We have received a requirement for a Nutrition Product Manager for a client in Dublin.

Candidates should:

• Be degree qualified in Marketing 
• 5-6 years experience in the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, FMCG or Medical Devices industry.
• 2 years experience in a Product Management role
• 1-2 years field sales experience is desirable
• Service Marketing would be advantageous

For more information please contact us with your most up to date CV

We have an abundance of jobs in Medical Device coming through our door that may or may not fit to your profile!

• Software Quality Engineer - Limerick
• Quality Validation Manager - Limerick
• Aseptic Supervisor - Limerick
• Senior Electrical Facilities Engineer - Limerick
• Senior Mechanical Engineer - Limerick

For now they are mainly Engineering type positions but never fear as the Sciences will rise again! So whether you have Medical Devices experience in your chosen field of engineering or you are a Science/ Quality/ Chemistry buff with Med Device experience, we want to hear from you!

For more goto:

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

 

 

Things, it seems, are on the up in the Medical Device world and we now have the following urgent requirements:

1. Quality Validation Manager - Munster
2. Senior Electrical (Facilities) Engineer - Munster
3. Senior Mechanical Engineer - MidWest
4. EMEA Procedural Kitting Director - Midlands

So if you are from a Medical Device or high volume manufacturing background then please do get in touch

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

These are all permanent Medical Device jobs in Ireland.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon!

Calling all Marketing and Product Managment individuals!

We are looking for a Product Manager with experience in Marketing for a client in Dublin.

The ideal person will have a Degree in Business/ Marketing with experience in

• Pharmaceutical,
• Science or
• FMCG

2 years experience in Product Management with Sales experience being a distinct advantage.

For more information contact us in the office on 01-2016363 or goto the link below

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

Are you working in the Kitting Department of a Medical Device Manufacturing company?

We may have the job for you!

Currently looking for a EMEA Procedural Kitting Director, our client is ideally looking for a qualified Kitting Director who has a background in Manufacturing/ Production Engineering in a Medical Device environment.

You must have an extensive background in product development including QA/ RA and the CE Marking process.

If this describes you right now, our client requires a Degree qualified candidate with an MBA being a distinct advantage.

This is a permanent Medical Device Procedural Kitting Director job

Contact us for more details and a full job spec

It’s been a while since I posted and now the recession is in full swing.  Indeed, other countries are talking about the recession bottoming out and the first signs of recovery.  It certainly doesn’t look that positive for us in Ireland at the moment.

NAMA remains a bone of contention and there is no obvious clear policy for a comprehensive plan to get us out of the mess we are in.  Indeed, it looks like we are facing a winter of public service strikes.

There is some positive movement though.  The initial recession panic seems to have alleviated to some extent.  While we are still seeing some redundancies in the medical sector, the rate of job losses has decreased.

Pharmacies are still reeling from the double hit they have taken.  There is little to no movement in the Pharmacist jobs market.  Our advice to pharmacists is “If you are working stay put”.  There were pharmacy closures over the last year and profit margins have been squeezed.  Salaries for new hires have similarly been affected.  The days of six figure salaries are largely over for now.  We have gone from a situation where pharmacists were in demand and could obtain nearly any salary they desired, to one where is an oversupply of pharmacists for very few jobs indeed.  We do not expect a change in this situation for another 12 months.

Nurses are finding themselves under increasing pressure, not immune to the bitter bite of the recession either.  Staff are not being replaced, Agency nurses are finding that there are fewer shifts available and conditions are not as good as they were (I can hear the comments already).  Many nurses are looking further afield with Nursing jobs in Australia enjoying a larger than normal interest.  Given that as a rule we export a lot of our nurses in good times it is perhaps not surprising.

The pharmaceuticals industry has also undergone some restructuring.  The Pfizer Wyeth deal has not had the negative effect that many in the industry in Ireland feared. We have seen large scale job cuts in manufacturing though, with several companies announcing redundancies.

Medical Sales Reps have been having a mixed time on the jobs market.  There have been redundancies, but there are still jobs available.  The people worst hit by the recession in Medical Sales are the people who are trying to break into Medical Sales.  A sudden glut of experienced Medical Sales reps on the market has left the hopeful rookies with little hope in a market that was always a relatively difficult one to breach.

We are still importing medical professionals to Ireland for positions that we just do not have enough people in the Irish pool for.  These tend to be specialist positions across the board.

Allied Health workers may as well get a job in the local chipper for the time being.  Despite there being a desperate need for Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Workers, the budgets are just not there to hire them.  We are faced with a culture of marginalisation, where special needs requirements have been firmly shelved.

Health Care Assistants are having a rough ride too, as are any professions where there are an excess of people qualified for the position.  The Fetac qualification is fast becoming an absolute necessity.  Competition is fierce and agency shifts are ever thinner on the ground.  The best route to finding a permanent position remains in building contacts in individual hospitals and nursing homes while doing agency work.

Recruitment Agencies are reporting an upturn in the numbers of jobs available.  In the Medical Recruitment Market in particular there has been clear signs of improvement.

