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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations
230 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 November 2023
Employment effect (start)
21 November 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Pharmaceutical multinational, Pfizer, is to create 230 new jobs in Ireland in 2024.
The new roles will be based at two of its five sites in Ireland, Grange Castle in Dublin and Ringaskiddy in Cork.
Despite the company undergoing a global cost restructuring programme and some redundancies in Ireland, the company announced expected overall growth in the Irish operations due to the new roles.
Pfizer currently employs 5,000 workers in Ireland, across its five sites, with 2,210 currently employed at Grange Castle, Dublin and 820 in Ringaskiddy, Cork. A recent restructuring event of Pfizer in Ireland has been recorded in the ERM events database Pfizer-2023-IE.
Eurofound (2023), Pfizer, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 200894, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200894.
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