TSP Europe

Global Life Science Talent Specialists

Meet TSP Europe

Whether you are a life science organisation coming to Europe or an established European company ready to expand, we support your market entry or business growth through our talent; offerings spanning Executive Search, Professional Search, and bespoke Talent Solutions.

With deep industry expertise across pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics and a strong regional network, we deliver high-impact talent solutions tailored to complex organisational needs. We work closely with our global colleagues to ensure alignment, visibility, and seamless collaboration across markets.

Where We Work

Headquartered in London, the TSP team are spread across the continent with our experienced delivery team covering 14 languages.

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Our Approach

  • A globally-recognised brand trained to professionally deliver projects that range from a single critical search to on-going talent acquisition support across the entire enterprise
  • A consultative approach to helping you map out the desired needs prior to recruitment execution, with the ability to embed extensive project experience and data-led decision making
  • Projects managed by our senior management teams each with decades of the required experience
  • Learn the lessons of others – TSP brings combined experience across hundreds of similar projects and unmatched industry knowledge as part of Syneos Health
  • Flexible pricing models with a goal of establishing a long-term partnerships and value
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Our Services

Led by a team with over a century of combined experience in managing high-profile projects, we know the importance of having a trusted partner to act as your external brand advocate. We are a team of experienced specialists who can professionally manage the delicacies of what are often the most critical of hires.

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Your chosen finalist candidates are put through our in-house psychometric assessments to analyse relevant competencies & cultural fit. If requested, our team of behavioural psychologists will continue coaching your senior leaders post-onboarding.  Our Talent & Leadership Consulting team are embedded within our searches but are also available to you directly.

We aren’t just here to locate the talent.  Our process would begin with a consultation on your end goals, a brainstorm around the talent pools including the introduction of available data to assist with decision making. At times we may push back and challenge based on other examples from similar projects
 
Once the search has begun, we’ll then manage your process with the professionalism it requires as an extension of your talent and development teams. 

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Customised Talent Solutions

Beyond individual searches, we design project teams that meet a variety of talent acquisition challenges. Our team provides high-touch, recruitment solutions where our recruiters transcend brands to become an extension of your team.

We support both rising and established biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics, and healthcare companies.

No matter the solution you need, TSP will deliver proven expertise in: 

  • Traditional full-scale RPO solutions
  • Customised ‘RPO-light’ solutions, tailored to your business
  • Interim Talent Acquisition Consultants
  • Sourcing & Screening Project Solutions
  • Benchmarking & Talent Mapping
  • Strategic Planning & Consulting, Talent Assessment, Development & Coaching
  • Employer Value Proposition Development
  • Outsourced Recruitment
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Commercial Accelerators

Specialty Field and Medical Recruiting Project Teams

Launch performance is shaped by how Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Commercial teams work together in the field long before a product ever reaches widespread prescribing. TSP’s integrated commercial solutions bring those functions together. Through a coordinated approach spanning Sales, Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs), and commercial leadership, we help organisations build field teams that establish credibility with scientific leaders, prepare payer and access stakeholders, and create adoption pathways simultaneously. Rather than filling roles in isolation, we help you design a field presence that reflects how stakeholders actually evaluate therapies across different healthcare systems.

Our commercial recruitment capabilities can be engaged individually or as a unified program depending on your stage of growth and need. We support first launches, European expansion, and mature portfolio coverage by identifying and deploying the right mix of commercial representatives, scientific communicators, market access specialists, and field leadership. We build high-impact commercial organisations with speed and precision in evolving markets and establish scientific engagement teams that communicate evidence to key opinion leaders and inform receptivity ahead of launch. 

In every corner of Europe, TSP’s recruiting team connects you with the best local talent. Our recruiters, stationed in multiple European countries, bring a wealth of regional knowledge and vast networks to your doorstep. Experience a recruitment partner who understands and aligns with diverse European cultures, ensuring the perfect fit for your expanding team.

Our Differentiators

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Custom Solutions

A consultative approach to discussing tailored Contingent, Interim, Retained Search & RPO Services

Seasoned Pharma & Biotech Focused Recruiters

Our team have dedicated their careers to the life-science space, so each client partner has at least a decade of experience managing similar projects

Consulting & Benchmarking

All partnerships include talent consulting and benchmarking

Local Experts with Global Recognition

With regional headquarters in London, our team is strategically located across 7 countries covering 14 local languages. Together with our U.S and Japan offices we become a globally-recognised Executive Search brand trained to professionally deliver senior and/or confidential hires

Unique Industry Position

With almost 30,000 colleagues across the globe, we bring the combined experience of thousands of similar projects – with the ability to connect your searches with the wider Syneos Health team

In-house Expertise

Many of our team have developed their careers from the pharma, biotech and med-dev world

Experience

Decades of proven experience managing your search as your external professional brand ambassadors

  • Recent projects cover single individual positions, to entire product launch teams or regional expansions
  • Projects led by senior management teams with decades of recruitment experience in the given area
  • Average more than 4,000 hires per year covering all functions from R&D to commercialisation

Our People

Meet Our Leadership Team in Europe

Thomas Hancox

Head of TSP Europe

Thomas has spent his entire career in life science recruitment and the last 10 years building out various consulting teams to focus on partnering within the commercial, regulatory, medical and clinical space.

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Daniel Bennett

Associate Director, Client Partner

Daniel is a strategic talent acquisition leader who partners with life sciences organisations across the EMEA region to build high-impact clinical and commercial teams. 

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Mitzi Sanderson

Client Partner

Mitzi is an experienced life sciences recruitment leader with a strong track record of partnering with organisations across Europe and North America. 

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Melis Wallin

Client Partner

With a bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degrees in human resources and Adult Education, Melis utilises her academic experience to combine with extensive global recruitment experience. 

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Linda Rooney

Delivery Lead

Linda Rooney is a Client Partner at TSP with 20+ years of experience working on senior international executive search assignments in the UK, Europe and US.

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Live Vacancies

To view our current vacancies and positions we’re currently working on, visit our careers site.

Measuring Our Impact

European Languages
14

spoken among our recruiters

Years Experience Average
15

+

for each member of the TSP Europe team

Global Executive-level Searches
300

+

completed in the last 5 years

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We Believe in a Partnership—We Believe in the Power of Personal.

Interested in learning more about how we can help you accomplish your business goals?