About pobl — the people behind the consultancy

Our story

Before pobl, founder Tom Davies spent nearly a decade in medical communications — most recently as a Talent Acquisition Director at Amiculum, working alongside senior leadership to build and grow teams.

That experience taught him something a traditional agency rarely sees: the best hires are never just about talent on paper. They're about the right fit — for the team, the culture and the moment. And great hiring is as much about long-term strategy as it is about filling today's vacancy.

So pobl was created to offer a genuine step forward. Where a traditional agency runs a transactional, one-size-fits-all service, we craft each search around the reality of your business — whether that's one tricky-to-fill role, a selection of senior hires, or a longer-term talent strategy that shapes where you're headed.

That's the pobl difference. Specialist talent, from people who've genuinely been there. It's a pobl thing.

The people behind pobl.

Alongside Tom, a small and senior team — bringing decades of medcomms and talent experience to every conversation.

Andrew Dobbs

Executive Director

20+ years building teams and hiring functions for creative and media agencies, from large networks to start-ups.

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As Executive Director and Head of Commercial Partnerships at pobl, Andrew brings over 20 years of award-winning experience working for and on behalf of creative and media agencies, from large networks and holding companies to independents and start-ups. With a deep network across the agency landscape, he is highly experienced in executive and senior search, direct hiring and embedded talent/RPO models, early-careers programmes, acquisition integration and process engineering, as well as board advisory on talent strategy and organisational design. Throughout his career he has focused on building the teams, and the hiring functions, that enable growing businesses to thrive.

Lindsey Heer

Non-Executive Director & Business Consultant

25 years in medical communications, from early Medical Affairs roles to senior leadership, with executive-coaching expertise.

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With 25 years in medical communications — from early Medical Affairs roles to senior client services and leadership at 7.4 (AMICULUM) and Envision Pharma Group — Lindsey brings deep medcomms credentials, leadership experience and executive-coaching expertise to pobl. Talent strategy has been the thread throughout: empowering people, improving performance, and championing informed, inclusive recruitment.

Rowan Armstrong

Talent Acquisition Executive

Rowan works across client and research projects of every kind, and drives our MedComms.Jobs community initiatives.

People is the whole point. It's in the name.

We treat people really well — all of them, all the time.

Whether it's a career conversation or a client brief, you get understanding, empathy and advice that comes from real authority — years spent inside this industry, not alongside it. Nobody is a CV. Nobody is a line on a fee forecast.

We tell it straight, even when it's hard.

No sugar-coating, no spin. Feedback is honest, transparent and always constructive — for candidates in a process and clients weighing a decision alike. Being straight about it, especially when it's difficult, is one of the most valuable things a partner can do.

The important stuff is always human.

We use AI to take the drag out of our workflows — but it never ranks a CV, never reviews an application, never makes a judgement call about a person. Our whole business is spotting exceptional people, and that's something a computer simply can't do.

We're never transactional.

We don't sell jobs and we don't sell candidates. We find the right match, on both sides — and we're brave enough to say when it isn't there, even when that costs us. The fee is never the point. The fit is.

We're choosy. Deliberately.

Especially about clients. We only work with companies that live strong values and are recognised as great places to work — by referral, by review, or by formal recognition. If we've introduced you to them, it's because we've done our homework.

The beating heart of the industry is people.

Talent isn't only our business — it's our contribution to the sector. We invest in the wider community that the whole industry relies on, for employers and professionals alike.

MedComms.Jobs

Our next-generation, community-led careers platform for the whole sector — connecting talent and employers, with events, insight and networking.

Corporate Member of Bionow

Connected into the wider biopharma and life-sciences community across the UK — beyond agencies, into the science our industry serves.

Members of ISMPP

pobl colleagues are individual members of ISMPP — the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals — keeping us close to the standards and people shaping medical publications.

Across the MedComms Industry

We attend a wide range of industry conferences year-round, meeting talent and employers where the sector gathers.

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Built by people who've worked inside the industry — not alongside it.