Pharma & Medtech Manufacturing
Executive search for the companies that supply pharma and medtech
If pharma and biotech are your customers, you are in the market we have spent twenty years working in.
The market
The companies the drug and device industry depends on.
Our work sits with the manufacturers and service providers the drug and device industry depends on, and with the commercial, technical and operations leaders inside them.
It is a small global market. A few hundred companies matter, and senior people move between packaging, components, CDMO and equipment across a career. That makes it one talent pool, and we start every search already knowing it.
Where we go deepest
Three segments carry most of our work.
Drug delivery and combination products
Autoinjectors, pens, on-body delivery, prefilled syringe systems, and the device and pharma teams that commercialize them.
Pharmaceutical packaging and components
Glass vials, syringes and cartridges, elastomeric components, closures and containment, and the engineering organizations behind them.
CDMO, CMO and sterile fill-finish
Contract development and manufacturing, aseptic fill-finish, analytical and testing services, and medical device outsourcing.
Leadership we are retained for
Director through board, across the companies that supply pharma and medtech.
Board and C-suite
Chairs, independent directors, CEOs and executive teams, often at an ownership change, a new strategy or a step up in scale.
General management
Presidents, business unit heads and country leaders who run the business day to day.
Commercial team build-outs in North America
The first US commercial leaders and the teams under them, often for European and Asian parents entering or expanding in the market.
Senior functional leadership
Operations, technical, quality and finance leaders who carry the growth plan.
What the work looks like
A few of the teams we have helped our clients build.
CDMO / commercial leadership
A tier one global CDMO brought us in to build the commercial team across its drug delivery and medical device business. We delivered leaders who could hold the established market, open new ones and fit the culture they were building.
Drug delivery / US build-out
A global leader in combination-product devices asked us to create its US commercial organization alongside a $500M greenfield investment. Six placements in one year. Four years later, all six are still with the company.
Packaging / ten-year account
A decade-long relationship with a European packaging and containment manufacturer, spanning commercial and technical build-outs as it expanded its US footprint.
Speak with a partner.
Tell us about the leader you need, or about your own next move. We will take it from there.