<h2>The Situation: SRG&rsquo;s Early Careers partnership with a leading Global Biopharma Company&nbsp;</h2>
<p>SRG are proud to have worked in partnership with one of the world&rsquo;s leading Biopharma companies since early 2015, providing support for their UK Industrial Placement and end-to-end Early Careers programmes across all their UK sites, including nine manufacturing sites, a global R&amp;D site and the company&rsquo;s corporate headquarters.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The company approached SRG to assist them in centralising the recruitment process for early careers talent. Historically it had been the HR team at each site coordinating the Early Talent programme independently and there was no shared process or way of working. &nbsp;</p>
<p>In 2021, the partnership was further developed to meet growing early careers requirements, with SRG providing a full RPO and Talent Partner service that fully embeds SRG&rsquo;s early careers experience and expertise within the client&rsquo;s own early talent team. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Through this fully integrated, fully managed, and connected RPO programme, which includes a dedicated, fully embedded Talent Partner who is present onsite and virtually when required, SRG are challenged to find and place the very best undergraduates on a Fixed Term Contract within the Biopharma company. &nbsp;</p>
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<h2>The Solution: SRG&rsquo;s full RPO and Talent Partner service&nbsp;</h2>
<p>Building on the experience and knowledge gained through our existing partnership, SRG developed an <a class="customLink" href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions/recruitment-process-outsourcing-and-permanent-workforce-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RPO </a>and <a class="customLink" href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions/early-talent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talent Partner service</a> for an end-to-end approach to the organisation&rsquo;s early careers talent requirements. A service that allows SRG to not only work with their expert teams, but as part of them too. &nbsp;</p>
<p>SRG&rsquo;s dedicated Early Careers team, understanding the requirements of the client, their company&rsquo;s values, and the way their people work, are embedded within the biopharma company&rsquo;s own Early Talent Team, supporting them through the entire early talent recruitment process &ndash; from identifying their talent gaps and how to fill them to on-boarding successful candidates. &nbsp;</p>
<p>In line with the client&rsquo;s requirements, and the goals of SRG&rsquo;s dedicated RPO and Talent Partner service, the responsibilities of our integrated Talent Partner and Early Careers Talent experts include:&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Interacting with Key Stakeholders to gather job details and volumes for each campaign.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Managing the full job advertisement process from sign off through to job posting at go live.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Managing the online application process, with up to 12,000 applicants per recruitment campaign.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Candidate communication management using all methods including video meetings, ensuring all communication is in line with the organisation&rsquo;s communication style and Tone of Voice. &nbsp;</li>
<li>Supporting candidates through online testing stage.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Managing the completed applications and progressing the applicant to the next stage of the process.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Screening applications for successful candidates.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Creating and presenting a shortlist of suitable candidates to Hiring Managers in line with pre-agreed benchmarks.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Organising and facilitating candidate attendance to assessment centres and interviews.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Ownership of Assessor Training ahead of candidate assessment centres.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Managing the offer and rejection process including feedback conversations. &nbsp;</li>
<li>Completing on-boarding and Pre-Employment Screening process.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Reporting on the statistics and data throughout the recruitment campaign and producing a pipeline report detailing the volumes or applications at each stage of the process, along with diversity monitoring.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h2>&nbsp;</h2>
<h2>The Results: Early Careers Solutions in Action at Global Biopharma Company&nbsp;</h2>
<p>Having worked with them in the early careers space since 2015, the SRG Early Talent team understands, and embodies the client&rsquo;s values themselves.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While the way we have worked with this industry-leading company has evolved over the years, our team have drawn on our recruitment expertise in the wider scientific market to create innovative solutions to support different ways of working that benefit the overall programme. We are also equipped for agility, and can flex and scale with changing requirements, while creating a streamlined and positive journey for a high volume of applicants.&nbsp;</p>
<p>With the Early Careers Strategy and RPO Service in place, SRG has taken the lead on the delivery and continued development of this client&rsquo;s Early Talent programme, heading up a project management structure &ndash; which included stakeholders from both companies &ndash; that focuses on efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness &ndash; whilst still ensuring needs are met and a best-in-class solution is achieved. &nbsp;</p>
<p>The implementation of a dedicated SRG team has maximised engagement and buy-in from stakeholders; and led to the implementation of new supporting technologies and methods.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Programme Stats:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Over 12,000 applicants managed each year&nbsp;</li>
<li>Circa 300 candidates placed every year&nbsp;</li>
<li>Working across 4 business areas of the global biopharma company&nbsp;</li>
<li>Supporting 7 UK sites&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Testimonial</h3>
<p><em>&ldquo;We always see huge enthusiasm from the Early Talent team at SRG to support new partnerships and initiatives, such as the 10,000 Interns programmes. At short notice, the team stepped in to help us screen and match candidates with opportunities provided by the business, allowing us to place over forty people into internships this summer.&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>The insight provided by the team also allows us to understand the diversity of our pipeline right through the process, without having to wait for an end of campaign review after the fact &ndash; this allows us to take action to address challenges upfront, rather than after the fact for the following year. &nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>It is the proactivity of the team that impresses me most &ndash; if we see low completion rates on an assessment, the team come prepared with a proposal to address it. We get the same commitment to getting it right as if the team were in-house. I also appreciate the focus put on customer experience; the team are always going the extra mile to make candidates&rsquo; and hiring managers&rsquo; journey as positive as they can be.&rdquo; </em></p>
<p><strong>Head of Early Talent Recruitment at a Global Biopharma Company&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<h2>Need expert help with your organisation&rsquo;s Early Careers requirements?&nbsp;</h2>
<p><a class="customLink" href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions/early-talent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SRG&rsquo;s Early Careers team</a> have extensive, diverse experience working with leading STEM organisations, helping them to find, attract and hire the very best early talent available to help futureproof the workforce of tomorrow, today. &nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Interested in finding out how our specialist solutions can meet your needs?&nbsp;</strong><a class="customLink" href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions/early-talent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talk to our experts today&nbsp;</a></p>

Having worked in partnership with them since early 2015, SRG was tasked by a leading Global Biopharma Company to meet their growing early careers requirements through a fully integrated, fully managed and connected RPO and Talent Partner service. 

How SRG Transformed Early Careers Recruitment for a Leading Global Biopharma Company   

<p>Dedication to Continuous Improvement (CI), driven by in depth understanding of processes, identifying and implementing improvement opportunities, and continually developing people, and their skills, can make high-impact, long-lasting positive changes to the way a lab functions and produces its work.</p>
<p>As an on-site scientific services provider, <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Scientific Solutions</a> employs teams of experts based in our customers&rsquo; own labs. By interacting with customer staff and processes daily, our teams are ideally placed to contribute to the CI activities of the laboratories in which they work. With a dedicated Head of Quality and CI, and dynamic Learning and Development programme, Synergy ensures that our teams are skilled and ready to play an active role in the CI culture of their workplaces.</p>
<p>In this blog, we dive into how - through utilising lean six sigma methodology - Synergy achieves effective Continuous Improvement solutions and results, establishing high performing lab support functions and improvement processes.</p>
<h2>What is Continuous Improvement and lean methodology?</h2>
<p>Continuous Improvement describes the ongoing process of analysing and optimising processes and their outputs. Often a CI pipeline is put in place, to help prioritise and action the changes required for optimisation over time.</p>
<p>There are many effective Continuous Improvement approaches and techniques, affording several options and routes to success. However, this variety can also make it difficult to identify and implement the methodology that will be most effective to a specific process.</p>
<p>One approach that <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Laboratory Services</a> implements and has found to be highly effective in a lab setting, is lean methodology. Initially developed for manufacturing environments, the processes and principles of lean methodology are suitable for a wide range of applications, settings and industries, particularly in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environments.</p>
<p>By utilising the lean methodology and CI in a laboratory setting, efficiency can be improved through the optimisation of flow, cost control, and efficient resource allocation. Overall, the goal behind CI is to eliminate time deficits, limit waste, and maximise workforce potential, therefore achieving a higher level of laboratory efficiency.</p>
<h2>Synergy&rsquo;s Approach to Continuous Improvement</h2>
<p>Synergy focuses on the lean six sigma methodology, embedding Continuous Improvement with people, not imposing it on people. Working from an awareness level with our CI Mindset training sessions for new team members, we then provide Yellow and Green Belt training to our on-site teams of scientists. The training challenges our people to make their tomorrow better than today by looking at their own role and workplaces, identifying and delivering improvements incrementally at first, then through larger projects and cross functional initiatives at Yellow Belt and Green Belt level respectively.</p>
<p>To drive innovation and encourage critical thinking and problem solving, <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Lab Solutions</a> empower and train our staff with lean six sigma tools and techniques, so that they can thrive in any situation and promote success at any client they&rsquo;re embedded and integrated within.</p>
<p>This progressive approach not only develops Synergy&rsquo;s experts and their competencies, making them Continuous Improvement experts, but also ensures we can actively support any client&rsquo;s process improvement activities, making Synergy&rsquo;s services unique in the field.</p>
<p>Outcomes include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improving labour capacity</li>
<li>Helping minimise risk</li>
<li>Eliminating bottlenecks</li>
<li>Lowering costs whilst improving lab KPIs</li>
</ul>
<h2>Synergy Continuous Improvement in Action</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy&rsquo;s </a>ability and commitment to driving improvement through expert, experience-led lab solutions are showcased in several successful projects. Here we focus on our work with a large pharmaceutical industry customer to deliver process efficiencies within a QC environment: an example of how Synergy scientific services can increase laboratory effectiveness and productivity.</p>
<p>Working within our customer&rsquo;s laboratories and following their processes and procedures, Synergy scientists identified an opportunity to optimise workflows and drive efficiency across the site through the introduction of a Lab Support function within our established team. This Synergy-led group would take ownership of key support activities within overall lab workflows, optimising those activities while freeing up analyst time to generate further productivity gains.</p>
<h3>Example 1: Sample Information Management</h3>
<p>Process flows in Quality Control can be complex and highly varied, depending on sample types, the suite of analytical methodologies involved, and production cycles. Samples may pass through multiple teams and stakeholders, with risk of delay or error at each transfer point.</p>
<p>The Synergy team took ownership of the sample booking-in process - from warehouse to archiving / disposal - across multiple labs, identifying best practice, standardising procedures, and implementing improvements to increase accuracy to 96% right first time and throughput by 100%.</p>
<p>One specific process change - to capture Inspection End Dates at the earliest opportunity and include the information on sampling reports by default &ndash; removed significant and repeated time wastage from the administrative workflow, and:</p>
<ul>
<li>Removed a potential source of error</li>
<li>Enabled the Lab Support team to prioritise more effectively</li>
<li>Reduced the risk of backlogs forming, which would impact on downstream analysis</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example 2: Documentation Archiving</h3>
<p>Timely and accurate archiving of laboratory documentation is critical to regulatory compliance, including adherence to defined retention schedules for different classes of hard-copy information.</p>
<p>A3 problem solving is a structured approach to the definition and root cause analysis of issues within a process, and the application of improvement measures. Through an A3 project undertaken during Yellow Belt training, the Synergy team performed 5S optimization to declutter documentation workstations, improve communication between analysts and archivists, and streamline the documentation flow:</p>
<ul>
<li>Archiving turn-around time reduced by 50%</li>
<li>Improving KPIs by eliminating backlog</li>
<li>Removing identified compliance risk</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>Synergy&rsquo;s approach to Continuous Improvement and lean methodology contributes to our customers&rsquo; success by targeting improvements that are meaningful to the labs in which we work.</p>
<p>In the examples discussed here, <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy&rsquo;s solution </a>goes beyond this initial implementation: our teams continue to work closely with our customer&rsquo;s own scientists and lab owners and are actively engaged in the organisation&rsquo;s process improvement activities. To date, over fifteen A3 problem solves have been completed by Synergy scientists working hand in hand with our customers, and five Green Belt specialists are deployed within our on-site scientific teams.</p>
<p>Our commitment to learning and development ensures our own ongoing improvement, with in-house capability to upskill our teams with recognised CI expertise and make a positive impact through our work.</p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">With thanks to Amer Gerges, Rabia Nadeem, and Govind Barhey of a UK-based Global Pharma company, whose CI work forms the basis of this article.</span></em></p>
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<h2>Looking for a scientific services partner?</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The team from Synergy Scientific Management Solutions</a></strong>&nbsp;work with laboratories across the world, equipping laboratories with expert talent that catalyse laboratory success, from within.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Synergy, we help laboratories embrace adaptability with flexible teams who we source, manage and develop ourselves.</p>
<p>Interested in hearing more?</p>
<p>You can talk to our friendly team about your resourcing requirements at:<a href="mailto:synergyqueries@srgtalent.com"><strong>&nbsp;synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</strong></a></p>

