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The Digest of Biotech Job Trends

In Massachusetts

3-Month Job Trend Report

January - March 2016

MassBioEd 3-Month Job Trend Report: January-March 2016

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About the 3-Month Report MassBioEd produces a 3-Month Report on biopharmaceutical job trends each quarter of the year. The Report compares job listings for the most current three-month period with job listings for the same three-month period of the previous year to determine trending in job listings. About the MassBioEd Foundation MassBioEd engages teachers, inspires students, and guides the life sciences workforce. Our BioTeach program supports Massachusetts teachers as they work to engage students through lab-centered, inquiry-based learning. Our Job Trends initiative identifies workforce needs and illuminates the pathway from the classroom to careers in the life sciences. About The Digest of Biotech Jobs Trends in Massachusetts The 3-Month Report is a part of MassBioEd’s ongoing Digest of Biotech Jobs Trends in Massachusetts, which also includes Briefs and an Annual Jobs Trends Forecast. The Briefs present basic data and analysis on particular aspects of biopharma industry job trends. The initial 2015 Briefs are focused upon entry level position job trends in the biopharmaceutical industry. The objectives in publishing the Briefs is to provide basic information about job listings trends, skills required of candidates, prevalence of degree requirements for high trending occupations. The Annual Job Trends Forecast is intended to provide greater insight based on additional study in these areas. Acknowledgements The analysis found in the 3-Month Report was conducted by Mark Bruso, Research Associate, under the direction of MassBioEd Foundation Executive Director, Peter Abair. Erica Dickinson, Product Support Manager at Burning Glass provided able assistance to the MassBioEd research team in effectively using data from Burning Glass Technologies (see appendix for more information about Burning Glass Technologies). MassBio, the industry council serving the biopharmaceutical community of the Massachusetts region, provided support for this series and MassBioEd’s ongoing job trends initiative. For more MassBioEd job trends analysis, visit MassBioEd.org.

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Quarterly Highlights

The Massachusetts biopharmaceutical industry is in the midst of a prolonged expansion

cycle.

January and March of 2016 were the two highest months for job postings since the

beginning of 2014, when the data was first collected by MassBioEd.

The 3-month average for Q1 2016 was also the highest on record – with 2,643 industry job

posts recorded online during that span – significantly higher than in previous 3-month

periods.

The 12-month growth rate in job postings for the Massachusetts biopharmaceutical

industry was 37.8%.

The period studied shows an increase in job postings at every degree level requirement.

Overview

The following graph charts the 3-month “centered moving average” of the total job listings and

industry employment. A 3-month centered moving average is used to reveal if the observed data is

trending in a direction. It effectively smooths out monthly fluctuations in the employment and job

listings data. The latest industry employment data was collected in September of 2015.

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Both industry employment and job listings are moving upward in tandem. The Bureau of Labor

Statistics, which tracks job openings and labor turnover rates at the national level (JOLTS), reports

research indicating that job openings are pro-cyclical and they are closely tied with employment

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These data confirm that our industry has been in a prolonged expansion cycle – measured both by

employment growth and increases in job openings. The Job Opening Rate, or open jobs per those

employed in a given industry (excluding internal postings), has increased from the vicinity of the

2.5% mark in Q2 2014 to about the 3.5% mark in Q1 2016. This rise can be attributed to a range of

factors: higher quit rate (workers feel more confident that they can find a job elsewhere within the

industry), expansion within the industry, companies increasingly posting jobs online rather than

internally, improvements in identifying job listings on Burning Glass’ Labor Insight tool, or

replacement needs for an increasing number of workers permanently exiting the workforce

(retirement, parental leave, etc.). The observed Job Openings Rate for the Biotech Industry in

Massachusetts is available in the Appendix of this report.

Month-to-month analysis of job listings reveals that over the 12-month period ending in March

2016, the year-over-year growth rate was 37.8%, with the job listings increasing in every month

over the previous year.

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For perspective, during that same period the year-over-year job postings growth rate for the entire

Massachusetts economy was 23.7%. The biopharmaceutical industry saw its job postings rate grow

59% faster than the state as a whole.

Using MassBio.org Job Listings data as a source, new job listings by month for the year starting in

April 2014 and 2015 increased without exception. MassBio hosts a large number of job listings,

which tend to be in STEM-related (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) job

categories or corporate operations. Burning Glass captures individual job listings from multiple

sources and has a greater capture of total job listings and types of job listings captured in its

database. The MassBio data, while presenting fewer job listings, nonetheless mirrors and

corroborates the job listing trend as presented on Page 4 using Burning Glass data.

