The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 22% rise in new job postings related to social responsibility in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 24% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Pharma: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 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.
Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 24% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s social responsibility-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 46% over the prior quarter.
Management Occupations drive social responsibility-related hiring activity
Management Occupations, with a share of 24%, emerged as the top social responsibility-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 46% quarter-on-quarter. Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations came in second with a share of 9% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 17% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent social responsibility roles include Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations with an 8% share in Q2 2024, Sales and Related Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.
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By GlobalDataTop five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 54% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were AbbVie, CSL, Biocon, Eurofins Scientific, and Novartis. Together they accounted for a combined share of 54% of all social responsibility-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
AbbVie posted 3,600 social responsibility-related new jobs in Q2 2024, CSL 2,446 jobs, Biocon 1,969 jobs, Eurofins Scientific 1,460 jobs, and Novartis 991 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 55.82% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of social responsibility-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 55.82% followed by India (14.85%) and the UK (3.35%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point higher than the 55.18% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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