Injectable drug containment and delivery components and devices
West Pharmaceutical Services makes packaging and delivery systems for injectable medicines, running a deep SAP estate (S/4HANA, QM, MM, PM, BW) alongside CNC, Fanuc and MES on the shop floor. Its hiring tilts toward manufacturing and engineering roles, and job posts concentrate on line efficiency, equipment reliability and scrap reduction. The company is adopting Microsoft Fabric and SAP S/4HANA, which points to an ERP and analytics modernization push.
Notable leadership hires: Production Team Lead, Quality Director, Cluster Lead, Head of Quality, Finance Director
West Pharmaceutical Services is a public company headquartered in Exton, PA, and was founded in 1923. It supplies packaging and delivery systems for injectable medicines to both established and emerging drug developers. Its work covers containment components and delivery devices that are produced at high volume across a global manufacturing network. The company employs between 5,001 and 10,000 people and is hiring in the United States, Brazil, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore and China.
West runs SAP, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP QM, SAP MM and SAP PM. It is still adopting S/4HANA, which suggests an ERP migration is in progress.
Yes. Engineering and manufacturing are its largest hiring areas, and most roles sit at senior and mid levels. Open roles span the US, Brazil, India, the UK, Germany, Singapore and China.
Current initiatives include Lean Six Sigma programs, predictive maintenance planning, new automation design concepts, new product development and validation, and regulatory strategy for a medical device development platform.
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