Case Studies
Populus Select Recruitment is proud to have earned earn the trust of our valued clients by converting premium research into precisely matched candidates for confidential, sensitive or challenging hires, globally in life sciences, construction, chemicals, power, emerging technologies, and interim roles. We’ve included some of our most recent examples of how we have helped organisations like yours, recruit for the very best talent, somtimes at short notice.
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Quality Director
A life sciences CDMO manufacturing facility had been suffering instability and concomitant quality problems for a year prior to takeover by an international pharma company. We were tasked by our client, the latter, to find a Quality Director to join the leadership team to turn around this facility, re-introduce stability and reduce staff churn.

Commercial Director (Pharma – Innovative)
Our client, a billion dollar international pharma company operating worldwide, required a Commercial Director in their ‘Innovative’ division to lead, to create strategy and drive commercial results/ required a Commercial Director to turn around their commercial department which was lagging behind in the successes of all the other business units in the business.

Construction Document Controller
Our international construction management client called our contract team at 10am one Monday morning saying that they had been let down and that work would be stopped due to a lack of a document controller. Our client wanted someone on site ready to work the following morning at 8am.

Construction Technical Authority (CTA)
Our international Lifesciences project management client required a highly experienced Construction Technical Authority (CTA) to service four pharmaceutical sites across the MENA Region.

Supplier Quality Engineer China
A multinational industrial and green tech company, our client for over 6 years, is expanding globally, including in China. Our client needed to augment the small team in Shanghai with the hire of a self-directed, highly qualified and specialist supplier quality engineer to ensure the business’s expansion was kept on track with high quality delivery in automotive battery technology.