Life Sciences

Hydrogen has been providing business critical talent to Life Sciences organizations globally for more than a decade. As the industry evolved and international competition increased, it became harder for US companies to attract the best talent. Limited understanding of local market drivers has led to vast talent shortages. We have built specialist recruitment teams in the US to help companies meet their hiring needs and have been supporting our clients locally for the last 6 years.

Life Sciences companies are operating in an increasingly challenging environment, with tighter budget restraints. They need quick access to the top talent to meet the demands of an evolving healthcare agenda and stricter regulations, but are often held back by outdated recruitment processes, resulting in slow delivery to business-critical hires, project delays and increasing recruitment costs.

We recognized the need to improve candidate experience and created solutions that deliver the top talent to you quicker. These people are doing amazing work that is changing the world of medicine. The quicker we can provide our clients with the right talent, the better the improvements will be. Our tailored solutions allow us to dedicate large recruitment teams to individual clients and projects, ensuring all of our clients’ needs are always fulfilled.

Key features:

• Time to hire negotiable, based on your needs

• Partnered approached to full project scale recruitment

• One central supplier for all your recruitment needs, regardless of skillset or discipline

• Pre-agreed price for multiple hires (rebate options available)

• Agreed timelines for on boarding new hires

• One of our experts based at your premises for 2-3 days per week

Why you’ll love it:

• Dramatically lower your time to hire and recruitment costs (by 40% on average)

• Budget and forecast for new hires more effectively

• Frees up your time to focus on core activities that keep your business successful

• Reduce your time to hire, allowing you to complete your projects ahead of schedule

• Improve your contract utilisation rates, EVP and staff retention

• You’ll gain a strategic business partner who understands your business and helps you achieve your goals faster

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Key features:

• Time to hire: 2 weeks including search

• Dedicated resourcing of 1 or 2 recruiters in your specific disciplines

• Receive 3 competitive resumes within 24 hours

• Agreed timeline to hire

Why you’ll love it:

• Access to the best contractors in the market

• Reduced time to hire

• Cut down time spent reviewing resumes and interviewing

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Key features:

• Time to hire: 3 business days, including search

• Ability to hire multiple candidates fast

• We manage the full interview process at your premises, quickly and effectively, allowing management to focus on their day job

• Catered lunch is included for all interviewers

Why you’ll love it:

• Reduce your time to hire by 66% on average

• Your staff will spend less time sourcing and more time doing their day jobs

• Get a better return on investment by getting your project off the ground quicker

• With a dedicated point of contact in the office, you always have access to one of our experts and full visibility over what’s happening at any given time

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Contractors are given access to a full suite of benefits (including healthcare, dental, vision, 401k and more), as well as correct deductions are made from each weekly paycheck.

We complete comprehensive background, education, drug and alcohol checks as standard on all incoming contractors, giving you complete peace of mind.

Key features:

• Proven track record of on-boarding and managing contractors through the contract life-cycle

• Ability to run 1099 and W2 contractors anywhere in North and South America

• Competitive cost prices

Why you’ll love it:

• Bring on contractors without having your own payroll or benefits package

• Engage contractors safely, knowing they are clear to be on site across the US

• Your contractors will be fully taken care of

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Key features:

• Time to hire: 2 weeks including search

• Dedicated resourcing of 1 or 2 recruiters in your specific disciplines

• Receive 3 competitive resumes within 24 hours

• Pre-agreed timeline to hire

Why you’ll love it:

• Access to the best talent in the market

• Reduced time to hire

• Cut down time spent reviewing resumes and interviewing

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Key features:

• Time to hire: 3-4 weeks including search, and shortlisting

• Gain preferred access to the best active and passive senior candidate pools

• Timelines are defined and agreed from the outset

• Pre-agreed start date for the candidate

• 100% focus from your recruitment team

• Flexible billing structure to suit your needs

Why you’ll love it:

• Remain completely anonymous during your search for sensitive hires

• Easier to plan for your new hire when you have a pre-agreed start date

• You’re guaranteed to secure the hire

• Get a dedicated recruitment team on one specific search

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The challenge:

After winning a large FSP this global CRO needed to hire 35 contractors. They couldn’t reallocate personnel internally because other projects continued to be busy. Instead, they needed candidates with specific experience who could add value to this project and who could be on-site, ready to work within four weeks. Monthly budget was very tight due to the end client’s needs and the hiring team was extremely busy and had limited time for interviews.

Our solution:

Our team took the time to understand the CRO’s unique brand and business strategy, segment and target workforce required. This enabled us to market and enhance their brand position through connecting with our existing networks.

We established full-time onsite support, to work with and develop their leaders to sell and attract new talent, providing in-depth MI throughout the process to ensure commitments were being met.

Hydrogen delivered a talent management solution that resulted in 35 contractor hires across 15 states Filled positions included multiple SAS Programmers and two Project Managers. We pre-agreed a monthly cost for each contractor, working 40 hours a week. Within 10 days of starting this project, we had people working. We had all 35 contractors working in under four weeks.

The outcome:

• Company has won multiple new bids off the back of such fast hiring and retention rates

• Contract utilization rate increased to 91%

• Hiring team now have more time for their day to day work and only get involved in the process when needed

• Having successfully completed the project our client extended 90% of the temporary workforce.

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The challenge:

After a period of M&A activity and restructuring, our client, a well-known global Pharmaceutical company, had a backlog of over 100 vacancies and a pipeline of new projects pending. The company was not connecting with the full extent of the external market, plus their recruitment processes were out of sync with no internal scorecards, which was leading to their recruitment costs getting out of control.

Our solution:

We placed on of our experts at the client site full-time, in order to better understand their unique brand and business strategy, as well as segment and target workforce required.

Working closely with the leadership team, we developed better strategies to enable them to sell and attract the right talent, as well as market and enhance their brand position. We provided in-depth MI to ensure all commitments were being met.

Hydrogen delivered a talent management solution that resulted in 78 permanent and 56 contractor hires across 3 US states.

We filled positions including multiple level Clinical Research Associates, Data Managers, Clinical and Non-Clinical Project Managers, Regulatory Specialists, Technical Engineers and Manufacturing Specialists.

Having successfully completed the project in under 12 months (originally forecasted at 15 months), our client bought out 70% of the temporary workforce on a permanent basis to enhance future projects.

The outcome:

• Through a partnered approach we grew local brand presence and market influence by over 40%

• Staff retention rates dropped from 37% staff turnover to 12%

• The leadership team improved their interview techniques and learned how to build teams, not just individuals

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The challenge

Our client needed to make 100 senior hires who could hit the ground running, across multiple areas in Clinical as soon as possible. Their internal resources had already spent six months actively searching the market but had been unable to uncover any new talent pools after their preferred candidates had either rejected an offer or accepted counter offers. We were engaged to source 30 hires across two job titles in Clinical Operations on a retained managed interview basis.

The solution

We dedicated a team of senior recruiters to the project who brought their own deep candidate pools, as well as passive networks to the mandate. Working closely with the client throughout, we understood exactly what they did and didn’t want to see and were able to improve the quality of candidates as well as the recruitment and interview experiences. We managed the whole process, from initial sourcing, through interviewing, to offer acceptance, meaning the client only needed to be involved for one, detailed video call.

The outcome

• We achieved a 90% acceptance rate with zero successful counter offers, making 18 high-quality hires from 25 interviews within the short timeframe.

• By working to our pre-agreed cost model, the client was able to make a considerable saving on regular hiring fees.

• The client was so happy with the results that they proposed engaging the same service on a bi-monthly basis across multiple disciplines.

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