Scaleup

After a period of initial success, your business has outgrown its capacity, and now you’re turning away more opportunities than you’re taking on. What’s the next step?

If you’ve a strong cash flow and consistent sales, but you still feel your company isn’t achieving its full potential, then chances are it’s time to scale up your life sciences business. But how do you grow a small business into a larger one – and without losing revenue? It goes without saying that taking this step is a risky one, with half of all small businesses collapsing in their first four years – their failure often propelled by taking this step too quickly or carelessly. 

The odds of your life sciences SME surviving a growth period are not great enough for you to experiment with. At ScaleX Consulting, we have more than 15 years’ expertise in business management, with tried-and-tested methods for helping life science scaleups grow outward – resulting in new business opportunities, new revenue streams, and greater brand visibility on a wider scale.

We can assist you with:

1. Business Strategy

1. Business Strategy

Getting ready to scale up your life sciences business can be both exciting and incredibly daunting. Once a successful life sciences company starts to scale, it can take on a larger workload without compromising performance or losing revenue. In other words, it’s the only way to take things to the next level. But scaling up is harder than it seems. If you grow too quickly, you risk things spiralling out of control. If you do it too slowly, the momentum you’ve built up may start to wane. So, how can you balance these concerns to keep your business on the path to success? Our team of experts will devise a growth plan on how you’ll adapt to a greater workload while maintaining performance and achieving your goals whilst taking into consideration your products/service, business model, finance and culture – Are you ready for scale-up?

2. People Strategy

2. People Strategy

When your people strategy aligns with the organisational mission as a whole, it empowers everyone across all levels to perform the most effectively. Our Head of People Operations will help you put the right talent in the right position to make an impact. From hiring the best leaders, retaining the top talent or nurturing the necessary skills, we will work closely with you to look into the future and decide what skills, knowledge and competencies the business is going to need in three, six or twelve months to meet its strategic goals. 

3. Marketing Services

3. Marketing Services

Scaling a life sciences business is exhilarating. Unfortunately, the “build it and they will come” theory doesn’t hold much weight and those overnight success stories you hear about are often the result of behind the scenes years of hard work. Simply put, startup marketing is a unique challenge oftentimes because of the limited resources, whether it’s time, money or talent. Our marketers offer the absolute best in strategy, design, execution and deliver high-quality results that will give you a competitive edge against other companies in your field.  

4. HR & Compliance

4. HR & Compliance

Writing staff contracts? Investigating a grievance? Making redundancies? If you’re in the middle of a HR issue, then you know that there are a lot of employment laws involved. You may think you need to call a solicitor, but – honestly – you don’t. Using ScaleX’s HR+ Service, you’ll ensure the right decisions and processes are put into place when and where they need to be. You can trust us to build an agile HR infrastructure in your organisation that poises you for growth. 

5. Health & Safety

5. Health & Safety

A lot rests on your health & safety policies. Without the right training and experience, it’s easy to miss risks and hazards. And as well as the potential impact on your bottom line, you must be 100% confident that people are protected. Our highly accredited and well-respected health and safety consultants are able to deliver a range of health and safety related services.

Discover your path to sustainable growth

Our expertise can help you analyse the market to identify which method of growth is most appropriate for you – and most likely to help your business thrive. After working with you to get to know your company, we’ll curate our Scaleup package around your specific business needs, with an end-goal of sustainable growth within the life sciences.

Achieve your scale up’s greatest potential, with a custom-made business growth strategy from ScaleX Consulting.