Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Leading a contract development and manufacturing organisation requires something distinct from leading internal pharmaceutical manufacturing: you are […]
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At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Building a more diverse leadership team in pharmaceutical R&D runs into a structural reality: the senior candidate pool reflects the composition of scientific […]
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Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Cultural fit assessment in pharmaceutical companies is worth doing carefully and easy to do badly, because the concept slides readily into hiring people […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. The Head of Pharmacovigilance carries a responsibility few other roles do: detecting and acting on safety signals that affect patients […]
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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 […]
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Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Building a specialty pharma launch team is a timing problem as much as a talent problem, because you must hire ahead of approval into roles that cannot […]
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Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. A bad executive hire is expensive anywhere, but in medical devices the costs compound in ways they do not in other industries, because the wrong leader […]
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This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Diagnostics R&D leadership is distinct from device R&D, because a diagnostic’s value rests on analytical and clinical performance, assay […]