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CMC & Technical Operations

Process, analytics and manufacturing quietly decide whether a program can scale. We place technical leaders who have taken products from bench to GMP and managed the CDMO relationships that make it possible.

Brief a technical operations search See roles we recruit

Can you make it, reliably, at the scale patients will need? The specialists who connect a promising product with reliable supply.

Roles we place

Leadership and specialist
talent across technical operations.

Process and analytical development, manufacturing science, CDMO management, supply chain and technical leadership.

Leadership

Chief Technical Officer
SVP Technical Operations
VP CMC
Head of Process Development
Head of Supply Chain

Senior specialists

Director, Analytical Development
Director, External Manufacturing
MSAT Lead
Drug Product Lead
Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing Lead

Specialists

Upstream Process Engineer
Downstream Process Scientist
Analytical Scientist
Tech Transfer Lead
Supply Planner

Where we add value

What makes a technical operations
search work.

Modality-specific

Biologics, ADCs, oligonucleotides, viral vectors and cell therapies each demand different manufacturing instincts.

CDMO fluency

Most emerging companies manufacture externally. We hire people who can lead a CDMO, not only work inside a plant.

Scale-up timing

The CMC leader you need for Phase 1 supply differs from the one who readies a commercial process. We plan for both.

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Engagement

Matched to the hire,
not the other way around.

Executive Search for leadership appointments, Hybrid Search for critical director-level hires, Contract & Interim for filings, readouts and gaps, and Team Build when you are creating the function.

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