WorkAmmo is set to transform the recruitment landscape in the Indian pharma sector by providing companies access to the right qualified candidates. This will enable pharma companies across large, medium and small enterprises to maximise talent acquisition and retention which are perceived to be the key challenges in the human resources front.

The global start up has developed and devised a dual offering to stall issues impacting the human resource departments across the knowledge intensive pharmaceutical sector. To begin with it recently unveiled CareerLine, a personal free of cost career management tool that empowers prospective candidates to climb the professional ladder arming them with required courses and certifications. It has also developed a cloud based SAAS software, PiAmmo, to help the pharma industry manage its teams resourcefully.

“India is the market for highly qualified technical workforce and hence our intent is to garner the opportunity from the country’s knowledge intensive sectors: pharmaceuticals, information technology and IT-enabled services,” Richard Cowley, president, service strategy, WorkAmmo, Luxembourg told Pharmabiz.

Cowley is in India to unveil the offering to India’s knowledge intensive industry at Kochi to provide the Indian workforce the confidence in managing their career growth. In the case of pharma industry, it is gearing up to work with progressive companies to provide them personnel with potential for the company’s growth.

It is gathered that Indian pharma accounts for a 30 per cent attrition in the marketing and sales departments and Karnataka alone reports an 18 per cent annual employee loss who constantly scout for job satisfaction driven by professional growth and higher remuneration.

Now this is a typical situation where WorkAmmo is keen to chip its expertise with its high-end, first-of-its kind intelligent, integrated and end-to end suite of solutions, said Cowley, adding that installing PiAmmo will see Indian pharma industry hassle free in recruitment, performance management of personnel, learning and development of its workforce to maximise organisational capability, talent and reward management.

“Our proprietary algorithm is designed to deliver human resource data targeted to specific needs at every stage of a candidate’s career. Therefore, there is no need to search for jobs because jobs will come to the candidate,” pointed Cowley.

With Indian pharma known for its intellectual property efforts and research initiatives, there is need for easy access to promising talent to spur capability and capacity building. This is where WorkAmmo has set its sights on India to help manage the candidates and their career, he said.

Both CareerLine and PiAmmo will boost initiatives of the Union government’s 'Digital India' and 'Make in India' by providing avenues for both skill development and re-skilling to manage attrition and transition, said Cowley.