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Industry overview
Pharmaceutical industry can be classified into four
business units into two groups.
Group 1
Drug Discovery
Group 2 (Manufacturing)
1. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients(API)
2. Generics.
3.Biologics.
Group 1
DRUG DISCOVERY
Introduction
The success of pharmaceutical companies is
completely depends on drug discovery.
It involved great amount of time and money.
The highly successful companies have a
great teams dedicated for R&D, who are
continuously keeping their efforts to build
and develop new molecules or medicines.
It is a CATALYST of Pharmaceutical Industry.
Process
Time &
Cost Of the
Process
Development
Stage
Average time to
Complete
Cost*
Discovery
Preclinical
1. In vitro(Test tube)
testing
2. In vivo(animal) efficacy
testing(1 2 animal
models)
3. Safety (toxicity) (2
animal models)
Total pre-clinical
CMC (Chemistry,
manufacturing and
controls, which includes
scale up) pre-clinical
IND****
(Investigational New Drug)
( Preparation, filling and
FDA approval)
Clinicals
1. Phase 1 (safety) studies
2. Phase 2 (initial efficacy,
small patient population)
3. Phase 3 (comparative
efficacy, larger patient
population)
Total clinical
CMC for NDA
1 2 years
$1 3 million
1%
1 year
1 2 years
$1 million
$1 2 million
2%
3%
1 2 years
3 5 years
$1 2 million
$3 5 million
4%
5%
$1 2 million
7%
3 6 years
$0.5 1 million
10%
1 2 years
2 3 years
$1 3 million
$3 6 million
15 25%
35 45%
3 4 years
$10 20 million
65%
6 9 years
$13 29 million
65%
$2 4 million
70%
$1 2 million
75%
1 2 years
1.5 3 years
$1 2 million
$2 4 million
75%
NDA(New Drug
Application) (preparation
and submission includes
pre NDA meeting with
FDA)
1 2 years(can be run in
parallel to pre-clinical
studies)***
% probability of
Success**
Wanted leaders
Group 2
MANUFACTURI
NG
Overview of the
departments
Active Pharmaceutical
Ingredients(API)
In this particular business unit
manufactures bulk drugs called
APIs
The raw materials used are
chemicals.
The functional department of the
business unit are
1. Production
2. Quality Control
3. Quality Assurance
4. Process and development
5. Technology Transfer
6. Process Engineering
7. Engineering services
8. Projects
9. Regulatory Affairs
10.Supply chain management
11.Ware house
12.Business development and
strategic management
13.Information Technology
14.Finance
15.Human Resources
16.Administration
17.Marketing
Generics
It is the manufactures tablets,
capsules, oral drugs.
APIs are further process in
these manufacturing.
The functional department of
the business unit are
1. Production
2. Quality Control
3. Quality Assurance
4. Process and development
5. Technology Transfer
6. Process Engineering
7. Engineering services
8. Projects
9. Regulatory Affairs
10.Supply chain management
11.Ware house
12.Business development and
strategic management
13.Information Technology
14.Finance
15.Human Resources
16.Administration
17.Marketing
Biologics
It
basically
manufactures
bio
similar
products
by
using
downstream process and upstream
process.
The raw material is it self bio
molecule used to produce same
kind of bio molecule.
The functional department of the
business unit are
1. Production
2. Quality Control
3. Quality Assurance
4. Process and development
5. Technology Transfer
6. Process Engineering
7. Engineering services
8. Projects
9. Regulatory Affairs
10.Supply chain management
11.Ware house
12.Business development and
strategic management
13.Information Technology
14.Finance
15.Human Resources
16.Administration
17.Marketing
Departments overview
Production Department
Function
Educational Qualification
API
Production
Generics
Biologics
M.
Diploma (Chemical)
Sc(Biotechnology)
B.Sc,
B. Pharm, M. Pharm M.Sc(Biochemistry)
M.Sc(chemistry)
B. Tech
B.E(Chemical)
(Biotechnology)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Quality Control
Function
Educational Qualification
API
Quality
Control
M. Sc(Chemistry)
Generics
Biologics
M. Pharm
M.
