Top 14 Pharma and Life Sciences Recruitment Agencies in the UK 2024
Here, we’ve provided a round-up of 14 of the top pharmaceutical and life sciences recruitment agencies in the UK in 2024.
Albion Rye Associates
Albion Rye Associates creates bespoke recruitment processes that are thorough, professional, personable, and tailored to exactly what employers need. They ensure that every client and candidate receives the made-to-measure, personalised recruitment service that they want, need, and deserve through building long-term working relationships.
Barrington James
Originally a purely contingency and contract recruiter focused in the UK, Barrington James is now a sophisticated, highly effective provider of human resources solutions up to full RPO, partnering with the pharma, medical devices, and healthcare industries right across the globe.
CHASE
CHASE prides itself on providing candidates with unbiased and constructive feedback. They guide candidates through all the steps required to find the perfect job within the Pharmaceutical or Healthcare sectors.
Chemistree Solutions
Chemistree Solutions Ltd are Healthcare Recruitment Specialists providing expert resourcing and recruitment services across sales, marketing, medical, clinical and commercial support functions and offering permanent, contract and interim solutions.
Hobson Prior
Hobson Prior is a leading specialist life sciences recruiter focused on finding and placing outstanding candidates across Europe and the Asia Pacific. They work proactively and with integrity, communicate in a professional and honest manner and invest time to understand and match the exact requirements of their clients and candidates.
MSI Pharma
Founded in 2011, MSI Pharma specialises in recruitment and talent acquisition for pharmaceutical, biotech and life sciences staff on a permanent and interim basis. They work in partnership with leading global brands and have a presence in the UK, DACH region, and North America.
NonStop Consulting
NonStop Consulting is an international recruitment consultancy renowned for its high level of service, professionalism, unrivalled industry knowledge and extensive industry networks. With over 100 multilingual recruiters covering the life sciences industry across Europe, they work tirelessly to match the right candidates with the right employers.
Pop Science
Pop Science are aiming to make science more popular, by championing careers in clinical and scientific research, life science technology, engineering, maths and more.
Proclinical Staffing
Proclinical has one aim: to support life science companies in the many challenges they face while combatting unmet medical needs worldwide. Their mission is to support the work of the life sciences industry by connecting companies with the highly skilled professionals they need to continue innovating.
RBW Consulting
RBW Consulting is a life sciences talent & strategic consultancy with purpose, delivered through what they call Human Intelligence TM. Their purpose is to catalyse life-enhancing work that changes the world by helping life science businesses by giving them the people, insight & networks to innovate and scale.
Thornshaw Recruitment
Thornshaw Scientific Recruitment was first established in 1999 and since then has become a leader in scientific recruitment. In 2005, they partnered with Cpl Resources, one of Europe’s most successful recruitment companies. Their wealth of experience in specialised recruitment allows them to offer the right solution to each employer, whatever their recruitment requirements.
Turner Regulatory
As recruitment specialists in Regulatory Affairs, Turner Regulatory has a proven track record for securing the very best candidates for a role within an agreed time frame. Specialising in Regulatory Affairs for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector, they have built an unprecedented following of excellent candidates, each of whom they know well and trust only Turner Regulatory to introduce them to new opportunities that fit within their areas of specialisation, career trajectory and personal circumstances.
Umbilical Life
Umbilical aims to be a world-leading provider of workforce solutions in Science, Technology and Engineering, and has nearly 75 years of workforce industry experience among the team. They blind innovation and a commitment to entrepreneurship to ensure customers and clients achieve the highest levels of satisfaction.
Warman O’Brien
Warman O’Brien is a global specialist Life Sciences Recruitment Partner across the UK, Europe, USA and APAC. They recruit top talent across several functional areas including Biometrics, Data Sciences, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Research, Discovery Sciences, C-suite, and Medical Affairs. They cover contract and permanent vacancies, executive search, and SOW for companies across the pharmaceutical industry.
