What roles do you cover in Executive Search?

We focus on senior leadership and executive roles across the life sciences sector, including CEO, COO, and Director-level appointments.

What is your executive search process?

Our process includes role discovery, market mapping, candidate engagement, rigorous assessment, and onboarding support.

How do you ensure cultural alignment?

We take time to understand your company culture and leadership needs, ensuring a strong fit beyond just skills and experience.

Executive Search | Fastnet Life Sciences Recruitment

Strategic delivery, trusted partnership

Organisations need leadership capability that drives performance, shapes culture and delivers results. Whether strengthening a permanent leadership team or accessing experienced interim support, we work in partnership to provide the right capability at the right time.

Clients partner with Fastnet when:

A leadership appointment is critical to performance or growth
A transformation or transition requires experienced interim support
Internal capacity needs strengthening at senior level
Discretion and market credibility matter

Executive Search

Retained search grounded in partnership and market insight.

Executive and senior hiring decisions carry complexity and risk. Markets are competitive, expectations are high and the cost of a mis-hire can be significant.

Our Search approach is partnership-led and advisory in nature. We work closely with leadership teams and Boards to develop a shared understanding of organisational culture, strategic priorities and the leadership behaviours required for success.

We act as a credible and respectful ambassador for our clients throughout the search process, ensuring that every candidate experiences a clear, fair and well-supported process. This protects employer brand, promotes equity of experience, and contributes to strong engagement and onboarding outcomes.

Credible market representation
Deep sector Insight
Comprehensive talent mapping
Access beyond active candidates
Honest insight at every stage
Thorough evaluation of capability and cultural alignment
A discreet, professional process

Agile Executive Solutions

Flexible leadership capability when you need it.

We connect you with proven executive leaders who bring clarity, momentum and immediate impact - staying connected throughout the engagement to support successful delivery.

Interim Executives for when you need a senior leader to take ownership day-to-day, steady the function, and deliver a defined outcome over a set period - ideal for leadership gaps, transformation programmes, rapid growth, or bridging to a permanent hire.

Fractional Executives for when you need part-time leaders providing strategic direction, specialist capability, and delivery support alongside your team - ideal for for scale-ups, specialist initiatives, capability build-outs or periods of change.

Immediate access to experienced leadership
Defined outcomes and accountability
Strategic and operational capability
Stability during periods of change
Flexible engagement models
Rapid integration with your team
Defined, time-bound contribution

Global reach, local expertise

As the exclusive Irish member firm of Kestria, the world’s largest alliance of boutique executive search specialists, we combine local responsiveness with global connectivity and shared expertise. This network enhances our market reach, deepens our insight and reinforces our ability to identify and engage outstanding leaders - wherever they may be based.

Delivering Impact

Fastnet has delivered executive search assignments across a broad range of roles and functions within life sciences, partnering with organisations at different stages of growth and maturity.

98%

completion rate

80%

repeat business

90%

stick rate

40%

promotability

Searching for Top Executive Talent?

If you’re planning a leadership appointment where insight, judgement and partnership matter, we’d welcome a conversation.

Eimhin O'Driscoll

Partner

+353 86 834 9088

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What our clients say

Leadership with Precision

Integer have partnered with Fastnet and Kestria to support us in several key strategic EMEA Executive appointments. Fastnet’s boutique focus and network in Life Sciences is a key differentiator. They understand our unique culture and values and have sourced and attracted high calibre, innovative, inspiring leaders who continue to champion Integer’s ambitious growth strategy and our vision of enhancing patient lives worldwide.

Julie Walsh

Global HR Director, Integer

Making choice from a high quality shortlist

"Kestria consultants delivered strong candidates and so the luxury and in the same time the difficulty of making choices from a high quality shortlist. We were also pleased with the professional approach of the searches with respect to planning, communication and feedback."

Rene Latten

HR Director, PPG Coatings

Strategic Talent Partnership

Fastnet's partnership with BioMarin, from our start-up phase onwards, has consistently delivered high-quality candidates, understanding our business, culture, and technical needs deeply. Their dynamic response to our needs, through executive searches to general sourcing, and their flexibility without compromising candidate quality, have been crucial to our success at BioMarin Shanbally.