32 Companies

Unfortunately the large companies with the large salaries are generally the ones that aren’t recruiting or are actively cutting back their workforce. Nevertheless, here are 32 companies of various sizes from the UK healthcare sector that may be worth checking occasionally.

Listed are the links to their UK website and careers page, with info on whether they're advertising for chemist R&D positions on their site (on 2/2/11). Note that not all companies advertise vacancies on their own site (a lot go through agencies) so this list is just another tool in the job searching armory.

Abbott – Job site – none in R&D

AstraZeneca – Job site - pharmacometrician, med comms scientist, chemometrics, DMPK

Bayer – Job site – none in R&D

Boehringer Ingelheim – Job site – none in R&D

Bristol-Myers Squibb – Job site – none in R&D

Chroma – Job site – PhD medicinal chemist (beyond closing date)

Eisai – Job site – none in R&D

Eli Lilly – Job site – none in R&D

Evotec – Job site – snr medicinal chemist

GE Healthcare – Job site – development technologist

Gilead Sciences – Job site - regulatory

GSK – Job site – formulation, new products

Johnson & Johnson – Job site – none in R&D

Merck Serono – Job site – none in R&D

Merck Sharp Dohme – Job site – reg affairs

Mundi Int – Job site – none in R&D

Novartis – Job site – chemical engineer, stats

Prosidion – Job site – principal formulation scientist, team leaders, scientists, snr scientists

Pfizer – Job site – none in R&D

Proctor & Gamble – Job site – lab tech, technical information scientist, QA

Roche – Job site – none in R&D

Sanofi-Aventis – Job site – none in R&D

Servier – Job site – none in R&D

Shire – Job site – directors, packaging&labeling, snr medical writer

Sigma Aldrich – Job site – process chemist

Syngenta – Job site – chemical indexing officer

Takeda – Job site – none in R&D

Teva – Job site – regulatory

UCB – Job site – devices, M&S

Unilever – Job site – material spec specialist

Vectura – Job site – formulation specialist

Vertex – Job site – DMPK research scientist