Continuous Improvement is a vital component of making high-impact, long-lasting changes to a laboratory and the way it functions, as these insights from Neil Jones highlight.

Synergy Scientific Services: Showcasing the Power of Continuous Improvement

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<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p>A global pharmaceutical company was seeking to improve efficiencies across the QC laboratories at one of its UK manufacturing sites. An increased workload, peaks and troughs in resourcing needs, a lack of flexibility and a significant burden on client time to hire, train and retain a large contingent workforce all contributed to the onsite challenges.</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>Synergy first gained a detailed understanding of the current laboratory set up by performing a thorough gap analysis against current and future skill set requirements, in line with the client&rsquo;s goals and long-term vision.</p>
<p>Findings from the GAP analysis enabled the team from <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Scientific Solutions</a> to create a project plan with the main goal of introducing a functional service provision (FSP) model rather than contingent workers. Through this model, Synergy&rsquo;s flexible lab services would support testing across all laboratories with clear contract deliverables and governance.</p>
<p>Synergy worked diligently through a TUPE process to transfer existing contingent workers with the right skill sets and the desire to develop their roles into positions with permanent employment contracts. In parallel, Synergy delivered a recruitment campaign utilising SRG&rsquo;s expertise and over 30 years of experience to identify the right individuals for critical roles to fit the new structure. This included an experienced on-site team leader who would take on management responsibility on behalf of the client team, whilst always providing the client with visibility and control.</p>
<p>The second phase of the project involved the identification of cross training and development opportunities to provide more flexibility and agility into the laboratories, and to address fluctuating resourcing requirements.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>By creating an FSP model, a number of key benefits were immediately observed: Reduced complexity through one single supplier</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved retention of staff; employees benefitting from permanent employment contracts, an enhanced reward package as well as specific development plans/cross training opportunities.</li>
<li>Better efficiency by having cross trained individuals who were able to support across multiple laboratories, ironing out peaks and troughs in resourcing demands.</li>
<li>Significant time saving for the client teams as all Synergy team members fully employed and managed by Synergy.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2>Looking for a scientific services partner?</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The team from Synergy Scientific Management Solutions</a></strong>&nbsp;work with laboratories across the world, equipping laboratories with expert talent that catalyse laboratory success, from within.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Synergy, we help laboratories embrace adaptability with flexible teams who we source, manage and develop ourselves.</p>
<p>Interested in hearing more?</p>
<p>You can talk to our friendly team about your resourcing requirements at:<a href="mailto:synergyqueries@srgtalent.com"><strong>&nbsp;synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</strong></a></p>

Synergy developed a flexible laboratory resource model for a global pharmaceutical company, improving efficiency by transitioning from contingent workers to a permanent, cross-trained team with enhanced support and reduced flexibility.

Development of a flexible laboratory resource model for a major global pharmaceutical company

<p><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Scientific Solutions</a>' International Capabilities played a pivotal role in building a successful drug development team working across several Client sites in Europe.</p>
<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p>With an increase in its product development portfolio and limitations affecting its laboratory facilities across Europe, a global Vaccine company were struggling to optimise available laboratory space and provide an efficient and cohesive environment for its existing R&amp;D team who were based in three countries. Development was behind schedule and existing internal management teams had limited capacity to ensure effective management and training of any new scientific staff.</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>Synergy&rsquo;s strategic approach to addressing the client&rsquo;s challenges included a GAP analysis from which a set of deliverables were defined. This process facilitated the rapid recruitment of 15 <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy scientists</a> through the company&rsquo;s international capabilities, ensuring compliance with national legislations throughout.</p>
<p>Multi-lingual recruiters played a key role in finding candidates with the necessary technical and soft skills that would meet client needs. Additionally, appointing a Senior Scientist/Team Leader at each site ensured effective workload management and team cohesion.</p>
<p>To support the development timeframes, tailored training programs and regular virtual meetings were established to enable alignment and ensure remote collaboration and effective time management. Within the strict regulatory framework, laboratory facilities, equipment utilisation and processes were also examined to identify any areas for improvement to enable better efficiency.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>The implementation of <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Laboratory Services</a>' innovative approach enabled several key benefits and changes to the way the client operates and performs, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>The creation of agile teams capable of rapid adaptation to changes in the drug supply chain &ndash; crucial for meeting the complex regulatory and logistical challenges of multi-country drug development.</li>
<li>The integration of Synergy teams within the client's lab facilities significantly reduced backlog and enhanced lab space efficiency, allowing stakeholders to dedicate more time to strategic goals.</li>
<li>The oversight of a Synergy European Operations Director, coupled with a robust governance framework, ensured the client had clear sight of the project's deliverables.</li>
<li>Financial transparency and adherence to the budget through a fixed monthly fee further underscored the project's success.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2>Looking for a scientific services partner?</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The team from Synergy Scientific Management Solutions</a></strong>&nbsp;work with laboratories across the world, equipping laboratories with expert talent that catalyse laboratory success, from within.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Synergy, we help laboratories embrace adaptability with flexible teams who we source, manage and develop ourselves.</p>
<p>Interested in hearing more?</p>
<p>You can talk to our friendly team about your resourcing requirements at:<a href="mailto:synergyqueries@srgtalent.com"><strong>&nbsp;synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</strong></a></p>

Synergy's international expertise established a successful drug development team across Europe, optimising lab space, improving efficiency and meeting deadlines through strategic recruitment and tailored training programs.

Europe Case Study: Enhanced Efficiency for R&D Lab Teams

<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p>A multinational food ingredients company was experiencing increased demand from internal customers for additional sensory panel services. The incumbent panel was comprised of part-time panellists with limited flexibility and availability to support increasing business needs. This caused some inconsistency in data output, with a challenge for the client to provide management and coordination of the panel.</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>The provision of the sensory panel would be outsourced to <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Scientific Solutions</a> as an independent and trusted partner. This would require an amalgamation of existing panel members with new recruits to create a balanced panel to produce, reliable, and useable data.</p>
<p>Synergy provided a dedicated, experienced Account Manager to work directly with the customer and understand their specific business needs. A recruitment campaign was initiated utilising Synergy&rsquo;s expertise and contacts within the sensory area. This was followed by a rigorous screening exercise to ensure individuals were recruited with the appropriate skills and experience as well as ascertaining whether any allergies or health complications could eliminate individuals from continuing the process.</p>
<p>Successful candidates moved forward to an assessment day, where interviews and acuity tests were completed under the expert supervision of the Client Sensory Manager.</p>
<p>Acuity results were analysed alongside interview feedback to determine the most suitable candidates. Synergy then developed full training plans with the customer to ensure the panellists had a clear understanding and expectations of their role in achieving agreed milestones during training to support them in becoming productive and engaged members of the panel team.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>Through <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy&rsquo;s outsourced sensory panel management service</a>, the customer is now providing a 67 % increase in panel capacity to their internal customer base. A clear statement of Work (SOW) and an agreed set of KPIs is regularly reviewed with the customer via quarterly business reviews ensuring Synergy effectively manages their sensory panel, feeding back successes and solutions to meet changing business needs.</p>
<p>By providing a flexible pool of trained panellists to the client, Synergy can cover both planned and unplanned absence, giving the client confidence that results will not be compromised, or projects delayed. Synergy ensures all training, management, safety, and HR needs of the panellists are met, reducing the client&rsquo;s workload and allowing their customer team to concentrate on commercial projects and generation of reproducible, accurate sensory data.</p>
<hr>
<h2>Looking for a scientific services partner?</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The team from Synergy Scientific Management Solutions</a></strong>&nbsp;work with laboratories across the world, equipping laboratories with expert talent that catalyse laboratory success, from within.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Synergy, we help laboratories embrace adaptability with flexible teams who we source, manage and develop ourselves.</p>
<p>Interested in hearing more?</p>
<p>You can talk to our friendly team about your resourcing requirements at:<a href="mailto:synergyqueries@srgtalent.com"><strong>&nbsp;synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</strong></a></p>

Synergy Scientific Services increased a foods company's sensory panel capacity by 67%, providing reliable data and reducing workload with expert management and trained, flexible panellists.

