Life Sciences

Cpl provides five core services for Life Sciences organisations: specialist Recruitment across temporary, permanent, and contract roles, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Provider (MSP) for contingent workforce, Business Process Solutions (BPS) for outsourced functions like quality and document control, and Project Solutions for major programmes and ways-of-working design. Most clients use a combination of these services depending on whether the need is a single hire, an embedded team, or an entire outsourced function.

Cpl's Life Sciences recruitment specialists work exclusively within the sector, with deep networks of pharma, biotech, and medtech talent built over years rather than assembled per search. That sector focus means we know exactly what skills a role demands, whether it's a GMP-experienced quality hire or a niche regulatory specialist. We have multiple channels to assess and surface candidates quickly, across temporary, permanent, and contract hiring.

Through BPS, you retain ownership of the process while Cpl's specialist teams run the day-to-day operational delivery; managing document control, CAPA, and quality processes to the standard your audits expect, embedded within your existing governance rather than operating at a distance. It's designed to be present every day of the year, not just in the run-up to an inspection.

Yes. RPO and MSP are both built around flexibility, scaling a recruitment team up fast for a production ramp, new product launch, or capital project, then scaling back down once that peak period ends, without locking you into fixed headcount commitments.

Recruitment is specialist, sector-specific hiring for individual roles, drawing on our deep Life Sciences networks. RPO embeds a dedicated recruitment team into your business, either long-term or scaled around a specific project, to manage hiring at volume. MSP manages your existing contingent workforce end to end, offering visibility, compliance, and cost control regardless of how many suppliers are already involved. Many Life Sciences clients use more than one of these together as their needs evolve.

Yes. Through Project Solutions, Cpl brings consultancy and advisory capability to help Life Sciences organisations design how a function or operating model should work including organisational restructuring, ways-of-working design, and HR transformation alongside the people to deliver that change. We also support more technical, SOW-based project work.