The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 24% drop in new job postings related to social responsibility in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 74% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Pharma: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the pharmaceuticals industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Healthcare Support Occupations jobs accounted for a 23% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s social responsibility-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 30% over the prior quarter.
Healthcare Support Occupations drive social responsibility-related hiring activity
Healthcare Support Occupations, with a share of 23%, emerged as the top social responsibility-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 30% quarter-on-quarter. Sales and Related Occupations came in second with a share of 16% in Q4 2023, with new job postings rising by 90% over the previous quarter.
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The other prominent social responsibility roles include Management Occupations with a 14% share in Q4 2023, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations with a 7% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 89% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Kedrion Biopharma, LFB USA, Vitera Healthcare Solutions, JDRF Canadian Clinical Trial Network, and Greenlight Biosciences. Together they accounted for a combined share of 89% of all social responsibility-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Kedrion Biopharma posted 35 social responsibility-related new jobs in Q4 2023, LFB USA 32 jobs, Vitera Healthcare Solutions 28 jobs, JDRF Canadian Clinical Trial Network 7 jobs, and Greenlight Biosciences 5 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 85.83% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of social responsibility-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 85.83% followed by Canada (5.83%) and India (5.00%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points lower than the 85.99% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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