Career Opportunities with

Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. 11 Bartlett St., Brooklyn 6, Ν. Υ .

1 he world-wide sales of Chas. Pfizer L· Co., Inc., last year totaled over one hundred and seventy-eight million dol­lars. Compared with sales of thirty-nine million dollars a decade ago, the company's current volume represents an increase of more than 3559c.

Employment in the company during ttie same period was expanded 455%, traced to a growth of Pfizer personnel from 1800 to 10,000 employees.

Broadened horizons, as reflected by sales and employment increases, in tliemselves speak well for bright career opportunities. Eut when many of the horizons are also new ones, calling for the development of original ideas, methods, and procedures in a variety of operations, the challenge to prove oneself and advance accordingly be­comes even more meaningful.

Such is the case for the scientists, production specialists, sales and sales service personnel, and administrative employees at Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.

Pfizer, Today and Yesterday

Pfizer today is the world's largest producer of antibiotics. I t is also a leading producer of hundreds of other products, among them pharmaceutical specialties which serve doctors, den­tists, and veterinarians ; fine chemicals for industry, and a range of feed sup­plements and animal health products for the farm community.

Biochemical, chemical, and agricul­tural research aimed at developing new IPfizer products and improving existing ones—an activity for which an allot­ment of nearly five cents of each sales dollar is made—is carried out in labo­ratories a t four locations.

Pfizer plants in the United States are situated on three large sites, two in the East and one in the Midwest.

Four domestic marketing divisions, each with a nation-wide sales force, serve customers throughout the United States, utilizing the distribution facili­ties of five branch offices.

Overseas, 14: Pfizer plants produce antibiotics and pharmaceuticals sold in more than 100 countries.

The contrast of these current Pfizer

operations with those in existence a few years ago is sharp indeed.

Prior- to 1950, the company's one sales division sold antibiotics and m e -dicinals chiefly to United States Gov­ernment agencies, domestic drug manu­facturers, and a relatively small number of overseas distributors. Some 15 years ago Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., was known only as a manufacturer of fine chemi­cals used in food, medicinal, and indus­trial products.

The foundation upon which Pfizer's current diversified business ventures are built is an old and solid one. Da t ­ing back to 1849 when Charles Pfizer, a chemist and Charles Erhart , a con­fectioner, established a small fine chem­ical business in Brooklyn, the com­pany's history has been rich in research and production achievements. Prob­ably the most significant of these achievements in terms of today's op­erations was the development of a proc­ess, through fermentation, to produce citric acid from ordinary sugar. I n 1941, some 20 years after this develop­ment, the company again put its fer-

Chemica! engineers at Pfizer find challenging work in both production and development work

mentation know-how to dramatic use when called on to place penicillin into commercial production.

One of several American firms par­ticipating in the project, Pfizer began delivering penicillin to the Government in the spring of 1942 and at war's end was making more than 50% of the world's supply of the product.

Pfizer also became a major producer of streptomycin when it was discovered in 1944 and since then has continually added to its line of antibiotics. Now the world's largest producer of these "wonder drugs," the company can point with pride to its discovery of the broad range antibiotics, Terramycin and Tetracyn, and to the development of Sigmamycin, the first synergistic com­bination of antibiotics in the broad spectrum field.

In fact, it was the discovery of Ter­ramycin tha t sparked the company's present diversification—leading to the creation of a new sales division in 1950 and subsequent broadening of the Pfizer product line. This line now includes tranquilizers, anti-nausea drugs, hor­mone products, cough remedies, and nose drops among its pharmaceuticals; a number of vitamin-mineral nutri­tional specialties; a wide range of fine chemicals for food and beverage, phar­maceutical and industrial uses, and agricultural products for livestock and crops.

Opportunities in Research

Biochemical and chemical research laboratories at Pfizer are located at Brooklyn, Ν . Υ., Groton, Conn., and May wood, N . J. An Agricultural Re­search and Development Center is maintained in Terre Haute, Ind.

