The website of a pharmaceutical manufacturer has one job that almost none of them do: let a sourcing manager filter your catalogue by molecule, dosage form, strength, therapeutic category and plant certification, and then request the documentation they need without calling anyone. Most sites in this category are five brochure pages, a logo strip of certifications and a downloadable PDF catalogue that was last updated three years ago. Rebuilding one is a data architecture project rather than a design project. The product master has to become a queryable structure, certifications have to map to plants and lines, confidential documents need controlled access, and enquiries have to route to whichever of your teams owns that buyer type.
The technical brief for a pharmaceutical manufacturer website is closer to a product information system than to a marketing site. The central decision is where the product master lives and how it stays synchronised, since the published catalogue disagreeing with reality is the most common and most damaging failure in this category. We generally model products as structured records with molecule, strength, dosage form, pack, therapeutic category, plant reference and certification references, then render both filterable listings and individual product pages from that single source. Certification and plant modelling is the second decision and separates a credible manufacturer site from a brochure, because approvals attach to plants rather than companies and a team filtering on WHO-GMP needs to know which facility holds what. The third is document handling, where the tension is that your most persuasive material is also your most confidential. A gated request flow resolves it and converts document interest into a qualified enquiry record. Beyond that the requirements are conventional B2B engineering: multi-region handling if you export, CRM integration, server side rendering so the catalogue is indexable, and an editing interface your regulatory team can use for the certificate and product updates this category demands. Welbourg Pharma is a published pharmaceutical website client, and we have worked with multiple brands in this category since 2017.




























































