Lean Team, Big Leadership Bench

Grace Niwa, VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, joins Chris Hoyt and Gerry Crispin to unpack how her lean team of 2–3 recruiters scaled VP+ hiring from ~12 to 30–40 a year — hiring 100+ VPs in five years by treating executive hiring as a strategic portfolio, not a series of one-off reqs, with market mapping, succession planning, and calibrated assessment frameworks built for speed and scale.