Healthcare & Life Sciences

Our healthcare and life sciences practice recruits the clinical and commercial leaders that patients rarely meet but always depend on. We appoint chief nursing officers, medical directors and heads of clinical operations for hospital groups and care providers, and chief executives, commercial leaders and regulatory heads for biotech, pharmaceutical and medtech companies.

Clinical leadership searches carry particular weight. A chief nursing officer sets the standard of care for thousands of patients, and the wrong appointment shows up quickly in staff turnover and inspection results. We test for that directly. Candidates are referenced by peers, by the people who reported to them and, with consent, by those who have inspected their work. We also plan around the practical constraints: professional registration, revalidation and the long notice periods that come with senior public sector roles.

On the life sciences side we work with companies at every stage, from a first commercial hire ahead of launch to a full leadership team after an acquisition. Sofia Reyes leads the practice from London, bringing a decade of hospital operations experience to every brief. Clients get a consultant who has worked on wards and in boardrooms, and a shortlist that has been tested in both.