ITH Pharma Reviews

3.7

77% would recommend to a friend

(134 total reviews)
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Adam Bloom and Karen Hamling

91% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

ITH Pharma has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 134 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ITH Pharma employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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134 reviews
2.0
27 Mar 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Insight into a pharmaceutical production company, gain experience in GMP, brilliant colleagues

Cons

Culture of fear and cover-up. Employees feel overworked, exploited, under-appreciate and underpaid. Working conditions are poor, especially for production staff as heavy workload and late lunches/ finishes mean you can be in the cleanrooms for up to 6, even 7 hours without ready access to water, a break or the toilet. If employees protest conditions they are either met with excuses, forced contracts or deaf ears. And if you're an unlucky new starter they'll charge you the ambiguous fee of £1000 for leaving within 6 months of starting for 'training costs'. This is due to the way in which the directors and CEO choose to run their company. It's very short-sighted, they'd rather lose their experienced staff and spend time and money training up new ones than retain their existing team. It is clearly profit motivated but to the detriment of the business's longevity. I hope they realise it may not be as easy to hired young, educated and hardworking staff who are willing to start on low pay (floating above minimum wage) after Brexit. They have plans for renovation and expansion, I just hope they have the staff to fill it, it's not looking promising.

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ITH Pharma Response
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ITH Pharma is proud of the fact that it offers opportunities for people to be employed in a company that value investment in comprehensive training and development; you specifically highlight the insight into a pharmaceutical production company and experience you gained in GMP both of which are key elements of our strong training programmes. We are sorry to learn that you had concerns regarding your working conditions whilst working for ITH Pharma. Had you given the company an opportunity to investigate your comments during your employment of greater than one year or during an exit interview, we are confident that this would have been addressed. Engaging with our employees is a key focus for the management team in understanding the employee perspective. Ample opportunity is given for discussion through regular forums and access for employees to line or more senior managers.
2.0
25 Jul 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great and very helpful in terms of learning and training. Lots of GMP production experience

Cons

There is a atmosphere in this place that doesn't sit right with me you can tell the morale is low and clearly some people are sick of the place. Also, some of the senior members of staff or whatever titles they call themselves can be quite patronising which again doesn't sit right with me. Don't get me started on the training fee and notice period trap lol

3.0
20 Mar 2017

Ith pharma

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The training good, they allow one to progress at one's pace, they have free parking, cheap snacks n food in vending machines, great kitchen, big fridge, many microwaves

Cons

Repetitive, no research and development involved, just aseptic packaging, there is a waiting list for free parking, salary stops on £32,000

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