Elsevier

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Senior Product Development Manager

As part of product management team in PharmaBioTech division, Medical Products subdivision supported roadmap and maintenance development for flagship product as well as SDLC governance for a new product. Acted as Voice of Quality (GxP) in Product Management and Development Team. Bridged technology and business stakeholders.

  • Served as Product Owner for SCRUM development team for two products (Quosa and Quosa PV).
  • Served as Product Manager for Quosa for eight months, raising NPS from previous 12 months average of 1 up to 7, and then 9.
  • Wrote product specifications for refactoring effort of the QUOSA product, including security and regulatory requirements considering GxP needs of target market.

Life Sciences Consultant

Member of multidisciplinary professional services team; owned bibliographic products non-standard RFP/RFI’s and sales engineering across EMEA; advised on product capabilities to integrate into complex projects, expanded skill and responsibility as PV, Data Quality, Data Security and GxP software compliance SME for team and PBT Division.

  • Performed GxP assessment and wrote the functional/non-functional specification to fulfil regulatory requirements for a new product (Quosa PV).
  • Contributed to new Pharmacovigilance’s Go To Market strategic plan for the PBT division.
  • Devised methodology for formulating and validating queries for PV purposes on Abstract & Index databases (2 conference presentations and a whitepaper, knowhow incorporated on EMBASE PV Wizard).
  • Implemented (including validation) migration of large Literature Current Awareness for Medical Affairs/Medical Information maintaining complex Copyright compliance (Sanofi/Pasteur/Zentiva).
  • Succeeded in driving the implementation of a Quality Management System and the creation of a Quality Manager position.
  • Multiple publications, industry articles eg:
    • Pharma R&D Today , The EMA’s literature screening service and pharma and Dos Anjos, J. 2015,
    • “Complexities and new potential in Pharmacovigilance”, Pharmaceutical Market Europe, November 2015, pp. 44-45
  • Multiple presentations and webinars:
    • Electronic Document Management Conference 2016 (DIA)
    • Pharmaceutical Information and Pharmacovigilance Association Conference 2016 (PIPA)
    • Risk Management and Pharmacovigilance Summit 2017

Solutions Specialist

Elicitation of relevant requirements and cross-referenced with product functionalities. Developed pilot installations to validate value proposition. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on the new features required by customers. Supported account team in demonstrating product value and ROI in support of significant customer contract negotiations (sale, up-sale or renewal).

  • Deployed and supported large Drug Safety literature screening project (Sanofi global PV).
  • Planned, executed, and delivered multiple data migration projects, including programming for data conversion and migration validation.
  • Performed query conversion and harmonization for 800 medicinal products, including programming of string generation ready for import (Sanofi).
  • Became PV domain SME for both Product and PharmaBioTech division.