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Careers in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical company employees are all focused on a single task – delivering effective medicines to patients. Our scientists and engineers work at the cutting edge of science and technology, using state of the art techniques to deliver the medicines of the future.

New career poster

Some of the jobs scientists do in the pharmaceutical industry are highlighted in our new poster. The poster links to the many case studies on this site. Career advisors and teachers can order the poster here.

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This could be you

Medicinal Chemist

Medicinal Chemist

There’s a drug that recently came to market, and I was one of three people who had worked on the program when it started.

 

Areas of work

Production Engineering

Production Engineering

Engineers seek to make improvements throughout the manufacturing process, and are responsible for exploiting emerging technologies.

 

Did you know?

The industry is global

The industry is global

The value of UK pharmaceutical exports was £13.8 billion in 2006, more than £230,000 per employee.

 
 

Information provided by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)