Executive search for life sciences businesses where the right leadership appointment matters.
Charles Griffiths Executive Search partners with biotechnology, pharmaceutical and specialist life sciences organisations to identify and secure senior leaders for critical appointments — with particular depth in rare and orphan disease.
The person you appoint is the person who delivers the search. Every assignment is led personally from brief to appointment.
Focused search, not volume recruitment.
We work on senior, specialist and leadership appointments where a targeted market-mapping and direct-approach strategy is more appropriate than relying on active applicants.
Retained Executive Search
Full market mapping, discreet direct approach, structured assessment and search management through to appointment.
Interim & Fractional Leadership
Senior independent leaders and specialist consultants for transition, transformation, scale-up and defined projects.
Talent Mapping & Market Intelligence
Research-led market maps for succession, organisational planning, competitor intelligence and future hiring.
Selective Leadership Search
Exclusive senior appointments below executive level where the market requires the same disciplined search methodology.
Deepest in biotech, pharma and rare disease.
Our core market is life sciences: businesses navigating growth, clinical development, commercialisation, transformation or leadership change.
Sectors
- Biotechnology & biopharma
- Pharmaceuticals
- Rare & orphan disease
- MedTech & medical devices
- Diagnostics, CROs & specialist services
Functions
- Medical Affairs & Clinical
- Regulatory Affairs & Pharmacovigilance
- Quality, Technical Operations & Supply Chain
- Commercial, Market Access & Corporate Functions
- HR, Finance & Legal
A boutique model by design.
Clients work directly with Sacha Burgess throughout. There is no partner-led pitch followed by a junior hand-off, and no contingency race to send the first available CV.
Founder-led
One accountable point of contact from scoping and market calibration through to close.
Research-led
The relevant market is mapped and approached directly, including leaders who are not actively looking.
Retained & exclusive
A focused engagement model designed around quality, confidentiality and a clear search strategy.
A confidential discussion, directly with Sacha.
Discuss a leadership search, market-mapping project or senior interim requirement in complete confidence.