Shire a pharmaceutical company with domicile headquarters in Dublin - Human Resource Management

Internal Code: MAS6371

Human Resource Management:

The Shire is a pharmaceutical company with domicile headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. The senior management all operate from the United States, in Lexington in the state of Massachusetts.  The company has operations in a further 40 countries and maintains a suite of brands including Vyvanse, Replagal, and Fosrenol among others (Shire n.d.).  Primarily these brands are in ‘rare disease’ segment of the pharmaceutical sector. The Shire has a workforce of some 22,000 employees and growing. In the Australian context, the operations are very small and perform sales, marketing, logistics, market compliance and government relations functions. The Shire utilize their small workforces to drive achieve their strategic goals. This means the businesses must have strong management, administration, compliance, sales, marketing and product development teams to ensure their interests are promoted.