Job Functions

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Each job function reflects a distinct leadership discipline with its own decision-making scope, stakeholder relations, and performance expectations. While sector context shapes the environment a leader operates in, functional expertise determines how they lead within it.

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Explore expertise by organizational role. We deliver leadership talent across every corporate pillar, ensuring your leaders are equipped to navigate the unique operational challenges of the modern MedTech landscape.
Finance

Whether you need a Chief Financial Officer to lead a Series B funding process or a senior accountant to build out the finance function inside a regulated quality environment, the finance profile in MedTech is more nuanced than the job title suggests.

Human Resources

In MedTech, specialist talent is scarce, retention is a competitive advantage, and organizational culture directly affects regulatory performance and innovation capacity. 

Research, Development & Engineering

Your key Research and Development hires determine whether your clinical insights will become manufacturable, approvable, and reimbursable medical devices. This is a demanding process.

Operations & Manufacturing

Medical device manufacturing operates under significant constraints. Every process change, supplier modification, or facility decision is tied to regulatory obligation. The operational consequences of a mistake extend from production downtime to a product recall. 

Quality & Regulatory

Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance have moved beyond compliance functions. Today, they are critical drivers of speed to market, investor confidence, and commercial success. 

Sales & Marketing

The global medical device market is projected to reach nearly $1,032 billion by 2034. Capturing this growth requires commercial teams capable of turning clinical innovation into market adoption, revenue expansion, and long-term customer partnerships.

Medical & Clinical

Medical and clinical leadership in MedTech bridges the gap between innovation and real-world adoption - understanding what clinicians will trust, integrate into workflows, and use with patients. 

Transformation & PMO

MedTech is constantly undergoing structural changes: digital transformation, post-merger integration, ERP implementation, manufacturing and supply chain consolidation, and the integration of AI within process workflows. In such a strictly regulated industry, process mismanagement has consequences beyond cost overruns - they impact quality systems, regulatory timelines, operational continuity, and commercial execution. 

From Expertise
to Application

How we have partnered with visionary organizations.

102 Placements. One Partner. Over a Decade of Growth at Nevro

Team Build

Challenge

102 roles to fill across global functions over a decade-long partnership

Solution

Ongoing direct-outreach search across commercial, clinical, and technical disciplines

Result

92% vacancy fill rate | 90% of placements retained 2+ years | 51% retained 5+ years

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Sophie Halliwell

Former General Manager & Vice President International Commercial, Nevro

"Guided Solutions is an invaluable asset to any medical technology business building high-performing global teams. My relationship with them spans nearly 14 years, experiencing their exceptional work from both sides of the hiring equation - they consistently deliver talent that possesses the right expertise and thrives within our ecosystem."

300+ Candidates. 38 Interviews. Two Board Placements in Four Months

Board Advisory

Challenge

Board-level commercial expertise needed in UK and US before 2028 commercialization

Solution

300+ candidates engaged, 38 interviews conducted, shortlist of 13

Result

Two Board-level placements completed in four months

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Virpi Muhonen

CEO and Co-founder, Askel Healthcare

"Guided Solutions’ expertise in scouting candidates that fit both our hiring needs and culture is exceptional, consistently delivering more than expected. The collaboration with their team is easy, professional and efficient, and I look forward to continuing our partnership and sourcing exceptional talent together."

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