Enhancing Sensory Panel Efficiency for a Multinational Food Company 

<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p>A UK based health monitoring and screening provider sought to establish and rapidly scale their PCR diagnostic capability in response to the worldwide COVID pandemic, to enable the safe operation of workplaces and resumption of international travel. In a period of evolving government guidance and under lockdown conditions, identifying and launching new laboratory premises, recruiting appropriately skilled scientists, and sourcing specialist equipment all presented considerable barriers.</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy's Laboratory Services</a> team took ownership of parallel activity streams including the sourcing, fit-out and launch of multiple new laboratory sites; managed a recruitment campaign to deliver and mobilise analytical teams; and liaised with customer scientific leads to coordinate roll-out and manage operational performance.</p>
<p>Our experienced laboratory operations and project management professionals scouted existing lab facilities and alternative commercial space across all regions, facilitating lease agreements, managing design and build, and utilising our industry network to source and commission infrastructure and equipment.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a dedicated Synergy team of Regional Lab Managers worked with SRG recruitment specialists to build a flexible team of sample technicians, assay scientists and senior analysts capable of handling the entire sample process workflow from receipt to result confirmation on behalf of the client, whilst providing them with visibility and control throughout.</p>
<p>Centralised Training and Technical Managers were placed at a purpose-built facility, supported QA/QC activities, ISO accreditation and protocol development to maximise efficiency and respond to new developments.</p>
<p>Through detailed reporting and close collaborative working, Synergy - utilising our flexible scientific service management expertise - were able to deliver a network of fixed and mobile testing facilities promptly and at pace, allowing the customer to launch new services and respond to new opportunities in a highly effective way.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>With <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy support</a>, the customer rapidly positioned itself as a premium provider of diagnostic services to industries including defence, elite sports, and TV and film industries. The operation grew to involve 350 scientific staff across more than 18 locations, capable of providing fast-turnaround PCR testing anywhere in the world.</p>
<p>By prioritising quality and focusing on resilience and training from the outset, the expanded organisation was able to secure ISO accreditation within year one, ready to pivot back to wider health screening and diagnostics.</p>
<hr>
<h2>Looking for a scientific services partner?</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The team from Synergy Scientific Management Solutions</a></strong>&nbsp;work with laboratories across the world, equipping laboratories with expert talent that catalyse laboratory success, from within.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Synergy, we help laboratories embrace adaptability with flexible teams who we source, manage and develop ourselves.</p>
<p>Interested in hearing more?</p>
<p>You can talk to our friendly team about your resourcing requirements at:<a href="mailto:synergyqueries@srgtalent.com"><strong>&nbsp;synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</strong></a></p>

Synergy's laboratory management solutions rapidly scaled a UK health provider's PCR testing network in response to COVID-19, establishing 18+ labs with 350 staff and achieving ISO accreditation. 

Rapid mobilisation of a high throughput laboratory network

<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p><span lang="EN-US">A<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>leading<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>pharmaceutical<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>company<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>experiencing<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>growing<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>number<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>challenges<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>rapidly<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>expanding research<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>centre.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>Critical<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>but<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>routine<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>scientific<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>activities<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>carried<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>all<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>levels<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>scientific<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>staff,<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt;"> </span>whilst<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt; mso-font-width: 110%;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 110%;">varied<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>cell<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>culture<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>requirements<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>lacked<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>consistency<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>expansion<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>automation<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>suites<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>highlighted<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>further </span>constraints.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>Meanwhile,<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>any<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>future<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>expansion<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>GCMS<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>suite<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>would<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>likely<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>cause<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>future<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>sample<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>preparation<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span>issues.</span></p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>A visit to the client&rsquo;s facility and further discussions with their leadership team enabled Synergy to obtain a detailed understanding of the challenges and requirements, and propose the implementation of a dedicated scientific support team who would undertake a suite of essential laboratory functions.</p>
<p>Implementing <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy&rsquo;s expert scientific services</a> and support, whilst operating in line with the client&rsquo;s existing SOP&rsquo;s, the team would integrate with research pipelines and onsite operational teams to improve research project progress. This dedicated support would free up time and provide flexibility for research scientists focused on the demands of numerous projects.</p>
<p>Additionally, the team would assist with sample preparation, ensuring all materials were available ahead of downstream requirements and enabling maximum daily research activity. Support in the GCMS area would also be provided by ensuring cross training and management of the team&rsquo;s capacity during absences.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>Through the provision of an onsite scientific support team, several key benefits were observed. The <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Laboratory Management Services</a> team:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added significant value to the client's ability to meet research targets, reducing contamination events and delays from sample or method process failures.</li>
<li>Actively improve scientific support processes, quality and resource planning and identified areas where they could assist further across the centre.</li>
<li>Helped improved support level processes to remove delays in sample, plate or reagent availability, whilst ensuring the working lab environment was well maintained.</li>
</ul>
<p>Over the first few months, the team increased their knowledge and competence to further support priority research projects directly, enabling studies to continue during periods of key personnel absence.</p>
<p>After 18 months, as the client has expanded, the team doubled in size and provided valuable cross skilled support to most of the key studies and critical support to laboratory operations. Client feedback is extremely positive, not only on the team&rsquo;s value to contributing to their targets but also on the team&rsquo;s behaviours and competence.</p>
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Synergy's onsite scientific support team enhanced a pharmaceutical research centre by improving sample preparation, automation and GCMS operations, boosting research efficiency and reducing analysis. 

Provision of an onsite scientific support team at the research centre of a multinational pharmaceutical company

<h2>Challenge</h2>
<p>A leading consumer goods business faced increasing demand for GMP stability studies and other analytical testing to support a portfolio of R&amp;D projects across multiple product categories, including hygiene, personal care and over the counter medicines.</p>
<p>Internal resource constraints, a need for flexibility and responsiveness, and the constraints of operating within a GMP environment posed problems with both inhouse resourcing and traditional outsourcing.</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>Following an in-depth scoping and analysis of the customer challenges, <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Scientific Solution</a>s integrated a dedicated team of stability analysts, operating under the supervision of an experienced Project Manager, who quickly took ownership of the planning, delivery and reporting of stability campaigns under the direction of the core product development teams.</p>
<p>Synergy scientists worked to the customer&rsquo;s SOPs and processes, liaising closely with customer researchers to coordinate activity and prepare for stability timepoints, allowing for client visibility and control throughout.</p>
<p>Members of the team adopted specific roles with regards to training coordination, safety, quality, and audit readiness. By understanding site processes and procedures and forming links across departments and functions including Quality, IT and Analytical Development, the Synergy Team ensured that required methods, LIMS workflows, materials, instrumentation, and trained personnel were in place and available to meet project timescales.</p>
<p>Cross-training, together with a focus on building capability within the team, enabled Synergy to adapt to peaks in demand inherent in stability studies. Planning schedules, levelling resources, and regular reporting to customer stakeholders were instrumental in providing visibility and aiding the planning of future projects.</p>
<h2>Outcome</h2>
<p>Through working effectively and collaboratively alongside the customer&rsquo;s own organisation, <a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Synergy Laboratory Management Services</a> continues to support a growing portfolio of projects across different stages of the lifecycle, managing resources in keeping with ever- changing demands.</p>
<p>Individual and team training plans are maintained so that GMP compliance, resource capacity and technical expertise is in place to adapt to and accommodate both scheduled and new campaigns as they arise.</p>
<p>Joint planning and the timely recruitment and training of new team members allows the level of support to flex in response to changing customer requirements.</p>
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Synergy's onsite scientific team provided vital stability analysis for a multinational consumer goods company, ensuring GMP compliance and flexibility for R&D projects across multiple product categories, including hygiene and personal care. 

Provision of an onsite scientific team undertaking vital stability analysis for a multinational consumer goods company

