Executive Search for the Medical Devices Sector

We connect you with top executives, from Medical Directors to Chief Medical Officers, ensuring your team has the leadership to drive innovation.

Introduction

Connecting You with the Leaders Who Drive Innovation

Finding the right leaders in the medical device industry is key to driving innovation forward. Whether you’re looking to hire a Medical Director, Product Development Director, Chief Medical Officer, or other senior roles, we focus on delivering talent that can shape your business's future.

What We Do:

  • Source medical directors with extensive leadership experience.
  • Find product development directors who can spearhead cutting-edge innovations.
  • Secure chief medical officers with a clear vision for patient-focused solutions.
  • Deliver top candidates for R&D, product development, and regulatory affairs roles.

With our global reach, we access top talent from around the world, and our hands-on approach ensures that no opportunity to find the perfect candidate is missed. Whether your organisation needs a single hire or an entire leadership team, we work quickly and effectively, bringing the right leaders to you.

Global Market Growth: The Talent Challenge

The medical devices market is set to hit USD 799.67 billion by 2030, opening up massive growth opportunities. However, the challenge lies in finding the right leaders—especially for roles like Regulatory Affairs Directors, Product Development Leaders, and Chief Medical Officers, where specific expertise is essential.

Our global search capabilities ensure that no matter where the right talent is located, we’ll find them. We connect you with experienced professionals who will drive innovation and long-term growth for your business. If relocation is needed, we handle that, too, making the process seamless for both you and the candidate.

Find the ideal candidate

Retain the Right Talent for Medical Devices Roles

With years of experience and a proven track record, we understand the unique challenges faced by organisations in the medical devices sector—from regulatory hurdles to budgetary constraints are uniquely capable of attracting top talent to apply for high-level vacancies.

How we help:

  • Targeted Recruitment: Our executive search consultants attract top talent for high-level roles.
  • Rigorous Vetting: Every candidate undergoes thorough background checks to meet all requirements and ensure they are qualified to work with patients, including vulnerable groups.
  • Ready-to-Go Shortlist: All candidates presented to you have passed our comprehensive vetting process, ensuring they can step into the role without delays.

Senior-Level Roles We Have Worked On / Are Working On:

  • Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing
  • Vice President of Marketing
  • Director of Sales

Mid-Level Roles We Have Worked On / Are Working On:

  • General Managers
  • Operations Manager
  • Commercial Lead
  • Project Managers
  • Branch Manager

Non-Managerial Roles We Have Worked On / Are Working On:

  • Outside Sales Manager
  • Area Sales Manager
  • Territory Manager
Specialist Roles

Medical Devices Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Recruitment challenges are common in the medical device sector, but our Medical Devices RPO offers a long-term solution with dedicated executive search support, customised to fit your needs.

Why Our RPO Solution Works:

  • Ongoing Partnership: For companies with frequent hiring needs, we become a seamless extension of your team, ensuring you have the talent pipeline you need now and in the future.
  • Tailored Recruitment: We take the time to fully understand your business, delivering consistent and high-quality candidates who align with your vision.
  • Performance-Driven Approach: Clear goals are set from the start, with regular reviews to ensure we're meeting your expectations.

Read more about our RPO solution

Our Approach

We take the time to listen to you and understand your business, the key drivers behind the hire and the importance in relation to your objectives

We will devote time to understand your business goals and role requirements and then develop a search solution that meets your specific needs

We will demonstrate unwavering tenacity, speaking pro-actively and confidentially with every individual with the right experience, in order to be certain we have secured the best person open to your opportunity

Choose a service

Our Services

Choose and adapt one of our three package options.

Connect

Exclusively Tailored Talent Solutions for Lower Level, Non-Critical Roles
This package is designed for exclusive but non-critical hires. Offering access to a curated pool of exclusive talent connections in response to a range of roles from broad to specialist and niche. Features include personalised candidate sourcing, initial screening, and candidate introductions.

Ideal for companies seeking unique talent solutions without immediate urgency.

