Teva Pharmaceuticals – IT Recruitment for a Global Pharmaceutical Company

Tsiala Jobava

Last updated on June 17, 2026 | 16 min read

• Three senior data roles filled within six weeks through remote specialists in Serbia, against a timeline that conventional channels would stretch to three or four months.
• No position required a second search or a replacement hire, with all three specialists clearing a backlog of reporting requests inside their first month.

Introduction

Consider a hypothetical scenario: a supply chain dashboard goes dark during a quarterly compliance review. Inventory data across 60 markets stops refreshing because an ETL pipeline failed overnight. Regional managers lose visibility into distribution timelines, and the finance team cannot validate shipment figures against regulatory thresholds. For a pharmaceutical company operating at Teva‘s scale, gaps in data reporting infrastructure do not remain contained. Delayed reporting affects compliance reviews and operational planning across the organization within days.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries needed to fill open data roles in its analytics function and launched a targeted hiring initiative focused on remote specialists based in Serbia. The country offered a deep pool of Microsoft-certified data professionals whose working hours overlapped with the Tel Aviv headquarters, which made remote ownership of these systems a practical arrangement rather than a geographic gamble. The scope covered three permanent positions: a Power BI Developer responsible for building advanced dashboards and supporting organizational users across the company’s Microsoft ecosystem, an ETL Data Engineer tasked with maintaining the data pipelines feeding Teva’s BI reporting layer, and a SQL Database Developer focused on optimizing the relational databases underpinning the company’s analytics infrastructure.

These were not project-based contracts. Each role carried ongoing ownership of systems that supported HR analytics, financial reporting, and supply chain visibility across Teva’s global operations. Candidates needed production-level experience with enterprise BI platforms, strong English communication skills for collaboration with teams in Israel and across regions, and the ability to operate effectively in a fully remote arrangement from Serbia. Senior Data Professionals with enterprise BI experience, fluent English, and remote readiness were difficult to find in Serbia, where most experienced candidates at that level had already committed to long-term contracts with Western European employers. Teva engaged DevsData LLC through Elad, a long-standing contact within the agency’s Israeli partner network, to fill all three roles within six weeks.

Client profile

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is an Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tel Aviv. Founded over 125 years ago, the company is the world’s largest generic drug manufacturer and ranks among the top 30 pharmaceutical companies globally. Teva develops, produces, and markets generic drugs, biosimilars, and branded medicines across therapeutic areas including neuroscience, immunology, and oncology. Key branded products include Austedo for chorea associated with Huntington’s disease and tardive dyskinesia, and Ajovy for migraine prevention.

The company operates manufacturing facilities across Israel, North America, Europe, South America, and Australia. With approximately 37000 employees and a presence in 60 markets, Teva generated $17.3 billion in revenue in 2025 and is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the ticker TEVA.

Teva’s data infrastructure supports a complex operational footprint. Power BI serves as a core reporting tool across the organization, feeding dashboards used by supply chain, regulatory affairs, and commercial teams. The analytics division at the Tel Aviv headquarters is responsible for maintaining these reporting systems and ensuring data accuracy across multiple source platforms, including SQL-based data warehouses, cloud environments, and legacy pharmaceutical systems.

The hiring challenge

Filling three senior data positions for a global pharmaceutical company through remote hiring in Serbia required more than posting on local job boards. Each role demanded a specific combination of enterprise BI platform experience, Microsoft ecosystem proficiency, and the operational maturity to work autonomously within a distributed global team.

Microsoft ecosystem depth

The Power BI Developer role sat at the intersection of business intelligence and Microsoft platform integration. Candidates needed at least three years of Power BI development experience, including advanced DAX, Power Query, and data modeling. Beyond dashboard creation, the role required integrating data from Microsoft 365, Graph API, Active Directory, and Excel, while maintaining data quality, information security, and role-based access controls. Familiarity with HR systems, Viva Insights, financial tools, and the broader Power Platform added further specificity to the profile. Power BI skills are common in Serbia, so the constraint was never the tool itself. The shortlist narrowed around senior engineers who had run Microsoft 365 and Graph API integrations inside a regulated reporting environment, a combination that thins out quickly at the seniority Teva required.

Technical depth across three distinct roles

The three positions covered different layers of the data stack, each with its own tool requirements and operational context. While the Power BI Developer focused on dashboard development and business user support, the ETL Data Engineer required hands-on experience with enterprise pipeline tools and multi-source data extraction across a global pharmaceutical operation. The SQL Database Developer needed deep relational database optimization experience and familiarity with the query performance demands of large-scale BI environments.

