We fill the permanent roles that take your company where it’s headed next, specialising in rare profiles, senior seats, and the hires you can’t afford to get wrong.
Life science permanent recruitment for pharma, biotech, medtech, and digital health
long-term hires with the skill and the character to get your team ahead
Life science permanent recruitment in Switzerland and Europe
sourcing top talent that’s more than a match on paper
Radically honest recruitment
We give you a straight read on the search, including when the role you've described isn't the hire your team needs. That candor comes from experience: our consultants worked in life sciences before recruiting, so they know a strong leader from a strong CV.
An extensive curated network
Years of relationships across Pharma, BioTech, MedTech, and Digital Health give us a network that reaches senior and specialist candidates a general agency simply can't get access to. With headcount, your shortlist runs deep both on skill and personality.
A dedicated fit for the long term
Permanent should mean permanent. Because we match for fit as much as skill, the people we place settle in and stay, sparing you the cost and churn of filling the same seat twice. Every placement comes with a six-month guarantee.
Meet headcount
life-science recruiters,
life-science backgrounds
For over fourteen years, our consultants have placed permanent talent across pharma, biotech, medtech, and digital health, drawing on backgrounds spanning toxicology, regulatory affairs, engineering, R&D and commercial roles to understand a role from the inside.
That depth lets us match people who fit today and grow with the team for years.
0
+
0
+
0
+
As life science permanent recruiters, we close
the gap between a hire and the right hire
When you say...
We got a stack of CVs, and not one of them fit.
We read the role before we source for it, down to how it works day-to-day and where it sits in the team. What reaches you is a shortlist of three to five people, each one checked against the role in full, so you’re choosing between strong fits instead of sorting a stack.
When you wonder…
We’re not even sure we’re hiring for the right role.
We talk before we shortlist. That first conversation pressure-tests the brief and the reasons behind it, because the quickest route to the wrong hire is filling a role exactly as written without asking why.
When you tell us…
After the placement, the recruiter’s support stopped.
We stay involved. We brief both sides through the offer, keep in touch as your new hire starts, and check in through their first months in the role, because a permanent placement only counts once they’re settled in.
Ready to hire a great fit?
how life science permanent recruitment works with us
01
Scope the role
We open with a working session on the role: what it delivers, who it answers to, and where the brief might be pointing at the wrong person. This step keeps the search aimed at the hire who’ll truly move the needle.
02
Search and shortlist
We work across our life-science network, screening for how well each person fits the role and the team, and narrow it to a few we’re confident about. Every candidate you meet has earned their place on the list.
03
Interview and offer
We prepare both sides for every conversation, gather honest feedback after each round, and guide the offer to a close that works for everyone. Fewer surprises, quicker decisions.
04
Onboard and follow up
Once the offer’s signed, we brief the handover, stay close as your hire starts, and check in across their first months. Strong onboarding helps a good match become a lasting one.
radically honest recruitment from people who know life sciences
We’re here to help you make a great decision, which sometimes means sharing a view you didn’t expect: a sharper angle on the brief, a realistic read on the salary, or an honest sense of how the search will go.
You can trust this guidance because our consultants come from toxicology, regulatory affairs, engineering, R&D, commercial, and other life sciences backgrounds, giving them an in-depth understanding of how the industry works
With headcount, you get strategic recruitment driven by science.
Permanent recruitment
why life-science teams hire with headcount
Life sciences is the only field we work in
Fourteen years of focus, never spread thin across industries.
Smart tools behind a human shortlist
We use AI and a data-driven approach to keep only the strongest profiles in reach.
Swiss-licensed and registered with SECO
A swissstaffing member, working from Zurich since 2012.
Every placement carries a six-month guarantee
If the fit doesn't hold, we run the search again.
Science is in our DNA
Our recruiters have backgrounds in toxicology, regulatory affairs, engineering, R&D, and commercial roles.
Access to hard-to-reach talent
Our network reaches senior and niche candidates who aren't looking and can't be advertised to.
As the leading life sciences permanent recruiters, we know that
people are never just their CV
Experience and qualifications are the easy part to check. The harder, more important part is the person: their character, ambitions, the way they collaborate, and whether they’ll fit the culture they’re joining.
We weigh all of it, because a permanent hire lives inside a team every day, and the fit between people is what makes that hire last.
meet the permanent recruiters for life sciences
Life science permanent recruitment
our industries
Permanent life science recruitment Blog
the latest thought leadership
With headcount handling your permanent search, you get
a discerning and honest recruiter, a search grounded in science, and a hire who belongs in the role and makes the team stronger.
Life sciences recruitment
looking for something else?
Executive recruitment →
For confidential, director-level searches, handled with full discretion.
LEARN MORE >
Contract recruitment →
For specialist and interim talent, delivered in 48 hours on average.
LEARN MORE >Download the headcount company presentation
Fill in your details and we'll send it to you.