<h2>Top challenges faced in laboratory management and actionable solutions</h2>
<p>Laboratory management is evolving fast, and laboratory leaders must expect and overcome significant hurdles to keep pace.</p>
<p>In May 2022, Synergy and SRG asked laboratory leaders to assess their current concerns and expected challenges over the coming year. Our survey delves into these insights, providing expert advice to help you prepare, and take action on the most critical issues facing laboratory management today.</p>
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<ul>
<li>Skills and expertise gaps</li>
<li>Attraction and retention of laboratory staff</li>
<li>Achieving quicker results</li>
<li>Improving problem solving</li>
</ul>
<p>In a scientific environment beset by laboratory management challenges, business continuity will rely on re-evaluating and upgrading existing strategies to fuel the future of the workforce.</p>
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<p>Home to 4 of the world&rsquo;s top 10 universities across London, Cambridge and Oxford, the Golden Triangle is one of the UK&rsquo;s most widely recognised life science clusters and the recipient of&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://onenucleus.com/life-science-start-report-2022-launched-wapg-and-jll" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">83% of life sciences investment.&nbsp;</a></strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the &lsquo;Northern Powerhouse&rsquo; continues to expand in the North with world-class science facilities, Europe&rsquo;s biggest cancer treatment centre, and key complex medicine manufacturing organisations.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The government coined term &lsquo;Northern Powerhouse&rsquo; is far more generalist than the &lsquo;Golden Triangle&rsquo; and refers to 12 areas across the North of England, including Cheshire and Warrington, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Humber, Lancashire, Leeds City Region, Liverpool City Region, North East, Sheffield City Region, Tees Valley, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding.</p>
<p>With the breadth of the area and all of this innovation, it&rsquo;s easy to see how the Northern Powerhouse is generating&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/media-and-events/industry-news/2021/8/13/dit-to-promote-key-north-west-life-science-cluster-as-a-high-potential-opportunity-location-for-health-innovation-for-healthy-ageing-to-investors-in-177-countries-a2909" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&pound;80.7 billion of annual economic value.&nbsp;</a></strong></p>
<p>But just how competitive is the Northern Powerhouse for life sciences in comparison to the long-established Golden Triangle?</p>
<p>Read on to find out:</p>
<ul>
<li>What is a supercluster</li>
<li>3 differences between the northern powerhouse and the golden triangle</li>
<li>Northern life science pioneers leading the way</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>What is a supercluster?</h2>
<p>UK superclusters in life sciences combine industry and investors (both global and government-based) with research, academia, and manufacturing to drive economic progress and accelerate innovation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Superclusters act as a bridge between places and national strategies, facilitating collaboration, growth and investment under a recognisable brand that can be promoted on a global scale.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In the UK,&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-the-united-kingdom">the &lsquo;Level Up&rsquo; initiative</a></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/life-sciences-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Life Sciences Vision</a></strong>, and&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-plans-for-largest-ever-rd-budget" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2.4% R&amp;D investment target</a></strong>&nbsp;are all examples of government strategies linked to enabling the success of superclusters.</p>
<p>Successful superclusters have a formal cluster development organisation that funds this place-based development in the life sciences.</p>
<p>Formal cluster developments can benefit chosen areas in many ways.&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>They are focused on world-class assets</li>
<li>By acting ambitiously they can compete globally</li>
<li>They attract public and private investment</li>
<li>They act as an entry point for innovators in a region</li>
</ul>
<h2>3 differences between the Northern Powerhouse and the Golden Triangle</h2>
<h3>1.&nbsp;Science workspace</h3>
<p>While London, Cambridge and Oxford are often described as the dominant cluster of the UK in terms of investment and capital raising,&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://pdf.euro.savills.co.uk/uk/commercial---other/life-sciences---trends-and-outlook-january-2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a report from Savills</a></strong>&nbsp;reveals that the areas suffer from a lack of science workspaces like laboratories to accommodate organisational demand when headcount rises.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the North organisations benefit from the ability to expand into readily available scientific workspaces, laboratories, and science parks including the UK&rsquo;s largest single-site science campus, Alderley Park. (https://www.alderleypark.co.uk/)&nbsp;</p>
<h3>2.&nbsp;Cost of living</h3>
<p>Living in the Golden Triangle is costly &ndash; London alone is the most expensive place to live in the UK, with average bills of&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/property/living-in-the-south-costs-ps3-000-more-than-the-north-9525950.html#:~:text=Unsurprisingly%2C%20London%20tops%20the%20list,per%20year%20on%20average%20respectively." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&pound;11,536</a></strong>. The South East including Oxford and Cambridge is in second place, costing citizens an average cost of&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/property/living-in-the-south-costs-ps3-000-more-than-the-north-9525950.html#:~:text=Unsurprisingly%2C%20London%20tops%20the%20list,per%20year%20on%20average%20respectively." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&pound;11,317 for bills.&nbsp;</a></strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the North of England is second only to South Wales in terms of the cheapest places to live in England. The average cost of bills in the North of England pales at&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/property/living-in-the-south-costs-ps3-000-more-than-the-north-9525950.html#:~:text=Unsurprisingly%2C%20London%20tops%20the%20list,per%20year%20on%20average%20respectively." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&pound;8,540 a year</a></strong>&nbsp;&ndash; a stark contrast from the prices across the Golden Triangle.</p>
<p>As the cost-of-living soars across the UK, improved prices in the North incentivise organisations, and candidates alike to establish scientific activities and careers away from the Golden Triangle.<br><br></p>
<h3>3.&nbsp;Investment</h3>
<p>The North and South of the UK have a long-standing divide in terms of equitable investment across industries, including life sciences.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/north-of-england-receives-less-than-half-the-life-science-investment-made-in-south-reveals-ippr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Recent analyses&nbsp;</a></strong>show that the North of England receives &pound;4 billion less investment into health R&amp;D than the South. To put this figure in perspective, the South receives &pound;168 health R&amp;D investment per person, compared to just &pound;72 per person in the North.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This disparity is on its way to being unravelled following the government&rsquo;s release of the &lsquo;Level Up&rsquo; whitepaper, where the investment differences in the North and South were highlighted, and partially addressed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Despite investment inequity, the Northern Powerhouse is on its way to establishing its new routes into funding following research success.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The 2021 Research Framework&nbsp;</a></strong>awarded several universities across the North funding boost after significant performance improvements. Manchester, Liverpool, and Northumbria University were among the awardees in the North.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2021-research-excellence-framework-results-announced" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Stergio, Director of Research and Innovation Services at Northumbria University</a></strong>&nbsp;commented on how the results of the award would cement the importance of clusters outside of the Golden Triangle; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s already clear from submission volume data that the North-East will have the largest city-area grouping of researchers outside of London.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a recent successful joint bid led by Manchester, Cheshire, and Warrington, saw the regions achieving High Potential Opportunity Status for healthy ageing.</p>
<p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) is now promoting the combined regions to international investors looking to design, develop, test, and commercialise diagnostics and early interventions in ageing.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/media-and-events/industry-news/2021/8/13/dit-to-promote-key-north-west-life-science-cluster-as-a-high-potential-opportunity-location-for-health-innovation-for-healthy-ageing-to-investors-in-177-countries-a2909" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lou Cordwell MBE, Chair of Greater Manchester LEP&nbsp;</a></strong>commented on the achievement, &ldquo;the launch of this HPO is an important step in helping Greater Manchester forge new partnerships and attract investment from those at the forefront of health innovation. Our region already has so much to offer &ndash; world-leading research capabilities, access to talent and one of the largest life science clusters in the UK&rdquo;.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><br></p>
<h2>Northern life science pioneers leading the way</h2>
<p>Delving deeper behind the Northern Powerhouse&rsquo;s regions, we discover the pioneering organisations harnessing the innovative research and manufacturing capability the North has to offer.</p>
<h3>1.&nbsp;Cheshire: Evotec, Cyprotex</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.evotec.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Evotec</a></strong>, a drug discovery alliance and development partnership organisation, and its subsidiary&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.cyprotex.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cyprotex</a></strong>, in vitro and in silico ADME-Tox services specialist, are both well established in the Alderley Park science campus in Cheshire.&nbsp;</p>
<p>After acquiring Cyprotex in 2016, Evotec relocated Cyprotex&rsquo;s UK operations to Alderley Park to centralise operations and enable continued business growth within the campus.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.evotec.com/en/investor-relations/news/corporate-news/p/cyprotex-an-evotec-company-expands-into-new-uk-facility-at-alderley-park-5434" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr Mario Polyqka, Chief Operating Officer of Evotec</a></strong>&nbsp;commented on the relocation, &ldquo;Moving to Alderly Park allows for the expansion and consolidation of Cyprotex&rsquo;s UK operations into a first-class scientific facility, which of course will serve to benefit our client base&rdquo;.&nbsp;<br><br></p>
<h3>2.&nbsp;Cheadle: SEDA</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.sedapds.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SEDA&nbsp;</a></strong>pharmaceutical development services are undergoing a period of rapid growth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>SEDA&rsquo;s ambitious plans for expansion are reflected in their recent procurement of Cheadle Royal Business Park, which has been completely refurbished and tailored to SEDA&rsquo;s scientific requirements, creating&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.sedapds.com/news/seda-facilities-update-we-have-moved-in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a state-of-the-art foundation for its growth.</a></strong>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>3.&nbsp;Manchester: QIAGEN</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.qiagen.com/us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QIAGEN</a></strong>, a leading global advanced molecular testing solution provider, have recently moved their European Centre of Excellence for Precision Medicine from Manchester Science Park over to Manchester&rsquo;s CityLabs 2.0 &ndash; a brand new genomics campus developed in coalition with Health Innovation Manchester.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://healthinnovationmanchester.com/news/qiagen-strengthens-uk-footprint-with-move-to-new-manchester-facilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jean-Pascal Viola, Senior Vice President and Head of QIAGEN&rsquo;s Molecular Diagnostics Business Area&nbsp;</a></strong>commented on the transition, &ldquo;From Manchester, QIAGEN has pioneered precision medicine and taken global leadership in co-developing companion diagnostics with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to determine the effectiveness of specific drugs in individual patients&rdquo;.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://healthinnovationmanchester.com/news/qiagen-strengthens-uk-footprint-with-move-to-new-manchester-facilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rowena Burns, Chair of Health Innovation Manchester</a></strong>, said &ldquo;The completion of QIAGEN&rsquo;s move to state-of-art-facilities is a major development for life sciences in Manchester &ndash; and a testament to plans to create a global genomics hub here. Addressing the health needs of local people and contributing to improved diagnosis and treatment of diseases around the world, will create many highly skilled jobs and economic growth&rdquo;.<br><br></p>
<h3>4.&nbsp;North East: QuantuMDx</h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.quantumdx.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QuantuMDx&nbsp;</a></strong>is a progressive medical technology company based in Newcastle upon Tyne. After starting with just 6 employees, the organisation has flourished over the past few years, with a new move to dedicated HQs, bespoke laboratories, and a new engineering complex in Newcastle&rsquo;s Quayside.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://investnortheastengland.co.uk/case-studies/quantumdx/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elaine Warburton, QuantuMDx&rsquo;s CEO</a></strong>&nbsp;said, &ldquo;locating our HQ in Newcastle was a conscious decision. Aside from being a great city with such friendly people and a real buzz, being situated at a leading genetics institution and within the Centre for Life places us at the heart of global DNA-based research. The availability of high-calibre scientific researchers at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities, and the scope for excellent networking opportunities to develop our business internationally, was also a further deciding factor.&rdquo;&nbsp;<br><br></p>
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Looking for the best place for science opportunities in the UK? Keep reading to find out whether the North can compare with the South's Golden Triangle

Can the North Compete with the Golden Triangle for Science Opportunities?

<p>SRG&rsquo;s 2022 Global Science Employment Report, produced in association with&nbsp;<em><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Jobs</a></em>, provides key insights into the scientific and STEM workforce delving into sectors across science, clinical and engineering disciplines.</p>
<h3>What&rsquo;s included?</h3>
<p>In this latest annual edition, we surveyed a record 4,300 respondents across the UK, EU, and US, asking questions related to salary, ED&amp;I, skills gap, benefits, company attraction, as well as changes to our ways of working, highlighting key similarities and changes from last year&rsquo;s findings.</p>
<p>Our results reveal the latest on:</p>
<ul>
<li>The gender pay gap and ethnicity</li>
<li>Discrimination and harassment&nbsp;</li>
<li>Changes to what attracts employees to a company</li>
<li>How the pandemic and economy have impacted&nbsp;our industry</li>
<li>Skill shortages</li>
</ul>
<h3>Helping both business leaders and employees</h3>
<p>Our global report outlines trends to help your business future-proof talent pipelines, attract and retain the right people, and address workforce challenges such as diversity and inclusion.</p>
<p>As an employee, this report will help you to understand what&rsquo;s changing in your industry, and where future opportunities can be found.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions">Need help hiring?</a></h3>
<p>Once you&rsquo;ve read the report, you may be ready to start activating change and strengthening your talent attraction strategy. We offer expert advice to help you find and retain the right people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Contact us today for an informal discussion today at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:solutions@srgtalent.com?subject=Recruitment%20solutions%20enquiry">solutions@srgtalent.com</a>&nbsp;</p>

2022 Global Science Employment Report

<p>Our 2022 Global Science Salary Guide is the first in a three-part series that explores key themes from our annual Global Science Employment Report, showcasing the latest information on STEM salary trends across the UK, US and Europe.</p>
<h3><strong>Data from over 4,300 participants highlight key salary themes</strong></h3>
<p>Packed with the latest trends and insights, SRG&rsquo;s salary guide will enable you to make informed decisions across scientific and clinical recruitment, whilst understanding some of the key challenges that need to be address.</p>
<p>Expect to discover:</p>
<ul>
<li>STEM sector salary trends</li>
<li>Global salary comparisons and insights</li>
<li>Growing challenges related to the gender pay gap</li>
<li>How ethnicity affects salary</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Explore your scientific sector</strong></h3>
<p>Find out how salary varies across the key sectors of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chemicals</li>
<li>Pharmaceuticals</li>
<li>Biotechnology</li>
<li>Medical Technology</li>
<li>Engineering</li>
<li>Clinical/Laboratory&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
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<h3><a href="https://www.srgtalent.com/business-solutions">Need help hiring?</a></h3>
<p>Once you&rsquo;ve read the report, you may be ready to start activating change and strengthening your talent attraction strategy. We offer expert advice to help you find and retain the right people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Contact us today for an informal discussion today at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:solutions@srgtalent.com?subject=Recruitment%20solutions%20enquiry">solutions@srgtalent.com</a>&nbsp;</p>

2022 Global Science Salary Guide

<p>Diversity in the workplace is one of the key drivers of innovative thinking, creativity and problem-solving and an attractive prospect to top talent. To maintain a competitive environment businesses must hire and retain top talent therefore including a D&amp;I agenda within their talent attraction programme is vital. This SRG guide will show you how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Benchmark and collect data</li>
<li>Bring D&amp;I into your internal &amp; external comms</li>
<li>Ensure diversity is at the heart of your recruitment process</li>
<li>Create a culture of inclusivity in the workplace</li>
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An SRG Guide to Diversity and Inclusivity

