Independent pharmacy chain with 55+ stores across UK and Ireland
Gordons Chemists operates a multi-branch pharmacy retail network across Northern Ireland and Scotland, supported by a Microsoft and AWS cloud infrastructure. Active infrastructure projects—network rollout, cloud optimization, and smart warehousing with IoT integration—signal a push toward operational automation and supply-chain modernization. Hiring velocity is accelerating across sales and engineering, with a balanced mix of junior and senior roles, suggesting both growth-stage scaling and technical capability-building.
Gordons Chemists is Northern Ireland's largest independently owned pharmacy chain, operating 55 stores across Northern Ireland and Scotland, plus an e-commerce operation (gordonsdirect.com) serving the wider UK market. Founded in 1980, the company combines community pharmacy services—prescription fulfillment, healthcare advice, dispensing—with retail health and beauty product sales. The business is headquartered in Banbridge and employs between 501 and 1,000 staff. Current operations span retail pharmacy management, logistics, and a growing digital/e-commerce function.
Azure, AWS, and GCP, complemented by Microsoft 365 suite (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams) and infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform and Azure Resource Manager.
Network infrastructure rollout, cloud migration and optimization, smart warehousing integration with robotics, and IoT device deployment across operations.
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