Customized Expansion & Scaling Solutions

Whether you need support as a newly-funded start-up, a biotech company expanding after positive early trial results, or a larger organization going through an M&A transaction, you can rely on Cornerstone to navigate your various stages of growth.

We have a proven, nimble, cost-effective, and customized solution for your needs.

Growth Is Both a
Science and an Art

As pharmaceutical recruiters focused strictly on life sciences for over 20 years, we’ve partnered with countless organizations of all shapes and sizes across diverse expansion, build-out, and scaling projects.

Grow Confidently and Consistently

You are serious and committed to the right growth: send that strong, consistent message externally to the market and internally to your people. The same experienced voice across the entire growth plan makes the difference.

Let our expertise guide you through this mission-critical, dynamic process.

FIND YOUR CANDIDATES

Why Choose Cornerstone Search Group?

Growing quickly and effectively is a daunting task for any organization. It requires a razor-sharp focus, dedication, and extensive resources – things that are difficult to ask of an internal hiring team that also has with its own day-to-day responsibilities to perform.

At Cornerstone Search Group, we believe your business needs customized attention, to achieve the results you want. Because we are exclusively pharmaceutical recruiters, we already know the specific challenges of your industry, and can move quickly to implement your growth plan.

We create an efficient, cost-effective, timely, fully customized plan specifically for you.

Each and every position within your growth plan deserves the same level of attention and dedication as our traditional Executive Search model.

Led by a highly specialized and experienced Partner within the firm, your customized search starts to take shape. We work hand-in-hand with your hiring team in order to create a winning plan of action, based on performance milestones and a clear understanding of expectations.

We built our trusted process over 20 years of specialized executive search within the life sciences space. During this time, we have developed an expansive network of relationships, that we couple with a cutting-edge approach to our research, outreach, follow-up and advertising campaign to find the candidates you want.

From here, your search remains in the hands of a trusted Partner, who plays an active end-to-end role. The candidate relationship is led by the Partner all the way to the offer stage and eventual onboarding.

Cornerstone understands and appreciates the significant financial investment any growth project requires. As such, we work with you to find economies of scale and develop a winning formula for both sides.

START A GROWTH PROJECT

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a business scaling plan for hiring, and when does a life sciences company need one?

A business scaling plan maps the hires you need against the milestones you have committed to: a financing, a clinical readout, an IND or BLA filing, a commercial launch, or an integration after M&A. If you are about to make several leadership hires in a short window, you need one. Hiring one role at a time, without a plan, is how companies miss milestones.

How is a multi-hire build-out different from running several individual searches?

One plan, one Partner, one message to the market. Running separate searches creates inconsistent messaging, competing priorities, and wasted time. A coordinated build-out sequences the roles correctly, shares market intelligence across every position, and creates economies of scale that make the engagement more cost-effective for you.

How do you decide which roles to hire first?

We work backward from your value-inflection milestones. Leaders who will build their own teams typically come first, because every hire after them depends on their judgment. Roles that sit on the critical path to your next milestone come next. We pressure-test the sequence with you before the first outreach goes out.

Does every role in a build-out get the same attention as an executive search?

Yes. Each position in a growth plan is handled with the same rigor as our traditional executive search model, and a Partner stays actively involved from first candidate contact through offer and onboarding. Scale should never mean a drop in quality.

Can Cornerstone work alongside our internal talent acquisition team?

Absolutely, and it often works best that way. Many clients have a strong internal team that is simply at capacity during a growth phase. We can take the senior or hardest-to-fill roles, run the full build-out, or anything in between, and coordinate closely so candidates experience one seamless process.