<p><span class="A6">With the pandemic upending supply chains and disrupting working patterns, the impact on workforces has been seismic. For businesses across the STEM ecosystem, resilience and agility have become strategic priorities.</span></p>
<p><span class="A6">In the 2021 edition of our annual STEM Survey report, produced in association with New Scientist Jobs, we&nbsp;</span>cover the latest data on:</p>
<ul>
<li>STEM salaries</li>
<li>Employee satisfaction</li>
<li>The impact of COVID-19</li>
<li>Discrimination and harassment</li>
<li>The skills gap</li>
</ul>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdd91f69-7fff-eeb1-abd3-9fdc6eb63a8f">By analysing how the industry has navigated the pandemic and evolved since 2019, the report also outlines the trends that are vital for futureproofing your talent pipeline, driving cost savings, and attracting and retaining the best people in the post-COVID climate.</span></p>
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2021 - STEM Workforce COVID Impact Assessment

<p>In the post-COVID landscape, the talent market looks set to become more challenging than it once was.</p>
<p>As working patterns and skill sets change, having wholesale visibility of your contingent/temporary workforce and the wider talent pool is vital if you&rsquo;re to get the right people, in the right roles, at the right times.</p>
<p>In this introductory guide, we&rsquo;ll talk you through MSP recruitment &mdash; what it is, how it can benefit your business and how to choose the right provider. We'll also help you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Understand the core tenets of a managed service solution</li>
<li>Discover how it can help you attract and retain the best contingent talent</li>
<li>Learn how to get the most out of an MSP recruitment partner</li>
</ul>
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Your Guide to MSP

<p>At SRG, we understand the challenges that come with hiring scientific and engineering talent &ndash; whether you&rsquo;re starting and scaling up a business or an established leader in your field. That's why we offer tailored services to best serve our clients' needs.</p>
<p>With over 30 years of experience our team of consultants can provide guidance and support on all aspects of the recruitment process.&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>Our Services - Scotland</strong></h2>
<p>As the UK&rsquo;s largest Life Science recruiter, we recognise Scotland is the home of world class innovation as well as housing many STEM start-ups and SMEs.</p>
<p>As a recruitment consultancy, we are proud to offer our clients staffing and recruiting solutions that are tailored to their needs, no matter the size of their business. Our consultants have a diverse range of technical and scientific backgrounds, enabling them to provide bespoke solutions that help create the desired impact.&nbsp;<br><br>We offer support from the bench to the boardroom, providing a comprehensive service that covers all of the areas required to ensure successful recruitment. Our expertise enables us to source the most suitable candidates and provide the right advice to ensure that our clients can access the best talent.&nbsp;<br><br>Our consultants are passionate about helping our clients to reach their recruitment goals. Our team works hard to provide personalised solutions that are tailored to each client, making the process as simple and efficient as possible. We are committed to providing the highest levels of service with the ultimate aim of ensuring that our clients can access the best talent.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>If you would like to find out more about how our consultants can help your business, download our guide.</p>
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<p>Onboarding is a critical step in the employee lifecycle and research shows that the quality of onboarding has a major impact on the overall job satisfaction and retention of employees. According to survey research, organisations considered in the top 20% in terms of onboarding had 91% first-year retention and 62% of new hires reaching their first-year goals compared with the bottom 30% of organisations which reported 30% and 17% goal completion for the same timeframe.</p>
<p>In a world where we are increasingly having to utilise the virtual options available to us, how can businesses integrate a successful onboarding programme into the virtual world?</p>
<p><strong>Office-based&nbsp; - remote onboarding</strong></p>
<p>In an office environment, the challenges are infinitely less daunting than for laboratory or manufacturing environments. As with all effective onboarding programmes the focus should be on making new hires feel welcome and excited about the business in the right time frame and containing the right information to get them up and running as fast as possible. Making the switch to a virtual platform will require tweaking of usual practices and maybe even timeframes, and a good first step is to really think about what is covered in your existing set up and what purpose it serves. Once you know that the steps and processes are necessary, here are some ideas about how to translate them into the virtual world.</p>
<p><strong>Length of onboarding programme</strong></p>
<p>Spread your onboarding programme over a few days/weeks. This ensures that flexibility can be built into peoples&rsquo; day. It can also be overwhelming to assimilate all the information quickly in a fully remote setting.</p>
<p><strong>Meeting the team</strong></p>
<p>Typical onsite onboarding is peppered with face to face meetings and casual greetings from team members. Think about starting your onboarding process with a live session that covers company culture, values, products and services and ending it with a live session like a Q &amp; A on anything they want to ask about the company, who&rsquo;s who, where to find what etc. Pepper the week with either pre-recorded videos making them feel welcome or quick catch up video call sessions. &nbsp;Consider introducing a buddy system, whereby new starters have a go-to person to ask anything and this ensures they have that immediate friendly face when joining, even if over video or phone. Why lead with company culture? A LinkedIn survey of over 3000 professionals found that 70% of them would leave a company if it had a bad culture and 71% said they would take a pay cut for a company that shares their values and has a mission they believe in. It pays to place an emphasis on your company culture and why it is important to the business.</p>
<p><strong>Get practical</strong></p>
<p>A couple of the most challenging areas for people to get used to when starting a new role, are the systems and filing of a new company. Setting scavenger hunt type activities are an interactive way to get people used to navigating systems and finding the documents they need to get their role done.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Communicate</strong>&nbsp;<strong>and then communicate some more!</strong></p>
<p>People feel vulnerable in new situations and anxiety levels can be high. Questions around whether they will make personal connections with the team, &nbsp;whether their knowledge will add</p>
<p>value and how quickly they can impress may arise in the individual. To overcome these fears, communication should cover not only the practical but also the social elements of starting a new job. Think about running an online quiz with after-work drinks for example to ensure the social elements are also covered.</p>
<p><strong>Tech</strong></p>
<p>The technical side of virtual onboarding can often be the most challenging. Usually, laptops and any other kit pertaining to the role is handed over on the first day and any configuration can then be set up to ensure a smooth transition into the role. When people are based remotely the tech needs to be sent directly to the team member and this requires extensive and slick comms with the IT team so that software can be configured correctly and in a timely manner for that individual. To ensure the smooth running of this, it could be an idea to set up an online meeting with tech support that lasts the entirety of the download, set up and configuration as often the download stage can lead to further problems and without the onhand support this can cause frustration and delay.</p>
<p><strong>Make it engaging</strong></p>
<p>Interactive elements help to make virtual onboarding more effective. Technology such as Zoom allows you to create break out rooms/groups. This then enables you to create discussion environments around the main speaker session.</p>
<p><strong>Other environments</strong></p>
<p>During times where physical contact needs to be limited (during a global pandemic for example!) onboarding can be a more challenging experience for roles that require a person to be onsite. How do you effectively recruit and onboard where the usual processes are not possible? For some elements of the role: documentation that needs submitting, health and safety policies, company culture, intro to other parts of the business, systems and tech as well as training, the above advice would also apply.</p>
<p>With the use of video technology, the recruitment process has been fully assimilated into the virtual world. Hinterview, Skype and Zoom are some technologies SRG has been using to help clients continue to hire.</p>
<p>If you need any advice on virtual onboarding&nbsp; please get in touch:&nbsp;<strong><a href="mailto:info@srgtalent.com">info@srgtalent.com</a></strong></p>
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A Guide to Virtual Onboarding for the Life Science Industry

<h3><em>In our final piece for the&nbsp;<a href="https://srgtalent-cm-scprod.impellam.com/insights/think-bigger-go-further">Think Bigger, Go Further</a>&nbsp;series, we pull together all the previous blog posts into one guidance piece to help you pull together a career strategy.<br><br></em></h3>
<h2><strong>The benefits of having a career strategy</strong></h2>
<p>A career strategy ties your personal goals and professional goes together and acts as a guide to steer you towards the career that will give you the most fulfilment.</p>
<p>It gives you clarity on the detailed aspects of a career such as, job title, salary and even expectations of what pension and benefit packages you&rsquo;d like. You can then work out the best work/life balance and ensure you are working within a culture that best suits you. Also, a solid plan pushes you to reach your full potential, it keeps you motivated and focused, as well as helping with decision making so you become less likely to stall or get stuck in a rut.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>So, where to begin?</strong></h2>
<p>Society often dictates what we feel we&rsquo;re expected to do, including how we define success. It can feel like our personal values don&rsquo;t match with these expectations, however, take a step back and consider the big picture again. To mould a career plan that will work for you mix your personal values with career ambitions.</p>
<p>Start with asking yourself three simple questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>What experiences do you want to get out of life?</li>
<li>How do you want to grow and develop?</li>
<li>What do you want to contribute to the world and the people around you?</li>
</ul>
<p>This gives you three categories to reflect on when it comes to setting your goals.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>What are career goals?</strong></h2>
<p>Their main purpose is to guide you through your career so you end up where you want to be, somewhere that challenges you and makes you feel accomplished, as much as it makes you happy and aligns with your own values. Setting them also helps ensure you don&rsquo;t settle when you are bored, thus stops you stalling or remaining somewhere you feel overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Setting career goals can feel overwhelming, but don&rsquo;t worry about finding one solution to get you all the way to the end. You will create both short and long-term goals for the career journey.</p>
<p>The journey may require new skills, relationship building, finding work/life balance, increasing your productivity, forming great personal habits, acquiring new qualifications etc. having goals makes sure these things are factored in. Our previous blogs on&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://srgtalent-cm-scprod.impellam.com/insights/think-bigger-go-further/daily-habits-to-think-bigger-and-go-further">habits for success</a></strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://srgtalent-cm-scprod.impellam.com/insights/think-bigger-go-further/innovators-that-thought-big-in-stem">innovators in STEM</a></strong>&nbsp;explore this in more detail.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>How to set your career goals</strong></h2>
<p>As we mentioned before, it is good to set both short and long-term goals, one way to do this is with&nbsp;<strong>m</strong><strong><a href="https://srgtalent-cm-scprod.impellam.com/insights/think-bigger-go-further/goal-setting">eans vs end goals</a></strong>. An "end goal" is the final point and the thing which carries the most meaning, whereas "mean goals" are the stepping stones to getting there -- and, as it turns out, are just as fulfilling to achieve.</p>
<p>You can use the&nbsp;<strong>SMART method</strong>&nbsp;(<strong>S</strong>pecific,&nbsp;<strong>M</strong>easurable,&nbsp;<strong>A</strong>chievable,&nbsp;<strong>R</strong>elevant,&nbsp;<strong>T</strong>ime-bound) to plan these so-called means goals:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Specific.<br></strong><br>Make sure your strategy answers the "five Ws":<br><br>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>What</strong></em><strong>&nbsp;</strong>do I want to accomplish?</li>
<li><em><strong>Why</strong></em>&nbsp;is this goal important?</li>
<li><em><strong>Who</strong></em><strong>&nbsp;</strong>is involved?</li>
<li><em><strong>Where</strong></em>&nbsp;is it located?</li>
<li><em><strong>Which</strong></em>&nbsp;resources are involved?<br><br></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Measurable.</strong>
<p>This gives you the opportunity to track your progress -- keeping you focused whilst holding you accountable.<br><br></p>
</li>
<li><strong>Achievable.</strong>
<p>There is no point in having an impossible goal, so make it attainable and realistic. This will push you to grow while reassuring you that they&rsquo;re achievable.<br><br></p>
</li>
<li><strong>Relevant.</strong>
<p>Ensures your goal is worthwhile and fits into the big picture, moving you towards the end goal.<br><br></p>
</li>
<li><strong>Time-bound.<br></strong>Set a deadline so you don&rsquo;t let anything drag on, which will stall your strategy.</li>
</ol>
<p>Remember that the end goal provides the overall &lsquo;framework&rsquo; of the big picture which the means goals lead you to.<br><br><br></p>
<h2><strong>Time to set your goals&hellip;</strong></h2>
<p>Now we understand what a career strategy is, why it benefits us and have methods to set goals, it&rsquo;s time to make that all-important step and begin to form your own career goals. Follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Get your wants, needs and don&rsquo;t-wants together. Some of these will cover:<br><br></strong>
<ul>
<li>What field do you want to be in?</li>
<li>Is there an organisation you have in mind?</li>
<li>Do you want to work full time or part-time?</li>
<li>How important is flexitime to you?</li>
<li>If you want a pay rise, define it - how much do you want to increase per year or promotion?</li>
<li>Do you want a role that&rsquo;s wholly independent or to be part of a team?</li>
<li>What skills would you like to gain on your journey?</li>
<li>Do you feel passionate about what you do?<br><br></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Write it down<br><br></strong>
<p>It may sound obvious but writing your goals down makes a big difference. Dr Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at the Dominican University in California, studied the effects of writing goals down and how this influences the result. They found that you become 42% more likely to achieve your goals, simply by writing them down.</p>
<p>Furthermore, doing this embeds the goals into your subconscious meaning you set a personal expectation and desire to be successful in achieving your goals.</p>
<p>Note your end goal and then add the steps (mean goals) that will get you there. This makes the process much more approachable, and less intimidating.<br><br></p>
</li>
<li><strong>Take action!</strong>
<p>Sit back and take in what you have written&hellip; you are ready to begin your journey by acting on your strategy. Start with the first mean goal and go from there. As you complete goal after goal tick them off, it will keep you motivated and help maintain momentum.<br><br></p>
</li>
<li><strong>Something to keep in mind: anticipate that change will happen, you will need to adapt, grow and even sacrifice at some point.<br></strong><br>As you progress on your career path you will need to give more, your responsibilities will increase at work, as well as in your personal life (most likely). Therefore, you should learn to prioritise, this will help balance workload and maintain a healthy personal life balance.<br><br>Moreover, it is inevitable that surprises and things out of your control will come up, so make sure your strategy has some flexibility where possible. You can help set expectations regarding what you may come across by researching the demands this career path will require, it can also be good to reach out to those in the career already to get some insight.</li>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><strong>More from SRG</strong></h2>
<p>Take the next step on your STEM career strategy and apply for our current&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2NmwRyC">job opportunities</a>. Our&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2wbEK4e">career advice page</a>&nbsp;has useful tips and resources to help prepare you.</p>
<p>For more insights into the ever-changing world of the life sciences sector, stay tuned to the&nbsp;<a href="https://srgtalent-cm-scprod.impellam.com/blog">SRG blog</a>.</p>

