Telling the Story
Hiring for communications, investor relations, advocacy, and digital roles that scale with your company.
How a company tells its story determines how it’s understood — by investors, patients, employees, partners, and the broader market.
For biotech, pharma, and medical device companies, this work isn’t marketing. It’s how science, strategy, risk, and credibility are explained in moments that matter.
Scott White Search partners with leadership teams to hire across communications, investor relations, patient advocacy, and digital — the functions responsible for translating complexity into clarity as companies grow.
Whether you’re pre-clinical, approaching a financing or IPO, or operating as a public company, these roles play a central function in alignment, trust, and momentum.
How This Work Actually Shows Up
In practice, this work rarely lives neatly in one department. Titles, reporting lines, and ownership shift as companies evolve.
What stays constant is the need for people who can think beyond their lane, navigate ambiguity and pressure, work credibly with senior leadership, and align multiple stakeholders around a clear narrative.
In many organizations, this work is often referred to as Corporate Affairs, though titles and structures vary widely.
Scott White Search helps companies define, scope, and hire for these roles based on how the work actually gets done — not how it appears on an org chart.
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Recruiting for internal and external communications roles that clarify strategy, manage reputation, and ensure consistent messaging across leadership, employees, media, and partners.
This includes corporate and product communications, executive visibility, issues management, internal communications, and narrative development.
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Placing investor relations leaders who can translate complex science and strategy into clear, credible stories for investors and analysts.
This includes standalone IR roles, combined IR and communications positions, and early-stage leaders preparing companies for financing events or life as a public company.
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Supporting the build-out of patient advocacy and engagement functions that bring the patient voice into decision-making.
Advocacy leaders partner with patient communities, advocacy organizations, and internal teams — particularly as companies move closer to commercialization.
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Recruiting digital leaders and specialists who enable communications, investor relations, and advocacy through the right platforms, channels, and content strategies.
Digital may sit within Corporate Affairs, Commercial, or operate as a hybrid function.
These functions are deeply interconnected. Scott White Search works across them intentionally, helping companies hire people who think beyond their lane, collaborate effectively, and exercise sound judgment in moments that matter.