Paul Strouts, global managing director for Hays Life Sciences, has pinpointed “The Five Hottest Life Science Jobs for 2017.” Two of the five are traditional R&D roles: research technician and senior researcher, especially in genomics and genetics. Two others are managerial roles: chief scientific officer and clinical project manager.
The fifth is more a category than a specific role—specialists who can fulfill critical skills gaps by applying skills beyond the master’s and doctoral degree graduates traditionally sought by Biopharma: “Mathematical and IT experience (are) coming high on hirers’ wish lists,” Strouts observed. “If you’re keen to break into this sector, now might be a good time to think about leveraging your existing experience.”
Greg Reh, U.S. and global life sciences sector leader for Deloitte, summed up several factors shaping how companies and their employees operate in the firm’s “2017 U.S. Life Sciences Industry Outlook.” Clinical and technical employees often work 24/7 on global innovation teams, aided by technologies such as cloud-based computing, robotics, and AI.
Significantly, Reh added, companies have begun switching from full-time employees toward part-time and on-demand or “contingent” workers such as contract employees, freelancers, and consultants.
“Some are considering employing a contingent workforce, even with the legal and regulatory challenges that come with it, to temporarily fill skills gaps on-demand and introduce more fluidity in recruitment,” Reh noted. “These developments and others call for new workforce-management models that recognize the advantages and challenges of an open-talent economy and the need to develop and retain employees with critical clinical, business, and technology skill sets.”
Those trends pose new challenges for Biopharma recruiters, who match employers with job candidates in significant portions of the industry.
Below is a list of 60 recruiters for Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical positions, unranked and listed alphabetically. That’s up from 50 firms last year, 40 in 2015, and 24 in GEN’s first recruiter list from 2013. Companies were included based on internet searches or publicly available online lists of Biopharma recruiters, but this list does not constitute a list of all Biopharma recruiters.
Listings include information furnished by the companies on their websites and other publicly available material, including their LinkedIn and Twitter pages and press announcements. Each recruiter is listed with its address, phone number, website, top executive(s), and year established.
Advanced Clinical
Address: Headquarters: 10 Parkway North, Suite 350, Deerfield, IL 60015. Additional offices in Maitland, FL; Providence, RI; San Diego; and San Francisco.
Phone number(s): (847) 267-1176
Website: www.advancedclinical.com
Top executive: Leo Sheridan, CEO
Year established: 1994
www.advancedclinical.com/contact-us
Allen-Jeffers Associates
Address: 28512 Las Arubas, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Additional office: Nashville, TN, serving Eastern and Southern regions of the U.S.
Phone number(s): (949) 643-2146
Website: www.allen-jeffersassoc.com/
Top executive: Bob Jeffers, president and founder
Year established: 1978
Apex Life Sciences
4400 Cox Road, Suite 200, Glen Allen, VA 23060; 38 additional offices in the U.S. and one in Toronto.
Phone number(s): Not available
Website: us.valesta.com
Top executive: Peter Dameris, CEO of On Assignment
Year established: 2017, via rebranding of On Assignment’s U.S. life sciences businesses, Lab Support and Valesta Clinical Research Solutions.
Ardent Search
Address: 15/F Soundwill Plaza II–Midtown, 1-29 Tang Lung Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong S.A.R.
Phone number: (852) 3628 3700
Website: www.ardent-search.com/home
Top executive: Robert Hall, managing director
Year established: 2009
Artemis Staffing
Address: 1100 Moraga Way, Suite 103, Moraga, CA 94556
Phone number: (925) 284-8900
Website: www.Artemis-Staffing.com
Top executive: Shellie Williams, CEO
Year established: 1990 (as Artemis Search); re-established 2013
The Bandish Group
Address: 1432 Easton Road, Suite 2B, Warrington, PA 18976
Phone number(s): (800) 881-9976 [US Only]; (267) 483-5233
Website: www.bandishgroup.com
Top executive: Jackie Bandish, managing member and founder
Year established: 1996
BattaliaWinston
Address: Headquarters: 555 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Additional offices in Boston; Chicago; Washington, DC; and Woodbridge, NJ. Life sciences practice group consultants based in Chicago and Woodbridge, NJ.
Phone number(s): (212) 308-8080
Website: www.battaliawinston.com
Top executive: Dale Winston, chairwoman and CEO
Year established: 1963
Becker Technical Staffing
Address: Headquarters: 312 Old Lancaster Road, Merion Station, PA 19066; Satellite office in West Hollywood, Florida.