Biochemical research at Pfizer in­cludes work in the following fields: fermentation chemistry; mycology; pharmacology ; chromatography ; new antibiotic research; phytochemistry ; bacteriology ; parasitology ; radiation chemistry and bioassay work.

Biochemists with doctorates are es­pecially sought, as are women bacteriol­ogists who have earned bachelor's degrees.

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Pfizer's second largest plant is located on the shores of the Thames River in Groton, Conn.

Chernical research is divided into three general groupings: synthetic me-dicinals; fine chemicals and vitamins, and antibiotics.

Immediate openings exist for organic chemists holding either doctorate or master's degrees.

Chemical and biochemical pilot plants are operated at both Brooklyn and Groton, providing employment op­portunities for chemical and biochemi­cal engineers interested in development work.

The Agricultural Research and De­velopment Center at Terre Haute is the focal point for the company's basic and applied research in the fields of animal health and nutrition. Agricultural biochemists are in es­pecial demand at the Center.

. In Production

Pfizer plants in the United States are located at Brooklyn, Ν. Υ., Groton, Conn., and Terre Haute, Ind.

Chemical engineers assigned to one of these locations work with chemical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural prod­ucts made by fermentation, organic synthesis, or a combination of the two processes. Full responsibility is given engineers for the scheduling and prog­ress of each batch of material produced under their supervision. Experimenta­tion designed to de\relop new and better processes is encouraged in all depart­ments.

Chemical engineers are also used in the company's pharmaceutical p ' ck-aging operations; production planning and inventory control, and in a proc­

ess engineering group at headquarters. Other opportunities in production at

Pfizer are open to quality control chem­ists and maintenance engineers.

Overseas, Pfizer chemical engineers and chemists work in production, pack­aging, and quality control.

. . . . . In Sales

The Pfizer Laboratories and J. B. Roerig and Company sales divisions market Pfizer antibiotics, pharmaceuti­cals, and nutritional specialties to drug wholesalers, selected pharmacies, hos­pitals, and government agencies. The detailing forces of the divisions call on these marketing outlets as well as physicians throughout the country. Many of the professional service repre­sentatives currently active in this work are pharmacists or have a medical back­ground.

Salesmen employed in the Chemical Sales Division market Pfizer products to customers in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial fields. Chemists find selling positions with this division particularly promising.

Pfizer agricultural products, sold through the Agricultural Sales Divi­sion, are marketed to manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers in the agri­cultural field.

ment . In Commercial Develop-

tions in the Technical Service Depart­ment, an activity responsible for de­veloping applications for the company's chemical products and for aiding the Chemical Sales Division in its sales effort. Chemists are presented with challenging assignments in this work. Marketing Research and New Product Coordination offer the chemist or chemi­cal engineer, with a business degree or training, unusual responsibilities in assisting the company program in evaluating, and preparing new products for the market.

. In Administration

Among the opportunities in Com­mercial Development at Pfizer are posi-

The growth and diversification of Pfizer's business has affected job op­portunities in administration to no less degree than work in research, produc­tion, and sales. Throughout the com­pany's many departments—Control­ler's, Personnel, Traffic, Treasurer's, Public Relations, Advertising, Legal, Purchasing, etc.—there are positions in which enterprising employees can make important contributions to the com­pany's future growth and receive ad­vancements in return.

What's I t Like At Pfizer?

As an employee of Pfizer you, first and foremost, can be assured of con­genial, dedicated co-workers. You can further be assured of continued oppor­tunity to raise your career sights as you prove yourself m your job.

As a Pfizer employee you will find that there is ample opportuni ty to be­come well grounded in various aspects of the company's business—abetted by interdepartmental transfers and training programs. You will be able to participate in seminars and sym­posiums. You will be able to publish papers and give lectures.

In addition to the job security pro­vided by a growing, prosperous com­pany, Pfizer employees have such bene­fits as a broad group insurance pro­gram and a liberal retirement an­nuity plan.

For Additional Information. - . .

If you would like to obtain addi­tional information about Pfizer write to :

William H. Harr ington Technical Personnel Supervisor Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc . i l Bartlett St. Brooklyn 6, Ν . Υ .

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