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Biotech

Cultivating talent for biotech breakthroughs

Biotech is big business. And in such a knowledge-driven space – where success depends on innovation – attracting, nurturing, and retaining exceptional talent is crucial. This can often feel easier said than done, when there’s such an important day job to contend with. Plus, the competitive landscape doesn’t make the challenge of talent management any simpler. 


As your integrated insight broker, strategic advisor, and trusted change agent, hoomph is keen to keep your firm moving to the next level. With proven expertise in biotech HR, we become an extension of your team to add oomph to your organisation today, so you can craft groundbreaking technologies that meet the needs of tomorrow.

Our clients

Trusted by the best

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We’ll fuel ambition, so you can shape the future

While you’re out there creating world-changing technologies, we’ll ensure everything is running like clockwork in the background. By getting under the skin of your overall growth strategy, we’ll integrate differentiated biotech HR practices that meet your business objectives. These include:

  • Helping to attract the finest industry talent 

  • Motivating and developing your teams

  • Fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity 

  • Implementing effective performance management systems

  • Ensuring competitive compensation and benefits packages

  • Promoting employee wellbeing initiatives 

  • Facilitating smooth transitions during organisational changes

  • Leveraging data-driven insights for strategic HR decision making

Keen to move forward to the next best practice frontier?

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  • Lisa served as interim HR leader at varying stages of ONI's development and growth, navigating some particularly challenging times in our short but very exciting history. She brought a level head and clear focus on complicated HR issues, helping to bring order out of challenge, ambiguity, and ever increasing complexity. Her startup experience, along with her ability to walk into turbulence with ease and confidence, coach and support management, and work effectively with employees at all levels, was a breath of fresh air in easing my transition into the vice president of people role.

    Jeff Welstead, VP of operations at ONI

Solving challenges for biotech businesses

Explore our frequently asked questions about biotech HR. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Reach out to our team.

  • There’s no formula to biotech HR. However, attracting top-tier candidates hinges on creating a vibrant culture centred on dedication, openness, and strong product development. It needs real, human, oomph. This involves HR actively curating the team, coaching staff, and implementing robust performance management processes and career pathways to align everyone with the company's goals. The specifics of your HR strategy will depend on what these objectives are. If you’re keen to discuss yours, we’re all ears.

  • We do! While our expertise spans a number of high growth sectors, biotechnology has become one of our biggest niches. Over the years, we’ve worked with organisations including ONI, Kymira, and Arc Bio Communications, to name a few. So, we know the ins and outs of the challenges you face, as well as, importantly, how to overcome them.

  • In knowledge-driven industries like biotech, where innovation and expertise lay at the heart of development, HR can play a strategic role in nurturing a strong, capable, and motivated workforce. Operating as a true extension of your team, we learn more about what makes your teams tick to ensure culture aligns accordingly, At the same time, we’ll ensure ongoing compliance with complex labour laws and regulations.

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Combating biotech burnout

Flexibility is a must for biotech firms. Employees need to remain agile in a collaborative sense – not only knowledge sharing with other departments on an ongoing basis, but constantly learning core competencies beyond their typical specialist field. That’s as well as meeting tight deadlines for research and development, battling with intense industry competition, and navigating growing regulatory pressures. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, to note that conditions for burnout are ripe in the biotech space.

Battling the risks of high-stress scenarios – including hampered productivity, decreased employee morale, and increased absenteeism – is essential in order to keep innovating. That’s one of the many strings to our bow at hoomph. And it’s why our future-focused, people-centric HR solutions are at the heart of the UK’s most ambitious biotech firms.

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Keen to put people-powered HR at the heart of your business?

Get in touch to start crafting your HR solution.