Category Archives: For Employers

How to Recruit Top Talent in a Competitive MedTech Market

MedTech Executive Hiring

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Recruiting top MedTech talent is harder than in many sectors, because the pool of leaders who combine regulatory fluency, clinical understanding, and […]

Hiring a Chief Compliance Officer for Medical Device Firms

Medical Technology Executive 1

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. A Chief Compliance Officer in a medical device company oversees an unusually broad risk surface: healthcare fraud and abuse laws, interactions with […]

Building a Leadership Team for a Medical Device Company Pre-IPO

Biotech Leadership Team

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Building a leadership team ahead of a MedTech IPO is a countdown, because public markets scrutinize device companies on regulatory credibility, clinical […]

What Boards Should Know Before a MedTech CEO Search

Medical Technology Leadership 2

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. A board launching a MedTech CEO search should understand several things before it starts, because the decisions made in the first few weeks, about the […]

Key Traits of a Successful VP of Clinical Affairs

Clinical Leadership

At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. The VP of Clinical Affairs sits at the intersection of science, regulation, and commercial strategy, designing and running the clinical evidence that determines […]

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 […]

How to Retain Executive Talent in the Medical Device Industry

Executive Leadership Healthcare

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Retaining MedTech executives is as important as recruiting them, because the same scarcity that makes hiring hard makes your existing leaders targets, and […]

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 […]

Succession Planning for Medical Device Manufacturing Leaders

Medical Manufacturing Facility

This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Succession planning for medical device manufacturing leadership is unusually consequential, because these leaders hold responsibility for […]

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 […]