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Our purpose at Pfizer is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, both through our biopharmaceutical innovations, and by working to ensure that those medicines and therapies can be accessed quickly and effectively by those who need them. Realising our purpose takes creativity, problem-solving skills, exceptional communication and agile decision-making. These qualities are all enhanced by rich cognitive diversity within our workforce. 

As a business, our aim is to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. This supports us to understand the needs and challenges facing different groups and to find better ways to serve them. So, we work hard to create inclusion and equity. We encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work and strive to create a workplace where every colleague feels they belong and can thrive.

Creating a Culture of Belonging

Creating a culture of belonging means ensuring everyone has fair access to opportunities, merit-based progression and reward. Closing the gender pay gap is an important part of this, as it reflects how representation changes across different levels of our organisation. By improving balance at all levels, particularly in senior roles, we are working towards a workplace where every colleague feels valued, supported and able to thrive at every stage of their career.

Our strategy to Close the Pay Gaps aims to ensure representation of talents from all genders and backgrounds across all pay bands through six impactful initiatives:

1. Recruitment Diversity: 
Ensuring a candidate slate of the most qualified men and women from diverse ethnic backgrounds is reviewed at all levels.

2. Creating a trusting, flexible workplace
Creating the work-life harmony that enables every colleague to be their best working self.

3. Returner Support
Assisting colleagues returning from long-term absence, ensuring they feel engaged and valued.

4. Career Progression Support
Providing resources to help colleagues clarify their career paths and make positive changes.

5. Family Friendly Practices
Supporting colleagues at every stage of the family life-cycle, recognising modern family dynamics.

6. Talking, Celebrating and Understanding EthnicityBuilding the empathy and awareness that breaks down barriers, promotes inclusion and ensures that all colleagues feel safe and supported.

Find out more about our Gender Pay Gap Report and Careers at Pfizer.

Our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs)

Our CRGs play a major role in raising awareness and understanding of the challenges facing colleagues. All colleagues at Pfizer are given the opportunity to join a CRG that they are passionate about. Our CRGs run events, host workshops, participate in local volunteer initiatives, and raise awareness, understanding and empathy amongst Pfizer colleagues. Each CRG is employee-led and driven, and has an Executive Leader sponsor.

In the UK, our CRGs are:

  • Ethnicity
  • Global Black Community
  • disAbility (incorporating Neurodiversity & Mental Health)
  • Pfizer Women’s Resource Group
  • OPEN (LGBTQ+ Network)
  • Intergenerational Mobility (Social Mobility and Age)
 

Ensuring equitable access to medicines for patients

Equitable access to medicines starts with inclusive research. That's why we ensure our research and development activities reflect the diverse communities we serve, including which diseases we prioritise through to reaching underserved populations within our clinical trials and beyond.

Our commitment to underrepresented patients has been recognised by the 2021 Annual Global Patient View Survey, where we ranked 1st, and by the 2021 Access to Medicines Index where we placed 4th.

In May 2022, we launched 'An Accord for a Healthier World' where Pfizer committed to provide all its current and future patent-protected medicines and vaccines available in the U.S. or EU, on a not-for-profit basis to 45 lower-income countries.

Responsibility

Equitable Access to Medicines

Pfizer runs a variety of programmes that serve to broaden access to medicines to underserved people around the world. 

Responsibility

Medicine Donations

We are Europe’s largest donator of healthcare products.

Building partnerships
Building partnerships with like-minded organisations helps to empower underrepresented communities and enables us to contribute towards a more equitable society. Through carefully selected partnerships we have been able to deploy our people, make charitable donations, share knowledge, provide education, and leverage the power of our workforce through volunteering.

Responsibility

 Volunteering and Fundraising

We offer paid volunteering leave to all our colleagues for them to dedicate their time and knowledge towards helping non-profit organisations or any cause close to their hearts.

Partnerships

Working with Patient Organisations

We partner with patient organisations so that we can understand a broad range of different patient’s perspectives and work together to address these unmet needs.

Responsibility

Science Education

Vaccines for children should be available and accessible to all.

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