Phone number(s): (610) 667-3010
Website: beckertek.com
Top executive: Renee Becker, president/CEO
Year established: 2008
Beckford Search Partners
Address: 12 Camden Row, Dublin 8, Ireland; 867 Boylston Street 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02116
Phone number(s): +353 (0) 1 490 6270 (Ireland); (857) 263-3726 (Boston)
Website: beckfordsearch.com
Top executive: Stephen Boylan, managing partner
Year established: 2014
Bio-Partners and Lennon Search Associates
Address: 611 W. Union Street, Morganton, NC, 28655; Additional offices for Bio-Partners in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Phone number(s): (828) 433-7058
Websites: recruiters-connection.com; lennonsearch.com/contact
Top executives: Bio-Partners: Conrad Taylor, founder; Bill Lennon, co-founder, and Fred Kaplan, co-founder. Lennon Search Associates: Bill Lennon, founder and president
Year established: 1988; founded as Hall Management Group
BioPhase Solutions
Address: 5405 Morehouse Drive, Suite 135, San Diego, CA 92121; 401 East Ocean Blvd, Suite 510, Long Beach, CA 90802; 140 Gregory Lane, Suite 190, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Phone number(s): (858) 552-2000 (San Diego); (562) 495-3200 (Long Beach); (925) 338-2377 (Pleasant Hill)
Website: www.biophaseinc.com
Top executive: Jeff Prekker, president
Year established: 2004
BioQuest
Address: Headquarters: 100 Mission Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94105. Southern California office: 27405 Puerto Real, Suite 355, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. Partners with HTI, based in Neuilly sur Seine, France, for retained searches in Europe.
Phone number(s): San Francisco—(415) 777-2422; Mission Viejo—(949) 488-8018; Neuilly sur Seine, France (HTI)—+33 (0)1 46 24 14 00
Website: www.bioquestinc.com
Top executives: Roger Anderson, managing partner and co-founder; Karen Bertrand, partner, leader of firm’s biopharma and diagnostics practices, based in San Francisco.
Year established: 1985
Biotech Partners
Address: Headquarters: 1936 Weddington Road, Matthews, NC 28173; 605 SW 12th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
Phone number(s): (877) 240-1362
Website: www.biotechexecutivesearch.com
Top executive: Ross Petras, president and executive search practice head
Year established: 2004
BLG Healthcare Executive Search
Address: Head office: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 54 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Additional offices in Amstelveen, The Netherlands; Prestbury, U.K.; Vienna, Austria; and Zug, Switzerland
Phone number(s): +49 (0) 69 380 78 76 00
Website: www.blg-es.com
Top executive: Pim van de Riet, managing director and chairman of the board
Year established: 2011
The Bowdoin Group
Address: Headquarters: 200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4010, Waltham, MA 02451. Additional offices in Boston and New York
Phone number(s): (781) 263-5200
Website: bowdoingroup.com
Top executive: Dave Melville, CEO and founder
Year established: 1994
Clark Executive Search
Address: 135 N. Ferry Road, PO Box 560, Shelter Island, NY 11964
Phone number(s): (631) 749-3540
Website: clarksearch.com
Top executive: Ellen Clark, president
Year established: 1997
Clinical Medical Staffing
Address: Scheendijk 22-20 3621 BC Breukelen, the Netherlands
Phone number: 0346 215962
Website: clinicalmedicalstaffing.nl
Top executive: Josée Marsille, managing director
Year established: 2016
Compass Consulting Group
Address: 4145 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Suite 102, Danville, CA 94506
Phone number(s): (925) 884-3811
Website: www.compasscgroup.com/life-science-bio-tech-recruiters/life-sciences-recruitment
Top executive: Brett Forrest, founder and managing partner
Year established: 2008
Cornerstone Search Group
Address: Mack-Cali Business Campus, 6 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ 07054
Phone number(s): (973) 656-0220; also in Switzerland at 41 61 508 7010
Website: www.cornerstonesg.com
Top executives: Cliff F. Miras, co-founder & managing partner; Steven Y. Raz, co-founder & managing partner
Year established: 2000
Corporate Search
Address: 90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 1420, San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone number(s): (415) 684-1960
Website: www.corpsearchjmi.com
Top executive: Lori Perlstadt, CEO and owner
Year established: 1984
Coulter Partners
Address: 70 Gray’s Inn Road London, WC1X 8BT U.K. Additional locations in Cambridge, MA; Newton, MA; Short Hills, NJ; Lyngby, Denmark; Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany; Basel, Switzerland; and Zurich, Switzerland
Phone number(s): +44 (0) 20 3167 0000
Website: www.coulterpartners.com
Top executive: Bianca Coulter, CEO
Year established: 2003
Critical Path, Inc.
