Legal Recruitment Solutions for a Growing, Fast-Moving Biopharmaceutical Organization
CASE STUDY
Growing, fast-moving life sciences organization expanded its operations globally, necessitating a commercially robust and agile legal team to support its growth. The initial task was to recruit a lawyer for the Northern Europe region to alleviate the workload of a busy legal executive responsible for the region. This marked the beginning of a successful long-term partnership that has led to 13 successful legal placements worldwide and ongoing active searches.
Challenges
The organization faced several challenges in building its legal team across global regions in Europe, the US, and Asia:
- Immediate legal support was needed.
- Strategic alignment of legal roles with demanding product launch schedules in Europe, the US and Japan.
- Tight timeline for product launches under competitive market conditions.
- Need for compliance roles to ensure adherence to applicable codes of conduct.
- Ongoing needs for specialized intellectual property roles such as patent counsel, head of trademarks, and head of patent strategy.
- Importance of understanding unique company culture for successful placements.
Solutions
Major, Lindsey & Africa provided tailored solutions to address these challenges:
- Initiated the recruitment with a lawyer in Europe to alleviate excess workload in the region.
- Strategically placed lawyers in Germany and Switzerland to support product launches in Northern and Southern Europe.
- Successfully recruited commercial product attorneys for the US legal team in a competitive talent market
- Placed several Compliance Officers including the EMEA Head of Compliance and a third-party risk Compliance Officer to ensure regulatory adherence by outsourced functions.
- Recruited a Head of Legal and a junior lawyer for Japan in an extremely competitive market.
- Conducting ongoing searches for trademark and patent strategy leadership roles on a global basis with collaborative efforts from MLA’s European and US teams.
- Leveraged the expertise of a former life sciences GC on the recruitment team to understand and align with the organization’s culture.
Results
The partnership yielded significant results:
- 13 successful legal placements globally and additional ongoing searches.
- Enhanced legal support aligned with business and product launch needs.
- Strengthened compliance infrastructure.
- Ensured candidate fit through cultural understanding.
- Demonstrated adaptability and teamwork in overcoming recruitment challenges.
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