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Executive search across the full drug development life cycle.

Find your leadership team

BioX goes beyond the shortlist, securing leaders who drive performance, raise the bar and shape the future of your organisation. Our community-driven model gives you direct access to exceptional talent beyond the reach of traditional search firms.

We deliver leadership appointments across the full drug development lifecycle, from C-suite and board appointments to interim and fractional roles.

Higher retention and long‑term performance

Reduced mis‑hire risk and faster hiring certainty

Access to scarce and hard‑to‑reach executives

A search process aligned to your stakeholders, governance and timelines.

  • 12-month retention
  • of successful appointments via our communities​
  • two-year retention

Why BioX?

Global search methodology

A proven, evidence-based leadership hiring framework built specifically for life sciences.

Fixed fee

Transparent, predictable commercial model, eliminating variable cost and budget uncertainty.

Reputation

Trusted to deliver senior leaders who stay, perform, and strengthen long-term organisational capability.

Confidence

Backed by a 12-month guarantee and 98.9% retention after 12 months.

Access to talent

Our community-driven model unlocks hidden leaders, including the 20% not visible on traditional platforms.

Advisory Board

Our board of industry executives ensures our solutions are shaped by our clients to deliver superior outcomes.

Executive and advisory solutions

Talent Science™

Turns your workforce into a strategic asset, applying quantitative rigour to workforce planning with the same discipline you'd apply to any other strategic asset. Covers skills gap forecasting, automation and AI adoption, attrition risk modelling and strategic talent planning. Learn more.

Leadership

Trusted appointments from discovery through commercialisation. VP and functional leadership hires who build capability, lead teams and deliver critical business outcomes, backed by market mapping for competitor intelligence and compensation benchmarking.

C-Suite

C-suite and C-suite minus one appointments across CEO, CFO, CCO, CTO and functional leadership, with first-time versus experienced leadership calibration to build complete teams aligned to strategy.

Board

Boards built to improve execution and reduce risk, including chair identification and appointment, board composition design aligned to growth stage, and governance structuring to meet investor and exit expectations.

Covering the full development life cycle, from early discovery through to global commercialisation, BioX delivers the specialist leadership every growth stage demands.

See how we've helped clients

Case study: Global VP Oncology search for a leading pharmaceutical business

Case study: Global VP Oncology search for a leading pharmaceutical business

KEY OUTCOME

Client overview 

Our client is a global pharmaceutical organisation with an established companion diagnostics portfolio. Seeking to appoint a Global VP Oncology, the organisation required a leader capable of launching a new product range and securing regulatory approval across multiple international markets. This was a uniquely complex brief, made more challenging by our client’s primary identity as a large pharma business rather than a diagnostics specialist. 

The challenge 

The combination of companion diagnostics expertise, global regulatory experience and commercial launch capability made this an unusually narrow talent pool to navigate. Conventional search approaches, drawing from the same visible candidate set, were unlikely to surface the calibre of individual required. 

Our solution 

BioX ran a global search, identifying 124 individuals at longlist stage and narrowing to a high-quality shortlist of six committed candidates across the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland. Psychometric testing was used to bridge international cultural differences and assess fit for this distinctive role. The appointed candidate was not actively seeking a move, however BioX engaged them directly through an in-person approach at The Medtech & Pharma Platform (MPP) annual conference. 

The outcome 

The search concluded within 2.5 months from briefing to offer acceptance. BioX’s NPS rating for the process was 100. 

“BioX is exceptional, they took the time to understand our expectations and delivered an exceptional shortlist. I was impressed with the team’s ability to triage individuals from multiple geographies that met the brief. BioX truly went above and beyond, resulting in an effortless and successful process.”
— Executive Director, global pharmaceutical organisation 

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Get in touch with the BioX team below to discuss your search. 

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