In total, there were 8,371 new job listings posted on the MassBio.org careers page in between April

of 2015 and March of 2016. This was an increase of 2,563 job listings over the previous 12-month

mark of 5,835 new job listings – a 43% increase (greater than the 37.8% increase found using

Burning Glass data). This was a smaller year-over-year growth than our previous Quarterly Report,

which compared the full years of 2014 and 2015 in which there was a 49% increase in job listings

(compared to 36.5% on Burning Glass).

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Top 30 Occupational Job Listings, January 1 – March 31, 2016

Methodology: For calculating occupational totals and monthly total of job postings MassBioEd used the

following method – for non-STEM positions, the MassBio percentage for each NAICS code. For STEM positions

– all postings within 3254, MassBio percentage used for 5417, and the Burning Glass Biotech Filters (4) for

the remaining NAICS codes of 622, 6113, 6215, 3345, and 5413. The top 30 Burning Glass Occupations were

selected. Sales Representatives and Medical / Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives were combined from two

to one occupation.

2016 Rank

2015 Rank

Rank +/-

Occupation Q1 2016

Q1 2015

Change +/-

Pct. Change

1 1 -- Medical Scientist 694 368 +326 +88.5%

2 2 -- Medical Director 371 281 +90 +32.0%

3 3 -- Program Manager 305 209 +96 +45.6%

4 6 +2 Sales Representative 210 116 +94 +81.0%

5 5 -- Biologist 203 158 +45 +28.4%

6 4 -2 Software Developer / Engineer 189 186 +3 +1.6%

7 8 +1 Chemist 182 105 +77 +73.1%

8 9 +1 Medical Laboratory Technician 159 100 +59 +59.7%

9 19 +10 Clinical Research Coordinator/Manager 122 56 +66 +116.5%

10 7 -3 Office / Administrative Assistant 121 105 +16 +15.1%

11 17 +6 Medical Laboratory Technologist 98 62 +36 +59.5%

12 13 +1 Chemical / Process Engineer 98 75 +23 +30.4%

13 22 +9 Mechanical Engineer 96 49 +47 +96.5%

14 12 -2 Sales Manager 93 77 +16 +21.4%

15 11 -4 Project Manager 91 79 +12 +14.7%

16 18 +2 Compliance Manager 90 58 +32 +56.3%

17 15 -2 Marketing Manager 89 72 +17 +23.0%

18 10 -8 Healthcare Administrator 88 86 +2 +1.4%

19 14 -5 Financial Manager 79 73 +6 +9.0%

20 20 -- Quality Control Analyst 78 55 +23 +40.5%

21 35 +14 Biostatistician 74 36 +38 +102.4%

22 28 +6 Quality Manager 72 39 +33 +83.6%

23 38 +15 Industrial Engineer 68 34 +34 +99.9%

24 23 -1 Computer Programmer 64 48 +16 +33.1%

25 43 +18 Computer Scientist 62 32 +30 +92.4%

26 30 +4 Systems Analyst 61 38 +23 +58.1%

27 26 -1 Quality Inspector / Technician 58 44 +14 +31.7%

28 33 +5 Regulatory Affairs Specialist 56 37 +19 +51.5%

29 77 +48 Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 53 16 +37 +230.7%

30 29 -1 Financial Analyst 53 39 +14 +36.1%


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Highest Growing Occupations by Job Listings, Q1 2016 v. Q1 2015

