Africa Deployments offers pharma EOR solutions, enabling you to hire, manage, and pay clinical and field teams across 50+ African countries.
Onboard medical sales reps, regulatory, and clinical staff with compliant contracts and HR support across pharma jurisdictions.
Accurate, timely payroll in local currency for field and clinical staff, with tax compliance handled automatically.
Stay fully compliant with local labor law, pharma-sector regulations, and statutory requirements in every African jurisdiction.
Comprehensive benefits packages including health cover, pension contributions, and mandatory local benefits for pharma teams.
Manage clinical and commercial teams across multiple countries from a single platform with unified reporting.
Mobilize a launch or trial team in as little as 48 hours with our streamlined setup process.
Navigate complex pharma and labor regulations in 50 African countries with our team of local experts.
Full-service HR support from onboarding to offboarding for your clinical and commercial teams.
Get your launch team up and running across the African continent in as little as 48 hours.
Ensure accurate and timely payments while offering competitive pharma-sector benefits packages.
Protect your business from costly compliance mistakes and legal issues.
Relocate regulatory and clinical talent across African borders with expert visa & immigration support.
Whether you are launching a new product or scaling clinical operations, Africa Deployments provides a range of related solutions to keep your business compliant and operational at all times.
Save 80-90% on setup costs compared to establishing your own pharma entities in multiple African countries.
Streamline your clinical and commercial HR operations across the continent with unified Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Your dedicated account manager ensures smooth operations and is always available for assistance, help or queries.
Manage field and clinical staff across multiple African countries from a single HR provider, with unified reporting.
Manage your entire pharma workforce from a single point of contact, with consistent processes across the continent.
Seamlessly scale from a single launch team to a 1000+ person commercial operation without managing multiple entities.
Chief Human Resources Officer,
GetMyBoat
“Working with Africa Deployments allowed us to quickly hire top talent across East Africa without establishing separate entities. Their service is absolutely invaluable.”
Chief Operations Officer EMEA,
Global Finance Partners
Head of Legal,
Ergos Mining
Pharma EOR refers to Employer of Record services built for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies operating in Africa, letting you hire clinical, regulatory, and field staff without setting up a local entity. Africa Deployments becomes the legal employer, handling contracts, payroll, and compliance.
A distribution partner typically handles product logistics, not employment. EOR is employment-specific, becoming the direct legal employer of your named clinical, regulatory, and commercial staff.
Pharma companies use EOR to launch and staff trial or commercial operations fast, stay compliant with local labor law, and avoid the cost and delay of entity setup in each market.
We support pharma employment across all 54 African markets, with local experts managing labor law and sector-specific requirements in each jurisdiction.
Yes, our EOR service ensures full compliance with local employment law and coordinates with pharma-sector regulatory requirements, so clinical and field staff are engaged correctly from day one.
We structure contracts for clinical research associates and trial-site staff, aligning employment terms with the project scope and GxP-relevant documentation requirements of the trial.
A CRO may manage trial delivery as a whole, while EOR is narrower and employment-specific: we become the legal employer of individually named staff you direct.
Yes, EOR suits project-based clinical trial and product launch teams since contracts can be scoped to a defined project timeline without setting up a local entity.
We administer health insurance, pension contributions, and mandatory local benefits for field and clinical staff, tailored to the requirements of each jurisdiction.
Ideal clients include pharmaceutical manufacturers, CROs, medical device companies, and diagnostics firms launching commercial or clinical operations in a new African market.
By taking on legal employer responsibility, EOR shields you from misclassification, tax, and labor law risk across jurisdictions with strict health-sector regulation, keeping your launch on schedule.
Yes, we manage staff across multiple African countries from one platform, with unified reporting so you can track headcount, payroll, and compliance across every market.
Pharma EOR typically saves 80-90% versus establishing and maintaining your own local entities, cutting legal, registration, and ongoing administrative costs across every jurisdiction.
Clinical and commercial hires can be onboarded in as little as 48 hours through our streamlined setup process, backed by local expertise in contracts and payroll.
EOR handles the full employment lifecycle for pharma staff, from onboarding and payroll to benefits, documentation, and offboarding, so your team can focus on the launch or trial.
Yes, EOR covers remote and hybrid roles such as regulatory affairs and medical affairs specialists, alongside field staff, under the same compliant employment structure.
We manage payroll tax, social security, and sector-specific statutory filings in each jurisdiction, keeping your team compliant with local revenue authorities without an in-country finance function.
Yes, we manage terminations in line with local labor law, including notice periods, severance calculations, and documentation, reducing your exposure to wrongful dismissal claims.
Yes, we manage terminations in line with local labor law, including notice periods, severance calculations, and documentation, reducing your exposure to wrongful dismissal claims.