Address: 130 Harbour Place, Suite 270, Davidson, NC 28036
Phone number(s): (704) 765-2650
Website: www.criticalpathinc.net
Top executive: Karen Baldwin, president
Year established: 1995
Dennis Partners
Address: 323 Main Street West Dennis, MA 02670
Phone number(s): (508) 394-9700
Website: www.dennispartners.com
Top executive: Jilma Sweeney, president
Year established: 2003
Double-Helix
Address: 1296 Mayette Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
Phone number(s): (408) 390-6948
Website: www.double-helix.com
Top executives: Molly Ryan, founder and CEO; Ken Stineman, founder and CTO
Year established: 1997
Dunne and Associates
Address: Greenville, SC1
Phone number(s): (864) 735-8786
Website: www.dunneandassociates.net
Top executives: Vincent Dunne, president
Year established: 2013
Exalon Search
Address: Globe Works, Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 3AE, U.K.
Phone number(s): +44(0)114 294 5239
Website: www.exalon.co.uk
Top executive: Thomas Spencer-Bancroft, recruiter and director
Year established: 2014
Hays
Address: Headquarters: 250 Euston Road London NW1 2AF. Additional offices in the U.S. and 30 countries.
Phone number(s): +44 (0) 20 7383 2266 (London)
Website: www.haysplc.com
Top executives: Alistair Cox, chief executive; Paul Strouts, global managing director, Hays Life Sciences
Year established: 1968 (as Career Care Group); 1986 (acquired by Hays plc)
HireLifeScience.com
Address: 62 Pine Drive, Roosevelt, NJ 08555
Phone number(s): (609) 308-2658
Website: www.hirelifescience.com
Top executive: Rob Masterson, president
Year established: 2004
HireMinds
Address: 222 Third Street, Suite 0350, Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone number(s): (617) 252-0606
Website: www.hireminds.com
Top executive: David Hayes, president and founder
Year established: 1998
HirePrefect
Address: Boston area office at 26 Shute Path, Newton MA 02459; Research Triangle Park office at 215 North Pine Street, Suite 4705, Charlotte, NC 28202
Phone number(s): Not available
Website: hireperfect.com
Top executive: J. Melissa Cooper, CEO
Year established: 2009
Joseph Associates, Inc.
Address: 229 Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743
Phone number(s): (631) 351-5805
Website: www.jaexecutivesearch.com
Top executive: Joe Nakelski, president
Year established: 1986
Kelly Services
Address: 999 West Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI 48084-4782. Asia-Pacific HQ: 20 Anson Road, #05-01 Twenty Anson, Singapore 079912. Europe-Middle East-Africa HQ: 20 Avenue Edouard-Dubois – CP 48, CH – 2006, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Phone numbers(s): (248) 362-4444 (Troy, MI); +656709 3388 (Singapore); +4132 737 18 00 (Switzerland)
Website: www.kellyservices.com
Top executive: Carl T. Camden, president and CEO
Year established: 1946
Korn Ferry
Address: Headquarters: 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2600, Los Angeles, CA 90067. Additional offices: 19 in U.S., 7 in Canada, 2 in Mexico, 1 in Costa Rica, 11 in South America, 24 in Asia-Pacific, and 51 in Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA).
Website: www.kornferry.com
Top executive: Gary Burnison, CEO
Year established: 1969
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Kuhn Med-Tech
Address: 27128 Paseo Espada, San Juan Capestrano, CA 92675
Phone number(s): (714) 944-9231
Website: www.kuhnmed-tech.com
Top executives: Bob Jeffers, president; Larry A. Kuhn, founder
Year established: 1979
Life Science Partner
Address: 1230 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 3875, Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone number(s): (404) 920-2050
Website: lifesciencepartner.com
Top executives: Thomas H. Callaway, M.D., founder and president; Katie Barton, vice president
Year established: 2002
Life Science Recruitment
Address: 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; 145-157 St. John Street, London, EC1V 4PW.
