Category Archives: Medical Device

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 […]

How to Position Yourself for a VP-Level MedTech Promotion

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. Getting promoted to VP in a device company depends less on performing your current role excellently than on demonstrating that you already […]

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 Land a C-Suite Role in the Medical Device Industry

Medical Innovation

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. Landing a C-suite role in medical devices is less about applying well and more about being the obvious answer to a specific problem before […]

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 […]

Resume Tips for Medical Device Sales Executives

Pharmaceutical Sales Meeting

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. Most medical device sales executive resumes read as a list of quota attainment percentages, which tells a hiring company […]

Making the Leap from Clinical Practice to MedTech 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 […]

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 […]