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Interim assignments and permanent positions in life sciences: quality, regulatory, manufacturing, R&D, engineering and commercial roles in biotech, pharma, CDMO and medtech, mostly in the Netherlands. Senior executive searches are confidential and never listed.
Three kinds of listing, kept separate: live roles that are open now, the standing call to join the interim network, and further down, representative briefs, marked as such, that show the assignments we're regularly asked to fill. Russell reads every application himself. How we work with candidates →
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Interim professionals in life sciences: join the Axeleon network
A standing, open invitation for freelance and interim professionals in Dutch life sciences: quality, QP and RP, pharmacists, QC, validation and CSV, regulatory, engineering, operations and manufacturing leadership, R&D and CMC. Register once. Russell calls only when he has a real assignment that fits.
The briefs we're regularly asked to fill.
Written as full role profiles from recent engagements, with the identifying details removed. They are not live vacancies. Read one, and if it describes you, register: when a real mandate of that shape comes in, you hear about it first, before it goes anywhere else.
Interim Head of Quality, inspection remediation
Pharma · Netherlands, on-site · 4 to 5 days a week · 6 to 9 months
Take over a site's quality function after an inspection has gone badly, stabilise it, close the commitments to the inspectorate on time, and hand over to a permanent successor. The most time-critical brief we receive, and the one we are most often asked to fill within days.
Read the brief →Representative briefQA Director, biologics CDMO
CDMO · Randstad, on-site · Permanent
Site-level quality leadership at a growing contract manufacturer: own the quality system, hold the line with clients and inspectors, and build a QA team that keeps pace with a site adding capacity. A brief we are asked to fill regularly, in this shape.
Read the brief →Representative briefSite Head or VP Operations, biotech manufacturing
Biotech · Netherlands · Permanent
General management of a GMP manufacturing site or a company's operations function: people, output, compliance and the investment case, reporting to a CEO or a group operations leader. Retained executive searches are confidential and not listed as live vacancies; this is the shape of the ones we run.
Read the brief →Three ways to be on the list.
Pick the one that fits your situation. In all three cases Russell reads it himself, and your CV goes nowhere without your agreement. How we work with candidates →
Available for interim work?
Register once. Russell keeps the market map current and calls only when an assignment fits your profile, availability and rate.
Register as an interim professionalLooking for your next permanent role?
Director, head-of and senior specialist positions in quality, regulatory, operations and R&D. Same form: upload your CV and choose permanent. Russell gets in touch when a role fits, or if he wants to discuss your profile.
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