Global pharma and dermo-cosmetics manufacturer with French manufacturing and international brand portfolio
Pierre Fabre is a 10,000+ person pharmaceutical and skincare group operating across 120 countries with dual manufacturing and innovation hubs in France, Brazil, and Japan. The tech stack—SAP, Dynamics 365, Workday, AWS, Azure, and SAS—reflects a large-scale enterprise operation managing supply chain, financials, and analytics at global scope. Active hiring in sales, marketing, and data roles, combined with projects around MLOps industrialization, real-world evidence studies, and cloud cost governance, signals a company scaling digital infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support market expansion.
Notable leadership hires: IT Lead, Data Analytics Lead, HEOR Director
Pierre Fabre manufactures and distributes pharmaceuticals and dermo-cosmetics across medical oncology, dermatology, skincare, and oral care portfolios. The group operates 44 subsidiaries globally, manufactures over 95% of products in France, and generated €2.7 billion in revenue in 2022 with 69% from international markets. The company is majority-held by the Pierre Fabre Foundation with employee stock ownership, and maintains R&D centers in France and innovation outposts in Brazil and Japan. Current operational focus includes process automation, cloud cost management, security compliance, and data product development.
20+ countries: France, United States, Vietnam, Belgium, Peru, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Spain, Canada, Greece, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Turkey, and Cyprus.
Core systems: SAP, Dynamics 365 (Supply Chain & CRM), Workday (HR), AWS/Azure cloud, Power BI/SAS for analytics. Security: Active Directory, Entra ID, HSM, PKI, SASE adoption underway.
Scaling data infrastructure (MLOps, real-world evidence studies), cloud cost governance, process automation, security compliance, and building data products for market insights across oncology and dermo-cosmetics lines.
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