Global tech firm with facility in Cork to create 320 jobs in Ireland 

Jim Lehane, Assistant Vice President of Life Science Manufacturing at Cognizant and Cognizant’s Head of UK and Ireland, Rohit Gupta. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

A global firm that is transforming how medicines are made has announced plans to create 320 jobs in Ireland over the next three years.

Professional services company Cognizant, which employs around 1,500 people here, most of them at its facility in Cork, said the new roles will be mostly in life sciences manufacturing but also in other areas.