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The well-known pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced plans to hire 300 people within the next 3 years in its Tuscan plant in Sesto Fiorentino.
The company will expand the Tuscan factory, proceeding with the first ones hiring already by the end of this year. So let's find out a little more about Eli Lilly and see what job opportunities are on the way.
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The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly will increase the surface area of its production plant in Sesto Fiorentino, as evidenced by the memorandum of understanding signed with the University of Florence and the local authorities for the acquisition of the buildings of the former Agnoletti high school.
With this growth in mind, the company will carry out approx 300 hires by 2020. These are not recruitments that are too distant in time; the first 100 personnel could be placed in the company as early as December 2017.
THE COMPANY
Eli Lilly and Company was born in 1876 by the Colonel Eli Lilly, whose goal was to produce reliable medicines to be administered thanks to a doctor's prescription, a new concept at the time. The company we recall was the first to market insulin, and twenty years later the first typhoid vaccine.
More than a century later, Eli Lilly remains a company of excellence in the pharmaceutical sector, present in Italy with the plant in Sesto Fiorentino active since 1961.
The factory covers an area of 55,000 square meters, employs approx 1,200 employees and a turnover to date of over 850 million euros, of which 17 million invested in research and development. It is one of the most innovative plants for the production of biotechnology drugs in Italy, where recombinant DNA insulin is produced for European and non-European countries.
HOW TO APPLY
Anyone interested in job opportunities at Eli Lilly can apply for open positions by visiting the "Careers" section of the official website www.lilly.it, from which to send your curriculum vitae for the active selections of your interest.
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