A career strategy ties your personal goals and professional goes together and acts as a guide to steer you towards the career that will give you the most fulfilment.

Developing a Long-term STEM Career Strategy

<p>Find out how trends across equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace are impacting the global STEM workforce in the final edition of our three-part series, exploring key topics from our annual&nbsp;<a href="../../../../insights/guides-and-reports/2022-global-science-employment-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>2022 Global Science Employment Report</strong></a><strong>.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p>As we forge forward from the pandemic, empowering and enabling more diverse groups to succeed in the workplace remains paramount, and is currently on the agenda of<strong><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/chief-executive-officer/articles/ceo-survey.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&nbsp;41% CEOs and executives.&nbsp;</a></strong></p>
<p>We know that inclusive workplaces not only improve engagement and culture but are&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/delivering-through-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">correlated with profitability and value creation, particularly when senior decision makers are diverse</a></strong>. Additionally, successful ED&amp;I initiatives help prevent serious legal issues from arising including discrimination, harassment and bullying.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Our guide equips both candidates, and leaders alike, with the insights required to strengthen equality, diversity and inclusion across STEM workplaces.</p>
<h3><strong>Global data reveals the experiences of 4,300 respondents working across STEM</strong></h3>
<p>Featuring the highest number of respondents yet, this year&rsquo;s global guide comprehensively analyses the concerns and progress made across equality, diversity, and inclusion in STEM.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Get insights into ED&amp;I trends across:</p>
<ul>
<li>UK</li>
<li>Europe</li>
<li>US</li>
</ul>
<h3>Helping you improve ED&amp;I in the workplace</h3>
<p>SRG&rsquo;s 2022 Guide to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace explores the latest trends and insights surrounding discrimination, harassment, and bias in STEM.</p>
<p>Download to find out:</p>
<ul>
<li>How perspectives on diversity in STEM vary across groups</li>
<li>The latest statistics on discrimination and harassment</li>
<li>Key concerns and industry progress</li>
</ul>
<p>Complete the form below for your free copy.</p>
<h3>Need help hiring?</h3>
<p>After reading the guide, you may be ready to explore routes to strengthen and diversify your talent strategy. Our expert consultants are on hand to help you find and recruit the best talent.&nbsp;<br>Contact us today for a confidential, obligation-free discussion at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:solutions@srgtalent.com">solutions@srgtalent.com</a></p>
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2022 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Guide

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<p>Changing skills requirements have widened the UK skills gap and generated a competitive talent market, where organisations are paying increasingly higher wages to attract a limited pool of qualified candidates.</p>
<p>To succeed in a rapidly changing and evolving world of work, STEM leaders must not only adapt and reconsider the skills needed to succeed, but the way they source those skills and maintain workforce agility across times of uncertainty.</p>
<p>Early talent strategies pave the way to affordable and sustainable talent pipelines which enable scientific businesses to activate their business strategies and futureproof organisational success.</p>
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<h2>Bridge the Skills Gap with Early Talent</h2>
<p>In this whitepaper, we provide actionable guidance, insights, and expertise to support STEM businesses in bridging the skills gap through Early Talent.</p>
<p>Alongside providing strategic advice for Early Talent programmes, we delve behind the priorities, motivations and needs of early talent groups entering the talent market today.</p>
<p><strong>Download to find out:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What is an Early Talent strategy</li>
<li>How Early Talent supports STEM workforce challenges</li>
<li>Priorities and motivators for Early Talent</li>
<li>How to power candidate pipelines with Early Talent</li>
<li>Common hurdles in building a successful Early Talent strategy</li>
<li>How SRG can help advise on your strategy</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Our Values</h1><p>We exist to enable exciting futures across STEM, where our people and partners thrive to achieve amazing things together.</p><h5><strong>Our vision</strong></h5><p>To be known globally as the one and only STEM network for talent and partners &ndash; one that empowers, nurtures, and supports talent through their entire career.</p><h5><strong>Our promise</strong></h5><p>To find and cultivate the right talent to power the future of STEM. Focusing on relationships over transactions, we create meaningful connections that empower individuals and businesses to do more.</p>

<h3>Join Our Team</h3><p>People. Lead. Growth. Three simple words. That&rsquo;s the secret to our people-centric approach.</p>

<h2>Our Unparalleled Expertise</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When you partner with SRG, you&rsquo;re not just getting recruiters; we&rsquo;re industry insiders who are well-versed in the needs and challenges of your field.</p><p>We have over 30 years experience of serving STEM industries. We understand what job seekers and employers are looking to achieve, and what they need to get there. Our industry experts draw on their technical and scientific backgrounds alongside the latest technology to create impactful staffing and recruitment solutions for any STEM job.</p>

<h2>Why Choose SRG?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At SRG, we pride ourselves in our ability to flex, adapt and work in close collaboration with our clients to create tailor-made talent solutions aligning with business objectives. Whether you&rsquo;re looking for temporary, contract or permanent staff, we have the expertise to handle projects of all sizes and requirements.</p><p>As specialists within STEM; we understand the intricacies of building a strong and stable STEM workforce. Entrusting SRG as your dedicated recruitment provider, you will have complete assurance that you are in capable hands. We are committed to helping you not only enhance your operational efficiency but reduce your costs too.</p>

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<h2>Is SRG Ad-hoc Staffing Solutions right for my business?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you're seeking flexibility in managing workforce needs without the commitment of long-term hires, SRG Ad-hoc Staffing Solutions may be the perfect fit. Ideal for businesses needing specialised skills for short-term projects or to handle peak demands, ad-hoc staffing offers access to skilled professionals.</p><p>SRG provides tailored staffing solutions designed to fit your unique requirements. You'll find a partner in us who understands that one size doesn't fit all in staffing.&nbsp;</p><p>Complete the form to find out more.</p>

<h1>Business Recruitment Solutions</h1><h3><strong>Partner with the leading STEM recruitment agency</strong></h3><p>Your standards and expectations are high. So are ours. We know what matters, so that&rsquo;s what we focus on. You can rely on us to build relationships, tailor solutions and champion talent, whilst adapting, flexing, and collaborating with you to create the talent solutions required.</p>

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<h3><strong>What To Expect When Working With SRG:</strong></h3><ul><li>Clear communication across the process – both with you as a partner and with every candidate.</li><li>Access to the best talent in the Commercial STEM industry.</li><li>A powerful candidate attraction strategy, tailored to your organisation.</li><li>Support with screening and shortlisting.</li><li>Guidance with interviewing, offers and negotiation.</li><li>Full transparency through regular meetings and reports.</li></ul><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h3><strong>Recruitment services offered for commercial STEM companies:</strong></h3><ul><li>Contingency</li><li>Statement of Work (SOW)</li><li>Temporary / Contract / Interim</li><li>Retained</li><li>Tailored Solutions</li></ul><p>As market leaders, we have the resources and expertise to support all organisations – from start-ups to world-leading organisations, in navigating the evolving talent market.</p><p><strong>Partner with SRG today and experience the difference our expertise can make in your recruitment strategy.</strong></p>

<h3>Expect Expert Guidance From Our Commercial Team</h3><p>We are committed to creating rewarding relationships with our partners and provide dedicated consultants who work collaboratively to ensure project delivery success.</p><p>Once we&rsquo;ve determined your hiring requirements, we&rsquo;ll help you shape a tailored recruitment strategy to discover skilled candidates and provide expert guidance to ensure the right hire is always made.</p><p>At SRG, we work with our clients to provide hiring solutions to suit every hiring requirement, from the most niche executive search to larger hiring solutions for contract and permanent roles.</p>

<h4>We provide value to companies working across the STEM industry supporting an expansive range of roles across:</h4><div><strong>Commercial:</strong></div><ul><li>Business Development</li><li>Sales</li><li>Account Management</li><li>Procurement &amp; Purchasing</li><li>Commercial Operations</li><li>Commercial Finance</li><li>Strategy</li><li>Data Analytics</li><li>Marketing</li></ul><div><div><strong>Management:</strong></div></div><ul><li>Product Management</li><li>Digital Transformation</li><li>Senior Sales Operations</li><li>Senior Sales</li><li>Market Access</li><li>C-Suite</li></ul><p>As an international organisation, our Commercial Recruitment Teams span the UK, US, Ireland and the greater EMEA region.</p>

