Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an industrial pharmacist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an industrial pharmacist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Industrial pharmacists are involved in the research and creation of medications. They develop new medicines, perform tests, assure quality and ensure that medication complies with regulations.

Also known as pharmaceutical industry pharmacist, industrial pharmacy specialist, industrial pharmacy consultant.

Professionals 46 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: specialist pharmacist, 38%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
specialist pharmacist 38% covered hospital pharmacist 36% covered pharmacist 34% covered pharmaceutical quality specia… 27% covered anatomical pathology technici… 17% covered industrial pharmacist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from industrial pharmacist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an industrial pharmacist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An industrial pharmacist needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • pharmaceutical processes health and welfare
  • pharmacotherapy health and welfare
  • pharmacognosy health and welfare
  • pharmacokinetics health and welfare
  • pharmacy law business, administration and law
  • inorganic chemistry natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • organic chemistry natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • improve safety of medicines management skills
  • pharmaceutical technology health and welfare
  • develop pharmaceutical drugs management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an industrial pharmacist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Industrial pharmacist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an industrial pharmacist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.