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South Africa

• Full management of the Oncology Division’s commercial function to ensure consistent growth, including the safe and effective delivery of oncology medicines to patients across South Africa.• Maintain a valuable, sustainable, ongoing pipeline of oncology products for the territory.• Direct the duties of sales professionals, including KPI and performance management.• Build and maintain long-term key stakeholder relationships.• Control OPEX to maximise business unit profitability.• Ensure the unit’s compliance with all regulatory and registration landscape governing medicines.• Monitor the end-to-end logistical process, including identifying gaps and risks to product delivery.• Plan and identify project timelines, including presenting brand plans and strategic business reviews to the Board.• Steer product launches of new-to-market entrants.• Ongoing Pharmacovigilance and adverse event monitoring.

South Africa

• Significantly improve brand recognition, source and cultivate business opportunities, and introduce new revenue streams to drive sustainable financial growth within a diverse portfolio.• Oversee mergers and acquisitions to expand and rapidly gain market share.• Lead complex contract negotiations, including analysing stock, liability protection and associated risks. • Approve and successfully secure strategic alliances with local and international companies and industry leaders.• Identify and evaluate market trends and dynamics and secure profitable business opportunities. • Secure exclusive arrangements with intellectual property owners, manage the Regulatory Affairs component with the South African Regulator and liaise between internal teams and global partners.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Led all Pharmaceutical price negotiations for Discovery Health Medical Scheme and in-house schemes.• Developed and implemented drug strategy policies and maintenance on all drug benefits.• Analysed, identified, amended and assessed the impact of pharmacy and health legislation.• Industry Representative both locally and internationally.• Management of high-cost and high utilisation pharmaceutical benefits.• Oversaw internal Discovery Health rule integration customisation and new rule development.• Managed and led the training and implementation of all drug benefits.• Developed and maintained Discovery Health’s reference pricing tool.• Selected products for drug price negotiations within defined price targets.• Customised in-house Scheme drug benefit rules.• Developed Clinical tools (electronic and automated).• Managed and monitored new drug benefit development and enhancements, including identifying deficiencies, assessing the impact on members and patients, to counter the costs contributing to premium increases.• Negotiated and secured stakeholder buy-in before implementation.• Managed medicine inflation aligned with budgets and targets.• Steered the introduction and navigation of Discovery’s medicine benefit design and new initiatives locally and internationally.• Developed and implemented medicine pricing strategy integration.• Engaged with Regulatory Pharmacy and activist groups regarding medicine access.• Assessed new Pharmaceutical technology and medicine innovation markets, including high-cost novelty medicines, market pricing and market share strategies.

Gauteng, South Africa

Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Gauteng, South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Randridge Mall, Gauteng, South Africa

South Africa

• Drug Utilisation Review Pharmacist for SAPPI and Transmed Medical Aids.• Management of the scheme's Medicine Utilisation and cost containment.• Clinical review of Adhoc and exceptional medicine management cases.• Oncology Pharmacist for Transmed from 2003 to 2004.• Received a distinction for the Alpha Pharmacist continuing education program 2003, 2007 and 2008.• Promoted to 2IC in 2004 responsible for captaining the clinical intervention team.• Appointed as Pharmacist Team Leader - Medicine Risk Management in 2005.• Health and Safety Representative for Qualsa Managed Healthcare.• Staff Liaison Committee Representative• Recipient of the Development of Self and Others Award - 2004.• MHG Youth Council Representative for the CSI Sponsorship Committee.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

🔹 Accepted to the GIBS Healthcare Management Stream due to personal and practical contributions to the healthcare management industry

Postgraduate Diploma In Management Practice, Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Pharmacy (Bpharm)

Matriculated: National Senior Certificate