<h2>Your specialist STEM Recruitment Partner</h2><p>In addition to our leading STEM recruitment services, SRG offers comprehensive commercial recruitment solutions. By broadening our service portfolio, we empower clients to access a diverse talent pool while enjoying a seamless, client-focused recruitment process.</p><p>At SRG, we aspire to be your preferred collaborative partner across all functions, delivering tailored solutions to meet the evolving needs of the STEM industry. Our dedicated consultants leverage our leading talent network to drive organisational growth through successful hires.</p>

<p>Discover top-tier STEM and commercial recruitment solutions with SRG, a trusted leader in talent acquisition. With a focus on excellence, we specialise in connecting businesses with the <span data-preserver-spaces="true">industry's&nbsp;</span>best candidates through our extensive and ever-expanding talent network.</p>

<h2>Do you work for SRG?</h2><p>If you are working for SRG and have a question about your assignment, payment or timesheet, then please contact the Ask team at ask@impellam.com or phone 03333 23 24 50.</p><h2>General Enquiries</h2><p>For general enquiries, please contact 0161 526 1901</p>

<h1>Contact Us</h1><p>Whether you are looking for your next job opportunity, or seeking talent to join your team, we will help find the right solutions for you.</p>

<h2>Get in Touch!</h2><p>Do you need to speak to an SRG Contractor Care team member? We will answer your questions quickly, from information on payments to how to submit your timesheets. We&rsquo;ll do our best to give you up-to-date, informed, and helpful answers about working through SRG as a contractor.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Alternatively, please email:</h5>

<p>For all other enquiries, please complete our form or reach out to us on <a href="tel:02039109446">02039109446</a>.</p>

<h2>Contractor Portal</h2><p>The Contractor Portal is your single repository for logging timesheets and raising invoices.</p>

<h2>Ask Contractor Care</h2><p>At SRG, we put people first. Building trust through genuine, honest relationships is one of our core values and underpins everything we do. Our Contractor Care team is all about resolving problems quickly, helpfully, and at the source.</p><p>If you&rsquo;re a current contractor with SRG and have a question, concern, or request, get in touch using the form below, and our Contractor Care team will respond within 24 hours. The team will provide expert guidance and support on almost any recruitment-related subject.</p>

<h1>Contractors</h1><p>As an established staffing partner to our amazing client companies, your success is our top priority. We&rsquo;re here to support our Contractors every step of the way in your career with SRG.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you are a new starter or a career contractor, SRG is your trusted Recruitment Contractor advisor. We provide you with personal, responsive attention and will assign an employee care representative to answer any questions you might have.</p>

<h1>CSR &amp; Partnerships</h1><p>SRG's purpose is to unlock untapped potential in people, jobs and data to enhance the now and shape the future. We’re committed to creating a better future for everyone, and helping people to realise their potential.</p><p>We believe in supporting the STEM industry to tackle the skills shortage, creating equal opportunities and access to resources. SRG is a specialist scientific recruitment business, and as part of the Impellam Group, we work closely with our sister brands, Lorien (technology and digital recruitment) and Carbon60 (engineering recruitment), to facilitate the whole STEM sector.</p>

<h3>Our Approach to Executive Search Recruitment</h3><p>Search by SRG is flexible, transparent and agile, offering a range of specialist, tailored solutions including:</p><p>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Technical and Executive Search<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Market insights and reporting<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Salary insights and benchmarking<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;High-end interim and consultants<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Project recruitment campaigns<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)</p><p>We get to know your organisation&rsquo;s culture, values, and aspirations, then assign dedicated experts to develop a tailored strategy. Our data-driven recruitment process offers real-time insights and transparency, ensuring you find the right fit for your company.</p>

<h2>Achieve Results with our Executive and Technical Search Solutions</h2><p>Driven by data intelligence, our expertise in STEM recruitment and resourcing makes Search by SRG a market-leading service designed to find, hire and retain top talent for STEM businesses.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>What is Executive Search?</h2><p>Executive Search is a specialised recruitment service that identifies and secures top-level talent for senior executive and technical positions. Our dedicated team offers innovative solutions to match unique skills with the needs of organisations, focusing on project-based hiring and securing senior technical appointments across various industries, including pharmaceuticals, life sciences, medical, AI, engineering and medtech.</p>

<h2>Why Search by SRG?</h2><p>Working with Search by SRG means driving your project forward with the passion and knowledge of dedicated experts from the STEM industries and executive search recruitment. The benefits of our executive solutions include:</p><ul class="mb-5"><li>A dedicated research team with every project</li><li>Access to real-time market intelligence and data-driven solutions</li><li>Insights from technical and personality assessment tools</li><li>Dedicated project management support and weekly review meetings</li><li>Variable attraction campaigns tailored to your needs</li><li>The knowledge, passion and drive of our experts</li></ul><h2>Partner with Search by SRG Today</h2><p>Experience the difference our expertise as a leading executive placement agency can make. Get in touch to discuss your executive and technical search needs and discover how we can help your business thrive.</p>

<h2>Latest News, Events, and Insights</h2><p>Our Life Sciences expertise and partnership-led approach allows us to deliver highly successful results for our clients so they can attract and retain unique talent for their business. Explore our latest collection of case studies, news, events, and insights from SRG.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Search by SRG is a leading executive recruitment service connecting you with the best middle and senior technical heads and managers in STEM fields. Our data-driven executive and technical search solutions deliver tailored recruitment strategies for your organisation's success.</p>

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<h2>Need help starting your STEM career?</h2><p>Utilising decades of experience and a deep understanding of the STEM careers and the job market, SRG connects talented graduates with top employers across the STEM industires, whilst supprting you with advice on CV content, interview preparation, how to stand out from the crowd and much more.</p><p>Our extensive network includes renowned companies, innovative start-ups, and exciting SMEs, offering roles that match your skills and aspirations.</p><h3>How we can help you</h3><p>CV Registration: Submit your CV and get noticed by potential employers who are looking for fresh talent.</p><p>Latest Job Listings: Stay updated with regularly updated job openings for STEM graduates, including roles that align with your qualifications, interests and career goals.</p><p>Career Guidance: Enhance your employability with SRG&rsquo;s expert advice on CV writing, interview preparation, and career development and stand out in a competitive market.</p>

<h1>Graduates</h1><p>Our specialist recruitment team, working with hundreds of companies across the UK who are looking to hire graduates, are dedicated to helping you navigate this journey with confidence and ease.</p>

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<p>Together, we create world-class communities that empower individuals and businesses to shape tomorrow&rsquo;s world.</p>

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<p>As a global STEM network, we apply our specialist industry knowledge to the full spectrum of roles and talent solutions. We recruit across the product life cycle, from scientific research and technology, clinical trials, manufacturing, and engineering disciplines to market access. We have over 30 years of experience in taking projects from discovery to completion and developing bespoke solutions to help unlock new ways of working and thinking.</p>

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<h5>The Global STEM Salary Survey 2024: Helping to shape STEM’s future</h5><p> SRG’s annual Global Life Science, Clinical and Engineering Insights Survey is created – in association with New Scientist Jobs – to gain and provide such knowledge and insights, help us benchmark vital data and discover the information STEM companies need to deliver fair, competitive and – most importantly – attractive salaries and employment prospects.</p><p> Click the link below to take part – as a thank you, all respondents who complete the survey will be entered to win a £250 Amazon voucher.</p>

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<h5>The Global STEM Salary Survey 2024: Helping to shape STEM's future</h5><p><br></p><p>SRG’s annual Global Life Science, Clinical and Engineering Insights Survey is created – in association with New Scientist Jobs – to gain and provide such knowledge and insights, help us benchmark vital data and discover the information STEM companies need to deliver fair, competitive and – most importantly – attractive salaries and employment prospects.</p><p><br></p><p>Click the link below to take part – as a thank you, all respondents who complete the survey will be entered to win a £250 Amazon voucher.</p>

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<h1>Shaping the Future of STEM</h1><p>As technological advancements accelerate, new fields emerge, and competition intensifies, the demand for professionals within STEM industries continues to outpace the available talent pool.</p><p>Utilising our outstanding client portfolio our dedicated team of consultant will provide you with amazing opportunities that will enable you to flourish in your career</p>

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<div><p>Whether it&rsquo;s the tightening of budgets, pressure to work with existing or even dwindling resources, or the influence of emerging technologies, Lab Leaders are facing a variety of significant challenges and changes in the day-to-day operation of their laboratories.</p><p>To better understand these challenges and what can be done to address them, <strong>Synergy by SRG surveyed over 1,000 laboratory leaders </strong>for their insights into current concerns and future expectations. This data-driven research provides a comprehensive overview of the current landscape, with strategies to help lab leaders drive innovation and efficiency to thrive in 2025. &nbsp;</p><p><strong>Download the Lab Leader Vision report now for valuable insights, as well as advice and guidance from experts, on:&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>Talent attraction and retention &nbsp;</li><li>Skills and expertise gaps&nbsp;</li><li>Efficiency and operational challenges&nbsp;</li><li>Technology, automation and digitisation</li></ul></div>

<div><p>Whether it&rsquo;s the tightening of budgets, pressure to work with existing or even dwindling resources, or the influence of emerging technologies, Lab Leaders are facing a variety of significant challenges and changes in the day-to-day operation of their laboratories.</p><p>To better understand these challenges and what can be done to address them, <strong>Synergy by SRG</strong> <strong>surveyed over 1,000 laboratory leaders</strong> for their insights into current concerns and future expectations. This data-driven research provides a comprehensive overview of the current landscape, with strategies to help lab leaders drive innovation and efficiency to thrive in 2025. &nbsp;</p><p><strong>Download the Lab Leaders Vision report now for valuable insights, as well as advice and guidance from experts, on:&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>Talent attraction and retention &nbsp;</li><li>Skills and expertise gaps&nbsp;</li><li>Efficiency and operational challenges&nbsp;</li><li>Technology, automation and digitisation&nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Want to know more about<a class="customLink" href="https://www.srgtalent.com/synergy-scientific-solutions"> Synergy Scientific Solutions</a>?&nbsp;</h2><p>If you, like many lab leaders we asked as part of this survey, are concerned about the efficiency, expertise and output of your laboratory, Synergy are ready to provide the expertise and strategies required to tackle these challenges. &nbsp;</p><p>Contact us today for a confidential, obligation-free discussion at: synergyqueries@srgtalent.com&nbsp;</p></div>

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<p>Our highly skilled teams fully integrate into your working environment, adhering to your standard operating procedures. This allows you to maintain visibility and control, whilst retaining the freedom to check in with our team as much or as little as you&rsquo;d like. Most of our staff are on permanent contracts and we strive to upskill and cross-train our teams to ensure our customers always benefit from workforce stability and high engagement, as we strive to reduce the challenges of resourcing demands.&nbsp;</p>

