Joppa Medical Recruiting

What Joppa Medical Recruiting does

Joppa Medical Recruiting is a privately held, boutique healthcare recruiting and staffing firm founded in 2001 by Lisa Manley and headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with employees distributed across Massachusetts, Illinois, and Florida. The firm specializes exclusively in healthcare-industry placements, serving clients across medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, home health care, specialty pharmacy, and hospital verticals throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

The company's core offering is direct-hire placement, supported by additional service lines including contract staffing, contract-to-direct conversions, and 1099-to-W-2 payroll conversions. The contract staffing capability is enabled through a back-office partnership with Top Echelon Contracting, which provides employer-of-record infrastructure that allows Joppa to offer flexible staffing arrangements without internal payroll buildout. The firm's underlying technology stack is minimal — its web presence runs on WordPress with standard contact forms — and the business is fundamentally human-relationship driven rather than technology-platform driven, with no disclosed AI, automation, or proprietary matching systems.

Joppa's business model is fee-based: direct-hire placements generate traditional recruiting fees (typically a percentage of first-year compensation), while contract staffing generates bill-rate spreads via the Top Echelon back office. The client base includes a mix of large multinational pharmaceutical and medical device companies (Shire, Novartis, Astellas, Fresenius, MiMedx) and mid-market or specialty firms (Osiris, Kerecis, Amerita, Ohio Medical). The firm is privately held, has not disclosed any outside funding, and operates with a small team of 11-50 employees consistent with its boutique positioning.

Name

Joppa Medical Recruiting

Legal name

Joppa Medical Recruiting

Website

https://joppamedicalrecruiting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Joppa Medical Recruiting is a privately held, boutique healthcare recruiting firm founded in 2001 in Newburyport, MA, specializing in direct-hire and contract staffing for medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, home health, specialty pharmacy, and hospital clients across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Executive Search Services (561312)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAAAE

Healthcare & Life Sciences Leadership Search

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Executive Search & Headhunting

SECONDARYBPACAFAA

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Permanent Placement & Direct Hire

Keywords

• Healthcare recruiting
• Medical staffing services
• Pharmaceutical recruitment
• Biotechnology talent placement
• Contract staffing solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Newburyport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Recruiting and Placement Fees: Direct hire placements where companies pay placement fees for permanent hires
2. Contract Staffing: Contract staffing services where Joppa Medical handles recruiting and Top Echelon Contracting handles back-office payroll, taxes, and benefits administration

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Joppa Medical Recruiting is a boutique healthcare recruiting and staffing firm that provides national search and direct-hire placement solutions for medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, home health care, and specialty pharmacy organizations. Through its Joppa Medical Staffing division, it delivers contract staffing, payrolling, 1099-to-W-2 conversions, retiree re-staffing, and contract-to-direct conversion services to healthcare employers.

Product overview

Joppa Medical Recruiting operates as a recruiting and contract staffing agency specializing in the healthcare industry since 2001. The company offers two interconnected service offerings: Joppa Medical Recruiting (national search and placement solutions) and Joppa Medical Staffing (contract staffing with back-office support through Top Echelon Contracting). Together these services provide direct hire placements, 1099 to W-2 conversions, contract staffing, payrolling services, retiree re-staffing, and contract-to-direct conversions for Medical Device, Hospital, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Home Health Care, and Specialty Pharmacy industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Joppa Medical Recruiting

Quantifiable outcome

• Thousands of placements made since 2001
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Top Echelon ContractingcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerTop Echelon Contracting serves as the back-office partner handling all employment contracts, financial and administrative issues including onboarding, payroll, taxes, unemployment, workers' compensation, background checking, and benefits administration. Joppa Medical provides recruiting skills while Top Echelon handles the administrative back-office functions since 1992.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Planet Pharma: Specialty staffing and recruiting firm focused on pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries with direct-hire and contract staffing offerings. Closest head-to-head comparable to Joppa in terms of vertical focus, size, and service mix.
• Medix: Life sciences, healthcare, and technology staffing firm offering direct hire, contract staffing, and workforce solutions. Comparable in vertical specialization and service offering, with overlap in pharma/biotech/medical device placements.
• Clinical Management Consultants: Boutique recruiting firm focused exclusively on healthcare placements across operations, finance, and executive roles. Comparable in size and boutique orientation to Joppa, targeting similar healthcare clients with permanent placement services.
• GQR: Global talent solutions firm focused on life sciences and healthcare, providing permanent placement, contract staffing, and functional service provider (FSP) services. Direct competitor for medical affairs, clinical, and commercial roles at pharma/biotech accounts.

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Global executive search and organizational consulting firm with a dedicated life sciences and healthcare practice. Competes for senior-level searches (medical affairs, managed care leadership, operations) at the same enterprise pharma/biotech clients.
• Russell Reynolds Associates: Global executive search firm with a dedicated healthcare and life sciences practice recruiting senior leaders for pharma, biotech, and medical device organizations. Competes for higher-end leadership placements at the same enterprise client base as Joppa.
• Spencer Stuart: Global executive search firm with a healthcare and life sciences practice serving pharma, biotech, and medical device companies. Overlaps with Joppa for senior medical affairs and operations leadership searches at enterprise clients.
• AMN Healthcare: Largest US healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company, offering permanent placement, locum tenens, and RPO across all healthcare verticals. Much larger than Joppa but competes for the same healthcare talent placement mandates at enterprise accounts.
• Aerotek (Actalent): Large general staffing firm with a dedicated life sciences division placing candidates in biotech, pharma, and medical device companies. Competes with Joppa on contract staffing and direct-hire placements in overlapping verticals, but operates at significantly greater scale.
• HealthCare Support (Maximus): Healthcare-specialized staffing agency (now part of Maximus) providing direct hire, contract, and temp staffing for hospitals, home health, and specialty pharmacy. Competes with Joppa's healthcare verticals at greater scale and broader geographic reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/joppa-medical-recruiting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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