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Coming to a blog near you!  The media today is full of bad news, so for a change we decided to give you some good news and something to look forward to. Jackie Brown Medical is expanding into the field of scientific and technical recruitment.

Despite the downturn which has had a clear and devastating affect amongst almost every sector of the Irish economy, Jackie Brown Medical has bucked this trend and experienced extensive growth amongst its clients. As a relationship based company which has won the unqualified trust of its clients by offering a consistently high quality service, Jackie Brown Medical has received numerous requests to supply R&D, scientific and  technical personnel in the past which has led to a decision to  expand its services we currently support amongst our clients.

As NRF Best Recruiter award winner for 2008, Jackie Brown Medical will provide recruitment opportunities for professionals working within the areas of R&D, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, BioPharma, Pharmaceuticals and semiconductor technology.

Working with established and prestigeous clients, Jackie Brown Medical has already developed a well deserved  reputation for professionalism and commitment amongst both clients and candidates alike and looks forward to a time beyond the downturn. In the mean  time we are here to meet your Medical, Science, Recruitment and Employment needs. Look to the future and give us a call.

For further information stay tuned and please visit our Blog/News Page

Positive or negative, what is your disposition today? Do you feel that everything is going your way or against you? In your career you will find that your attitude has a tremendous impact on how people respond to you and how you get through the working day. When we are in a positive frame of mind we find that there are not enough hours in the day.

So what determines your attitude? Many things but in terms of work it can be how we percieve it and ourselves. Is your work and what you do a career or a Job?

Chris Rock referred to his fame as a comedian as a career and not a job.  Like most people he had had many jobs previously; many of which he hated. He very quickly learned the difference between a career and a Job. The difference being that there were not enough hours in the day for him in his career as a comedian but in his previous jobs one of which was a kitchen hand working in the kitchen of a restaurent cleaning shrimp- every minute hung like eternity.

Perhaps the lesson then to be derived from this is, in order to be happy as professionals we need to look after our careers, to seek the good in what we do and to always remember to take time to look at the lighter side of what we do each day. To neglect this we risk our careers becoming just another job.

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The HSE has approached a number of recruitment agencies with a view to recruiting pharmacists for an 8 week period from the end of July.  This is a contingency plan in the event of community pharmacies discontinuing the provision of dispensing services to patients under the various community drug schemes from August 1st, 2009.

Pharmacists reaction has been unanimously angry.  Discussions on the subject on the website http://www.poitigeir.com/ (formerly http://www.pharmacycrisis.com) have been heated.  A post by Pat O’Dowd of the HSE asking pharmacists to reply to communications asking them to state their intentions on August 1st has been met with the sort of response that would do justice to any lynch mob.

Response to the agencies adverts have in general been negative.  Pharmacist feel that to work with the HSE on this scheme would seriously injure their chances of long term employment with any pharmacy.  They feel that the short duration of the locum is just not worth it since they would be viewed as ’scabs’ by the vast majority of pharmacists and pharmacy owners.

Agency Nursing used to be a great fallback for Irish Nurses.  Many chose to work solely as agency nurses because of the flexibility that gave.  You could choose your hours.  You were never guaranteed a shift but it was a good likelihood as long as you were not too picky about where you worked.

Mary Harney has announced that Crumlin Childrens Hospital is overstaffed.  As professor Crown so rightly points out, closing wards by slashing budgets needed to keep them staffed does not count as over-staffing.  Increasing patient numbers are now to be dealt with with utilising severely curtailed resources.  Some are being forced to look to the UK for treatment.

This is just one example.  The message is clear.  There are to be less nursing posts.  Is this a problem for nurses?

Just a few short years ago hospitals were clambering over themselves to source staff from India because we didn’t have enough Irish staff willing to work in Irish conditions.  Together with the Filipino nursing backbone of our country the addition of large numbers of Indian staff nurses added to the wonderful mix of cultures that make up a modern Irish Hospital.

Working conditions are arguably far worse now.  Nursing is still a passport to see the world.  Now with degrees under their belts, newly qualified nurses expect more.  But it is not so easy to expect more when you need to pay your bills and feed yourself.  If I was a new graduate I would be off to see the world, working as I went.

Are agency days over?  They probably should be.  Nursing agencies only grew so big because of bad staff management in the hospitals and hospices they served.  Some Hospitals were taking in 20+ agency staff a day (nurses and carers). The bill was massive.  The reason was that the Hospitals were not approved the funding for permanent job positions that would have cost far less.  Instead they had to pay through the nose for Agency Staff.  That sort of ridiculous situation needed to stop.  Yes there will probably always be a need for Nursing Agencies to provide temporary staff.  This is not ideal, since agency staff will not know the ward they are working on as well as permanent staff.  This leads to increased workload on the permanent staff.  If an agency nurse does know the ward as well as permanent staff then that must be an indicator of a case for another permanent staff member.

Final advice: If you are a nurse and not planning to leave the country get yourself into permanent employment as quickly as you can.  The current situation is not going to ease in the near future.

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