A search partner healthcare leaders return to.
Pursuit helps you find and engage the right people through a flexible, research-driven approach to recruiting. Since 2014, we've helped healthcare organizations build teams and place leaders across some of the most influential companies in the industry.
Experience that spans the healthcare landscape
From emerging healthcare companies to established industry leaders, Pursuit has supported organizations across the industry with the talent research and recruiting support needed to navigate complex hiring challenges.
Healthcare search has it's own realities
After more than a decade of healthcare searches, these are the things we plan every search around.
Deep Network
Over the years, we've developed significant relationships throughout the healthcare landscape, including value-based care, digital health, healthcare analytics, remote patient monitoring, post-acute care, and consulting. These relationships give us access to an established network of industry professionals and the ability to reach people who may be difficult to find through traditional recruiting channels.
Understanding your business
We recognize that every healthcare organization faces different challenges. Reimbursement pressures, regulatory requirements, operating margins, growth expectations, and organizational constraints all influence hiring decisions. We take the time to understand your business, where you're going, and the types of people who can help you get there.
Meaningful conversations
Understanding healthcare allows us to engage candidates on a different level. We can speak intelligently about their organizations, markets, challenges, and opportunities, creating more relevant conversations with experienced professionals. Rather than simply presenting an opportunity, we can communicate why it matters and understand what motivates someone to consider a move.
Industry fluency
We understand the complexity of the healthcare landscape and the many different sectors, business models, and specialties that make up the industry. From value-based care and healthcare technology to post-acute services, analytics, and provider organizations, our experience allows us to navigate the nuances of the market and understand where different organizations fit within it.
Challenge, Situation and Solution
What our approach delivered, in numbers. Where clients prefer confidentiality, we describe them by type.
Senior Account Executive - Healthcare
Hire experienced Senior Account Executives, with total compensation of about $200K per role, without paying contingency fees on each hire.
The client's internal team wanted qualified candidates sent straight to its hiring managers so it could keep control of the process.
Pursuit sourced and sent 5 interested and qualified candidates, and the client hired 2 of them. The total project cost was about $6,400, saving roughly $94,000 compared with contingent search fees.
SVP, Academic Health System Strategy - Healthcare
Find a Senior Vice President of Academic Health System Strategy, a specialist executive role with a $600K base salary.
The client needed a strategic leader who knew academic medicine, without paying the high fees of a traditional retained search.
Through its Executive Search as a Service model, Pursuit delivered 6 interested and qualified candidates for a project cost of $4,000. That saved the client about $192,000 compared with a retained search.
Chief Growth Officer - Healthcare
Find a Chief Growth Officer for a healthcare organization, a senior hire with total compensation above $600,000.
Pursuit worked directly with the client's Chief People Officer to define cultural fit and check each candidate's track record in similar growth roles.
Pursuit ran the full search and placed the Chief Growth Officer for a total project cost of about $10,000, saving the client more than $150,000 compared with a traditional recruitment model.
Roles we've filled for healthcare organizations
A recent selection, from the C-suite to the specialists behind growing teams.
National Group Purchasing and Supply Chain organization
- CIO
- VP, Quality and Safety Collaboratives
- National Director, Clinical
- Vice President Supply Chain
- Program Director
Revenue Cycle and Rural EHR solution leader
- Controller
- Architect
- Department Lead, Product Manager
- HL7 Integration Architect
- General Manager
Healthcare payments and Claims Editing Leader
- Director, Clinical Audit
- Chief of Staff
- Chief Product Officer
- Corporate Attorney
- Director, Claims Editing, Operations
National palliative care leader
- Chief Clinical Officer
- Chief People Officer
- Clinical Director
- VP, Contract Center
- Director, Risk Assessment
Value-based care national leader
- Chief Compliance Officer
- SVP, Engineering
- VP, Commercial Group Network
- Assistant General Counsel
- Senior Actuary
Value-based care kidney company
- Chief Growth Officer
- VP, Growth
- Director of Finance
Pay for the work performed, not a percentage of someone's salary. No retainers, placement fees, or long-term commitments. Estimates and weekly cost updates keep spending predictable.
See the research, outreach, candidate activity, and progress as the engagement unfolds. You're never left wondering what is happening behind the scenes.
Retain the candidate information, market research, competitive intelligence, and insights developed during the engagement. The value extends beyond the immediate hire.
What clients say
Hear from the leaders who trust Pursuit to find exceptional talent.
“Pursuit has been a trusted partner over the years and brings a very different experience from an agency. They're always willing to ask questions and learn more to hone your search”
“Pursuit has been a trusted partner during times of rapid scaling and hiring. Pursuit helped source and recruit talent from entry level clinical remote staff to VP level corporate hires across the organization.”
A different perspective on recruiting.
Pursuit was founded in 2014 by Lee Skaggs, whose experience spans recruiting, talent research, sales, and consulting. Having seen the limitations of traditional contingent and retained search models, Lee envisioned a more flexible, transparent, and accountable approach to recruiting.
Today, Lee brings that philosophy to every client relationship, combining deep industry experience with a practical understanding of business and talent challenges. Pursuit remains founder-led, with Lee directly involved in client relationships, search strategy, and execution.
Before you get in touch
From CEOs to the specialists behind growing teams, we fill roles and the results behind them.
No. Most of our clients are in healthcare, and we also run searches for technology, financial services, professional sports and manufacturing organizations.
C-suite, SVP, VP and Director roles across clinical, growth, compliance, finance, people and technology functions. We also fill specialist roles such as actuaries and counsel, and build whole teams, such as analytics teams.
Lee Skaggs, our founder. He leads every engagement himself, from the first conversation to the final offer, rather than handing it to a junior team.
You pay for the hours we work on your search, with no placement fee. Before you commit, you get an estimate, and you see costs updated every week as the search runs.
It rarely does. Because you see costs every week, there are no surprises, and searches typically cost less than half of a traditional percentage fee.
We map the organizations and leaders who match your brief, then approach each person directly with a message written for them. We don’t post jobs or send automated messages.
Yes. Confidential searches are often needed around mergers and leadership transitions. They run on the same hourly model.
Everything we produce: market insights, competitive intelligence, search metrics and candidate data. It stays with you for your next hire.
Let's talk about your next hire.
Every conversation is confidential.