<h1>Meet the Team</h1><p>Meet our team of empowering, determined and innovative individuals working across the globe for SRG.</p><p>Based in the United Kingdom, with offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, London, Luton, and Manchester, and in Ireland, Europe, and the United States, you’ll find our friendly faces in regions far and wide.</p><p>And no matter which location you’re in, each SRG environment is the same – one that’s designed to help our people thrive, working and developing alongside like-minded, creative, and driven colleagues.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Get in Touch</h2><p>Whether you are looking for your next job opportunity, or seeking talent to join your team, we will help find the right solutions for you.</p>

<h2>Work with us</h2><p>If you're looking for an environment to grow and develop in your career while delivering excellence to your clients and candidates, SRG is the place for you.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>What are the core pillars of a managed service programme or contingent workforce solution?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By using a vendor management system, a robust managed service programme provides complete oversight into the status of each contingent worker at your company &mdash; optimising contingent workforce management and driving performance through people, processes, and technology.</p><details><summary>The core components of a managed service programme include:</summary><ul><li>Management of the non-permanent workforce (timesheets, payroll, etc.)</li><li>Qualified pools of talented candidates</li><li>An efficient recruitment process</li><li>Supplier management</li><li>Contract management</li><li>Candidate selection</li><li>Data-driven analysis</li><li>Invoice management</li><li>Frequent progress reports</li><li>Business reviews</li><li>Payrolling</li><li>HR management</li><li>Metrics dashboard</li></ul></details>

<h2>What is a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A managed service provider (MSP) or contingent workforce solution (CWS), manages the temporary worker recruitment for an organisation and is responsible for the end-to-end management of the contingent workforce - from supplier management and strategic workforce planning to contractor care and offboarding.</p><p>In the recruitment industry, the term &lsquo;MSP&rsquo; can refer to either a managed service programme OR a managed service provider. The difference between the two is that a managed service programme is a contingent workforce solution (CWS), while a managed service provider is a specialist who delivers this solution.</p><p>In other words, &lsquo;managed service programme&rsquo; and &lsquo;contingent workforce solution&rsquo; can be used interchangeably to describe the service offered by a managed service provider like SRG. To avoid further confusion, we&rsquo;ll stick to full terms from here on out.</p>

<h2>What are the benefits of a managed service provider or contingent workforce solution?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In an increasingly competitive contingent talent market, turning to a managed service programme brings several key benefits to a business.</p><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Control</strong></summary><p>Hiring managers can easily acquire strong talent thanks to streamlined, standardised processes across all suppliers &mdash; driving down time-to-hire.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Visibility</strong></summary><p>You&rsquo;ll gain oversight of the entire contingent workforce via a tailored VMS that provides regular reporting and a clear audit trail.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Compliance and risk mitigation.</strong></summary><p>&nbsp;With external experts managing all legislative and governance requirements, you&rsquo;ll be brought up to speed on compliance best practices and ensure your business is fully compliant.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Supply chain efficiency</strong></summary><p>By running all contractor and supplier engagement through a single trusted provider, you&rsquo;ll significantly reduce administrative burden.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Agility</strong></summary><p>With the experience of a managed service provider to call upon, you can better respond to market shifts and improve efficiencies &mdash; making your organisation more agile in the process.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Cost savings</strong></summary><p>A managed service provider will secure substantial cost savings through exercises such as supply base reduction and staffing benchmarking.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Scalability</strong></summary><p>Working with an extensive supplier base, a managed service provider can find you alternative sources of talent when your supply chain fails to deliver &mdash; enabling you to scale your programme up or down according to your immediate business needs.</p></details><details class="mce-accordion"><summary><strong>Governance</strong></summary><p>Ensuring internal mandating of rates, compliance, and processes.</p></details><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Utilising a managed service provider is a win-win for any business with a sizeable temporary workforce. By building relationships with your business users to understand the ins and outs of your organisation, a dedicated team of industry experts manages your suppliers, sources top talent, and drives best practices on your behalf.</p>

<p>One of the most effective ways a business can successfully manage its contingent workforce is by calling on the expertise of a third-party solutions provider &mdash; particularly one with a dedicated account management team, an optimised vendor management system (VMS), and a focus on control and cost savings.</p>

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<h2>Is an MSP solution right for my business?</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While contingent working has grown at a phenomenal pace in recent years, finding top contingent talent with the most critical skills is an increasingly costly and time-consuming process. With contingent workers (ie. non-employees) making up 40% of the workforce, being able to attract the best talent is crucial.</p><p>If your organisation has a medium-to-large contingent workforce, a managed service programme is the ideal solution. Whether you&rsquo;re looking to improve visibility, compliance,&nbsp;or control, or simply want a fresh recruitment strategy with a new partner, we can build a solution that works for your business.</p><p>Managed service provider solutions don&rsquo;t work for every business, particularly those without sizeable contingent workforces. If you&rsquo;re a scaleup or a startup with a smaller contingent workforce, one of our other recruitment services may prove a better fit.</p>

<h2>Want to Know More?</h2><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Whether you are looking for your next job opportunity, or seeking talent to join your team, we will help find the right fit for you.</span></p>

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<p class="fs-2"><strong>How does it work?</strong></p><div class="mb-4"><p class="x_xxelementtoproof">Good people tend to know good people. In fact, around a third of our placements are recommended by existing candidates and contractors.</p><p>So, when you recommend a friend to SRG and we place them in a contract or permanent job, you can receive a &pound;250 Love2Shop voucher as a thank you.&nbsp;</p><p>All you need to do is&nbsp;complete the short form&nbsp;at the bottom of this page.<br aria-hidden="true"><br aria-hidden="true">A referred candidate should satisfy the following criteria:</p><ul type="disc"><li class="x_xxmsonormal">Not already be registered with us</li><li class="x_xxmsonormal">Be relevant to the roles and sectors we cover</li></ul><p>Once the referred candidate is placed, they must complete 3 months of work before a reward can be claimed.</p><p>We will send you your voucher once we have successfully placed your friend or colleague into a new job and they have passed the probation period.</p></div><h5><strong>To refer a friend, please complete the form.</strong></h5>

<h3>Need help hiring?</h3><p>SRG can partner with you to take your recruitment strategy to the next level - our recruitment experts are on hand to help you find and retain the right people. Contact us today for an informal discussion at <a href="mailto:solutions@srgtalent.com"> <strong> solutions@srgtalent.com</strong> </a></p>

<h3>Looking for your next opportunity?</h3><p>SRG work with leading global organisations at the helm of innovation in STEM. We have job opportunities across the STEM industries, covering all experience levels from graduate and entry level to executive leadership.</p>

<h2>Salary insights and trends from over 4,000 global professionals across STEM industries</h2><p>Wondering how your company’s salary offers compare to your competitors? Are you offering above, or below industry standards? Is your business as diverse, inclusive and fair as it should be?</p><p>Or are you a STEM professional seeking to uncover salary trends and expectations for your role?</p><p>The exclusive insights from our Global STEM report not only offers the answers you're looking for, but also empowers you to make informed decisions for your career or recruitment strategy.</p><p><strong>Download now to discover:</strong></p><ul><li>Global Life Science, Engineering and Clinical sector salary trends</li><li>How ethnicity affects salary</li><li>Differences in the gender pay gap</li><li>Insights into AI in the workplace</li></ul>

<h1>Global Talent Trends and Insights 2024</h1><p>Finding, attracting and retaining the very best talent isn’t just vital for the future of your business, it is critical to the future of STEM too.</p><p>In the competitive and skills-short STEM recruitment market, understanding salary levels and expectations, along with embracing diversity and inclusion, can give your company an advantage. Anticipating future industry skill needs can also benefit potential hires.</p>

<h3>Need help hiring?</h3><p>SRG can partner with you to take your recruitment strategy to the next level - our recruitment experts are on hand to help you find and retain the right people. Contact us today for an informal discussion at <a href="mailto:solutions@srgtalent.com"> <strong>solutions@srgtalent.com</strong> </a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Looking for your next opportunity?</h3><p>SRG work with leading global organisations at the helm of innovation in STEM. We have job opportunities across the Life Science, Engineering and Clinical industries, covering all experience levels from graduate and entry level to executive leadership.</p>

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<p>Gain valuable insights from over 4,000 professionals on salary benchmarks, workplace trends, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, AI in the workplace, and more. In today&rsquo;s competitive market, securing and retaining top talent is crucial for success, whether you&rsquo;re a business or an individual striving for career growth &ndash; stay ahead of the curve!</p>

<p>At SRG, we have served STEM industries and companies in the UK, Europe and beyond for over 30 years, using our skills, expertise and understanding of what job seekers and employers are looking for to find the right people, for the right roles, at the right time.</p><p>As industry leaders, we know where to find the very best talent, and recognise the potential for innovation that will help build a brighter future for STEM.</p><p>That’s why our STEM recruitment experts in Ireland, located in Dublin and Cork, are ready to provide tailored STEM Recruitment and Global Managed Services to clients and candidates, drawing on technical and scientific knowledge to begin a journey to success that will continue long into the future.&nbsp;</p>

<p>At SRG, we understand the challenges that come with hiring scientific and engineering talent – whether you’re starting and scaling up a business or an established leader in your field. That's why we offer tailored services to best serve our clients' needs.</p><p>With over 30 years of experience, our team of consultants can provide guidance and support on all aspects of the recruitment process.&nbsp;</p>

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<h1>About Us</h1><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW172642023 BCX0"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217087604 BCX0">&nbsp;</div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217087604 BCX0"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217087604 BCX0"><span class="TextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">Our team is&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">comprised</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0"> of seasoned professionals with deep </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">expertise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0"> in th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">e life sciences sector, bringing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0"> together years of experience in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">biologics, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">biotechnology, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">clinical trials, medical devices, pharmaceutical</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">s, and healthcare.&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217087604 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217087604 BCX0"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217087604 BCX0"><span class="TextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0">We&rsquo;re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217087604 BCX0"> passionate about innovation and excellence and are dedicated to connecting clients with the transformative talent that will drive the future of life sciences.&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217087604 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p></div></div>

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<h4><strong><span class="EOP SCXW135433514 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"><span class="TextRun SCXW64043463 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW64043463 BCX0">Professional Referrals</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW64043463 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h4><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW175820273 BCX0"><p class="Paragraph SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">At SRG, we believe in the power of professional connections to fuel our industry's future. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">That's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">&nbsp;why we highly value candidate referrals from our trusted network of contractors. These referrals are more than just names&mdash;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">they're</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">&nbsp;seasoned professionals who come highly recommended for their skills, reliability, and dedication to their career.&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW175820273 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW175820273 BCX0"><p class="Paragraph SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">When a contractor refers a candidate to us,&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">it's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">&nbsp;a testament to the candidate's quality and fit for upcoming projects. We carefully consider each referral, aiming to seamlessly integrate these skilled individuals into our staffing solutions, thereby ensuring our clients receive top-tier talent.&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW175820273 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW175820273 BCX0"><p class="Paragraph SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">This collaborative approach not only enriches our talent pool but also strengthens the bonds within our professional community, leading to more successful projects and satisfied clients.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0">&nbsp;Please speak to your recruiting contact to discuss our referral bonus</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175820273 BCX0"> program in greater detail.</span></span></p></div><p>For all other questions, please complete our form:</p>

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