Empowering Life Sciences TA Leaders Worldwide to Transform
Talent Recruitment and Retention
A Private Network for Senior Life Sciences TA Leaders
Built by Life Sciences TA community for the Life Sciences TA community
The global biopharma industry is booming, and with a candidate-led market and increasing levels of talent scarcity, there is a continuous high expectation on talent acquisition leaders to do more with less.
Many Life Sciences TA leaders recognize that they can’t solve their talent challenges alone. Whether it’s small-scale targeted recruitment of hard-to-find in-demand scientific talent, or rapid ramp up of a new commercial workforce, they are actively looking outside their organizations for help.
That’s why LEAP TA Searchlight is fast becoming a vital lifeline: An industry-specific network dedicated to equipping life science TA leaders with the tools, innovation, and connections they need to find, attract, and onboard the next-generation of top life science talent.
Join us today to discover strategies to future-proof your TA function and uncover innovative thinking enabling you to transform your internal impact and differentiate your employer brand to attract the in-demand biopharma talent required to fast-track business innovation and growth.



Business critical conversations
Virtual cornerstone meetings
We facilitate, structured, discussion-driven, TA-focused quarterly meetings for member companies.
Each high-impact 90-minute meeting takes place virtually via Zoom. The meeting agenda is carefully curated and focused on the topics and critical challenges requested by Searchlight members.
Member companies are represented by one internal champion with strategic oversight over its TA program to ensure that each discussion is high-value, high-impact, and delivers tangible outputs for members to take back to their organization.
Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation
Searchlight makes meaningful progress
“We are all beyond busy and finding time to reflect, energise and inspire ourselves is difficult, so making it a regular appointment as this does is exactly what we need. I love the quality of conversation that’s possible with such a thoughtfully curated, well moderated, and diversely oriented group of life sciences TA peers, and it’s of immense value to us as a community.”
“I feel like I’m well networked and I get value out of the informal groups I’m already part of but these are unprecedented times and many of us have to have multiple scalable strategic approaches! This network of global TA leaders can provide potential additional insights that may lead to “aha!” moments that can immediately translate into value, these meetings can help us discover what we’re not yet doing or a better approach. That to me is time well spent!”
“The difference between this network and others is that people turn up to this network with ideas rather than coming just to take from the group. And this makes it much more valuable and community based than other networks. It feels like everyone’s a shared stakeholder in the group’s success and that’s both unique and valuable.”
Membership brochure
For more information on what’s included as part of the LEAP TA: Searchlight membership, please download the membership brochure.
Here’s what you’ll learn more about:
- The unique mission and purpose of the network
- What membership includes
- How the quarterly cornerstone meetings work
- How bespoke value delivery works
- How we deliver demonstrable value to you
- Annual member investment
The Searchlight platform
Build meaningful relationships and gain value all year around

Instant messaging
Contact fellow members via the private or group chat features.
Member meetups
Come together with leaders throughout the community at virtual cornerstone meetings and in-person gatherings at Hanson Wade conferences.
On demand
Explore the library of business critical content and videos on demand via the thematic rooms and content channels.