing internal and client feedback, assisting with collateral updates, writing meeting recaps, creating project briefs, updating status sheets, contributing to the management of project budgets and creation of timelines, organizing files on the agency server, daily administrative tasks, etc.
• Collaborating successfully with all agency departments, ensuring teams are prepared for internal and external meetings, coordinating meetings, and follow-ups on outstanding items
• Performing market analysis and research on competition and shares findings with the team
• Collaborating with fellow interns to complete a special project and presenting to the executive leadership team
• Seeking out increased opportunity for learning and exposure to aspects of the agency world that intrigue you most
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Current pursuit of a bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or similar
• Past internship experience or project work in Communications or Advertising is a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams), and email
• Above-average attention to detail, effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage a workload consisting of several concurrent projects or tasks
• Ability to stay organized, multi-task, and be proactive
• Can collaborate well with internal team members
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically
• Strong interest in the marketing and advertising industry

Candidates must be a minimum of a Rising Junior and currently enrolled full time in Spring/Summer or Spring/Fall '26 semesters. The Commercial Summer Intern Program runs from May 18, 2026 to July 24, 2026 and all positions will work full time (up to 40 hours per week). The anticipated hourly rate for this position is $24-26 but may vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role.

At GSW, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

GSW is a full-service healthcare communications agency that goes beyond advertising to create personalized brand experiences that involve, inspire, educate and activate people through ongoing brand journeys. As one of the world's ten most-awarded healthcare advertising agencies, GSW is hell-bent not to replace the same old with the same old. This is achieved through a provocative premise - if other brands communicated the way healthcare brands do, how many customers would they have? GSW turns against this premise through discovery of beneath-the-surface customer insights that we impact with stories, simplicity and authenticity.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Summer work, Internship, Summer internship, Work at office

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