BioPharma Outplacement & Talent Advisory | Yaffa Grace & Co.
Corporate & Organizational Engagements

Your people built this industry.
Help them land well.

YGC works with biotech and biopharma organizations navigating workforce transitions, delivering outplacement support and select talent advisory built around 20 years of insider knowledge in this specific market.

Why it matters

When your organization moves fast, your people need a net.

Reductions in force, pipeline pivots, restructures, and commercial realignments are part of the biopharma operating cycle. How an organization handles the transition of its people is both a culture signal and a legal consideration.

YGC brings something most outplacement providers cannot: 20 years of experience inside this specific industry, on both the recruiting and advisory side. The professionals you transition land in roles that make sense for them, and that reflects on you.

Every person who exits your organization takes a perception of your culture with them. When they land well, when they feel supported through a hard transition, that becomes part of how your company is remembered in the market. That is the outcome YGC is built to deliver.

The gap most firms cannot close

What makes this different.

Generic outplacement providers do not know this market.

Most outplacement firms serve every industry. They do not know what a commercial launch looks like at a specialty biotech, or how market access tenure reads to a rare disease hiring committee. YGC does.

Your senior talent deserves more than a resume template.

Directors, VPs, and functional leads who have given years to your organization should not exit with a PDF and a login to a generic portal. YGC delivers recruiter-informed, biopharma-specific repositioning.

How you exit people is remembered internally.

Employees who remain watch how their colleagues are treated during transitions. A meaningful outplacement investment signals organizational integrity and affects future recruiting conversations.

Industry-specific advisory accelerates outcomes.

Professionals repositioned with biopharma-specific intelligence enter the market with materials that reflect how this industry actually evaluates candidates, not how generic career advice suggests they should.

Organizational Engagements

Two ways to work together.

Select Engagements Talent Advisory & Executive Search Building commercial teams that win at launch and beyond.

For organizations at a commercial inflection point, the difference between a strong launch and a missed one often comes down to the team. YGC provides intelligence-driven talent advisory and executive search for biotech and biopharma companies building or rebuilding commercial infrastructure. Engagements are led directly by Yaffa Grace. For larger team builds, a vetted recruiting team is deployed under her strategic direction.

Designed for companies that need more than a recruiter. You need someone who has been on the commercial side, understands what a launch team actually requires, and can identify the talent that will perform in this specific market.
Functions we place and advise on
Commercial Leadership, CCO through VP
Sales and Sales Leadership
Marketing and Commercial Operations
Market Access and Reimbursement
Medical Affairs and Field Medical
Patient Services and Patient Advocacy
Launch Team Builds, Pre-commercial through Approval
Talent Acquisition and HR Leadership
Engagement types
Executive search for individual leadership roles
Full launch team buildout with recruiting team support
Talent advisory and market intelligence for defined hiring challenges
Compensation benchmarking and candidate profile calibration
Interview framework and offer strategy guidance
Defined engagement scope, project-based, not an open-ended retainer
Investment By engagement scope Determined after initial conversation. Project-based, not hourly.
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Why organizations choose YGC

The YGC difference.

Industry fluency you cannot buy elsewhere.

20 years inside biotech and biopharma recruiting means YGC understands the functional areas, the role hierarchies, the therapeutic area distinctions, and the hiring logic that governs this market. That is not something a generalist firm can replicate.

Boutique practice. Senior-level attention.

YGC works with a limited number of organizational clients per year. Every engagement is handled at the principal level, not passed to junior staff or delivered through automated platforms. Your people work directly with Yaffa Grace.

Outcomes that reflect on your organization.

Professionals who exit with strong positioning land faster, negotiate better, and carry a more positive perception of their previous employer. The quality of your outplacement support is a talent brand signal. YGC makes that signal strong.

Whether you are building or transitioning

Every stage of the commercial talent cycle. Handled with care.

Building a launch team before approval. Restructuring after a pipeline pivot. Repositioning the leaders you are transitioning out. YGC is built for all of it. The same industry fluency that helps your people land well is what helps you hire right in the first place.

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"The professionals you transition carry your culture signal into every organization they join next. Make sure that signal is one you are proud of."