Author Archives: JRG Partners Editorial Staff

Making the Leap from Clinical Practice to MedTech Executive

Doctor Executive

Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Clinicians moving into device company leadership bring something the industry genuinely values, direct understanding of […]

LinkedIn Profile Tips for Medical Device Executives

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Drawing on the searches we run, this lays out what actually separates the candidates who get these roles from those who do not. For device executives, a LinkedIn profile functions mainly as a verification and search tool: recruiters use it to find you and to check whether your […]

How to Handle a Counteroffer in Medical Device Recruiting

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Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Counteroffers are common when a device company loses a senior person it cannot easily replace, and they are harder to […]

Understanding Non-Competes in the Medical Device Industry

Healthcare Corporate Office

This reflects what we see from the recruiter’s side of the table, which is a useful vantage point when you are planning your own next move. Non-compete and related restrictive agreements are common in medical devices, where companies protect product knowledge, customer […]

What a 90-Day Plan Should Look Like for a New MedTech Executive

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At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. A 90-day plan for a device executive should look different from a generic one, because the first ninety days must be spent understanding regulatory […]

How to Recruit a Chief Medical Officer for a Pharma Company

Pharma Executive

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. The Chief Medical Officer in a pharmaceutical company holds an unusual combination of responsibilities: scientific and clinical leadership, regulatory […]

Building an Executive Team for a Pre-Commercial Biotech

Healthcare Executive Team

This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Building the executive team for a pre-commercial biotech is an exercise in sequencing under uncertainty, because you are hiring against […]

Hiring Trends in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Leadership

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Executive

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Pharmaceutical manufacturing leadership is being reshaped by several forces at once: the growth of biologics and cell and gene therapy, continued […]

What Makes a Great VP of Market Access in Pharma?

Healthcare Business Leadership

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Market access determines whether a drug that works reaches the patients who need it, and the VP leading it operates at the intersection of evidence, […]

Recruiting for Rare Disease and Orphan Drug Companies

Rare Disease Research

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Rare disease and orphan drug companies operate under conditions that make executive recruiting genuinely distinctive: tiny patient populations, close […]