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Top pharmaceutical employers in Italy

Novartis leads Italian pharmaceutical with a Visibility score of 97.4 out of 100, 5.1 points ahead of Pfizer. Roche is third. The list covers the 39 pharmaceutical employers AI recommends to job seekers in Italy.

39 employers · scores out of 100 · Data updated:

  1. 1

    Novartis

    #1 in Italian pharmaceutical#1 for Commercial & Sales#1 for Manufacturing & Quality#1 for Regulatory Affairs

    Every AI recommends it for purpose, work-life balance and pay, among others. The pharmaceutical employer AI recommends most in Italy.

    97.4
  2. 2

    Pfizer

    Top 3#1 for Clinical Research#1 for Manufacturing & QualityGlobal star

    Every AI recommends it for work-life balance, pay and innovation, among others.

    92.3
  3. 3

    Roche

    Top 3Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for work-life balance, pay and inclusion, among others.

    89.7
  4. 3

    Sanofi

    Top 3#1 for Regulatory Affairs#1 for Research & DevelopmentEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for pay, innovation and onboarding, among others.

    89.7
  5. 5

    GSK

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for leadership, interviews and job security, among others.

    74.4
  6. 6

    AstraZeneca

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for the hiring process, culture and interviews, among others.

    64.1
  7. 6

    Bayer

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for inclusion, interviews and job security, among others.

    64.1
  8. 8

    Chiesi

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for innovation and leadership.

    56.4
  9. 9

    Menarini

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for purpose.

    53.8
  10. 10

    Merck

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for career growth.

    46.2

Everyone else

11 to 24Zambon, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly, Takeda and 25 moreShow
  1. 11Zambon35.9
  2. 12Merck & Co.30.8
  3. 13Eli Lilly23.1
  4. 14Takeda20.5
  5. 15AbbVie7.7
  6. 15Johnson & Johnson7.7
  7. 17Bausch Health5.1
  8. 17Boehringer Ingelheim5.1
  9. 17IQVIA5.1
  10. 17Janssen5.1
  11. 17Novo Nordisk5.1
  12. 17Sandoz5.1
  13. 17Syneos Health5.1
  14. 24Abbott2.6
  15. 24Amgen2.6
  16. 24BD2.6
  17. 24Bristol Myers Squibb2.6
  18. 24Catalent2.6
  19. 24Columbia2.6
  20. 24Covance2.6
  21. 24Edwards Lifesciences2.6
  22. 24Fareva2.6
  23. 24Gilead Sciences2.6
  24. 24Labcorp2.6
  25. 24PPD2.6
  26. 24Parexel2.6
  27. 24Recipharm2.6
  28. 24Servier2.6
  29. 24Teva2.6

Best for what candidates ask about

The Italian pharmaceutical employer AI recommends most when candidates ask about each topic.

By role

Who AI recommends to engineers is not who it recommends to salespeople. Each role has its own ranking.

About this ranking

This is the first measurement of this ranking, so there is no earlier order to compare it with yet.

What separates the top five from the rest is the hiring process and career growth: AI recommends the leaders for these far more often than the employers below them. The gap is smallest on work-life balance, where the rest of the list keeps closer to the leaders.

Across the 23 countries the index covers for pharmaceutical, the leader here has the 8th highest score. Novartis also leads in Australia, Switzerland and Spain and elsewhere.

More than half of the 39 employers score 5.1 or less, while a place in the top ten takes a score of 46.2. The leader's 97.4 shows how far ahead the most recommended employers sit.

Most lists of the best pharmaceutical companies to work for come from employee surveys or awards. This one tracks what AI tells job seekers, because many candidates now ask AI where to work before they open a careers page.

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Questions about this ranking

What are the top pharmaceutical companies to work for in Italy?

Going by who AI recommends most to Italian job seekers right now: Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi and GSK.

Which Italian pharmaceutical employers does AI recommend for purpose?

Novartis and Menarini are both named by every AI when candidates ask about purpose.

How does the Employer Visibility Index work?

We ask AI assistants the questions job seekers ask about employers, by industry, country and role. We record which employers they recommend and turn that into a Visibility score out of 100.

How often are rankings updated?

Rankings refresh with each new round of AI answers. Each page shows the date its data was updated, and the arrows next to each score show how an employer has moved since the previous measurement.

Do I need to be a PerceptionX customer to appear in the index?

No. Any employer AI recommends often enough appears automatically. Customers get the full picture behind their Visibility score and well beyond it: how positively AI describes them (Sentiment), the themes it links them with, the sources it relies on, custom reports by country and role, and clear steps to improve how candidates see them.