Eschewing the Escalation of Salaries as Safety Professionals Grow Scarcer

摘要

Qualified PV professionals are proving particularly hard to hang on to as demand for experienced safety talent soars. As such, it seems like a good time to look beyond financial remuneration as the key to keeping valued staff motivated and loyal. How to retain relevant, experienced safety and regulatory talent has arguably never been higher up the list of conversation topics in life sciences than it is today, as younger professionals' ambitions for a broad base of experience conflict with firms' needs to hang onto the expertise they have invested in. The challenge appears to be a global one too, judging by the wide spectrum of comments at the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference in London last November. There, attendees from both sides of the Atlantic gave voice to their concerns and swapped ideas for combatting the talent shortfall and the risk of skilled practitioners moving on to seemingly greener pastures.