environmental sustainability related hiring actvity in the pharma industry

Notably, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations jobs accounted for a 19% share of the global pharmaceutical industry’s environmental sustainability-related total new job postings in Q3 2023, up 12% over the prior quarter.

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations drive environmental sustainability-related hiring activity

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, with a share of 19%, emerged as the top environmental sustainability-related job roles within the pharmaceutical industry in Q3 2023, with new job postings rising by 12% quarter-on-quarter. Healthcare Support Occupations came in second with a share of 13% in Q3 2023, with new job postings rising by 277% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent environmental sustainability roles include Management Occupations with a 7% share in Q3 2023, Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations with a 7% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in pharmaceutical industry accounted for 69% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2023 were CSL, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer. Together they accounted for a combined share of 69% of all environmental sustainability-related new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.

CSL posted 3,531 environmental sustainability-related new jobs in Q3 2023, Johnson & Johnson 321 jobs, Merck 245 jobs, Novo Nordisk 222 jobs, and Pfizer 185 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 71.32% share of total new job postings, Q3 2023

The largest share of environmental sustainability-related new job postings in the pharmaceutical industry in Q3 2023 was in the US with 71.32% followed by Australia (3.67%) and India (2.68%). The share represented by the US was 11 percentage points higher than the 60.27% share it accounted for in Q2 2023.

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GlobalData, the leading provider of industry intelligence, provided the underlying data, research, and analysis used to produce this article.

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