Our Life Sciences Recruitment Client
Our client is a Life Sciences consultancy company specialising in competitive intelligence for businesses in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device markets. Their core focus centres around information delivery in relation to market conditions, competitor insights and advisory strategies.
The Recruitment Requirement
This Life Sciences company approached us to assist them in their search for an experienced Analyst to join their team. Impressed with our extensive network and sourcing techniques, they loved that our ethical approach and integral company values mirrored their own company ethos, making us their preferred agency to work with.
The successful candidate needed to have significant educational experience within both Life Sciences and therapy areas, as well as ideally Ph.D. educated in Oncology with a number of years post-doctoral work experience. Criteria for the ideal candidate also included commercial awareness, as well as the ability to interact well within a customer-facing role.
Our Approach
Given the relatively niche skillset needed for this position, we executed a thorough candidate search utilising a multi-method approach. This included reaching into our network to involve relevant industry contacts in the search as well as advertising the position throughout multiple channels, as well as our website. Our primary activity involves actively headhunting the position and utilising tools such as LinkedIn to reach out to the life sciences market to acquire additional interest.
We were able to successfully shortlist 5 candidates who we felt were the strongest to interview. The screening process included two calls with each individual to confirm their suitability and quality before presenting to the client. This allows us to fully gauge whether their motives, experience and personality fit stood in alignment with both the company and job role.
Once the shortlist was sent over to the client, along with our detailed interview notes, we arranged first and second-stage interviews with the company and candidates, engaging in pre-interview preparation and support throughout the whole process.
The Results
Due to our extensive life sciences recruitment knowledge and experience, despite our client’s initial plan to hire just one individual, our success in presenting strong candidates resulted in the company creating a second position, and inviting two individuals to join their team.
Through our success in sourcing candidates with the exact background, experience and culture fit required by this client, we’ve developed a long-standing relationship with the company. Theynow uses us as their specialist Life Sciences recruitment agency on an exclusive basis, having now recruited twelve individuals so far throughout the UK and US. We’re currently working hard to fill their 13th position!