Phone number(s): (+353) 1 685 4848 / (+353) 1 685 4545 (Ireland); (+44) 203 5828 290 (London)
Website: lifescience.ie
Top executives: Francis Mulcahy, director; Brian Christensen, associate director, life science
Year established: 2007
Life Science Search Partners
Address: 145 S. Livernois, Suite 240, Rochester Hills, MI 48307. Interviewing offices: Boston, Dallas-Austin, Detroit (Troy, MI), Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham (Durham, NC), San Diego, and Toronto
Phone number(s): (888) 303-3960
Website: lifesciencesearch.com
Top executive: Ryan Goff, executive director
Year established: 2009 (A division of JMJ Phillip)
Life Search Technologies
Address: 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza 3, Suite 1001, Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Phone number(s): (410) 785-6313; toll-free at (800) 785-2144
Website: lifesearchtech.com
Top executive: Glenn A. Davis, president/CEO
Year established: 2002
Lock Search Group
Address: Headquarters: Suite 910, 405 The West Mall, Toronto, ON M9C 5J1. Additional offices in Canada in Calgary; Edmonton; Halifax; London, ON; Moncton, NB; Montreal; Ottawa; Quebec City; Saskatoon; Vancouver; and Winnipeg; as well as in Cambridge, MA
Phone number: (414) 626-8383 (Toronto)
Website: www.locksearchgroup.com
Top executive: Richard Lock, president and CEO
Year established: 1983
Manning Personnel Group
Address: 211 Congress Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02110
Phone number(s): (617) 523-8866
Website: www.manningpg.com
Top executive: Jack Manning, president
Year established: 1992
MEIRxRS (Med Exec International, Rx Research Staffing, Rx Research Services CRO divisions)
Address: 100 N. Brand Boulevard, Suite 306–309, Glendale, CA 91203
Phone number(s): (818) 552-2503
Websites: meirxrs.com/medexec-international-healthcare-recruiters; meirxrs.com/rx-research-staffing ; meirxrs.com/cro-clinical-research-company
Top executive: Rosemarie Christopher, founder, president and CEO
Year established: 1992 (as Med Exec International); 2005 (Rx Research Staffing Solutions established); 2011 (Rx Research Services CRO founded)
Park Square Executive Search
Address: 125 Summer Street, 18th Floor, Boston, MA 02110; 325 Sharon Park Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone number(s): (617) 401-2990 (Boston); (650) 308-8140 (Menlo Park)
Website: www.parksquare.com
Top executives: Jonathan Fortescue, Ph.D., Aaron Lapat, Erik R. Lundh, Bruce Rychlik—all co-founders and managing partners
Year established: 2012 (by managing directors of the U.S. business of J. Robert Scott, founded in 1986)
Phil Ellis Associates
Address: P.O. Box 900, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
Phone number(s): (910) 332-1198
Website: www.pellis.com
Top executive: Phil Ellis
Year established: 1978
Randstad Life Sciences (formerly Randstad Pharma)
Address: Four Parkway North, Suite 120, Deerfield, IL 60015. Additional offices: 150 Presidential Way, 3rd Floor, Woburn, MA 01801; and 150 S. Warner Road, #401, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Phone numbers(s): (877) 335-8210 (Deerfield, IL, and Woburn, MA); (484) 588-6805 (King of Prussia, PA)
Website: lifesciences.randstadusa.com
Top executives: Traci L. Flatte, group president, Randstad US; John Ebeid, vice president, outsourcing; Tania De Decker, senior director of life sciences, global solutions (based in Brussels, Belgium)
Year established: 1960 (Randstad); 1996 (Randstad Pharma); 2016 (Randstad Pharma rebranded as Randstad Life Sciences)
Reaction Search International
Address: 5000 Executive Parkway, Suite 450, San Ramon, CA 94583. 47 U.S. locations, and nine additional locations outside the U.S.
Phone number(s): (925) 275-0727; toll-free at (800) 832-8268
Website: www.reactionsearch.com
Top executive: Robert Boroff, managing director
Year established: 2001
RMA—Resource Management & Acquisitions
Address: Principal location address not available. 40 locations in the U.S. and Canada; nine in Europe; eight in Asia; and three in the South Pacific
Phone number(s): (888) 646-2607
Website: www.rmasearchfirm.com
Top executive: Name of key executive unavailable
Year established: 1989
Scientific Search
Address: 100 Larwin Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. Additional offices: Fort Washington, PA; Hoboken, NJ; and Fairfax, VA
Phone number(s): (856) 761-0900
Website: scientificsearch.com
Top executive: Joseph Peters, president
Year established: 1983
Shaw Associates
Address: 12031 Wedge Drive, Suite 100, Fort Myers, FL 33913-8346
Phone number(s): (239) 454-4414; toll-free (800) 875-SHAW [7429]
Website: www.shawassociates.com
Top executive: A. Gregory Shaw, president
Year established: 1995
Simply Biotech, a TalentZök Company
Address: 10845 Rancho Bernardo Road, Suite 103, San Diego, CA 92127. Additional offices: 3777 Long Beach Boulevard, Suite 460, Long Beach, CA 90807; 1611 Pomona Road, Suite 102, Corona, CA 92880.
