Gi­ant Pfiz­er look­ing to shed close to 2,000 jobs as it crafts a ‘sim­pler’ man­age­ment struc­ture

Pfiz­er is slim­ming down the head count ahead of Al­bert Bourla’s of­fi­cial coro­na­tion as the new CEO at the start of 2019.

The New York-based phar­ma gi­ant has set its sights on some in­creased ef­fi­cien­cy in the way it’s struc­tured, and that will re­quire them to shed about 2% of its 90,000-some work force, or rough­ly close to 2,000 jobs. And they’re of­fer­ing buy­outs to en­cour­age some staffers to leave vol­un­tar­i­ly.

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