2016 Rank

2015 Rank

Rank +/-

Occupation Q1 2016

Q1 2015

Change +/-

Pct. Change

34 81 +47 Retail Supervisor 48 14 +34 234.4%

29 77 +48 Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 53 16 +37 230.7%

49 85 +36 Compliance Analyst 37 13 +24 186.4%

37 75 +38 Retail Sales Associate 46 17 +29 165.6%

58 79 +21 Validation Engineer 33 15 +18 127.5%

43 72 +29 Nursing Assistant 40 18 +22 124.0%

9 19 +10 Clinical Research Coordinator/Manager 122 56 +66 116.5%

21 35 +14 Biostatistician 74 36 +38 102.4%

23 38 +15 Industrial Engineer 68 34 +34 99.9%

13 22 +9 Mechanical Engineer 96 49 +47 96.5%

25 43 +18 Computer Scientist 62 32 +30 92.4%

1 1 -- Medical Scientist 694 368 +326 88.5%

22 28 +6 Quality Manager 72 39 +33 83.6%

4 6 +2 Sales Representative 210 116 +94 81.0%

38 55 +17 Customer Service Representative 46 26 +20 76.2%

7 8 +1 Chemist 182 105 +77 73.1%

50 66 +16 Software QA Engineer / Tester 37 22 +15 70.4%

53 69 +16 Statistician 36 21 +15 67.1%

55 65 +10 Chief Executive Officer 35 22 +13 59.9%

44 59 +15 Accountant 39 25 +14 59.8%

8 9 +1 Medical Laboratory Technician 159 100 +59 59.7%

11 17 +6 Medical Laboratory Technologist 98 62 +36 59.5%

26 30 +4 Systems Analyst 61 38 +23 58.1%

16 18 +2 Compliance Manager 90 58 +32 56.3%

28 33 +5 Regulatory Affairs Specialist 56 37 +19 51.5%

68 74 +6 Registered Nurse 26 17 +9 51.1%

32 39 +7 Data / Data Mining Analyst 50 34 +16 46.8%

3 3 -- Program Manager 305 209 +96 45.6%

64 68 +4 Marketing Specialist 31 21 +10 44.2%

61 64 +3 Training and Development Specialist 33 23 +10 42.1%

Methodology: For calculating occupational totals and monthly total of job postings MassBioEd used the

following method – for non-STEM positions, the MassBio percentage for each NAICS code. For STEM positions

– all postings within 3254, MassBio percentage used for 5417, and the Burning Glass Biotech Filters (4) for

the remaining NAICS codes of 622, 6113, 6215, 3345, and 5413. Occupations were only considered if they

were located within the top 100 Burning Glass Occupations in both Q1 2015 and Q1 2016. Sales

Representatives and Medical / Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives were combined from two to one

occupation.


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Regional Breakdown – Massachusetts

Massachusetts, like any complex economy, can be broken down into many different substrates to

produce actionable observations. We based these six geographic areas in Massachusetts on those

defined by the MassBio’s Economic Development Advisory Group as distinct sub-markets of the

Massachusetts life sciences supercluster.

We calculated the First Quarter 2015 and 2016 job listings by these regions. The Cambridge-

Boston “Core” maintained its spot as the regional leader in job listings in both Q1 2015 and Q1

2016. Approximately 56% of statewide industry job posts originating from the area.

The largest net change in job postings between the past two First Quarters occurred in the

128/Suburbs region, which experienced an approximate decrease of 40% between the two time

periods. In part, this reveals the effects of two major employers in the region at different

employment phases. Shire, which posted 186 job listings online in Q1 2015, reached hiring goals

and listed only a few jobs in Q1 2016. Biogen, which has been scaling down its Weston footprint and

growing at its Cambridge headquarters, also had a marked decline in listings in this region during

the same timeframe.

In contrast, the Worcester/I-495 region saw a sizeable increase it its share of job listings, more than

doubling the number of job listings between periods and increasing its share of total postings to

16.5% in Q1 2016 from 9.5% in Q1 2015. Sanofi Genzyme led in the region in total listings in the

period, followed by Quest Diagnostics, newly located in Marlborough,


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Jobs Listings by Region, Q1 2015 v Q1 2016, and Share of all Listings

Region Q1 2015 Q1 2015 Share Q1 2016 Q1 2016 Share

Core 2,957 55.5% 3,747 56.0%

Northeast 458 8.6% 752 11.2%

128/Suburbs 1,191 22.3% 719 10.8%

Southeast 136 2.6% 273 4.1%

Worcester/I-495 504 9.5% 1,104 16.5%

Western Mass 84 1.6% 91 1.4%

Total 5,330 6,687

Below is an illustration of the above graph, showing the relative changes in total job listings

amongst the six regions throughout the Commonwealth.

