UK pharma careers for internationally trained healthcare professionals

Your experience belongs here.

We help internationally trained healthcare professionals translate their experience, build what is genuinely missing and move towards the right opportunities in the UK.

Book a Call

Not sure where you fit or what support you need? Book a call and we’ll help you identify the right next step.

Elfrida Emmanuel-Osawe, founder of PharmaTech Careers, with the CPD Standards Office accredited CPD activity badge

CPD accredited Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance programmes

The CPD Standards Office · Provider 51119

Watch Frida

Real talk on breaking into UK pharma.

Career guidance, honest advice and the inside track on pharma and work-from-home healthcare roles, straight from Frida’s YouTube channel.

On Instagram

Your degree can open doors in the UK.

For every overseas pharmacist who has been told the only way forward is starting again: patient support, Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance roles are open to you, with or without GPhC registration.

Daily job boards, career strategy and the honest truth about breaking into UK pharma, from @elfridathepharmacist.

You may not need to start again.

A new market can make experienced professionals look junior on paper. The problem is often not a lack of experience, but how that experience is understood, positioned and evidenced.

PharmaTech Careers helps you work out what already transfers, what genuinely needs development and what to do next.

Route one

For Healthcare Professionals

Get career direction, close targeted knowledge gaps, build practical evidence and position your experience for the market.

Explore Your Options

Route two

For Employers

Discover internationally trained healthcare and life-sciences professionals bringing clinical, scientific and industry experience to the UK market.

Explore Employer Solutions

Why PharmaTech Careers exists

You did not come this far to start from zero.

You left a country, a title, a reputation. You arrived with years of patient care, clinical judgement and scientific training, and the market read your CV as if none of it counted. The applications went out. The rejections came back. Sometimes nothing came back at all.

We know the weight of that. The quiet doubt. The family asking when. The pressure of the clock. The feeling of being qualified for everything except the job you actually want.

PharmaTech Careers was built so that weight stops being yours to carry alone.

Every level exists for a reason

  1. Clarity

    Book a Call

    When you feel lost, you need direction before you need another course.

  2. Truth

    Career Audit

    An honest map of where you fit, what already transfers and what is genuinely missing.

  3. Knowledge

    E-Learning Modules

    Close the exact gap, without paying to relearn what you already know.

  4. Evidence

    Live Integration Programmes

    Case-based work, live teaching and feedback that turn knowledge into proof an employer can see.

  5. Momentum

    Mentorship & career support

    Someone in your corner through the applications, the interviews and the near-misses, with references on request.

  6. Visibility

    Portfolio & Talent Directory

    Your work published, your profile seen, your experience finally visible to the people hiring.

This is not an academy. It is a transformation hub. You arrive with experience. You leave with evidence, a story employers understand and people who will vouch for you.

Weekly job updates

Get pharma job updates every week.

Subscribe to the PharmaTech Careers newsletter and get weekly job updates straight to your inbox.

After you graduate

Where these careers can take you

Medical Information, Pharmacovigilance and Medical Writing professionals work across pharmaceutical companies, contract research organisations and specialist safety and communications providers, including organisations such as these.

  • AstraZeneca
  • GSK
  • Pfizer
  • Novartis
  • Roche
  • Sanofi
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • MSD
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • AbbVie
  • Eli Lilly
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Bayer
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Takeda
  • Astellas
  • Amgen
  • Gilead Sciences
  • IQVIA
  • Parexel
  • ICON
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific (PPD)
  • Syneos Health
  • Fortrea
  • Medpace
  • ProPharma
  • PrimeVigilance
  • Teva
  • Viatris
  • Sandoz
  • UCB
  • Ipsen
  • Daiichi Sankyo
  • Servier
  • GrĂ¼nenthal
  • Chiesi

Company names are shown only as examples of organisations that employ professionals in these fields. PharmaTech Careers is not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with any organisation named.