I'm Andreas Schulz, a pharma career coach and freelance pharma recruiter in Berlin. I publish free data on pharma, MedTech and supply chain hiring, most of it about Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and you can quote any figure on this page with a link to its source.
Email reaches me fastest: andreas.schulz@morethancareer.de. I usually reply within one working day, often the same day. If you're on a deadline, put it in the subject line.
Bio
Andreas Schulz is a pharma career coach and freelance pharma recruiter in Berlin and the founder of MoreThanCareer.de. He has 17 years in recruitment, 9 of them at Bayer AG and 5 at the CROs ICON and Syneos Health.
Andreas Schulz is a pharma career coach and freelance pharma recruiter in Berlin. In 17 years of recruitment he has hired in most EU countries and in the United States, up to SVP level, for roles that run from production and medical device engineering to clinical, regulatory, data and commercial functions. He spent 9 of those years at Bayer AG and 5 at ICON and Syneos Health, two of the global top 3 CROs. He founded MoreThanCareer.de in March 2026. There he coaches pharma professionals in German, English and Polish and publishes open data on pharma hiring in German-speaking Europe.
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Ten figures you can quote
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- 85.4%Workday and SAP SuccessFactors run 70 of 82 DACH pharma, medtech, CDMO and CRO employers on the leading association member lists.Pharma ATS and Application Friction Report, Q4 2026, checked 13th November 2026
- 36 of 46Workday career sites in the report require a candidate account before you can apply, going by their configuration.Pharma ATS report, Q4 2026
- 27%of 2025 hires in Germany were decided by personal contacts, according to the IAB. The 85% networking figure goes back to an informal 2016 survey of LinkedIn users.Job search statistics, fact-checked, 13th November 2026
- 6%of German companies use AI for the first review of applications (Bitkom, 2026). The claim that an ATS rejects 75% of CVs traces to vendor marketing from about 2012, with no published method.Job search statistics, fact-checked
- 16applications per hire at German employers in 2025, up from 9 in 2022 (IAB). Greenhouse counted 244 per job in North America.Job search statistics, fact-checked
- 123career levels with salary bands for pharma, MedTech and supply chain roles in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, checked against 117 cited data points.DACH salary bands 2026/27, updated quarterly
- 66.3%is the average share of positive interview experiences at CROs, against 58.8% at biotech companies, across 39 employers and 43,568 Glassdoor interview reviews.Pharma interview index, November 2026 edition
- 1,190open roles in Germany, Switzerland and Austria at 75 lesser-known pharma, biotech, CDMO and CRO employers on 14th November 2026. Forty of them employ fewer than 1,000 people.Hidden gem employers, November 2026 edition
- 10restructuring announcements and 3 investment pull-backs at DACH pharma sites logged in 2026 up to 14th November, against 8 new or confirmed investments, most of them at contract manufacturers.Pharma job market pulse DACH, November 2026 edition
- 15roles that German pharma and medical device law requires a company to appoint, depending on its licences, from the Qualified Person to the medical device safety officer.Statutory roles chart
How to cite
Name the page and link to it. The data pages are licensed under CC BY 4.0, so you can reuse tables and charts with credit and a link. Each of them has its own suggested citation and a CSV download.
Source: Andreas Schulz, Pharma ATS and Application Friction Report (DACH, Q4 2026), MoreThanCareer.de, https://morethancareer.de/pharma-ats-report.html
What I comment on
- How applicant tracking systems at pharma employers are set up, and what that does to candidates
- Pay in pharma, MedTech and supply chain across Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Where popular job-search statistics come from, and which ones hold up
- The statutory roles in German pharma and medical device law, such as the Qualified Person and the Stufenplanbeauftragter (graduated plan officer)
- Hiring, restructuring and site investment in DACH pharma
- Moving from academia into the pharma industry, and moving between the US and Europe
- German notice periods, garden leave and the Arbeitszeugnis (employer reference letter), from a recruiter's side of the table
Contact
Interviews in German, English or Polish, by phone, video or in writing.
| andreas.schulz@morethancareer.de | |
| Phone | +49 177 3577418 |
| linkedin.com/in/schulzandreas1 | |
| Office | Berlin, Germany |
Other ways to reach me are on the contact page.