Leading Job Listing Companies by Region, Q1, 2016

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Medtronic 13 Sanofi Genzyme 469

Pfizer 8 Quest Diagnostics 96

Sanofi Genzyme 7 Bristol-Myers Squibb 67

Quintiles 4 AbbVie 48

Novartis 4 Charles River Laboratories 45

Takeda Pharmaceuticals 4 PerkinElmer 42

Quest Diagnostics 4 Danaher Corporation 32

Life Laboratories 3 UMass Medical School 31

Smith College 3 LabCorp 20

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. 3 Glaxosmithkline 19

Western Massachusetts Worcester/I-495


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On the following page, six charts detail the top ten most frequent job listings in each of the six

regions. These numbers are the totals for the entire industry in a given region in the First Quarter of

2016. The Location Quotient details the concentration of these positions relative to the statewide

composition during the same timeframe – every hundredth of a point above or below 1 is equal to a

higher or lower concentration of listings for an occupation of 1%. For example, Medical Scientists in

the Core region in Q1 2016 (below) had a LQ of 1.2, signifying that during that period of time the

region had 20% more Medical Scientist job listings than the state did as a whole.

Note: The larger the sample size, the better. For regions with a small number of listings, location

quotients lose meaning. As a result, we do not list the Western Mass. region because of the low

number of job posts during Q1 2016. While the number of listings is also small in the SE/South

Coast region, we do include that region in this section, as the positions listed for the region correlate

well to the types companies located there and is sufficiently indicative of the industry’s job market

in the region.


Instrumentation Laboratory 53 Charles River Laboratories 121

PerkinElmer 40 Pfizer 89

Sanofi Genzyme 37 Smith & Nephew 54

Astrazeneca 32 Merck & Company 47

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics 32 Medtronic 46

Biogen 20 Parexel 24

Thermo Fisher 19 Raytheon 21

Tesaro, Inc 10 Bruker Company 17

Bristol-Myers Squibb 9 Amgen 14

Integra Lifesciences 9 Quest Diagnostics 13

128/Suburbs Northeast


Medtronic 75 Sanofi Genzyme 583

Smith & Nephew 45 Vertex Pharmaceuticals 506

Cape Cod Healthcare 27 Takeda Pharmaceuticals 368

Merck & Company 18 Novartis 323

Pfizer 9 MGH 233

Quest Diagnostics 5 Pfizer 145

Southcoast Health System 5 Amgen 128

UMass Medical School 4 Biogen 111

Celldex Therapeutics 4 Merck & Company 80

Pioneer Data Systems 4 Boston Children's Hospital 77

SE/South Coast Cambridge/Boston Core


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Occupation – Cambridge/Boston Core Region

Job Postings Location Quotient

Medical Scientist 450 1.20

Medical Director 286 1.50

Program Manager 212 1.34

Biologist 134 1.20

Sales Representative 107 1.04

Chemist 86 0.87

Software Developer / Engineer 86 0.83

Clinical Research Coordinator / Manager

84 1.26

Healthcare Administrator 70 1.46

Medical Laboratory Technician 68 0.80

Occupation – Northeast Region Job Postings Location Quotient


Chemist 37 1.87


Industrial Engineer 20 2.55

Mechanical Engineer 18 1.73

Financial Analyst 16 2.76


Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 13 2.47


Financial Manager 13 1.52

Occupation – 128/Suburbs Region Job Postings Location Quotient




Biologist 23 1.06

Office / Administrative Assistant 22 1.81

Computer Programmer 19 2.72



Mechanical Engineer 14 1.40

Chemist 13 0.70


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Occupation – Southeast Region Job Postings Location Quotient

Regulatory Affairs Specialist 17 7.71


Industrial Engineer 14 4.86

Software QA Engineer / Tester 8 5.42

Technical Writer 6 3.30

Manufacturing Engineer 6 4.07

Nursing Assistant 6 3.46

Compliance Manager 5 1.45

Office / Administrative Assistant 5 1.06

Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 5 2.51

Occupation – Worc./I- 495 Region Job Postings Location Quotient



Chemical / Process Engineer 45 2.78


Chemist 39 1.33

Biologist 38 1.16

Quality Control Analyst 24 1.95

Customer Service Representative 23 3.12



Top Occupations – By Experience Level

In the First Quarter of 2016, there were approximately 4,600 job listings that explicitly listed an

experience level required of a qualified candidate (approximately 2,000 did not specify an

experience level). The share of job listings by experience level in this period is very much in line

with earlier findings made by MassBioEd in 2015, and nearly identical to the makeup of job listings

in Q1 2015.

