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Metric Bio finds the senior leaders who keep sites compliant, trials on track and products moving to market.
About Metric Bio
At Metric Bio, we run Executive Search for Life Sciences organizations, from vice president through C-suite. We work across CDMO, CRO, Biotech, Medtech, Digital Health, Consumer Health & Food, and Testing, Inspection & Certification.
Typical searches include CEO, COO, Chief Commercial Officer, Site Head, and VP roles across operations, quality, regulatory and business development.
Why Metric Bio
Metric is a specialist Executive Search firm, not a generalist with a Life Sciences desk. Through Metric Bio, our consultants work in the sector every day, which is how we reach leaders who are not on the open market.
Our consultants understand the operational and regulatory differences between clinical-stage and commercial-stage Life Sciences organizations, and hire against them specifically.
Leadership talent in CDMO and cell and gene therapy is genuinely scarce. We keep those relationships warm for years, so a search begins from conversations already underway.
We host CDMO Career Stories, where leaders from Gannet BioChem, Rovi Group and others talk through their careers. Hear what moves senior CDMO talent before you brief us.
What we cover
Metric Bio covers CDMO, CRO, Biotech, Medtech, Digital Health, Consumer Health & Food, and Testing, Inspection & Certification, each with its own specialist consultants and candidate network.
Biologics, drug product, cell and gene therapy and API manufacturers, across site, operations, quality and commercial leadership.
Contract research organizations, across clinical operations, scientific and business development leadership.
From clinical-stage and venture-backed to commercial, hiring the leaders who take a pipeline to market.
Medical device and diagnostics companies, across R&D, quality, regulatory and commercial leadership.
Health software, connected care and health data companies, hiring the leaders who take a product from pilot to scale.
Over-the-counter, supplements, nutrition and food and beverage brands, across operations, quality and commercial leadership.
Testing laboratories, inspection and certification businesses in every end market, hiring the leaders who run labs and keep clients compliant.
How we work
Every Metric Bio search follows the same five stages, from the first conversation about the role to support after the offer is signed.
We take a detailed brief on the role, the team and what the hire needs to deliver.
We map everyone who could do the role, including people who are not looking, using what every previous search has taught us. You see the market before anyone is approached.
Our consultants approach candidates through the Life Sciences network we have built, and assess each one against the brief rather than the resume.
You meet a shortlist of candidates who fit the brief, and we keep both sides informed at every stage.
We manage the offer and negotiation, and stay involved after your new leader starts.
What we offer
Every search comes with talent mapping and access to our market intelligence, tailored to Life Sciences hiring.
Vice president through C-suite searches, run by a team of specialists who work in your market and backed by the audience our podcasts and newsletters have built. We assess against the brief rather than the resume, and stay involved after the offer is signed.
We map everyone who could do the role, not just the people looking. Where they sit, what they are paid and who is likely to move, so you see the real market before you commit to a hire.
Every search we run adds to our picture of the Life Sciences market. We know who is moving, what leadership roles pay and how strong teams are built, and our clients get that intelligence with our advice on how to use it.
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Meet the team
Every Metric Bio search is run by a team of specialists who work in that market every day, whether that is CDMO, CRO, Biotech, Medtech or Digital Health.
Latest insights
Perspectives from our sector specialists on talent trends, market intelligence and leadership, alongside conversations with the leaders shaping Life Sciences.
In this episode Alex Alves Khan sits down with Ilya Koltover, President of Minaris Advanced Testing, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.
In this episode Sam McElroy sits down with David McErlane, Group President of the Biologics Division at Catalent, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.
Digital pathology news for August 2026, in the first edition of Digital Pathology Debrief. Leica Biosystems moves to acquire StatLab and picks up the first FDA clearance for standalone AI quality control software, Proscia adds a clearance and a change control plan for Concentriq AP-Dx, Aiforia lands EUR 20M of EIB venture debt, Ibex and Virasoft launch new AI workflow platforms with Hyland and Tribun, and a new multimodal AI test predicts breast cancer recurrence from routine slides.
Common questions
If your question isn't covered here, one of our specialists can talk it through with you.
Let's build together
Tell us the role and what it needs to deliver. A Metric Bio consultant who works in your market will scope the search with you and set out the plan.
