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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 October 2016
Employment effect (start)
27 October 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
GSK IT, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has announced that it will create 200 new jobs at its Business Services Center in Poznań in next few months. The company is looking for IT operation specialists and IT operation managers as well as non-IT candidates, especially economists and people with knowledge of foreign languages.
GSK has been operating in Poland since 1978, while GSK IT in Poznań has been operating since 2005 and is one of six centres of global IT services within GSK. Currently, GSK IT employs 500 people and the centre provides services to 100,000 employees of GSK around the world.
Sources
27 October 2016: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2016), GSK IT, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89023, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89023.
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