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Anti-Fee Model
Pay for the actual time it takes to fill a role rather than an arbitrary fee based on salary — the highest quality hires, in the most cost-effective way.
Global Biopharmaceutical Recruiting
Your life sciences recruiters
Our goal is to be the top choice among biotech, medical device, diagnostics and pharma recruiting agencies by placing top talent at companies devoted to the development of medicine and products that improve and save lives.
Hiring? See how the Anti-Fee Model works
The clear choice among life sciences recruitment agencies
PLR Talent Solutions is a Boston-based global recruiting firm focused exclusively on life sciences. In 2009 we decided to do things a little differently and launched a low-cost recruiting program, now called the Anti-Fee Model — clients pay for the actual time it takes to fill a role, rather than an arbitrary fee based on salary.
- $35M
- Saved for our clientsThe Anti-Fee Model has revolutionized the life science recruiting platform.
- 13.4%
- Average placement feeAgainst an industry standard of 25%.
- 68
- Days to fill a positionAgainst an industry standard of 91 days.
- 94%
- Client retentionOur client service is what keeps them.
The full spectrum of biotech & pharma recruitment
Along with medical device, CROs, academic institutions, digital health and more.
start-ups
Small Business Platform
A flexible turnkey solution built for start-ups and small businesses, with the resources and structure to manage diverse staffing and development needs.
scale
RPO Services
Strategic, measurable results and analytics at every step of the hiring process, for staffing build-outs of any size or scope.
Functional expertise
Discovery
Top talent for the first phase of life science research, as you navigate the viability of your hypothesis through experimental data and results.
Research & Development
Researchers who specialize in R&D functions: identifying a lead target for development, experimentation, and exploring mechanisms for dosages.
Clinical
Support across the full life cycle of clinical development, phase I through phase IV — Clinical Development and Clinical Operations alike.
Drug Safety
Partnering with sponsors and CROs in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance: case processing, adverse event reporting, and PV compliance.
Medical Affairs
Disease experts who educate department members, shape promotional materials and events, and provide informational services.
Quality & Regulatory
Quality Assurance and Quality Control expertise to ensure compliance in GLP, GCP, GVP and GMP across all stages of research and development.
Technical Operations
The full spectrum of Tech Ops and CMC, from small-scale development through high-volume commercial manufacturing.
Manufacturing
Industrial-scale synthesis: blending, compression, filtration, heating, encapsulation, tableting, granulation, coating and drying.
Commercial
The alignment of people, process and technology to support commercial activity and improve sales, innovation and marketing effectiveness.
Corporate / G&A
The corporate and administrative functions that support and enable a growing life science business.
Dedicated life sciences recruiters means faster placements
- Delivering top talent — whether you are an organization in need of hiring, or an expert in your field seeking new employment, finding the right fit is what we do.
- Decreasing time to fill — 68 days against an industry standard of 91.
- Reducing recruitment spend — a 13.4% average placement fee against an industry standard of 25%.
Clinical, scientific staffing & more
Partnership isn't a word we take lightly — you can count on us for trustworthy, adaptive and efficient solutions. We work with biotech and pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, clinical research organizations, hospitals, universities and research institutions.
Our clients range from large European-based pharmaceutical companies to venture-backed start-ups in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and we build a solution around each of them.
What people are saying
I liked the team I worked with. They were always positive and engaged throughout the process, informed about the market and comparable positions, and they provided us with many qualified candidates.
The team has partnered with us to support multiple builds as well as business as usual. We feel strongly about our relationship; they identify the skills as well as the culture fit for our organization.
Great communication helped us identify what the right candidate would look like at the onset of the process. This laid the foundation for rapidly moving through it.
They act as if they are part of our company. They pick up on nuances and are proactive in asking questions and suggesting changes. Very responsive and pleasant to work with.
Delivering top talent, faster, for less
By focusing on delivering top talent, decreasing the time it takes to fill a role with the perfect candidate, and reducing the placement cost per hire.