Jacobs Management Group

Jacobs Management Group is an executive recruiting firm founded in 1988 that focuses on the life sciences, covering pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and diagnostics companies, as well as high-tech industries. It describes itself as a national firm and is headquartered in Philadelphia, with further offices in Austin and Wilmington. Cari Kraft is its President and CEO.

The firm recruits for roles ranging from top executives to individual contributors in clinical and medical affairs, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, research and development, product development and engineering, sales, marketing, finance, human resources and supply chain. Its services include retained search, a hybrid engagement it calls co-tained search, contingency search, contract staffing, special projects on an hourly basis, and support for company expansions.

It reports a database of more than 390,000 industry candidates and says it has worked with over 800 organisations on more than 12,000 searches. It also says it is WBENC certified, and it publishes Healthcare Sales and Marketing, an e-magazine created through a joint venture.