HR Consultancy
As a life science focused Executive Search consultancy we have gained invaluable experience in all aspects of our clients’ HR Operations. In this age of cost cutting and outsourcing it is our belief that there is real value in providing clients with a more comprehensive range of services. With this in mind we have now developed our offering to include a full suite of HR and talent management solutions to the life-science industry. We have grown these services internationally through our wide network of expert associates enabling us to provide a completely tailored service according to the specific HR needs of our clients.
Bespoke services can include any combination of the following to complement, or in addition to, our Executive Search services:
- Talent management – projects/programmes
- Talent acquisition/recruitment/interims/consultancy
- Skills gap analysis
- Learning and development programmes
- Benchmarking of internal candidates
- Salary and benefits harmonisation
- Reward management
- Assessment (competency profiling, testing, psychometric testing)
- Executive coaching/mentoring
- Redundancy management
- Outplacement consultancy
- Market analysis – utilising our in-house research capability.
A selection of our Consultants are profiled below. Each consultant works with clients on an international basis.
If you would like to find out more about PiRs HR Consultancy,
please contact Maurice Herring: mh@pir-group.com
Michael Bentley, Switzerland
Dr. Monika Clausen, Switzerland
Robin Hills, UK
David Killworth, UK
Jackie Newman, UK
Garry Thompson, UK
Michael Bentley
Switzerland
Human Resources Consultant specialising in start-up operations throughout Europe in the healthcare industry. His assignments include: HR start-up of substantial manufacturing operations in Ireland, staffing of new offices in four major European countries for a German-based biotech company, HR consulting and assistance to a Dutch-based start-up gene-therapy company and consulting on business plans and staffing plans for new Swiss operations for a leading biotech corporation.
In his previous career, Michael was Vice President, Human Resources, Amgen Europe based at their European headquarters in Switzerland. During this time the operations grew from start-up to fully staffed affiliates in 28 countries across Europe, and sales grew from initial product launch to over $2 billion. Prior to Amgen, Michael was the Head of International Personnel Field Operations for Schering-Plough based at their world headquarters in New Jersey and, prior to this, Personnel Executive specialised in Compensation and Benefits with Schering-Plough International based in their European headquarters in Luzern.
Dr. Monika Clausen
Switzerland
Monika combines profound experiences in science with a solid background in various business sectors. She holds a PhD in biology and a Bachelor in business administration. During her time in a managerial position she obtained a solid leadership training followed by certificates in androgony, solution focus coaching, and competence profiling.
Her professional experiences outside science include assignments as a head-hunter for highly educated individuals as well as working experience as an expert as head of shared services in HR and as a people manager.
Today, she is engaged as change agent, trainer and coach for private and public clients. She uniquely links natural sciences and management knowledge with a resource-oriented and solution-focused attitude.
Robin Hills
UK
Robin leads a team specialising in the application of emotional intelligence within organisations. His work involves helping senior managers and leaders in organisations to develop their business performance through increased self awareness and understanding of others. Emotional intelligence is becoming more important than IQ in personal success. It is an individual's capacity to understand and control their own emotions, and to recognise and manage those of others in developing performance. There is intelligence in the emotions and intelligence can be brought to emotions. In fact, the more senior the position in an organisation, the more emotional intelligence matters.
Robin uses a range of tools to support personal development, training and coaching around emotional intelligence. He is qualified to use a wide range of psychometric instruments. His team has a special interest in linking together the outputs from the world's leading personality / behavioural assessments into emotional intelligence to give real practical application to improve effectiveness and productivity. Many of these assessments have been used for years by the life science industry and these can now be used to further their application with senior managers to a much deeper level thus enhancing emotional intelligence.
With over 25 years’ business and commercial experience, Robin has worked with most major life science companies and with the NHS in sales, marketing, research and recruitment. Since 2005, Robin has been working as an independent management consultant. He has built a team of similarly qualified and experienced professionals offering performance management services for individuals or teams at all levels in any size of organisation.
David Killworth
UK
David is an experienced Executive and Business Coach. In brief, coaching is about enabling Senior Managers to release their potential in dealing with significant challenges or issues. It’s about improving the performance of the individual, making positive measurable change. The coach brings listening and questioning skills, challenge and empathy, and specific coaching techniques. The Manager brings a strong motivation to grow, situational knowledge, and the ability to learn and change. Together they form a partnership based on trust and mutual respect, identifying goals and personal strategies for their achievement. Coaching not only brings short-term results but lasting transformational change.
David has had a long and successful career in the chemical and healthcare industries supplying actives and formulated products to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology market place. He worked for ICI and Zeneca, before participating with the senior management team in an MBO to create Avecia.
As Vice President of Avecia Pharmaceuticals, David led the business into ownership by Nicholas Piramal India Ltd, a major Indian Healthcare Company. As President and Managing Director of Piramal Healthcare UK, reporting to the parent company Board, David led a highly profitable business with 650 employees and £80M turnover.
David is, somewhat uniquely, able to apply his substantial experience in growing and leading businesses to release the potential and improve the performance of his clients. He has a Certificate in Executive Coaching from the Institute of Leadership and Management, and is qualified in the use of Myers Briggs personality testing and Emotional Intelligence profiling. David is also an active business coach to numerous science-based companies in the north-west including pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic companies.
Jackie Newman
UK
A senior human resources professional with extensive experience gained in the UK and overseas with blue-chip companies. Jackie has a varied background that includes major reorganisations involving site start-ups, closures, mergers and acquisitions supported by significant experience in all aspects of human resources including recruitment & selection, people development, change management and compensation. Jackies key skills include: The ability to develop effective, ‘no-nonsense’ business solutions, highly organised with strong planning ability, practical, with a strong focus on implementation and customer focus, ability to establish highly effective partnerships, excellent presenter and trainer.
Jackie has twenty-five years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as an independent consultant and formerly holding senior positions for Pfizer, Pharmacia, Searle and Monsanto in the United Kingdom, United States and South Africa. With experience in commercial, research and manufacturing organisations, Jackie says: “I have a passion for and a track record of helping all employees reach their full potential not only through education, coaching and counselling but also by developing the right employee infrastructures to enable people and organisations to be effective in what they do.”
As a key player in a number of mergers and acquisitions, Jackie has experience in change management, benefits harmonisation, new site development and a site closure. She has established talent management and development programmes and run both assessment and development centres. Jackie is a trained Myer Briggs user and enjoys running training courses and facilitation. Whist managing her own human resource teams she has covered all aspects of the generalist role and is proud of the positive feedback received from business leaders, managers, employees and clients.
Garry Thompson
UK
Garry is an HR Consultant and Executive Coach with over 20 years’ experience working both strategically and operationally. He has a proven track record in managing change and developing pragmatic and innovative HR initiatives in relation to: organisation development, reward, training and development, employee relations, recruitment and selection, policy and procedures, and talent management. Garry has specific experience of managing high-growth and start-up businesses.
Garry was HR Director for Opodo, the European on-line travel agent from 2004 to 2006; prior to Opodo he was Head of HR for Amadeus Services Ltd and prior to this, Garry worked for 11 years at Galileo United Kingdom, a wholly owned BA subsidiary, where he was responsible for all aspects of human resources.
Garry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an accredited mediator and is also qualified to administer and interpret psychometrics.