Want to strive for a lucrative career in Pakistan? I would like to share details of top biotechnology companies in Pakistan along with some amazing pk job opportunities they unlock. Continue reading and explore more.

What is a Biotech Company?

There are many companies that belong to the field of biotechnology. A biotech company is a company that targets clients using biological products and technologies that enable them to pursue a biological life.

Like neighboring countries which use ayurvedic products, biotech companies manufacture similar alternative medicines. They can be considered pharmaceutical companies since various doctors recommend biological therapies.

Biotech companies are very prominent in today’s market. They are based on laboratories, which also have an online website for taking the client's orders and ship their products overseas. These companies follow the standards of healthcare organizations.

The Objectives of Biotech Companies

• Providing the technology that serves human healthcare and assistance with low-cost expenses.
• Opening the doors to many businesses out of this technology, by hiring people who are skilled in digital marketing, advertisement, and advising.
• Working on a natural and ecological level that does not harm the environment and ecological system. These companies use fewer chemicals, less plastic, and less conservative entities.

After exploring these objectives, what are the jobs required in the field of in Pakistan? Biotech company's jobs differ from average companies recruitments. They hire graduates from a medical, pharmacy, botanic institutes, and technical and engineering colleges. These jobs require profiles like:

Medical jobs:

• Health assistant
• Health advisor
• Pharmacists
• Laboratory agent
• Nursing jobs

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Technical jobs:

•  Technical assistant
• Technical designer
• Engineer
• Web developers

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Marketing jobs

• Stock market agents
• Distributors
• Digital marketing jobs

Business Management jobs

Finance jobs

Accounting jobs

Biotech companies can be both national and international. There many foreign biotech companies that have corporations overseas and even operate in Pakistan. Here is a list of the famous pharmaceutical biotech companies in Pakistan.

I. Biotech companies Pakistan

1. Getz Pharma (Private) Limited

Getz Pharma is the biggest Getz Group Company. Founded in 1852, this company hires over 12,000 employees all over the world and provides agricultural, biomedical, pharmaceutical products that circulate over 50 countries around the globe. It is the only company in Pakistan, which received the World Health Organization’s approval for its ethical manufacturing practices. Also, this company has won the first prize for Best Practices in Occupational Safety Health and Environment (OSH&E) in the Food, FMCG and Pharmaceutical Sector. 

2. High-Q Pharmaceuticals

High-Q international was founded in 1994. This company is specialized in pharmaceuticals based on manufacturing plants. High-Q Pharmaceuticals is trying to meet the industry’s current demands by providing the best health care brands such as ‘RULING,’ ‘ESKEM,’ ‘MIXEL,’ ‘POLYMALT’ and ‘CYCIN.’

3. Hilton Pharma (Private) Limited 

Hilton Pharma is an old pharmaceutical manufacturer. Since 1976, the company has its manufacturing facilities in Korangi Industrial Area and functions outside Karachi. Hilton Pharma markets and products are licensed. They belong to 4 different categories: prescription drugs, biotech, veterinary, and consumer healthcare. It also operates outside Pakistan, in countries from Southeast Asia, in Africa, Asia Pacific, and Russia.

4. OBS Pakistan (Private) Limited 

The OBS Group is one of the toping pharmaceutical corporations in Pakistan. Its main products are overly medical, including anti-infectives, cardiology, diabetes, Metabolic Disorders, Ophthalmology, Respiratory, Women’s Health, Vaccines, and Gastroenterology. It has over 106 pharmaceutical brands and seven consumer brands in Pakistan. In 2006, the company a strategic alliance with some reputable international organizations, which offered the company a considerable share in the Sri Lankan and Afghanistan markets. 

5. Sanofi Aventis Pakistan Limited 

For more than 50 years, Sanofi has gone through many changes and names. Nowadays, the company has more than 116 variant product in consumer healthcare, vaccines, and pharmaceuticals. It is ranked as Pakistan’s 7th largest pharmaceutical company.

II. Biotech companies in Karachi:

1. GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Limited

GlaxoSmithKline is also known as GSK company. It is a big Pakistani medicinal pharmacy. This company operates in two industries; pharmaceuticals and consumer’s new healthcare, providing nutrition complements and skincare essentials. It also offers anti-biotic such as Augmentin and Calpol. This company has many laboratories in Pakistan. It was even the first company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange in 1951. GSK company hires different profiles from various degrees. It has more than150 brands, among them biotech products. 

2. Abbott Laboratories Pakistan Limited

Pain killers and drugs like Pediasure or iBuprofen are Abbott's products. This company is considered as Pakistan’s second most sold medicinal drugs. Abbott was founded in 1948 and offers a wide range of products, nutrition supplements, and many diagnostic tools for diabetes devices. Abbott’s head office and manufacturing facilities are in Karachi. However, its difference in sales offices is in Lahore, Peshawar, and Rawalpindi. The distribution depots are in Islamabad, Multan, and Lahore. Abbott’s major success in biotechnology is in glucose measuring devices. Apart from that, Abbott offers the most advanced tools in the health and medical sectors. 

3. The Searle Company Limited 

Again in Karachi, this company has overseas such as South Asia and East Africa. It includes multinational corporations like Unilever Pakistan, GSK Pakistan, British American Tobacco, Bristol Myers Squibb. Searle offers products that are not purely pharmaceutical but also hygienic and belong to alternative medicines.

4. Martin Dow Pharmaceuticals (Pakistan) Limited 

Martin Dow is a famous pharmaceutical company in Pakistan. It manufactures over biotech 60 brands and hires more than 1000 employees in Pakistan. The company’s products and goods are developed and manufactured at the facilities in Karachi. Martin Dow is the first biotech company culminating in Pakistan’s healthcare innovation sector. The company provides cure for infection, pediatrics, pain management, neuropsychiatry, cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and endocrinology and diabetes. It is also looking trying to enter other biotech fields such as dentistry and cosmetics 

5. Sami Pharmaceutical (Private) Limited 

SAMI Pharmaceutical (Pvt) Ltd operates in various therapeutic areas like rheumatology. This company is based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the third-largest pharmaceutical company that includes more than 80 distributors across Pakistan, as it is the provider of two top-selling drugs in Pakistan.

This article offered the major biotech companies in Pakistan and Karachi and the possible employment inside the biotech industry.