As a trusted partner to our clients, we provide advisory, oversight, and execution of HR strategy and day-to-day functions for start-up, emerging, and established companies.
We know that the competition for top talent in the life sciences market can be intense. Our consultants will partner with you to create an inclusive and high-performing work environment, fostering a culture of innovation, employee satisfaction, and excellence to drive a collaborative and highly engaged workplace. With proper HR strategic planning and execution, we will build the foundation required to attract and retain high-caliber performers and establish a comprehensive compensation philosophy consistent with the current philosophy, while strengthening the organizational culture.
Key Considerations
- We provide HR consulting teams who can work in lock-step with existing resources or we can take the lead by staffing the right resources needed to achieve your goals. We offer a broad range of HR services.
- We understand the life sciences industry and its challenges, as our consulting team brings in-depth industry experience. We can help emerging companies “get it right” from the beginning by implementing a right-sized HR function that meets current needs with an eye towards the future. Learn more HERE
- We can provide high-caliber resources to meet your company’s changing needs through various stages – emerging, growing, or established. Our team includes HR guidance and execution in a more flexible, scalable way – whether full-time, part-time, or project-based – without adding fixed costs to your bottom line. Learn more HERE.
- Having worked inside hundreds of life science companies, we have deep knowledge of optimal team composition, which skill sets are needed, and when.
How Danforth Can Help
HR Strategy and Guidance
Through an organizational assessment, we will develop a plan of when and how to initiate the optimal HR function for your company. Our consultants will work with you to define your HR strategy, guide its execution, and provide ongoing support as your company evolves. We will be your HR team if one does not exist or support existing HR team members.
Organizational Development
We will work with you to define and articulate your Employer Value Proposition. We will recommend or implement processes and programs aimed at building and supporting your culture while improving your organizational effectiveness based on desired business outcomes.
On-boarding and Benefits/Payroll
We can efficiently oversee and/or execute the key HR processes and documentation required for employee recruiting, onboarding, benefits administration, payroll, and off-boarding.
Performance Evaluation and Development
We will work closely with your team to uncover early intelligence on the future labor and skill needs of your business. By monitoring organizational competencies and developing and instituting learning and development (L&D) plans, we will focus on building skills within your existing workforce rather than adding headcount (wherever possible). We will also guide or manage your performance management initiatives.
Talent Development
We can provide talent development workshops to help clients improve communication, collaboration, and productivity in an ever-changing hybrid/remote work environment. In partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), we can deliver flexible, scalable, and customizable learning solutions to meet the needs of life science organizations at all stages. The programs may be implemented across companies of all sizes or for selected individuals focused on specific skills. Our HR consultants can facilitate the various workshops or assist clients’ internal HR team members in rolling out the programs. Learn more HERE.
Talent Retention
Retaining top talent in a competitive talent market is hard, we will partner with your leadership and line managers to implement proactive programs to retain top talent. This includes taking the lead on setting and monitoring the employee satisfaction and engagement experience, minimizing turnover and its associated direct and indirect costs to the organization. We will help you build a performance-based culture and improve retention rates with a customized rewards system that may combine compensation, benefits, and professional development opportunities.
Talent Acquisition: Hiring and Selection
We are your end-to-end talent acquisition function. We provide and manage job design, profiles, and postings; talent search management; interview process management; offer letters, employment contracts, and NDAs; candidate screening and scheduling; pre-hire background and reference checks; and offer calibration for selection. As experts in life science organizational development, we will help you select and hire for the right roles with the right skills at the right times, aligned with the defined financial parameters.
Employee Relations
Learning of and addressing issues proactively or when they begin is key to mitigating risk. We will help you foster a positive employee experience via mechanisms for clear and transparent internal communications, conflict resolution, and integrating employee feedback.
Risk Mitigation
We will identify and prioritize compliance requirements based on your organizational stage and workforce and implement appropriate policies and programs. With deep knowledge of life sciences HR regulatory requirements, we will direct you in the implementation of programs that minimize risk and disruption to your business.
Compensation and Recognition
We will apply our deep market expertise to help you design competitive employee and executive compensation programs and recognition plans to ensure highly engaged, effective employees and a high-caliber leadership team. We have developed a strategic partnership with CompGrid which provides next-generation life sciences compensation benchmarking data for Biotech companies. Learn more HERE.
Talent Acquisition
We provide clients with qualified candidates for roles quickly. We are your end-to-end talent acquisition function. We provide and manage job design, profiles, and postings; talent search management; interview process management; offer letters, employment contracts, and NDAs; candidate screening and scheduling; pre-hire background and reference checks; and offer calibration for selection. We apply sector-specific expertise in filling critical roles across the breadth of life science organizations.
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