Remote work within a regulated global company

Teva operates under strict data governance frameworks. Candidates working remotely from Serbia needed to demonstrate not only technical competence but the discipline to operate within compliance-heavy data environments without direct on-site supervision. Strong written and spoken English was mandatory for cross-regional collaboration with teams in Israel, Europe, and North America. Experience working in a global environment was a stated advantage for the Power BI Developer role, and the same expectation applied across all three positions.

The following table summarizes the core requirements for each role.

Alignment and objectives

Before sourcing began, DevsData LLC ran a requirements workshop with Teva’s hiring stakeholders to document role expectations, ideal candidate profiles, and evaluation criteria in a shared brief. The engagement originated through Elad, a contact within DevsData LLC’s Israeli partner network who had previously facilitated placements at other technology-driven Israeli companies. His familiarity with Teva’s internal structure and hiring culture accelerated the initial scoping process.

DevsData LLC documented the brief alongside Teva’s team, setting the six-week timeline and the remote Serbian focus while contributing market insight that shaped each role’s technical requirements. The agency’s review of local salary levels and available seniority informed where the role definitions could hold firm and where they needed adjustment.

Serbia was selected as the target market based on the country’s growing pool of Microsoft-certified data professionals, favorable time zone alignment with Israel and Western Europe, and competitive salary positioning compared to other European markets. These parameters ruled out common shortcuts. Presenting mid-level profiles with growth potential in place of senior specialists was not an option. Each role required immediate operational readiness within a global pharmaceutical data environment.

Rather than flooding the pipeline with loosely matched candidates, the team committed to delivering a shortlist of pre-validated specialists who met every stated requirement: verified enterprise BI platform experience, English communication skills sufficient for global collaboration, and a track record of supporting production data systems in compliance-sensitive industries. This approach has delivered results in previous Eastern European engagements, where DevsData LLC has recruited senior technical specialists across Serbia, Poland, Romania, and other regional markets under tight timelines.

The objective was clear: fill all three roles within the deadline, with hires capable of contributing from their first week.

Discovery phase

Before launching active recruitment, DevsData LLC conducted a structured discovery phase that included interviews with Teva’s analytics lead and representatives from the HR, finance, and supply chain teams who depended on the data infrastructure these hires would support. These sessions mapped which reporting systems were operationally critical, where flexibility existed in the role definitions, and which skills were non-negotiable given the live compliance and workforce reporting responsibilities.

Each role was broken down into concrete ownership areas: specific dashboards, pipeline components, database objects, Microsoft platform integrations, and interaction points with business units. For the Power BI Developer role, this included documenting the full scope of Microsoft 365 and Graph API data sources, the HR systems and Viva Insights integrations the role would maintain, and the user training responsibilities expected from day one. DevsData LLC documented these findings in detailed role briefs that required sign-off from the Teva hiring team before sourcing began. This level of granularity allowed the recruitment team to distinguish between candidates with surface-level BI tool exposure and those who had owned reporting systems within enterprise Microsoft environments.

In parallel, DevsData LLC analyzed the Serbian labor market to validate salary benchmarks for senior data professionals, assess the availability of Power BI and ETL specialists with pharmaceutical or regulated industry backgrounds, and identify the typical career paths that produce suitable senior candidates in the Serbian market. Belgrade and Novi Sad emerged as the primary talent clusters, with a secondary pool of experienced professionals working remotely from other Serbian cities. This groundwork eliminated misalignment early, preventing unnecessary interview cycles later in the process.

Sourcing strategy

Given the seniority and specialization of the roles, DevsData LLC did not rely solely on public job postings. The team applied a targeted sourcing strategy combining direct outreach within Serbian data engineering and BI communities with referrals from the agency’s Eastern European partner network, and shared each emerging profile with Teva’s hiring stakeholders so calibration happened in real time rather than at the end of the pipeline.

Senior data professionals in Serbia are increasingly engaged in remote roles with Western European and US companies. Reaching this talent pool required working through local professional communities and referral networks, rather than relying on job boards where global tech firms dominate visibility.

