CEO & Founder of Mendel PartnersMendel Partners are the world’s first Biotech Start-Up Partners exclusively dedicated to Advanced Therapies and Rare Diseases.We help Advanced Therapies and Rare Disease Biotech clients across the globe to attract best-in-class investors, boards & leadership teams that make meaningful differences to patients & shareholders alike.Our exclusive commitment to these small but rapidly emerging sectors means our clients gain access to the limited number of business-critical experts that cannot otherwise be found through more traditional search practices - to compensate for the severe lack of volume in our sector’s talent pools, we instead focus on high-quality personalised sourcing & candidate management practices.For our start-up clients currently operating with little or no capital, we have also developed some completely unique fee models that enable them to attract business-critical expertise and funding much earlier than usually achievable, thus optimising their success without the huge reimbursement costs usually associated with doing so.If you see value in speaking, please email me here: steve.smith@mendelpartners.com

Maintaining an extensive global portfolio of industry execs/vets and investors; I partner exclusively with Rare Disease, Orphan Drug and Cell & Gene Therapy/Advanced Therapy/Regenerative Medicine businesses to identify, attract and secure investor interest and recruit their senior teams.These include;BOD/NED/SAB seatsCEO and C-Suite VPs/Heads/GMsDirectorsI also consult with entrepreneurial seed and early stage Biotech & CMO clients looking to evolve from an R&D outfit in to successful commercial organisations. Services include commercial strategy review, management consulting, equity-based board & executive recruitment and investor outreach & attraction.If you'd like to discuss your business objectives and how we might add value to you achieving them, feel free to contact me directly on +44 (0) 1403 216216 or by emailing steve.smith@nextphaserecruitment.com I look forward to hearing from you.

Providing clients access to the special people required to ensure they can bring new and challenging Rare Disease & Gene Therapy treatments to patients.Networks included C-Suite, Board, Mid and Senior Management experts within the Rare Disease/Orphan Drugs/Gene Therapy/Cell Therapy communities.

Following a 9 year stint in a single company, took full advantage of Garden Leave to reflect on the past, enjoy the now and look to the future.

A truly Specialist, Expert, Clinically focused Recruitment Consultant previously having dedicated my entire career to the clinical sector. A foundation of high-pressure resourcing equipped me to successfully execute the sourcing of quality talent where my competitors could not, on time and within a tailor made service package and budget. Functions included:VPs of Clinical Operations/Project ManagementHeads of Clinical Operations/Project ManagementProgram/Programme Heads, Directors & Managers Project Directors Clinical Project Directors Cross-Functional Project Managers Clinical Operations Directors & ManagersClinical Project Managers Clinical Study Managers/Clinical Trial Managers I was also able to provide entire Clinical Research teams for new or expanding Clinical Research units with all of the CTA, CTC, CRA, SCRA, LCRA and PCRA specialists they required, inclusive of specifically targeted therapy areas, research phases or start up/maintenance/close-out experience.

Training and Development;I was a trained trainer responsible for up-skilling both Delivery and Trainee Consultants under my management as well as Resourcers, Consultants, Senior Consultants, Principal Consultants, Delivery Team Leaders and Sales Managers under the management of others across the London-Gatwick office. All Training and Development was carried out as per the company's Best Practice documents relevant to each level of seniority and our global standard CIPA (behavioural) document;- Execution of new hires 12 week Training and Development program- Classroom and on desk training (Show and Tell, Workshops, Guided Discovery and Practical)- Live call coaching- Reflective call coaching- Flash training- Shadowing (on desk, 1-2-1s, training, coaching, feedback sessions)- Feedback sessions (with delegates and line managers)- Follow up sessions (with delegates and line managers)- Target, challenge, competition and incentive setting - Setting action pointsLine Management;- Mentoring, Leading, Training and Development, Management - Target and Objective setting- Advising on business plan creation- Promoting positive, energetic, fun environment- Identifying training and development needs- Identifying struggling consultants- Competitions, bets and incentive setting- Inspirational and motivational speaking- Task delegation - Vacancy delegation- Team empowerment- Internal Recruitment (Delivery and Trainee Consultants)- Weekly 1-2-1s- Morning and afternoon meetings- Ensuring adherence to Best Practice and CIPA (behavioural) expectations- Issue resolution- Advising of any company changes/updates

Primary FunctionAs the only non-billing Manager in the London-Gatwick HQ I personally specialised in the company's own people; taking on anyone from Grad level through to Experienced Consultants joining them from their competitors and other recruitment firms that show the intellectual ability and hunger to join their team of Consultants, Managers and Directors and who can demonstrate an ability that will allow them to be developed in to successful specialist consultants. Secondary functionOversight of a multi-functional, specialist Delivery Team that was under the leadership of my Delivery Team Leader. This team focused exclusively on delivering well-matched, high-calibre candidates to Key Accounts, Multi-Vacancy Projects, Hard-to-Fill and Low-End vacancies – the type that ultimately requires focused, expert, highly knowledgeable head-hunters and network builders that have highly advanced resourcing abilities.

As the first Key Accounts Team Manager at Barrington James I managed and led a team of multi sector, specialist Key Account Consultants at various levels that acted as experts in finding perfectly matched candidates for vacancies that are in need of multiple staff, a niche skill-set or criteria that is notoriously difficult to find. I also account managed selected clients that required an elevated level of service and recruitment management and took on specialist, global, high volume recruitment projects using a self-developed management system.My team had a reputation and ability to manage fast, high quality, high-calibre candidate qualification, submission and control from initial search campaign launch through to offer accept processes at a pace that suited the company hiring manager, human resource department or recruitment team needs.

Responsible for overseeing the on-site, managerial start up of Barrington James' Malaysian regional office covering Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Recruitment Solutions for our Clients and Candidates across the Asia-Pacific region.Core Responsibilities included:*Maintenance of current APAC client relationships within the region*New business development across the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries within the region*Management, Training, Development and Leadership of Malaysian office Consultants

As the company's first ever Principal Resourcer I was a specialist in the provision of Clinical Research staff to Key Accounts, Multi-Vacancy, Urgent and Hard to fill opportunities working across the UK, EU and Middle East and Africa region. Heading up a team of resourcers; as a communicative team we effectively managed fast, high quality, high-calibre candidate qualification, submission and control through to offer accept processes at a pace that suited the company hiring manager and/or human resource department’s needs.

I was a Specialist Clinical Recruitment Consultant with expertise in clinical research staffing for the UK, Europe and the Middle East/African region