Category Archives: Pharmaceutical

Career Advancement Tips for Pharmaceutical Sales Leaders

Medical Sales Professional

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Pharmaceutical sales leaders who advance beyond regional and national sales roles are usually the ones who deliberately built capability outside […]

Succession Planning for Aging Pharma Leadership

Pharmaceutical Leadership Team

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Many pharmaceutical organisations face a concentration of senior expertise in leaders approaching retirement, particularly in regulatory, quality, […]

How to Move from Clinical Research to Executive Leadership

Life Sciences Leadership 1

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Clinical research professionals hold expertise that pharmaceutical companies genuinely need at senior levels, but the move into executive […]

Hiring a VP of Regulatory Affairs for Global Pharma Companies

Regulatory Affairs Executive 1

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, […]

Resume Strategies for Pharma Regulatory Affairs Professionals

Regulatory Affairs Specialist

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. Regulatory affairs resumes are frequently weakened by the same habit: listing regulations, regions, and procedures rather […]

The Role of Confidential Search in Pharma C-Suite Hiring

Pharma CEO Meeting

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 […]

Recruiting Leadership for Generic Drug Manufacturers

Pharmaceutical Executive Team Meeting

At JRG Partners, this is the kind of search we run every day, so this piece reflects practice rather than theory. Generic drug manufacturing runs on a fundamentally different economic model from innovator pharma: margins are thin, competition is price-driven, speed to market […]

How to Build a Commercial Launch Team for a New Drug

Pharmaceutical Leadership

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Building a commercial launch team means assembling capabilities in the right order, well before approval, for a product whose final label, timing, and […]

Hiring Executives with Both Innovator and Generics Experience

Pharmaceutical Strategy Meeting

This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Executives who have operated credibly in both innovator and generic pharmaceutical businesses are genuinely scarce, and increasingly […]

What Sets Top Pharma Executive Recruiters Apart

Pharmaceutical CEO Interview

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Pharmaceutical executive search is unusually demanding because assessing candidates requires understanding science, regulation, development strategy, […]