Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Biotech, Pharma and Manufacturing companies
15th September, 2025
Consultant team growth | Alira Health | US, UK & Europe
Carrot Recruitment partnered with Alira Health to grow their management consulting team in US East Coast & Europe. The remit was to attract an additional eight Senior Consultants, Leaders and AI Specialists, with highly specialised project expertise within life science consulting.
Requirements of the growth project
Alira Health, a global management consultancy, required support to expand their consulting team. While they had an internal recruitment team, it supported the wider business, and the management consulting team needed urgent support to source high-calibre individuals with specific life science strategic project experience alongside AI Solutions experience too. The candidates they were looking to attract, needed to have strong consultancy backgrounds,
capable of passing Alira Health’s rigorous four-stage interview process, including two business case study interviews.
Our Approach
To meet this need, we took an exclusive partnership approach with Alira Health, ensuring complete focus and commitment to the process from both sides. Our team carried out detailed market mapping across the US & Europe, identifying consultancy candidates within similar firms with relevant project expertise. We leveraged LinkedIn Talent Insights, LinkedIn Recruiter, and direct advertising via LinkedIn, our own website, and social media channels to reach top-tier candidates.
What set us apart was our deep understanding of consultancy work, drawn from both industry and recruitment experience, enabling us to filter and present only the most relevant candidates. By working closely with Alira Health’s management, we aligned tightly with their standards and invested significant time and resources to deliver results within the short timeframe required.
Outcome
Over a three-month period, we submitted 49 CVs, of which 35 candidates progressed to the first interview stage. Impressively, 33 of these advanced to the case study rounds, demonstrating the high calibre of our shortlists.
This process resulted in 7 offers and 5 successful hires, with additional candidates still in process (at time of writing) to complete the team’s growth target for the year.
A Partnership Approach
At Carrot, the majority of our assignments are worked in genuine partnership, where we were the sole supplier entrusted with that particular hiring project. There are some really significant benefits to this method of working that should never be overlooked. Our clients who employ this method rarely convert back to using a multi-agency approach for specific remits. Our success rate is 100% when working in partnership.
Key Benefits to A Partnership Approach
- Method, timeline and cost clearly established at the outset
- Timely & transparent communication from one contact throughout the project
- We dedicate more time & resource to partnership projects because our client is fully committed to working with us
- Your requirement is given priority over non-partnership vacancies
- It ensures your message & proposition is delivered to the right candidates in the correct manner (avoiding duplicate approaches from multiple recruiters which dilutes your message and your brand)
- An improved candidate journey due to better communication and commitment Additional value adds such as market insights, process guidance, interview training and weekly metrics are included
Debbie Anderson
Founding Director
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