Author Archives: JRG Partners Editorial Staff

Retaining Top Talent During Pharma Patent Cliffs

Pharmaceutical Boardroom

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. A looming patent cliff creates a retention problem well before it creates a revenue problem, because capable people can read the pipeline and the expiry […]

Recruiting Leadership for Generic Drug Manufacturers

Pharmaceutical Executive Team Meeting

At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Generic drug manufacturing runs on a fundamentally different economic model from innovator pharma: margins are thin, competition is price-driven, speed to market […]

Recruiting a Chief Scientific Officer: What to Prioritize

Scientific Executive

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. The Chief Scientific Officer sets the scientific direction that determines what a company will have to sell in five or ten years, which makes it among the […]

How to Build a Commercial Launch Team for a New Drug

Pharmaceutical Leadership

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Building a commercial launch team means assembling capabilities in the right order, well before approval, for a product whose final label, timing, and […]

Executive Hiring Challenges Unique to Biosimilars Companies

Biotech Executive Meeting

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Biosimilars companies need executives who can hold two things at once: the scientific and manufacturing sophistication of biologics development, and the […]

Hiring Executives with Both Innovator and Generics Experience

Pharmaceutical Strategy Meeting

This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Executives who have operated credibly in both innovator and generic pharmaceutical businesses are genuinely scarce, and increasingly […]

Career Advancement Tips for Pharmaceutical Sales Leaders

Medical Sales Professional

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Pharmaceutical sales leaders who advance beyond regional and national sales roles are usually the ones who deliberately built capability outside […]

What Sets Top Pharma Executive Recruiters Apart

Pharmaceutical CEO Interview

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Pharmaceutical executive search is unusually demanding because assessing candidates requires understanding science, regulation, development strategy, […]

How to Move from Clinical Research to Executive Leadership

Life Sciences Leadership 1

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Clinical research professionals hold expertise that pharmaceutical companies genuinely need at senior levels, but the move into executive […]

Recruiting a CFO with Pharma-Specific IP and Patent Knowledge

Healthcare Executive Team 1

At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. A pharmaceutical CFO operates in a business where intellectual property is often the principal asset, patent expiry defines the revenue horizon, and litigation […]