Our Services

Axeleon delivers retained senior and executive search for the life-sciences sector — including biotech, pharma, CDMOs, and CROs. With more than 20 years of recruitment experience and over 14 years specialising in European life sciences, Axeleon combines deep sector expertise with a rigorous search methodology.
The focus is on identifying, engaging, and securing leaders who can drive strategy, deliver milestones, and strengthen organisational culture.

Leadership gaps slow down science, delay milestones, and create costly disruption. In a sector where execution, compliance, and speed shape competitive advantage, the right senior hire is critical. A mis-hire can set an organisation back months — the right leader can accelerate everything.

• Access to high-calibre senior and executive talent across Europe
   
• A structured, transparent search process with clear scorecards and market mapping
   
• A partner who understands the complexity of R&D, GMP manufacturing, CDMO environments, and scale-up challenges
   
• Engagement with passive, proven leaders who are not active on the open market
   
• Reduced hiring risk through structured assessment and culture-fit evaluation
   
• Leadership that delivers faster impact and strengthens your long-term strategy
   

• Delays in key milestones due to leadership gaps
   
• Difficulty attracting leaders with deep life-sciences or CDMO experience
   
• Organisational transformation that requires stronger or different leadership
   
• High turnover or misaligned leadership behaviours
   

• Faster time to high-performing leadership
   
• Reduced risk of failed or misaligned hires
   
• Teams aligned, motivated, and executing at pace
   
• Stronger organisational stability for investors and stakeholders
   

Axeleon provides senior interim specialists who deliver high-impact support 2–5 days per week, typically for 3–12 months. These consultants bring leadership-level capability in R&D, GMP manufacturing, operational excellence, integration, and change management.
Interim solutions are designed to deliver outcomes — not simply fill temporary capacity.

Many life-sciences organisations face moments when they need senior expertise without adding a full-time leadership cost: integrations, scale-ups, process alignment, quality challenges, or temporary leadership gaps. Interim consultants provide targeted, flexible, high-impact support exactly when needed.

• Senior consultants with deep experience in life sciences, manufacturing, CDMO operations, and transformation
   
• Flexibility: high-impact support 2–5 days per week without the overhead of a full-time role
   
• Clear mandates, measurable outcomes, and direct accountability
   
• Continuity during leadership gaps or recruitment processes
   
• Ability to maintain momentum on high-stakes projects and integration work
   

• Stalled integration between R&D and manufacturing
   
• Lack of senior oversight in GMP operations, QA, QC, or Engineering
   
• Organisational or operational transformation requiring temporary leadership
   
• Delays due to leadership vacancies while permanent search is underway
   

• Projects delivered on time, with clear ownership and senior guidance
   
• Reduced operational risk and stronger execution capability
   
• Seamless continuity during leadership transitions
   
• Faster progress with less organisational disruption
   

• Over 20 years of recruitment experience, including 14+ years focused on European life sciences
   
• Deep understanding of the operational, scientific, and regulatory realities of biotech and manufacturing environments
   
• Proven track record supporting scale-ups, integrations, and complex transformation projects
   
• Transparent, outcome-driven approach to both search and interim delivery
   
• Long-standing relationships and a trusted reputation built on reliability, speed, and sector knowledge