Our Culture
Trust · Quality · Passion · Flexibility · Sustainability
Why join us
Our mission is not
on a wall. It is in
your calendar.
We empower our partners to advance treatments that promote health and well being across the globe. In practice that is the protocol you review, the site you unblock, the data point you clean. At the end of all of it, someone is waiting for a treatment.
We are mid size on purpose. Big enough to run global programmes in dermatology, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology and ophthalmology. Small enough that your idea gets heard in the room where it matters.
Trust
Confidence, reliability and expectations met, with colleagues just as much as with sponsors.
Quality
Our standard and constant objective: quality of performance, of delivery, of results.
Passion
Professionalism fuelled by dedication and a real appetite for doing it excellently.
Flexibility and sustainability
We meet change with agility, and we walk the talk for a sustainable world for our people, patients and the generations after them.
Our culture
Flat structures, short decisions,
and grown ups trusted with the work
We take the role seriously because patients depend on it. But progress here comes from openness, curiosity and strong partnerships, never from hierarchy.
Collaboration you can feel
Clinical operations, data, medical, regulatory and safety sit in the same conversation rather than in a chain of hand offs. Study teams work shoulder to shoulder across time zones.
Room to improve things
Better ways of working start with the person doing the work. Our in house innovations, from protocol deviation tooling to decentralised study design, began with someone saying there is a smarter way.
Diverse by design
Colleagues in 40 countries, dozens of first languages, and careers that began in nursing, pharmacy, academia and industry. Different backgrounds are how we read a global trial correctly.
Belonging, not fitting in
An inclusive, empowering environment where new colleagues are welcomed properly, and where speaking up about quality, safety or ethics is expected of everyone.
A humane rhythm
Meeting hours that respect several time zones, capacity planned in advance, and managers who solve a crunch instead of leaning on your evenings.
Sustainability, lived
Science based emissions targets, almost all electricity from renewables, and an EcoVadis rating we have held and improved for years. Our people are the reason it moves.
Life at TFS
Global in mind,
local at heart
Most of us work close to the sites and sponsors we serve, from Lund and Malmö to Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Lisbon, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Sydney and across North America. Teams hold together through good habits rather than mandates: written hand overs, cameras on stand ups, and a genuine welcome for the colleague joining at seven in the morning their time.
Work where you work bestOffice, hybrid or fully remote, set by the role and not by presenteeism.
Move around the businessBetween therapeutic areas, between full service and FSP, between delivery and functional leadership.
Own something realFewer layers between an idea and a decision, and visible credit when it lands.
Have a life outside the trialTime off that is genuinely taken, with cover planned so it can be.
Employee development
Grow here,
on purpose
Development here is deliberate: a plan you own, a manager measured on it, and colleagues who teach because they were taught. You will not have to wait for a reorganisation to take a step.
Learn
Structured GCP, therapeutic area and systems training, plus study specific onboarding before you ever face a site alone.
Be mentored
Every new colleague gets an experienced buddy and a mentor outside their own line, for the questions you would rather not ask your manager.
Advance
Deepen expertise as a specialist or take on people and programme leadership. Both are real careers here, with clear levels and honest conversations.
Stretch
Work embedded with a sponsor, join a new indication, or help stand up a study in a country we have not run in before.
Employee stories
In our colleagues' own words
Working at TFS HealthScience means being part of a team united by purpose and driven by excellence. Every project and assignment is an opportunity to grow, collaborate, and contribute to research that truly makes a difference.
Working as a Clinical Research Associate at TFS means being part of a fantastic and welcoming team of professionals, something that is particularly hard to find elsewhere. The projects are challenging and diverse, so I keep developing and growing in my role within the team.
What I like most about TFS is the supportive and empowering culture. It motivates me to take initiative and promote change, and it makes me feel more committed to my work and ultimately to what TFS achieves.
Our global impact
Your role,
somebody's treatment
We partner with biotech and pharmaceutical companies across the whole clinical development journey, often on the studies larger CROs find too small, too specialised or too complex. Rare indications. First in human. Trials that might otherwise never run.
Five specialisms, deep
Dermatology, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology and ophthalmology, with scientific and medical experts you can learn from directly.
Patients where they are
Decentralised and real world studies designed so that taking part fits into a real life, in the countries where patients actually are.
A lighter footprint
Validated science based targets, emissions falling year on year, and almost all electricity from renewables. Progress our teams drive themselves.
What we do thrills us. Now we are looking for you.
One goal, shared: to bring treatments to patients faster. Find your place with us.
