Company overview
- Sector
- Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Sub-sector
- Pharmaceuticals
- Mandate (derived)
- Sales, Marketing & BD
- Parent headquarters
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $3,000,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 12,445
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Mumbai
- Hyderabad
- Bengaluru
- Pune
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- 24-7 Media
- AC500 PLC
- ANGEL LMS
- AVEVA InTouch HMI
- AWS Application Load Balancer
- AWS Transit Gateway
- Act!
- Amazon AWS
- Amazon SES
- Azure Data Lake Analytics
- Barracuda MSP
- Blackline
- Blender
- Bosch Services
- CET
Public leadership
Girish Zamwar
Senior Vice President & Head Operations Finance
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Cipla Limited is an India-headquartered global pharmaceutical company founded in 1935 by Dr. K.A. Hamied in Mumbai. It operates in 74 markets with 1,500+ products across 50+ dosage forms spanning respiratory, HIV/AIDS therapeutics, oncology, generics, OTC (Cipla Health), diagnostics and API. Reported turnover ~$3.26 billion and 30,000+ employees globally.
- India launch
- 1935
- Maturity
- Shared Services Center
Cipla's Mumbai/Hyderabad/Bengaluru/Pune footprint under an SVP & Head of Operations Finance, combined with finance-function job titles observed on Cipla's careers portal (Business Partner Finance, Controlling, Group Consolidation, Cluster Finance Manager), indicates a multi-city, finance-led shared-services structure rather than a standalone R&D or full-stack GCC.
Timeline
- 1935
Cipla founded by Dr. K.A. Hamied in Mumbai, establishing its India headquarters and manufacturing base.
- 2001
Cipla introduced a triple anti-retroviral HIV therapy priced under $1/day, a milestone in global affordable-medicine access.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Team Member - Business Partner Finance
- Sr. Team Member - Controlling
- Cluster Finance Manager
- Team Member - Group Consolidation
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.