Phone number(s): San Diego—(858) 487-0507; Long Beach, CA—(424) 488-7106; Corona, CA—(951) 327-6950
Website: www.simplybiotech.com
Top executive: Travis Medley, president
Year established: 2008
Slone Partners
Address: 25050 Riding Plaza, Suite 130-805, South Riding, VA 20152 (Mail & Accounting address); 127 Clyde Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; 1750 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122; 1737 Burbury Way, San Marcos, CA 92078. Additional offices in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington DC
Phone number(s): (888) 784-3422
Website: www.slonepartners.com
Top executives: Adam Slone, founder; Leslie Loveless, CEO; Tara Kochis-Stach, president
Year established: 2000
Smith Hanley Associates
Address: 107 John Street, Second Floor, Southport, CT 06890. New York office: 200 Park Avenue, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10166. Chicago office: 10 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1950, Chicago, IL 60606
Phone number(s): (203) 319-4300 (Southport, CT); (646) 632-3751 (New York); (312) 629-2400 (Chicago)
Website: www.smithhanley.com
Top executive: Tom Hanley, co-founder, president and CEO
Year established: 1980
Square One Pharma
Address: 6 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YE, U.K. Additional offices in Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt; Paris; and Warsaw, Poland
Phone number(s): +44 (0)20 7208 2828
Website: www.squareoneresources.com
Top executives: Steve Walker, director and shareholder; Christine Sands, Pharma team leader
Year established: 1995 (parent company Square One Resources); 2003 (Square One Pharma)
Sterling-Hoffman Executive Search
Address: 300 International Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone number(s): (847) 756-7632
Website: www.sterlinglifesciences.com
Top executive: Angel Mehta, CEO
Year established: 1997
Craig Tanner & Associates
Address: 993 South Santa Fe, Vista, CA 92083
Phone numbers(s): (760) 598-3363
Website: www.biotechsearch.com
Top executive: Craig Tanner, founder and CEO
Year established: 1984
Toft Group Executive Search
Address: 12520 High Bluff Drive, Suite 150, San Diego, CA 92130. Additional offices in San Francisco, CA, and Cambridge, MA.
Phone number(s): (925) 837-5800 (San Diego); (925) 837-5800 (San Francisco); (617) 459-4180 (Cambridge)
Website: www.thetoftgroup.com
Top executive: Robin Toft, president and CEO
Year established: 2010
TriNet
Address: Headquarters: 1100 San Leandro Blvd., Suite 400, San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone number(s): (510) 352-5000; (888) 874-6388
Website: www.trinet.com
Top executive: Burton M. Goldfield, president and CEO
Year established: 1988
Upsilon Global
Address: 5th Floor Queensberry House, 106 Queens Road Brighton, East Sussex BN1 3XF, U.K.
Phone number(s): + 44 (0)20 3875 9966
Website: upsilonglobal.com
Top executive: Ashley Swan, director
Year established: 2016
Vista Technology
Address: 400 TradeCenter Suite 5900 Woburn MA 01801
Phone number(s): (978) 686-2200
Website: www.vista-technology.com
Top executive: Rich Connors, recruiter/search consultant
Year established: 1991
Witt / Kieffer
Address: 2015 Spring Road, Suite 510, Oak Brook, IL 60523. Additional offices: Atlanta; Burlington, MA; Emeryville, CA; Houston; Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; New York; St. Louis; and Bethesda, MD. Additionally, the firm has consultants based in Austin, TX; Denver; Minneapolis; Nantucket, MA; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; and Westport, CT
Phone number(s): (888) 281-1370
Website: www.wittkieffer.com/practice-areas/life-sciences
Top executive: Charles W.B. Wardell III, chair and CEO; Morten Nielsen, global managing director, life sciences practice
Year established: 1969
ZRG Partners
Address: 365 West Passaic Street, Suite 465, Rochelle Park, NJ 07662. Additional locations: Atlanta; Boston; Chicago (Downtown); Chicago (Wheaton, IL); Dallas (Richardson, TX); Houston; Los Angeles (Irvine, CA); New York; Phoenix (Scottsdale, AZ); Salt Lake City; Seattle; Virginia (Purcellville, VA); Washington, DC; West Hartford, CT; Calgary, AB; Toronto; Rio de Janeiro; Sao Paolo; Frankfurt; Nyon, Switzerland; Shanghai; and Wanchai, Hong Kong
Phone number(s): (201) 560-9900
Website: zrgpartners.com
Top executives: Larry Hartmann, CEO; Adam El Din, European president and global practice head of life sciences
Year established: 1999