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2010 Annual Outsourcing Survey

Welcome to our 6th Annual Contract Pharma Outsourcing Survey! More than 350 sponsor-side respondents offered up their opinions on outsourcing trends for this year’s poll. Here’s a breakdown of the respondents, by company type & job function:

By: Gil Roth

President, Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

Company Type


  • Top 20 Pharma: 23.4%
  • Small/Mid-Tier Pharma: 18.0%
  • Generic Pharma: 10.1%
  • Virtual Pharma: 9.8%
  • Emerging Biopharma: 8.2%
  • Specialty Pharma: 7.0%
  • Top 10 Biopharma: 6.3%
  • Consumer/OTC Healthcare: 3.5%
  • Other: 13.6%

Job Function


  • R&D: 21.5%
  • Corporate Management: 13.0%
  • QA/QC/Validation: 12.3%
  • Project Manager: 9.5%
  • Contract Manager: 6.6%
  • Purchasing/Sourcing: 5.7%
  • Production/Manufacturing/Packaging: 5.7%
  • Business Development: 5.7%
  • Marketing/Sales: 5.4%
  • Clinical Research: 4.1%
  • Supply Chain Manager: 3.5%
  • Regulatory Affairs: 2.5%
  • Engineering: 1.3%
  • Other: 3.2%

Signs of Improvement?



Last year, a whopping 62% of total respondents believed that they’d spend the same or less on outsourcing spending in the coming year; this year, that dipped to 55%. Happily, the “10%+ less spending than previous year” respondents dropped from to 13%, from 23% last year, while no change increased from to 29% of all correspondents, from 25% last year.

Along those lines, 35% of respondents said that they had cancelled outsourcing projects in the previous year due to the economy; the same percentage as in our 2009 survey. We added “to reduce company size” to our responses for “Why does your company outsource?”; 7% of respondents chose that answer, led by Top 20 Pharma, with 41% of those responses.


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