Pettit Pharma & Device Search | Healthcare Recruitment

Pettit Pharma & Device Search (PPD Search) is a specialist recruitment agency servicing the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare industries across Australia and New Zealand. For over 20 years, PPD Search has specialised in life sciences recruitment, combining deep sector knowledge with disciplined search methodology to deliver fast shortlists and placements that endure. The agency operates three distinct brands to service all levels of recruitment needs: PPD Search for permanent recruitment, PPD People for temporary and contract recruitment with payroll services, and PPD Executive for C-suite positions, senior leadership appointments, and management roles. With 65 years of combined recruitment experience, 90,000 industry professionals in their candidate database, and over 5,000 successful placements, PPD Search has established itself as a trusted partner for leading global healthcare companies.

PPD Search specialises across pharmaceutical recruitment, medical device recruitment, healthcare recruitment, and digital health technology recruitment. Within pharmaceuticals, the agency places talent across medical, regulatory, quality assurance, pharmacovigilance, market access, and commercial leadership roles for originators, generics, over-the-counter, and scale-up companies. For medical devices and diagnostics, PPD Search connects teams with talent in commercial, clinical, regulatory and quality assurance, operations, and leadership functions. Healthcare recruitment focuses on building clinical, operational, and commercial teams for not-for-profit healthcare organisations, hospitals, private practices, clinics, and services. Digital health technology recruitment encompasses product, engineering, data, clinical informatics, implementation, customer success, and go-to-market leadership across health IT, wearables, telehealth, and artificial intelligence sectors.

PPD Search operates nationally across Australia with strong metropolitan pipelines in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, whilst also supporting recruitment across Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. The agency extends its services to New Zealand, leveraging local insights to identify the right fit for pharmaceutical and medical device roles. Clients choose PPD Search for their evidence-based approach, compliance expertise embedded throughout every search, and commitment to matching capability with culture rather than simply ticking qualifications. The agency achieves 97 per cent candidate satisfaction and 95 per cent client satisfaction through responsive, transparent partnership, practical market insight on employment value proposition and leadership, and removal of administrative burden including advertising, screening, behavioural and values-based interviews, and candidate care.