Category Archives: Pharmaceutical

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

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 a VP of Regulatory Affairs for Global Pharma Companies

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. A VP of Regulatory Affairs in a global pharmaceutical company must manage submissions and lifecycle obligations across jurisdictions whose requirements, […]

The Role of Confidential Search in Pharma C-Suite Hiring

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Confidential searches are common in pharmaceutical C-suite hiring, usually because an incumbent is still in post, because the search itself would signal […]