Top 10 Pharma Companies Hiring Globally Right Now
May 15, 2025 4 min read
Headcount growth tracks investment trends. We analyzed active sourcing directories and open vacancy rates at 50 global sponsors and biotech startups.
Here are the top 10 companies expanding their teams this month.
The Sourcing Leaderboard
- Pfizer: Heavy expansion in oncology research units following recent acquisitions.
- Eli Lilly: Ongoing production scale-up for diabetes and obesity treatments driving clinical and manufacturing roles.
- Merck & Co. (MSD): Sourcing active researchers for vaccine pipelines and immunology trials.
- Novartis: Hiring for radioligand therapy platforms and global clinical operations teams.
- AstraZeneca: Scaling oncology trial teams and regulatory affairs positions across European hubs.
- Johnson & Johnson: Active recruitment for medical device validation engineers and clinical operations leads.
- Roche: Hiring computational biologists and data coordinators for oncology development teams.
- Sanofi: Expanding immunology trial cohorts and global pharmacovigilance teams.
- Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS): Seeking regulatory leads for cell therapy IND compilers.
- AbbVie: Recruiting clinical trial managers for immunology and oncology pipelines.