Corporate Communications Apprentice
About this opportunity
Location: Reading, UK
Start date: 01 September 2026
Duration: 16 months
Work Model: Full time, 35 hours weekly
About the job
As a Corporate Communications Apprentice, you will help bring Sanofi's communications to life by creating engaging content, supporting internal campaigns, and helping employees stay connected with our purpose. Working alongside the Corporate Communications team, you'll contribute to both internal and external communications while developing practical skills in content creation, digital communications, event support, and corporate storytelling.
Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.
About Sanofi
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Main responsibilities:
Create and publish engaging content across internal communication channels, including newsletters, employee communications and digital platforms.
Support the planning and delivery of internal communication campaigns, corporate announcements and employee engagement initiatives.
Assist with managing and updating websites, intranet pages and social media content to ensure information is accurate and engaging.
Help create digital assets, including graphics, videos and other multimedia content for internal communications.
Support the planning and delivery of internal events, Town Halls and employee engagement activities, both in-person and virtual.
Collaborate with teams across the business to help develop clear, effective communications that support organisational priorities.
Monitor communication and engagement metrics to help evaluate the impact of campaigns and identify opportunities for improvement.
About you
To be eligible for this apprenticeship, you must meet the entry requirements for a Level 4 apprenticeship, including five GCSEs (including English and Maths) and a Level 3 qualification, such as A Levels or equivalent.
To excel in this role, you will need to have:
Strong written English with the ability to communicate clearly and adapt your writing for different audiences.
An interest in communications, digital content creation, marketing or corporate affairs, with a willingness to learn new creative tools such as Canva or video editing software.
Previous experience in a professional, academic or voluntary environment where you have demonstrated organisation and collaboration skills.
A proactive approach, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage your own tasks while working effectively as part of a team.
Genuine enthusiasm for healthcare, science and corporate communications.
Why choose us?
Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you.
Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare.
Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve.
Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries.
Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives.
Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being.
Launch your career with a company that invests in you, and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Communications & Public Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 64 comparable Communications & Public Affairs roles across 26 biopharma companies.
Salary context
17 of 64 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 64 comparable roles
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Seniority mix
47 of 64 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
6 of 64 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
How we calculate "similar"
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.