Percentage of Listing in Q1 by Experience Level

Entry Level 3 to 5 Years 6 to 8 Years 9-Plus Years

26% 44% 17% 14%

What follows is a list of the top ten occupations by online job postings at each of the following

experience levels: Entry Level (0-2 years of experience), 3 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9-plus years’ experience.

Also listed is the percent of each occupation that occurs at that level of experience (e.g. 48 Biologist

postings at Entry Level in Q1 2016 represented 30% of all Biologist postings at all levels).


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Entry Level Occupations (26%) Q1 2016 Job

Listings Occupational

Listings at Exp. Level Medical Scientist 132 31%

Sales Representative 65 42%

Medical Laboratory Technician 52 71%

Biologist 48 30%

Clinical Research Coordinator / Manager 39 63%

Medical Laboratory Technologist 33 48%

Nursing Assistant 29 99%

Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 29 75%

Biostatistician 23 39%

Software Developer / Engineer 22 16%

3 to 5 Years’ Exp. Occupations (44%)

Medical Scientist 202 47%

Medical Director 156 52%

Software Developer / Engineer 86 62%

Biologist 69 43%

Sales Representative 67 44%

Program Manager 65 25%

Chemist 51 41%

Office / Administrative Assistant 50 63%

Sales Manager 39 47%

Healthcare Administrator 36 50%

6 to 8 Years’ Exp. Occupations (17%)




Chemist 39 31%

Biologist 33 21%

Project Manager 30 43%

Financial Manager 25 39%


Chemical / Process Engineer 20 27%

Computer Programmer 19 36%

9-Plus Years’ Exp. Occupations (14%)




Marketing Manager 31 37%



Operations Manager / Supervisor 19 46%

Chief Information Officer / Director of Information Technology

17 48%

Systems Analyst 17 36%

Financial Manager 16 25%


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Top Entry Level Occupations – By Educational Attainment

Job listings with 0 to 2 years of experience (Entry Level) – the first subject of MassBioEd’s Briefs

series –constitute approximately one-fourth of all industry job listings in Massachusetts. In keeping

with our focus on Entry Level job listings, we present three separate lists, for Sub-Bachelor’s

degree, Bachelor’s degree, and Graduate degree holders – that contain the top listings in each

category.

Note: The numbers derived below are tabulated by counting the number of jobs listed with said

degree as a minimum qualification.

Entry Level + Associate Degree & Under Listings

Entry Level +

Bachelor’s Degree

Listings

Entry Level +

Graduate Degree

Listings

Medical Laboratory Technician

26 Medical Scientist 101 Medical Scientist

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Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk

25 Sales Representative

47 Biologist 12

Customer Service Representative

15 Clinical Research Coordinator / Manager

36 Biostatistician 12

Manufacturing / Production Technician

14 Biologist 34 Physician 6

Phlebotomist 12 Medical Laboratory Technician

25 Medical Director

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Nursing Assistant 11 Medical Laboratory Technologist

22 Medical Laboratory Technologist

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Office / Administrative Assistant

11 Quality Control Analyst

21 Statistician 4

Retail Sales Associate 10 Biological Technician

19 Program Manager

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Production Worker 7 Software Developer / Engineer

19 Surveillance / Private Investigator

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Medical Assistant 7 Chemist 15 Project Manager

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No occupation appears in the top ten of all three categories. Only Medical Laboratory Technician &

Technologist, Medical Scientist, and Biologist appear twice.


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Below is a breakdown of the educational minimums in Q1 2016 for the top 20 industry job listings

at the Entry Level in Massachusetts.

Occupation TOTAL AS% BS% Grad%

Medical Scientist 120 84% 16%

Medical Laboratory Technician 51 52% 48%

Sales Representative 51 8% 92%

Biologist 46 74% 26%

Clinical Research Coordinator / Manager 37 97% 3%

Medical Laboratory Technologist 32 17% 71% 13%

Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 28 92% 8%

Quality Control Analyst 23 9% 91%

Software Developer / Engineer 22 8% 88% 5%

Biostatistician 22 46% 54%

Biological Technician 21 6% 94%

Office / Administrative Assistant 20 54% 44% 2%

Customer Service Representative 20 77% 23%

Chemist 18 85% 15%

Manufacturing / Production Technician 15 93% 7%

Retail Sales Associate 14 72% 28%

Medical Director 12 16% 46% 38%


Phlebotomist 12 97% 3%

Nursing Assistant 11 99% 1%

Top Industry Occupations – By Educational Attainment

This section presents the First Quarter job listing data for all educational and experience levels –

the entire industry, categorized by minimum educational level. First is a comparison of Q1 2015 vs.

