Ana Sanchez Email & Phone Number

Madrid Area, Spain

Ana is a motivated and independent People Manager (PeM) with more than 20 years of experience in clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry and International CRO. In this role, Ana, is accountable for managing a team of PLs ensuring effective career development and performance management in the Infectious and Respiratory Diseases unit. Ana has developed direct reports through promotion to senior levels within and across PD teams in line with the core people manager expectations and PPD competencies. Ana supports and directs training for soft and technical skills to ensure knowledge of PPD’s systems, processes and tools within Project Delivery. Ana also led the management of several global initiatives.

Madrid Area, Spain

Madrid Area, Spain

Global Project Manager of a large multi-national Phase III Respiratory Program in the treatment of subjects with uncontrolled Asthma, managing 31 countries in NA, EMEA, APAC and Latin America, with 500 sites and over 2000 patients. She works effectively across the multiple services including Data Management, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Services and Clinical Operations as appropriate to direct the delivery of her studies within cost, time and quality requirements. She may provide direct supervision, support, training and mentoring to project managers and works with leadership in all functional areas on the continuous development/improvement of business processes to support cross functional teams and to ensure that work is uniform, complete and managed appropriately. Ana serves as a liaison with Business Development and Bids/Contracts for the client presentations and proposal development. She assists in resource utilization, policy development, and implementation of goals.

As Associated Director, acting as Global Project Manager of a multinational Phase III Oncology Sudy in the Treatment of Indolent Non-Hodkin’s Lymphoma in patients refractory to Rituximab. As Associate Director she is providing senior management and oversight to Projects in Oncology area and acting as escalation point for the Sponsor. She provides oversight of financial aspects of these Projects, ensuring a successful delivery on time and within budget. As Associate Director, she is major contributor in the developement and driving of the specific and overall therapeutic area strategies to ensure optimum performance and achievement of annual plans and targets She interacts with multiple departments to improve existing Company Processes and Procedures and implement new ones. She closely works with Business development and Contracts & Proposals Department for preparation of Proposals and Bid Defence meetings.

Global Project Manager of a large, multi-national Phase III Oncology Project in the Treatment of Bone Metastases in Subjects with Advanced Prostate Cancer. As well as managing PMs in North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, I'm responsible for the management of 30 countries in EU/ROW, over 180 sites and 1,000 patients, and multiple services including Data Management, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Operations and other functional groups as appropriate. I plan and implement to achieve anticipated and unexpected project deliverables. A key aspect of the role is to analyse and oversee cost, personnel hours and project needs to determine the most cost effective and efficient means to run and complete projects successfully on time, to the agreed quality standards and within budget, while meeting the Customer’s needs and adhering to the contract. Delegation of assigned responsibilities to project team members is a key skill she has shown. Regular and proactive liaison with Department Heads to optimise performance and utilisation of the project team members. She anticipates potential issues and escalate appropriately/pro-actively to their Franchise Director/Associate Director. I act as primary contact with Customer throughout study, up to delivery of final project product(s), and has built very strong relationships with all my client contacts.

Management of a large, multi-national Phase III Oncology Project in the Treatment of Bone Metastases in Subjects with Advanced Prostate Cancer. She is responsible for the management of 30 countries in EU/ROW and 1.000 patients through all departments Data Management, Clinical Operations and other functional groups as appropriate. Plan and implement to achieve anticipated and unexpected project deliverables. Analyse and oversee cost, personnel hours and project needs to determine the most cost effective and efficient means to run and complete projects successfully on time, to the agreed quality standards and within budget while meeting the Customer’s needs and adhering to the contract. Delegation of assigned responsibilities to project team members. Regular and proactive liaison with Department Heads to optimise performance and utilisation of the project team members. Anticipate potential issues and escalate appropriately/pro-actively to their Franchise Director/Associate Director. Act as primary contact with Customer throughout study, up to delivery of final project product(s).

As Senior Clinical Team Manager, plays a Lead-CTM role and manages a large, multi-national Phase III Oncology Program with 3 different projects in the Treatment of Bone Metastases in Subjects with Advanced Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer and Solid tumors or Multiple Myeloma. Responsibility for the management of 8 CTMs and 30 countries in EU/ROW and 5350 patients through clinical start-up, monitoring, visits reports review and archiving. Implements and leads the consolidation of 3 studies in one single global program, ensuring consistency and an adequate communication flow across the 3 projects and all the regions involved (EU/ROW; Asia, US and LatAM). Involved in regular and proactive liaison with the Director, Project Manager, Clinical Operations Managers, Data Management and other functional groups as appropriate. As Lead CTM serves as primary customer contact together with PM and satisfies customer necessities, manages the flow of information between them and CTMs

As Clinical Team Manager, manages all clinical operations aspects of all allocated studies. Serves as the primary clinical operations contact for the Project Manager. Coordinates standardised start up and clinical monitoring guidelines (in conjunction with query guidelines). Ensures essential document quality. Reviews monitoring visit reports. Performs co-monitoring visits where necessary. Identifies and performs any required trouble shooting activities. Manages query resolution process.Management of different large, multinational, Phase II and III projects all of them with 12-20 countries (Latino America, EU and South Africa) through clinical start-up, monitoring, archiving and visits reports review. Responsible for the coordination and management of all clinical operations project team members on an international basis (particularly CRA’s). Implements and manages the necessary training, tracking and quality systems within the clinical portion of the project.. Accountable for achieving the final clinical deliverable (usually clean data from evaluable patients as specified in the study protocol) within the time period specified in the contract with the customer.

Responsible for managing therapeutic area projects including Cardiovascular and Endocrinology and coordination of CRAs and other resources. Ensured that clinical studies are conducted in accordance with clinical strategy and within established timelines and budgets. Developed very close teamwork, whose main values are adaptability, cooperation and enthusiasm, keeping always in mind the need of achieving the goals of the team in time and quality. Management of a clinical team involved in International (5) and Local (2) Projects (> 1.900 patients included in > 80 Hospitals) with excellent results - milestones highly exceeded in the studies. Developed good knowledge of all CRA’s strengths and weakness and showed an ability to develop a team with enthusiastic, hard-working and happy people who assumes pivotal values as their own.

Msc, Pharmacy

Specialist in Clinical Analysis, 1998 Ministery of Health, Spain

Specialist, Clinical Analysis

Intensive training in: Microbiology/parasitology/infectious diseases (1 year), Haematology: cytology, blood coagulation (1 year).