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United States

United States

Bangalore, India

Bangalore, India

• Managed a team across two locations in procurement, logistics and stores ensuring timely availability of high-quality materials & consumables as needed by the user groups.
• Developed and implemented key procurement strategies in line with organisational objectives.
• Involved in vendor management, inventory management and other initiatives including cost optimizations, lead time improvement etc.
• Spearheaded all the outsourcing activities for the organization right from execution of confidentiality/service agreements, CRO negotiations and finalization, ensuring material movements with 100% compliance as per cGMP.
• Managed end to end communications with multiple service providers for IND enabling studies, Drug substance, drug product delivery.
• Presented MIS reports to senior management.Process improvement initiatives:

Bangalore, India

Bangalore, India

• Led a team of 10 project managers across 2 locations overseeing & managing portfolio of projects- client based integrated discovery programs,internal discovery programs, FTE based/ FFS projects in a matrix environment.
• Provided guidance to the team members and was instrumental in building a strong and capable team.
• Held responsibility as an Alliance manager for a key collaboration where multiple programs were collaborated with a drug development partner at a single point of time.
• Experienced in managing large/ complex projects that involved multiple scope changes, uncertainties.
• Played critical role in budgeting process and reviews.
• Presented MIS reports to senior management thereby providing insights on resources, budget, overall project performance against set deliverables.

• Handled multiple client based (USA, Europe) and internal drug discovery projects, overseeing & managing projects right from the initiation till closure.
• Identified various project activities & resourcing requirements based on study proposal, integrated various departments for the proper scheduling of activities and optimum utilization of resources.
• Led and coordinated project planning with respect to time and cost.
• Scheduled, organized project team meetings & client visits. Ensured accuracy of documentation of key decisions, issues, and action items.
• Served as a key operational interface & managed communications with collaborators, other stakeholders & external vendors for outsourcing studies.
• Estimated project costs & carried out activity based budgeting in close coordination with Finance & scientific teams. Tracked the project expenditure on a monthly/quarterly basis. Assessed and reported impact of.

• Handled 2-3 client based and internal drug discovery projects ensuring projects run within the agreed deliverables.
• Process owner for project code creation. Extensively worked on SAP project systems module. Handled projects master data including project code creation, work breakdown structure, budget assignments, tracking, analysis.
• Process owner for Resource Trak, a customized tracking tool to capture resource allocation across projects & functions.

Bangalore, India

• Cloned, expressed and purified various proteins for enzymatic assays & crystallization experiments.
• Planned experiments & delivered the results within the stipulated time, budget & optimum utilization of resources.
• Coordinated with team members and individuals at various organization levels & communicated the project updates to the project team leaders.

Involved in assay development for HTS screening of fungal clones to get good antibiotic activity.

B.Tech, Industrial Biotechnology

Egbmp, Global Business Management