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San Francisco, CA, US

London, GB

Building the clinical sourcing and category management capability with a focus on developing the first fully outsourced operating model and CRO selection at the company.

As a Clinical Outsourcing consultant my goal is to support Biotech and Biopharma clients with the right knowledge, decision making, and tools at the right time, and where needed, up-skill those organizations to be self-sufficient in the future

Menlo Park, California, US

Established and led the Development Outsourcing function, which included all sourcing and contracting activities, implementing supplier relationship management and governance, clinical site contracting and budgeting, and forecasting and financial oversight of external spend.A key achievement was the successful PhIII program level supplier selection for CRO.

San Francisco, California, US

Rebuilt and led the Development Outsourcing function, a team of 12, covering outsourcing of all services from early research through to late stage clinical trials, clinical site and HCP contracting, and supplier relationship management and governance for key strategic relationships (both site and supplier).As the company downsized, the role included the.

Morrisville, North Carolina, US

Established and led the Strategic Pricing function including the implementation of new pricing models for fully decentralized clinical trials (virtual sites only), metasites services (one virtual site amongst traditional sites), hybrid trial services (virtual patient visits on a traditional trial) and enterprise wide technology licensing.Key role in the.

South San Francisco, California, US

Established the new CRO & Patient Engagement Category Management team, a team of 6, within broader R&D Procurement, with accountability for optimizing all CRO and clinical site spend across Roche & Genentech globally (an estimated spend of >$2.5B).A key achievement was the renewal of MSAs and rate cards with favorable terms for the three strategic CRO.

South San Francisco, California, US

Led the critically important internal Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED) relationship, including understanding business needs and translating those needs into strategic sourcing and procurement activities, including the development and maintenance of strategic supplier (CRO and central laboratory) relationships.

South San Francisco, California, US

Relocated from the UK to US to lead an organization of 55 sourcing professionals based in US, Canada, UK, Switzerland and China, in 5 business partner aligned teams, accountable for the execution of all late stage clinical trial sourcing and contracting activities.

Switzerland 🇨🇭, CH

Led a team of 16 Sourcing Managers accountable for the execution of all late stage clinical trial sourcing and contracting activities for clinical study teams based in the UK.Led a global initiative to optimize functional outsourcing, contingent workforce and offshoring models across the R&D organization resulting in significant business benefits.

Switzerland 🇨🇭, CH

Responsible for the entire life cycle of supplier selection and contract management for multiple clinical trials, including RFP, negotiation, selection, contracting, oversight and closeout. Implementation of FSP and MSP models in support of the Biometrics function.

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Led sourcing, supplier relationship management and governance activities on multiple functional service provider (FSP) relationships including North American clinical trial monitoring and global clinical data management.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

Execution of all clinical data management activities for insourced and outsourced clinical trials across multiple therapeutics areas including oncology, anti-infectives, cardiovascular, and pain.

Bsc Psychology (Hons)

Leading Change

Advanced Negotiation Skills