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Healthcare
Finding people of exceptional experience takes people of exceptional experience. For your board search, we deploy our board. Our seasoned directors find yours.
Thanks to this approach, Hunter Healthcare’s Search practice occupies a privileged position at the heart of the UK healthcare sector. A position that we’ve developed through proactive interaction and discussion with our potential customers ahead of launch.
Hunter Search was born out of understanding the principal frustrations of the current market offerings and a desire to do things better. The priority areas of focus in the eyes of our customers were:
- Deep candidate knowledge and relationships. Our customers wanted relational depth with candidates rather than the superficiality of job-board applications.
- Partner-search. Our customers wanted to see the people who pitched the work delivering the work, rather than it being outsourced to their junior counterparts.
- Healthcare niche. Our customers wanted specialist sector knowledge rather than generalist public sector delivery.
- Blank canvas search. Our customers wanted us to start afresh with each search and leave no stone unturned: too often old shortlists were being re-branded as new ones.
- Diversity of thought. Our customers wanted to see real creativity and endeavour in our market mapping to source the most diverse shortlist possible.
Since our launch in 2013, we’ve enshrined this customer insight at the heart of everything we do. We recruit exclusively to and for the healthcare market, specialising in retained board appointments, spanning both the executive and non-executive board. We work in partnership – with our clients and with our candidates – to ensure the right appointment to executive and non-executive roles first time, every time: matching our client’s vision, values and ambitions with our candidates’ career aspirations and potential.
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Life Sciences
In a sector driven by innovation yet often held back by outdated approaches, we saw an opportunity to do things differently. Hunter Life Science Board Search was established not just to fill roles, but to redefine how talent is identified, assessed, and connected across the life sciences.
Thinking about healthcare holistically, Hunter Life Science was a natural extension to the values-led Healthcare business we formed. In 2017, we created Hunter Life Science Board Search with the intention of disrupting the talent market and partnering with people throughout their journey.
Assessing the landscape, it became clear other businesses were either technologically broad with a focus on seniority or technologically focused but lacking in customer service. This left a white space in the market, a space for Hunter to own.
With teams specifically focused on key markets:
- Diagnostics & Research Tools Products/Services
- Medical Technology
- Therapeutics
Search and selection/interim appointments across the entire corporate board – executive and non – executive – spanning the entirety of the Life Science ecosystem. Our search methodology puts a heavy focus on research, detailed candidate due-diligence and market leading candidate and customer service. Delivering a 98% successful fill rate.
Our collaborative approach allowed us to understand the values and priorities of our clients when seeking a search partner to work with, and most importantly, what was missing from the current supply chain. The responses our team received shaped Hunter’s philosophy, operating on an “inch-wide, mile deep” business model focusing on building strategic, long- term relationships.
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