Serbian data and analytics communities, Microsoft-focused professional groups, and Power BI user forums proved particularly effective. These channels surfaced candidates who were not actively job-seeking but were open to a long-term remote role within a global pharmaceutical operation. The Microsoft ecosystem specificity of the Power BI Developer position made Microsoft-certified professional networks and local Power Platform communities especially valuable sourcing channels.

All sourcing efforts were supported by DevsData LLC’s global database of over 95000 vetted IT professionals, which accelerated screening and ensured only senior-level profiles entered the evaluation pipeline.

Evaluation and delivery

Interviews focused on concrete system scenarios: dashboard incident resolution, Microsoft 365 data integration challenges, pipeline failure diagnosis, query performance troubleshooting, and communication with non-technical stakeholders requesting reporting changes. Rather than abstract technical questioning, candidates were asked to walk through how they had supported reporting systems during active compliance reviews, HR planning cycles, or supply chain disruptions.

For the Power BI Developer role specifically, the assessment included a practical exercise involving dashboard design using a sample dataset that required Microsoft source integration, DAX calculations, role-based access configuration, and the ability to explain reporting logic to a non-technical audience. Candidates were also evaluated on their experience translating business requirements into technical specifications, a core responsibility of the role.

Within six weeks, all three roles were filled.

Each hire’s background was mapped directly to the operational scope defined during discovery. The Power BI Developer had built HR and compliance dashboards integrated with Microsoft 365 and Active Directory for a European financial services operation of comparable complexity. His experience supporting organizational users and providing BI training translated directly to Teva’s requirements. The ETL Data Engineer brought healthcare data pipeline experience that aligned with Teva’s multi-source data environment. The SQL Database Developer had optimized reporting databases for a life sciences analytics operation, making his transition into Teva’s infrastructure straightforward. None of the three required onboarding into unfamiliar system architectures.

Results and impact

The engagement closed all three positions within six weeks, a timeline that would typically extend to three or four months using conventional recruitment channels for remote hiring in the Serbian market. No role required a second search cycle or candidate replacement.

Teva needed specialists who could step into a pharmaceutical data environment with minimal ramp-up time. The selected candidates had prior experience solving comparable problems in similar systems, which enabled faster integration and immediate contribution.

Several factors made this outcome possible. DevsData LLC’s database of over 95,000 vetted specialists eliminated the cold-start problem that slows most regional searches. The referral channel through Elad and the Israeli partner network gave the recruitment team direct access to decision-makers at Teva and clear visibility into the company’s operational priorities. The senior-only validation approach ensured that every candidate presented to the Teva hiring team had verifiable production experience in enterprise Microsoft environments, reducing interview cycles and accelerating final decisions.

The Serbian remote hiring model, often a source of uncertainty for companies unfamiliar with the regional talent market, did not introduce delays. DevsData LLC’s established presence in Eastern European recruitment and direct access to Serbian data professional communities was built for exactly this scenario: identifying senior specialists who combine technical depth with the communication skills and discipline required for remote work within a global pharmaceutical company.

Within the first month, the new team members had cleared a backlog of dashboard and reporting requests that accumulated during the vacancy period, restored full pipeline monitoring coverage, and begun delivering user training sessions for internal stakeholders.

Conclusion

This case reflects DevsData LLC’s approach to data and BI recruitment for regulated industries: targeted scoping, access to regional talent networks, and validation grounded in production-level demands. For Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the result was three senior hires in Serbia delivered within six weeks, each ready to support live compliance, HR, supply chain, and commercial reporting systems from day one.

Across pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life sciences engagements, the common denominator has been precise role decomposition, local market access, and assessment grounded in real operational demands. Power BI, ETL, and enterprise database skills remain among the most competitive data hiring categories in Eastern Europe, and sourcing senior specialists for regulated environments requires more than job board visibility.

With a global network of 95,000+ vetted specialists and deep experience across Eastern Europe, Israel, and the US, DevsData LLC helps organizations hire critical data talent without extending timelines or lowering standards.

If your organization operates enterprise data and BI systems in the pharmaceutical or life sciences sector and needs senior specialists who can support live production environments, DevsData LLC can help. Contact us at general@devsdata.com or visit www.devsdata.com to discuss your hiring requirements.

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Tsiala Jobava Copywriter and Marketer

Tsiala Jobava is a talented marketing specialist. Tsiala holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s in Marketing and Communication from Barcelona Business School. She has built a diverse career, working as a Copywriter and in marketing and PR, before returning to her first passion – writing. Along the way, she has gained valuable experience in social media management, content creation, and brand development.

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