Meet the team
The PharmaStaff management team have a combined fifty years of recruitment management experience collectively between the UK and Ireland markets. Here at PharmaStaff we believe in the partnership approach and it is this belief that keeps our clients and candidates coming back to us.

Paul Murphy BSc (Hons) CIPD
Paul joined Pharma Staff in 1999 as Managing Partner for Ireland the UK and Europe. Paul possesses over 21 years successful Recruitment experience in the Pharmaceutical, Engineering and IT Sector. Paul has specialised in the provision of Full Life-Cycle Recruitment processes encompassing all relevant disciplines for the supply of Contract, Interim and Permanent staff.
He has build up long-term client and candidate relationships over many years with most of the major multinationals and SMEs who remain clients to this day.
Email: paul@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 872713000
Steve Latchford
Steve has been with Pharmastaff since 2000, having been involved in recruitment since 1988. Steve has delivered on a large number of recruitment projects for clients within the Pharmaceutical, Financial, IT and Biotechnology sectors. Steve delivers recruitment results and partners with clients for many of Ireland and the UK’s leading multinationals.
Email: steve@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 863858708

Kris Gilheaney Bsc (Hons)
Kris is a business management graduate coming from a sales and business development background. Kris has been working in the recruitment industry since 2000, and after working with some of the country’s leading specialist recruitment firms, Kris joined PharmaStaff as a Senior Partner in 2005.
With responsibility for NI and ROI market, Kris specialises in the delivery of domestic and international contingency and executive search projects into the medical devices and pharmaceutical sectors.
Email: kris@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 863864083
Emer Slevin BA (Hons) HRM, CIPD
Emer is a Resource Management and HR Consultant, with 15 years experience working at all levels of recruitment. She has previously worked with Fujitsu Consulting as a Resource Manager at Director level, where she headed up the Resource Management function for a very dynamic and busy Consultancy organisation. Previous to that she worked with EPS Software heading up the Contracting and Consulting division. Emer has a wealth of experience recruiting within Pharmaceutical, IT and the public sector. Emer now works as a Resource Management and HR Consultant with PharmaStaff working with many of our larger client organisations on an advisory and operational level, running recruitment campaigns for large scale recruitment, advising on lean management, recruiting and executive searching for high level and limited candidate roles and resourcing for clients in general.
Email: emer@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 871268760
Kieran Hinphey CIPD
Kieran is a business graduate with 8 years Technical Sales and Recruitment experience. Previously a Senior Consultant with a leading multinational and one of Irelands premier specialist technical agencies He has a wealth of experience dealing with local and multinational construction, medical device and pharmaceutical clients. Kieran has a proven track record of delivering on permanent and large scale contractual project requirements.
Email: kieran@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 868496200

Jo Brennan , BBS Hons, PostGrad Dip Marketing
Jo has close to 15 years Senior Management experience in Sales, Marketing & Business Development roles in the IT industry where building relationships were key to success. She joined Pharma Staff as a Senior Partner in 2008 & brought with her international clients for whom she recruits sales & technical candidates for IT & Pharma accounts.
Having been a people manager herself she understands the need to get the candidate fit ‘right first time’. She is currently studying a Diploma in Executive & Business Coaching.
Email: jo@pharmastaff.ie
Mobile: +353 863864083
- Design Engineer-Medical Devices-Waterford 50-60k
- Service Engineer- Medical Equipment- Nationwide 35-40k
- R & D Engineer-Medical Devices-Waterford 50-60k
- Production Shift Supervisor Dublin 40k
- Prod Planner-Medical Devices-Connaught 35-40k
- Sales -Scientific/Lab Equip-Leinster 50-60k
- QA Chemist-Bulk Pharma-Leinster- Neg
- Process Technician-Medical Devices-Galway 30-40k
- Process Validation Analyst Dublin 38k
- Lab Manager Dublin 45k
- Health & Safety Wicklow 55k
- R&D Engineer Dublin 45k
- Chemial Process Engineer Leinster 70k
- Biotechnology Analyst Munster 35k