Attracting and retaining the best talent; a roundtable special

In this episode of Molecule to Market, you’ll go inside the outsourcing space of the global drug development sector with:

 

• James Edgar, Chief People Officer at Sygnature Discovery
• Andrew Mears, CEO and Co-founder at Lead Candidate
• Laura Child, Head of Research and Strategy at ramarketing

 

Your host, Raman Sehgal, discusses pharmaceutical and biotechnology talent challenges and solutions with his guests, covering:

• Where the industry-wide talent challenge originates, and practical solutions of how companies can take steps to overcome it
• The role of a talent attraction team, a recruitment expert, and your employer brand in getting ahead of the curve when it comes to building a people pipeline
• Mapping and flawlessly executing your employee experience value proposition when attracting, onboarding and engaging your stars
• Staff retention challenges across the board and when things go wrong with your people

James Edgar has been in post for 12 months and has joined to support the growth of the company into its next phase with the development of Sygnature’s Employee Value Proposition. He has over 20 years in the People and Human Resources field. He comes with multi-sector experience from Financial Services, Manufacturing, Facilities Management and more recently from Advertising and Media sector with WPP.

Andrew Mears is CEO and Co-founder of Lead Candidate, a specialist talent acquisition consultancy exclusively supporting the global pharma and bio-outsourcing sector. He has more than two decades of experience working in human resources and talent, developing and delivering talent initiatives to help fast-growing companies achieve ambitious change and growth agendas.

Having built an impressive career as Program Director in some of the largest multinational CROs, delivering high-value and high-complexity global trials, from Ph 1 through Ph 3, Laura joined ramarketing as Head of Research and Strategy. In this role, Laura works closely with a team of senior marketers and Sector Specialists to conduct in-depth research projects to deliver data-driven brand and growth strategies for clients.

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Molecule to Market is sponsored and funded by ramarketing, an international marketing, design, digital and content agency helping companies differentiate, get noticed and grow in life sciences.