ASSURE

Retained Hiring Strategy for Urgent, High-Impact or Confidential Roles
This package is tailored for organisations requiring a dedicated and comprehensive approach to executive and critical hires. A retained search solution with a focus on quality, efficiency, and confidentiality. Includes in-depth candidate assessments and exclusive access to top-tier talent.

Ideal for companies seeking assurance in securing top talent for mission-critical roles.
PARTNER
Comprehensive Embedded Solution for Rapid Growth and Retention
This is a total talent partnership, an approach aimed at transforming your talent acquisition process. This comprehensive solution encompasses all aspects of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to ensure an embedded solution with strategic results.

Ideal for organisations looking to outsource their entire recruitment function for scalability and efficiency.

Medical Devices

Further information on our recruiting process

Do you recruit for niche roles in medical devices?

Absolutely! Our dedicated team has expertise in several specialisations, including cardiovascular, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopaedics, geriatrics, and paediatrics. We understand the unique demands of these roles and have the network to find the perfect fit.

How do you find candidates for specialised roles and ensure a fast yet high-quality hiring process?

We maintain open communication with our extensive candidate network, allowing us to tap into professionals who may not be actively job hunting but are open to the right opportunity. This ensures we can present you with top-tier candidates who meet your needs.

We understand the importance of filling vacancies quickly without sacrificing quality. That’s why we conduct thorough background checks and first-round interviews, so when you receive your shortlist, it’s filled with pre-qualified candidates ready to step into the role. You just need to make the final decision.

What challenges does the medical devices sector face in the future?

With the shift from CE marking to UKCA in Great Britain and projected growth of over 3.8% in the medical technology sector, regulatory changes are driving demand for highly skilled professionals. The medical devices market is expected to account for nearly 90% of this sector’s value, making talent recruitment critical.

Still have questions?

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How we can help

Get Spencer Riley on Your Side

Why choose Spencer Riley?

We are proud to work closely with our clients in the high-tech, tightly regulated Medical Devices segment. Our expertise allows us to provide you with tailored guidance and access to candidates with the niche skill set you require, who could not be reached simply by advertising a vacancy on medical jobs boards.

Spencer Riley offer:

  • Access to our global database of executive-level candidates
  • Pre-screening and initial interviews of shortlisted applicants
  • Candidates who meet specialised and niche skill sets
  • Fully documented industry accreditations, memberships and qualifications
  • Option to establish long-term Medical Devices RPO relationship  

All of this relieves the administrative burden from your in-house hiring team, accelerates your time to hire and improves the calibre of candidates who come forward for your vacancies, while eliminating unnecessary and excessive recruitment costs.

Contact Spencer Riley

Get in touch today.

To speak to one of our Medical Devices executive search specialists and find out more about our ad hoc or RPO Medical Devices recruitment services. We welcome all enquiries relating to these and other Life Sciences & Healthcare roles.

Medical Devices

Our team

Meet our specialists in Medical Devices.

Adam Dowson
Divisional Manager

Adam works with top-tier specialists in innovative temperature-controlled packaging solutions, delivering complete supply chain solutions across Europe, APAC, and North America.

Laura Wild
Senior Search Consultant and Head of Client Delivery

Laura leads client delivery, overseeing seamless recruitment processes for all key clients in the Life Science and Cold Chain Logistics sectors.

Sadie Meadows
Senior Search and Delivery Consultant

Sadie specialises in delivering targeted executive search projects in Medical Devices, Environmental Services and Industrial Services and works with leaders across North America, EMEA and APAC.

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Bespoke Services

As well as the core sectors to which we recruit Spencer Riley has a proven track record for helping businesses in a wide variety sectors and getting the results required.

Our meticulous and pro-active approach means we are ideally placed to take on assignments in markets that sit outside of our core business areas. We are also well placed to help with a host of Private Equity Services, Outplacement Services as well with Mergers & Acquisitions

For more information and to discuss your unique situation then please get in touch.

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Spencer Riley’s team of highly dedicated, specialist consultants’ pride themselves on gaining a full understanding of our client’s business,

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