Functional Service Provider (FSP) Solutions for Life Sciences
Build Specialized Life Sciences Teams Without Slowing Down Your Programs
Finding experienced professionals in Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Biometrics, Drug Safety, and other specialized functions can delay critical milestones and stretch internal teams.
Orbis Clinical’s Functional Service Provider (FSP) solutions give biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device organizations a flexible way to add embedded expertise where it’s needed most. Whether you’re supporting a single function or building a larger team, every engagement is tailored to your organization’s goals, workflows, and pace of growth.
With more than 20 years focused exclusively on life sciences, we help organizations strengthen critical functions while maintaining visibility, operational control, and the flexibility to scale as priorities evolve.
Functional Areas We Support
Every FSP engagement is built around the functions that keep clinical development moving. Whether you need additional capacity for a specific project or ongoing support across multiple programs, Orbis Clinical provides specialized talent in the areas that are often the most difficult to recruit.
Flexible FSP Solutions
Built Around Your Organization
No two organizations face the same workforce challenges. Some need to quickly expand a Clinical Operations team ahead of a study launch. Others need specialized Regulatory Affairs or Biometrics expertise to support growing pipelines. Many are looking for a long-term workforce strategy that allows them to add capability without permanently increasing headcount.
That’s why every Orbis Clinical FSP engagement is customized around your organization’s specific needs.
We work with your team to understand where support is needed, identify professionals with the right technical expertise, and build an engagement model that aligns with your existing processes and business objectives. Our professionals become an extension of your team, contributing within your systems and workflows while Orbis Clinical provides ongoing recruiting support, engagement management, and workforce continuity.
The result is a flexible workforce solution that helps your organization move programs forward with confidence.
Why Organizations Choose an FSP Model
Hiring specialized life sciences talent isn't always a long-term need. Study timelines shift. Pipelines expand. Priorities change. A Functional Service Provider model gives organizations the flexibility to strengthen critical functions without permanently increasing headcount or relying on multiple staffing partners.
Add specialized expertise during periods of growth
Reduce hiring timelines for difficult-to-fill positions
Increase capacity for specific studies or development programs
Maintain continuity across critical functions
Scale teams as business priorities evolve
Build workforce solutions around their organization rather than standardized staffing models
Every Orbis Clinical engagement is designed to adapt as your needs change, whether you’re adding one embedded professional or building a larger functional team.
Find out how Orbis Clinical can help you
The Orbis
Clinical Approach
A successful FSP engagement depends on more than filling positions. It requires professionals who understand the work they’re stepping into and a partner who understands the environment they’re joining.
At Orbis Clinical, every engagement starts with your organization. We take the time to understand your team structure, hiring goals, workflows, and timelines before recommending a solution. From there, we identify professionals with the technical expertise and industry experience needed to contribute quickly and integrate into your existing team.
Because our focus is exclusively on life sciences, we’re able to recruit for highly specialized functions that can be difficult to support through general staffing models.
What Sets Orbis Clinical Apart
Every FSP engagement is built around the functions that keep clinical development moving. Whether you need additional capacity for a specific project or ongoing support across multiple programs, Orbis Clinical provides specialized talent in the areas that are often the most difficult to recruit.
Exclusive Focus on Life Sciences
Life sciences is our only business. For more than 20 years, we've partnered with biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device organizations to deliver specialized talent across the clinical development lifecycle.
Flexible Engagement Models
No two organizations have the same workforce strategy. Our FSP solutions can support a single function, multiple functional areas, or an entire embedded team, allowing your workforce to scale alongside your programs.
Specialized Talent Networks
Our recruiters focus on the disciplines they support, giving clients access to experienced professionals across Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Biometrics, Drug Safety, Study Start-Up, Medical Affairs, Clinical Data Management, Statistical Programming, Quality, and Project Management.
A Long-Term Partnership
An FSP engagement doesn't end when positions are filled. Orbis Clinical remains actively involved throughout the engagement, providing ongoing recruiting support, workforce continuity, and responsive account management as your needs evolve.
Dedicated Support Beyond Placement
Every consultant is paired with a dedicated recruiter who serves as an advocate throughout each assignment, providing ongoing support, helping resolve challenges, and identifying future opportunities as projects conclude. Consultants also have access to competitive benefits, including health and vision coverage, an employer-sponsored 401(k) with company matching, and weekly pay, helping support both their current assignment and long-term career goals.
Supporting Organizations
Across the Clinical Development Lifecycle
Whether you’re preparing for first patient in, managing active studies, expanding regulatory capabilities, or strengthening long-term operational capacity, Orbis Clinical helps organizations build the specialized teams needed to support every stage of clinical development.
Our clients include emerging biotech companies preparing for growth, mid-sized organizations expanding development programs, and established pharmaceutical and medical device companies looking for flexible workforce solutions that align with changing business priorities.
Proven FSP Solutions
Every engagement is different, but the objective is the same: provide specialized expertise that helps organizations move programs forward.
Rapidly Scaling Biopharma
Supported a sponsor as study volume nearly doubled, providing experienced professionals who expanded operational capacity while maintaining continuity across multiple clinical programs.
Rare Disease Biopharma
Developed a scalable workforce solution that allowed the organization to strengthen critical functions without adding permanent headcount.
Sponsor Oversight Support
Provided embedded resources during an active Phase III program to strengthen sponsor oversight and support ongoing clinical operations.
Great team to work with. Orbis team cares about the need of the employees every step of the way not just at the start.
Myles was my recruiter contact Orbis and he was great ever since he brought this opportunity. He was well informed of the role and exlplained and understood how my experience pertains to the role. He was very responsive and always ready to answer any questions I had.
Glassdoor
Professional, Friendly, Supportive, Consistent, Responsive, Follows up and doesn’t leaving you hanging!
Glassdoor
Let's Build the Right Team for What's Next
Whether you’re expanding a single function or building a larger embedded team, Orbis Clinical can help you access the specialized expertise needed to keep your programs moving.
Talk with our team to discuss a Functional Service Provider solution tailored to your organization’s needs, or call us at (781) 328-1132.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Functional Service Provider (FSP)?
A Functional Service Provider is a workforce solution that provides specialized professionals within defined business functions. Rather than outsourcing an entire clinical program, organizations can strengthen individual functions with embedded expertise that integrates into existing teams.
What life sciences functions can Orbis Clinical support?
Our FSP solutions commonly support Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Biometrics, Drug Safety, Pharmacovigilance, Study Start-Up, Medical Affairs, Project Management, Quality, Clinical Data Management, Statistical Programming, and other specialized disciplines.
Can an FSP engagement start with one resource?
Yes. Many engagements begin with a single embedded professional supporting a critical function and expand over time as organizational needs change.
Is every FSP engagement customized?
Yes. Every engagement is designed around your organization’s goals, workflows, team structure, and hiring priorities.
