Practice Area
Rare Disease Executive Search
Rare disease commercial leadership is its own discipline: patient finding, advocacy relationships, hub services, and precision targeting of a few hundred treating physicians. We recruit people who have done exactly that.
60–90 days
Typical search
92%
Two-year retention
Over 20 years
Experience
What makes this search different
- Patient identification is the growth engine. We prioritize leaders who have built diagnosis-acceleration and screening programs, not just brand plans.
- Advocacy communities are small and have long memories. Genuine, non-transactional relationships matter and we verify them.
- First commercial hires in rare disease are player-coaches. Big-pharma candidates without hands-on stage fit are the most common mis-hire.
Roles we place
- VP / Head of Marketing
- VP Patient Services and Hub Operations
- VP Market Access
- Head of Advocacy and Patient Engagement
- National Sales Director
- Chief Commercial Officer