Global Challenge: Steak and procurement in Buenos Aires

Annie Miller, GlaxoSmithKline Procurement Internship (Buenos Aires)

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My second day in Buenos Aires I started at GSK and was met by Cecilia Linskens. Cecilia is a procurement manager and is whom I will be supporting throughout my internship. Over the last two weeks I have had a great insight into the structure of GSK’s procurement department, learning about the local and global networks in place throughout the company. I have been supporting Cecilia on a particular project regarding the restructuring of GSK’s use of marketing agencies, with particular attention on Brazil. I have been working with Cecilia on putting together a presentation comparing two agencies. In this task I have worked on preparing quantitative and qualitative data to compare the different companies. This has enabled me to learn about how excel is used to collect and show data and how GSK presents this information.

Global Challenge: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Morocco #4 – Final

Global Challenge Morocco, Final blog

My final 2 weeks started with somewhat of a disaster. I managed to spend Tuesday evening in a Moroccan fracture clinic. A post work food shop turned into a particularly nasty fall, which then in turn lead to my return home at 9 0’clock with my right leg up to the knee in plaster. I had to spend the next week sat in my apartment popping pills, with my leg propped up on cushions. A rather bleak existence. Showering became a lengthy process as did moving around the apartment in any form given for the first few days I had to hop.

Global Challenge: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Morocco #3

Week 5 got off to a great start with a follow up invitation from our Starbucks soiree! We were invited to have tour at the house of one of the staff Ahmed one evening. We are arrived to a huge table full of the most amazing home made food and drinks. We met all of his family and spent a rather long evening discussing the contrasts of the UK and Morocco as everything was translated round the table from English to French to Arabic and vice versa.