Dave Manchester

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 You run a QC lab, nobody in the building recruits for a living, and you just typed “recruitment support” into a search bar. What are you actually asking for? Recruitment support is outside help that takes over some or all of the hiring work a talent acquisition team would … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a growing science company stop borrowing recruiters and hire one? Hire your first internal recruiter when hiring becomes a repeating pattern instead of a run of surprises, meaning the same few roles keep reopening, two or three searches run at once, and a manager is losing days … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your packaging line finished a batch on Tuesday. When does it ship? Batch record review is the quality unit’s check that every production and control record for a batch is complete, correct, and explained, and under FDA rules that check comes before the batch can be released or distributed. … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Who on your payroll is going to catch a process somebody else spent years building? Tech transfer in pharma moves a product’s process, test methods, and know-how from a sending site to yours, and the receiving site has to supply most of the people who make it work. Usually … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 A scientist with six years in a GLP lab applies for your manufacturing opening. Same thing as GMP, more or less? No. GLP governs how nonclinical safety studies are run and recorded so regulators can trust the data, while GMP governs how a drug is made, tested, and released … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Two resumes both say “five years of GMP experience.” Same five years? Probably not. GMP experience means a person has done work governed by current good manufacturing practice rules, following approved written procedures, recording each step as they did it, and signing records a quality unit reviews. On a … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Is a CDMO just a factory you rent? Not quite. A contract development and manufacturing organization is a company that develops and manufactures drugs for other pharmaceutical and biotech companies under contract, from formulation and process development through clinical supply and commercial batches. The D is the part people … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 When does a small pharma company need a director of quality? Most need one by the time their lead program leaves phase 1 and full CGMP under 21 CFR Part 211 applies, sooner if they add a second CDMO or face a pre-approval inspection. Here’s a quicker test. Who … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Your quality manager just resigned, and finance wants the replacement posted at a salary site’s number. Would you sign off? Quality managers at U.S. drug manufacturers fall in a Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation that paid a median $138,990 in May 2025, while PayScale’s all-industry quality manager median sits … Read more

By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 What should a quality control analyst job description actually say? A quality control analyst job description works when it names the instruments and methods the analyst will run, the product types, the shift, whether the lab records are paper or electronic, and the pay range. Most postings skip all … Read more