Sc(Biotechnology)
M.Sc(Biochemistry)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quality Assurance
Function
Quality
Assurance
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
M. Sc(chemistry)
M. Pharm
M.Sc(Biotechnology)
M.Sc(Biochemistry)
Process &
developm
ent
M. Sc(Organic
chemistry)
M. Sc(Analytical
Chemistry)
Ph.D(Chemistry)
B.E(Chemical)
Generics
Biologics
B.E(Biotechnology)
M. Pharm
M.
Ph.D(Pharmaceutical
Sc(Biotechnology)
chemistry /
M.Sc(Biochemistry)
Pharmaceutics)
Ph.D(Biotechnology
B.E(Chemical)
/ Biochemistry)
Process Engineer
Function
Process
Engineering
Educational Qualification
API
B.E / B.Tech
(Chemical) or
M.E. /
M.Tech(Chemical)
Generics
Biologics
B.E / B.Tech
B.E / B.Tech
(Chemical or
(Chemical) or
Biotechnology) or
M.E. /
M.E. /
M.Tech(Chemical) M.Tech(Biotechnolo
gy)
Functio
n
Technolo
gy
Transfer
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
M.Sc(chemistry)
B.E / B.Tech
(Chemical) or
M.E. /
M.Tech(Chemical)
M.Pharm
B.E / B.Tech
(Chemical) or
M.E. /
M.Tech(Chemical)
M.Sc(Biotechnology /
Biochemistry)
B.E / B.Tech (Chemical or
Biotechnology) or
M.E. / M.Tech(Chemical or
Biotechnology)
Engineering Services
Educational Qualification
Function
API
Engineering
services
Generics
Biologics
Projects
Functio
n
Project
s
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
1.
2.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Warehouse
Educational Qualification
Function
API
Ware house
Generics
Biologics
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
SCM plays a crucial role in this industry with the following sub functions.
Purchase Corporate
Purchase Chemical
Purchase Material
Purchase Packing materials
Purchase Machines
Logistics Corporate
Logistics Chemical
Logistics Material
Logistics Packing materials
Logistics Machines
Procurement
Materials management
Sourcing
Head - Purchase
Head Logistics
Head Procurement
Head Sourcing
Head - SCM
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Finance
Function
Finance
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
MBA(HR or OD or IR)
Biologics
Information Technology
Function
Informatio
n
Technology
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
Administration
Function
Administrat
ion
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
Regulatory Affairs
Function
Regulatory
Affairs
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
Marketing
Function
Marketing
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
Educational Qualification
API
Generics
Biologics
Recruitment Process
Implementation(contact and
evaluate)
Select after all the evaluations are done, the technical team and the HR has
to decide on the candidate selection.
Offer Recruiter need to prepare like to like of presently what he is. And what
we can offer.
HR will decide on the CTC to be offered.
After receiving the inputs from HR, recruiter need to have a clear discussion
with the candidate about the offer to be made and send a official mail of offer.
Candidate has to reply back on the mail by next 24 hours of his acceptance.
If he is not replying back by next 72 hours, recruiter has to have a conversation
with the candidate, need to take his concerns about the offer and request to
write him with his concerns.
If the concerns can be considered, recruiter need to have a discussion with the
HR and clear it off.
If concerns are not with in the boundaries, recruiter has to revote the offer.
Recruiter should be in continuous follow up with the candidate till his joining.
We can find the profiles of the junior work level in Job sites like Naukri
and monster.
For middle level along with job sites linkedin is very helpful for getting
the closures.
Especially at the top management we can use linkedin and need to
headhunt for the leaders in the industry.
Internal employee referrals is also very much useful for getting
closures.
Communication skills and basic computer knowledge is must.
Vendor management is very much helpful for recruitments candidates
and middle and senior work levels.
A recruiter should have accurate understanding on the requirement.
It will help him to close the positions in time.
Continuous interactions with the line managers will help a recruiter to
understand what exactly he is looking at his team.
Skill matrix
Name of the
Educational
candidate
Qualification
Institute
Work
Experience
Present
Company
Pervious
Present CTC
companies
Expected
CTC
Mr. X
Mr. Y
Mr. Z
Reasons are