Benjamin Roussel, Pharmd Email & Phone Number

Grenoble, FR

Le Pont-de-Claix, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Reporting directly to our VP of Marketing my assignments include:
• Develop and maintain a clear understanding of customer needs, product offerings or current services, market developments and implications of changing pharmaceutical industry trends
• Define and implement a product/service strategy in order to achieve or exceed objectives of the operational unit. This include analyzing information relating to the market and customers, to carry out primary market.
• Develop and implement an overall marketing plan for products/services by segment
• Ensure the achievement of financial/budgetary objectives
• Develop and implement pricing strategies, market analyses, programs promotional, market research and distribution strategies

• Responsible for the disruptive innovation department
• Referent person in Urgo Research Innovation and Development for all the interactions with our US subsidiary
• Product owner on key strategic projects: define value proposition, storytelling, coordination with technical teams and subsidiaries, P&L
• Product development under ISO 13485, ISO 62304 and FDA standards
• Define new opportunities and propose new breakthrough concepts
• Direct and transversal team management

Chenôve

• Working in the Strategic Innovation department within the research, innovation and development entity of Urgo. My responsabilities include:
• Propose and evaluate new business opportunities (incremental or disruptive) by exploring unmet needs / markets / trends / uses and habits
• Drive strategic innovation axes according to the most recent innovation management methods to identify, prioritize and transform ideas into projects
• Prepare recommendations and present them to the Innovation Steering Committee and top management
• Actively participate in the evaluation of strategic plans
• Be the innovation referent for US team

Lyon Area, France

• I lead the Life Sciences and Healthcare activities within the company, reporting directly to CEO. My responsibilities include:
• Achieve the company objectives across our different business lines (market research reports, media and consulting services), with P&L responsibility
• Management of the MedTech analyts team (5 peoples) as well as external research partners
• Business development & sales coordination of the activity (including support to sales force, presentations to major key conferences and meetings with company customers worldwide)
• Key accounts management
• Member of the Executive Committee

Région De Lyon, France

• In charge of the analysis linked to Medical Technologies including bioMEMS, Microfluidics and medical imaging topics. My assignments included:
• Market research & marketing analysis (data collection, identification of new applications, set-up of market segmentation, product marketing analysis)
• Strategy consulting (supply and value chain analysis, strategic positioning recommandations, elaboration of action plans, sales strategy development, support for M&A and fundraising)
• Business development (identify new prospects in a given field /or geographical area, interviews reporting, face to face visits to meet with final customers, identification of new partners)
• Technology analysis (reverse processing and reverse costing analysis, competition benchmarking, development of product and technology roadmaps)My work includes also project management of marketing & technology.

Région De Lyon, France

• 4 months Internship
• Case Analyst in the Global Pharmacovigilance department: Data entry and management of international case reports; Redaction of Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR)
• Management of an innovative project aimed at optimizing the quality of reports submitted to Pharmacovigilancy Health Authorities worldwide (Sanofi Pasteur)

Région De Rome, Italie

Drugs and medical devices delivery at the hospital's pharmacy

Région De Lyon, France

Internship within the hospital's pharmacy. My role as a project manager was to identify how to improve medical device orders and delivery within the hospital.

2011, Master In Technology And Innovation Management

Activities and Societies: Organisation of a ski week-end General management program: project management, supply chain, accounting.

Doctor Of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), Pharmacy

Activities and Societies: French boxe Thesis subject: Impact of Microtechnologies on Pharmaceutical laboratories innovation process