Sector : America’s, EMEA, Asia Pacific

Q2 2010 Index

Executive SummaryThe initial ZRG Life Science Hiring index for Q2 2010 indicates a global hiring level in the sector of 66.77, a baseline number that will have greater relevance in future releases over time.

What Hot and What’s Not by Position?Regulatory, Quality and Clinical roles were the most in demand hiring roles globally in the Q2 Index with 27.2% of all opportunities in this functional bucket. It appears there is a fight for talent breaking out, with 63% of the opportunities in Regulatory, Quality and Clinical coming from the Outsourcing and Service Sector, signaling an interesting shift of function demand globally for professionals in this area. Medical Device and Supply firms are seeking sales and marketing talent as the top need. For Life Sciences / Pharma, the top area for hiring is in the area General including Accounting, Finance and IT. For all regions, Manufacturing is the lowest functional need.

Sector Leader in Hiring:On a relative size of employee pool basis, Outsourcing and Services has 500% more current hiring then Life Science and Pharma and close to 250% more than Medical Device and Supply. Medical Device firms currently exceed Pharma / Life Science companies as well as Outsourcing in total hiring requirements globally. However, on a size of revenue and employee basis, the Outsourcing and Services segment is showing strong hiring demand in term of current organizational size to new requests, showing the biggest projected growth.

What’s Hot and what’s Not by Region?Europe/Middle East and Africa (EMEA) shows the highest demand for Clinical, Regulatory and Qual-ity talent. Interestingly, the region lags all others currently in the percentage of hiring in the sales and marketing arena with only 15% of opportunities in this sector while the America’s boast of 22% and Asia Pacific / Japan and Australia show 34%. For the America’s, hiring in the General category leads the way with Regulatory/Quality and Clinical right behind. For Asia Pacific / Japan and Australia, sales and marketing is the most significant need in the region with Regulatory / Quality and Clinical lagging slightly.

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Sector Snapshots

Job Types - Functional Needs

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The Functional Roles Covered in the Index Functionally, the most coveted job category in the index is within the Regulatory, Quality and Clinical roles representing 27.2% of all job searches. Close behind is the IT / Finance / General Category, which is broad by definition. Sales and Marketing roles, always a meaningful percentage of opportunity, achieved 21.6% of all roles. Research and Development was fourth at 14.8% of roles. Manufacturing lagged with less than 10% perhaps due to fewer new manufacturing opportunities with ample capacity and movement to lower cost markets by many manufacturers in past years. The Outsourcing and Services sector is staging a war for talent with 63% of the jobs in the Regulatory / Quality / Clinical category coming from this functional segment , eclipsing the needs in Pharma and Life Science at 24% and Medical Device at 18%.

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Weighting of Indexby Type of Company

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The Global Coverage Area in the Index The index was developed to look at key regions with active and growing life science and health care activi-ties. For Q 2 2010, 63% of the total employment oppor-tunities were in the America’s with 24% in Europe, Middle east and Africa and Asia Pacific / Japan and Australia representing 13% of the inputs. In future releases of the index, we will track the shifts in job opportunities across regions so we can identify areas that increasing and decreasing levels of hiring.

Components of the Index by Sector The Q2 2010 study results included over 12,000 separate Global Life Science employ-ment opportunities in the baseline of the index. The geography and function of each job was coded to drive the index datasets.

Medical Device and Supply was the most active sector in terms of pure number of jobs in the initial index with over 46% of global job opportunities. Life Science / Pharma was second at 37% with Outsourcing and Services the smallest sector with 17% of the opportunities, yet still representing over 2,000 jobs in our study group.

However, if we look at job opportunities over employee size by sector, we find that Outsourcing and Services has a 2.58% of total employee to New Hire Ratio compared to Medical Device and Supply at 1.15% and Life Science and Pharma at only 0.57%. On a relative size of employee pool basis, Outsourcing and Services has 500% more current hiring then Life Science and Pharma and close to 250% more than Medical Device and Supply.

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About ZRG Partners ZRG Partners is a global authority on talent management issues within the Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Medical markets. ZRG provides its clients with specialized market expertise in executive recruitment, consulting and advisory work with a focus on data and analytics to drive great business decisions. For more information, visit www.zrgpartners.com. For Press requests or for permission to use this data in other media form, contact Larry Hartmann in the USA at 201-560-9900 x 222.

Next ReleaseThe next release for the Global Life Science Hiring index is scheduled for October 18, 2010 and will examine the changing landscape that emerges during Q3 2010.

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About the Global Life Science Hiring Index.The ZRG Global Life Science hiring index was launched in January 2010.The index is a one of kind, aggregated look at the state of global hiring within the broad Life Sciences and Medical segments. The Index was developed based on overwhelming industry demand for a simple, intuitive indicator of the state of hiring within the Life Science and Medical Industry. While the index provides a macro look at global hiring, it provides critical insights into regional hiring trends, skill shortages and talent gaps across the world.

The Global Life Science Hiring Index Analysis The index is utilizes a proprietary algorithm that looks at confidential hiring within selected benchmark companies in three distinct segments: 1) Life Sciences / Pharmaceutical 2) Medical Devices and Supply 3) Outsourcing and Services. The indexed participants represent 30 global organizations widely considered leaders in their respec -tive fields. The companies in the index generate over $634 Billion in revenues and employ over 1,300,000 people globally. The ZRG Partners research team conducts extensive direct market research in developing the data that drives the Index. Here is a list of firms by segment that are part of the ZRG Global Life Science Hiring Index:

In addition to providing a Life Science / Pharma / Medical Cross section in this index, the index also tracks and monitors functional hiring trends. The index looks specifically at jobs that would fall into one of five primary categories for analysis. These categories include: • Research and Development • Manufacturing / Operations • Sales and Marketing • Regulatory / Quality and Clinical • General including Accounting, Finance and IT.

Initial Q2 2010 Index Report: 66.77 The Initial ZRG Global Life Science index number for Q2 2010 is 66.77. The index components over the past six month, that have been used to establish the baseline do show increased hiring from Q1 to Q2 2010 and this number will have more relevance over the coming quarters as the index tracks the hiring activities of leading global players in the coming months and years. The range can vary from 0 - 100 with current scaling.In establishing the Baseline index, ZRG used the Markit JP Morgan Global PIM All Industry employment index to calibrate scale levels for 2010 levels in publication of the ZRG index against normalized levels over the past decade to set the initial baseline.

Medical Device: $265 Billion in Revenues and 485,000 EmployeesJohnson & Johnson, GE Healthcare, Siemens Medical, Cardinal Health, Medtronic, Baxter, Philips Healthcare, Covidien, Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson.

Pharmaceutical: $357 Billion in Revenues and 804,000 Employees AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis.

Outsourcing / Services: $11 Billion in Revenues and 80,000 Employees Quintiles, Covance, PPD, Charles River Laboratories, ICON Clinical, Parexel, Kendle, PharmaNet, PRA International, i3.