Development course for the Pfizer World Center in Thessaloniki
The Business Operations & Services Center of Pfizer started its operation in Thessaloniki in April 2021 and is already charting a continuous development course, even exceeding the initial planning of the company.
Today, after just 9 months of operation, the Center employs more than 250 people, a number that exceeds the original target, while it reached 280 employees in the first half of 2022. More than 30 employees are young people who returned to Greece from abroad, with a high level of education and specialization.
The Center for Business Operations & Services already serves from Thessaloniki the global organization of Pfizer and more specifically 50 countries from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while the goal in 2022 is the further development in this field, serving more than 70 countries from these 3 continents.
The services offered by the Center in these countries in Pfizer’s areas of finance, human resource management, payroll, project management, procurement and internal operating policies worldwide. In fact, the Center’s staff speaks 23 different languages, offering high quality services in different countries.
Mr. Antonis Chatzimanolakis, Head of Payroll EMEA & Business Readiness Center of Pfizer in Thessaloniki said: providing services to Pfizer’s organization. This fact justifies the choice of Thessaloniki and our country for this investment and highlights even more the high level of human resources of our country but also the possibility of repatriation of Greeks abroad (brainre-gain) that left during the economic crisis. the last decade”.
The Center for Business Operations and Services together with the Center for Digital Technology constitute Pfizer’s global investment in Thessaloniki. Within the first half of 2022, the Center will be transferred in parallel to the new facilities of Pfizer in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, which already houses the global Center for Digital Technology.
It is important to note that in December 2021, the Center for Business Operations & Services was approved as a strategic investment by the Interministerial Committee on Strategic Investments.