Cliff Miras, Managing PartnerMiras Search Partners (MSP) is a boutique executive search firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries that embraces an engagement philosophy rooted in the true intent to create and maintain enduring proprietary professional relationships with top talent built and earned on the foundations of understanding, providing value and earning trust.
These types of relationships don’t happen overnight; they are not transactional. They are the result of continual efforts to intelligently probe and question with the intent to truly listen, learn and understand the “what and why” behind the ever-evolving career aspirations and the accompanying important personal considerations for the highly sought-after talent clients want and need to hire.
This foundational ethos proves indispensable for MSP and its clients; it helps to streamline the process to swiftly fill critical positions in its areas of depth, which includes MDs for roles as CMOs, therapeutic area heads, global program leads, clinical development leads and global/US medical affairs leaders, and clinical R&D professionals for clinical research scientist, program leadership and clinical operations and study management leadership roles.
The result of Miras Search Partners relationship mindset is exemplified well by a testimonial provided by Richard “Ric” Woodman, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Oncology Business Unit for Eisai, and BOD Member for Eisai’s subsidiary, H3 Biomedicine.
“I have had the opportunity and privilege to work with Cliff Miras (Managing Partner of MSP) and his team for several years regarding the recruitment of MDs for both clinical and medical teams in oncology. In addition, I have been successfully placed by Cliff in a senior clinical leadership position. Consequently, I have the unique perspective of working with Cliff as an Executive Search Consultant as both a recruiting manager and as a potential recruit.
In my opinion, Cliff’s success is based on his years of experience as well as his commitment to achieve a “good match” between the candidate and the position. I have always found Cliff to invest time in understanding the role to be filled and the company and its culture. Similarly, he understands the experience and interests of the potential candidate(s) to ensure they will be successful in their new role. I have always found Cliff to be very helpful at acting as a liaison for both the recruit and the hiring manager throughout the entire recruitment process. During my years of working with Cliff, he has always conducted himself with the highest standard of integrity and professionalism. Consequently, I have no hesitation in strongly recommending Cliff and his team.”
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Our candidate relationship philosophy generates access to top talent, their networks and competitive intelligence that clients might not have otherwise
In addition to its advantage as a pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry specialist, there’s another aspect that adds to MSP’s distinct advantage. Many larger firms encounter recruiting “hands off” limitations due to their client relationships precluding them from recruiting within their current and past client base to avoid contractual violations. MSP is a boutique specialty firm with a narrow client base; MSP has minimal recruiting restrictions, which allows MSP to actively “target in” and recruit from a broader talent pool for the benefit of its clients.
MSP has assembled a team of search industry SMEs that its Managing Partner, Cliff Miras, has worked with for years and that have expertise in talent sourcing, mapping, recruiting and networking, specifically in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Cliff and his SMEs utilize a proven search process that has been used to fill more than 100 assignments to help its clients swiftly fill their important talent needs.