Q1 2016 Associate Degree and under job listings.

Q1 2015 – Assoc. Degree & Under Listings Q1 2016 – Assoc. Degree & Under Listings

Office / Administrative Assistant 49 Medical Laboratory Technician 76

Phlebotomist 41 Office / Administrative Assistant 65

Medical Laboratory Technician 28 Bookkeeper / Accounting Clerk 36

Production Worker 24 Production Worker 33

Program Manager 19 Customer Service Representative 28

Executive Assistant 19 Program Manager 26

Sales Representative 12 Manufacturing / Production Technician 25

Manufacturing / Production Technician 11 Phlebotomist 21

Customer Service Representative 11 Nursing Assistant 17

Nursing Assistant 10 Retail Sales Associate 17


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Q1 2015 – Bachelor’s Degree Min.

Q1 2016 – Bachelor’s Degree Min. Medical Scientist 202 Medical Scientist 423

Software Developer / Engineer 133 Medical Director 178

Medical Director 123 Sales Representative 168

Program Manager 117 Program Manager 166

Sales Representative 96 Software Developer / Engineer 135

Biologist 96 Chemist 117

Chemical / Process Engineer 56 Biologist 113

Sales Manager 54 Clinical Research Coordinator / Manager 103

Chemist 54 Chemical / Process Engineer 77

Project Manager 52 Sales Manager 77

Q1 2015 – Graduate Degree Min.

Q1 2016 – Graduate Degree Min. Medical Scientist 134 Medical Scientist 196

Medical Director 78 Medical Director 125

Biologist 61 Program Manager 99

Program Manager 45 Biologist 80

Chemist 38 Biostatistician 48

Biostatistician 23 Chemist 42

Attorney 23 Surveillance / Private Investigator 30

Software Developer / Engineer 19 Computer Scientist 26

Healthcare Administrator 19 Attorney 25

Statistician 17 Physician 24

Top Companies by Job Listings

On the next page, the organizations with the most job listings in Q1 2016 are presented. In the

listings, we separate companies from non-profit organizations (e.g. hospitals and universities).

Note: The number of jobs that an organization will post will rise and fall according to that

organization’s business plan. A high number of listings in one quarter or year and a small number

of listings by the same organization in another quarter or year may reflect a number of different

factors, including that the organization met its hiring goals in keeping with its business plan in one

quarter and necessarily has fewer listings in a subsequent quarter. A rise or fall in the number of

job listings in one quarter should not be used as a barometer of an organization’s health. We

provide these listings for the more basic purpose of showing which companies influenced talent

supply and demand in hiring in one particular quarter.


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Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Novartis

Pfizer

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Amgen

Shire

Baxter International…

Medtronic

Merck & Company

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Biogen

Astrazeneca

Quest Diagnostics

AbbVie

Top Employers by Job Postings, Massachusetts Life Sciences

Companies, Q1 2015

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Sanofi Genzyme

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Novartis

Pfizer

Charles River Laboratories

Medtronic

Merck & Company

Amgen

Quest Diagnostics

Biogen

Smith & Nephew

PerkinElmer

Bristol-Myers Squibb

AbbVie

Top Employers by Job Postings, Massachusetts Life Sciences Companies,

Q1 2016

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Harvard University

Partners Healthcare

University OfMassachusettsMedical School

Boston Children'sHospital

MassachusettsGeneral Hospital


Non-Profits, Q1 2015

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MassachusettsGeneral Hospital

Boston Children'sHospital

Dana FarberCancer Institute

HarvardUniversity

Boston University


Non-Profits, Q1 2016


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Appendix

MassBioEd utilizes Burning Glass Labor Insight for the bulk of its real-time online job listing data.

Per the description on Burning Glass’ website, their Labor Insight software, “collects millions of

online job postings [everyday] from close to 40,000 sources and applies our patented technology to

mine and code detailed data from each posting describing the specific skills, education, experience,

and work activities required for the job – going well beyond the occupation and industry codes

offered in other sources.”

All job listings data sourced from Burning Glass Labor Insight, unless otherwise noted.

** January 2016 MassBio job listings prorated for the month due to no data from January 22nd –

January 31st (website changeover).

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