The global pharmaceutical industry experienced a 9% rise in new job postings related to corporate governance in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 3% decrease 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.

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Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 25% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s corporate governance-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 9% over the prior quarter.

Management Occupations drive corporate governance-related hiring activity

Management Occupations, with a share of 25%, emerged as the top corporate governance-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 9% 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 9% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent corporate governance roles include Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations with a 6% share in Q2 2024, Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 47% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Biocon, Novartis, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, and ICON. Together they accounted for a combined share of 47% of all corporate governance-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.

Biocon posted 1,506 corporate governance-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Novartis 832 jobs, Sanofi 483 jobs, AstraZeneca 470 jobs, and ICON 256 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 33.54% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024

The largest share of corporate governance-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 33.54% followed by India (26.53%) and China (6.55%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points lower than the 36.85% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.

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This content was updated on 28 July 2024

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