Why Choose Steele Executive Search?

Steele Executive Search brings 25 years of experience in executive search that other firms just can't match. Our skill pays off in client satisfaction: once we complete our first executive search on behalf of new clients they engage us again and again. When you work with Steele Executive Search, you work with executives who are successful in their own right. Each brings substantial business experience leading complex organizations, interacting with boards and producing results. Acting as strategic business partners and trusted advisors, we address your executive recruiting needs fully and confidentially. We provide a depth of expertise in biotechnology executive and scientific talent. Our searches span the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

Personal Attention. We take the time to fully understand both your organization and its unique business challenges. This effort, in turn, enables us to quickly identify executive candidates with the specific skills and the management style your organization needs.

Sharp Focus. We focus exclusively on placement for biotechnology and pharmaceutical executive recruitment and scientific talent recruitment. Because we devote our undivided attention to these demanding and rapidly changing industries, we hit the ground running, offering an exceptional level of counsel and support throughout the entire executive recruiting process.

International Reach

Steele Executive Search maintains a deep base of executive-level contacts across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia ready to be tapped for just the right opportunity. Our years of experience have given us the broad network critical for even the most demanding executive searches in biotechnology and drug development.

At Steele Executive Search, we’re big enough to have the resources, network and expertise to find your organization great candidates. Yet we’re small enough to be personally involved in helping clients through the process—designing the position, evaluating executive candidates, recommending an offer and negotiating its acceptance.

Steele Strengths

At Steele Executive Search we do more than is expected. The best candidates are not easily accessible through conventional recruiting methods. Top executive and scientific talent rarely make themselves vulnerable by circulating their CVs or resumes. We are very aware that with the recent trend toward mergers and acquisitions there is an increase in redundancies within corporations and that results in the market being flooded with candidates who’s CV may look excellent. Since Steele Executive Search has been in the business for 25 years we are acutely aware of the difference between what looks excellent and what is excellent. This knowledge will help our clients avoid a bad decision. We realize how important it is to make lasting, quality hires and conversely how devastating it can be to choose unwisely. We take a personal interest in our candidates and our clients and actively cultivate quality relationships with them. They in turn can trust SES to be discrete and be proactive in pursuing their best interests.

With this as the foundation of our relationship our clients know that we understand and will meet their needs no matter how unique or challenging. Our candidates relax and work with us to make the fit happen.

We enable our clients to:

• Preserve confidentiality in sensitive recruiting situations.
• Overcome any obstacle which may impede effective recruitment.
• Consider flexibility during a difficult search.
• Reach the known individual you are interested in but can't approach directly.
• View a spectrum of options which allows the best final choice.
• Stay focused on their work, not on recruiting
• Create and maintain a presence in the domestic talent market
• Understand the unique needs of scientific and business talent working in two cultures
• Secure the best possible talent regardless of location

Steele Professional Qualifications

We know our business.

With 25 years of experience in executive search, we know how to manage even the most challenging and sensitive searches. We can find, cultivate, and land the strongest candidates possible for any managerial, leadership, scientific or business position.

We understand the constantly changing needs of biotechnology firms.

By actively engaging in dialogue with people at all levels of an organization we remain current on their needs in many rapidly changing fields. We have a network of well over 4500 candidates and unlike many firms we make a concerted effort to remain current with the industry as a whole and with each individual’s needs.

We have completed searches for all types of biotechnology and drug development firms.
This has led to an active, broad personal network and extensive national and international database of scientific and business leaders.

Please see our assignments page. We use the experience and contacts of prominent biotechnology and pharmaceutical leaders to assure the quality of our work.

Our resources include close personal relationships with informed senior executives in all areas of drug development, biotechnology and venture capital. This gives us greater access to and credibility from accomplished leaders from all aspects of this complex world. Our exclusive contact base enables us to rapidly find the best available talent and to more effectively evaluate a candidate's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position.

Please see what our clients have to say about Steele Executive Search.

Steele Commitment

Each candidate is assessed for a cultural fit as well as a scientific, knowledge and skill-based fit. The rapport between SES and the candidate is essential to a positive outcome. We get to know the character of the candidate as well as their qualifications and we feel that this defines the difference between our firm and many others. SES works honestly and enthusiastically at all times creating a uniquely strong bond between the candidate, the client and SES. These strong relationships help guarantee a positive result.

• Trust: The more the candidate and client trusts that we are aware of and pursue their best interests with complete discretion the more faith they will have in what is being presented to them. This is one of the key reasons why SES has so many repeat clients.
• Honesty: Our clients and candidates come to trust in our ability to sense the cultural fit and present the whole picture, both the good and the bad. They will hear an honest assessment because ultimately we believe that the relationship is far more important than simply a sell.
• Integrity: SES puts great weight on the ideals of honesty and integrity not only because we know how important this is to our clients and candidates but because it is who we are. We hold ourselves to the highest standards because we are intent upon building relationships that will last for years.

Steele Style

Each one of our searches receives our exclusive and personal attention. We choose to handle a smaller number of searches each year which guarantees our quality and your search success. Our searches are not generic and each one is highly personalized.

Once we begin working for you we immerse ourselves in the culture, values, needs, desire, funding parameters and strategic objectives of your organization. In this way we deliver to you only those candidates who will best achieve your organizational objectives.

Sometimes SES’s searches are filled by highly desirable candidates who initially were not interested in an opportunity, but grew intrigued as our discussion progressed. They became more and more excited about the position as discussions progressed. We feel this is a mark of a search well done. We become the company’s long-term strategic partner in harnessing a knowledge base and the candidate’s partner in his or her own career development.

Our style is poised and professional. We are organized, thorough, and pay the attention to detail a well-executed search requires. Quality and results are what we always strive for. We are resourceful in identifying candidates and diplomatic in pursuing the only best. We bring time urgency and perseverance to the task. You can count on us.

Because we are an exclusive firm, your search will not slip in priority if the first choice candidate cannot be landed. We will work with you until the search is concluded to your satisfaction.

We bring a wide array of resources to bear in fulfilling your search. They are used in a process that is results driven and flexible. It is organized, comprehensive, and disciplined. Frequent, truthful communication, with appropriate documentation, occurs throughout the process.

Please feel free to call and discuss the specifics of your needs with us at any time.