Sarah Ely Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

• Global business relationship owner providing strategic leadership. Collaborate with global management teams to develop and implement strategic initiatives, expand alliance, strengthen overall relationship. Responsible.
• Provided strategic leadership for global business relationships, strengthening alliances through innovative strategies and initiatives. Managed culturally diverse partnerships, optimising risk and performance to create.
• Implemented comprehensive governance structures, ensuring consistency, portfolio quality, and financial metrics.
• Enhanced logistics and commercial operations through Decentralised Clinical Trials, Cell & Gene, Kit Production, and HHC Commercialisation.
• Navigated complex senior stakeholder relationships internally and externally with third-party organisations, increasing engagement.

Global Clinical to Commercial Supply Chain Management, Operations, Logistics, 3PL /4PL Management, RFX awareness. Contract / Commercial Reviews

Paris, France, FR

• Held concurrent responsibility for management and implementation of supply chain turnaround initiatives to drive profit gains. Tasked with developing acquisition and growth strategy.
• Identified growth opportunities by regular reviews to ensure the strategy of the organisations’ short/medium/Long term plans.
• Managed complex senior stakeholder relationships, internally and externally with 3PL distribution organisations, increasing engagement and opportunities.
• Spearheaded direct and cross functional teams including quality, finance, regulatory, customer services, and trade, working with a high level of autonomy.
• Supervised implementation of supply Chain distribution for ethical, vaccines and consumer health care go to market model, creating significant savings and efficiencies.
• Led contract negotiations for savings on costs for distribution and delivered vaccines change with the supplier.

Paris, France, FR

• Held the responsibility of customer segmentation to enable specific targeting for sales team to understand share of wallet of competitors. Identified new business opportunities.
• Generated and shared best practise strategies, methodology and toolsets, optimising resource planning and management.
• Managed effectively a cross functional team in a matrix environment to deliver best business transformation.
• Won sales champion award 2015, over achieving the first-year sales and margin targets as well as producing an increase in business growth.
• Successfully designed and implemented ‘Key Account Management’ with joint business plans and SWOT, increasing margin with customers

Weybridge, Surrey, GB

• Directed all commercial negotiations on the current account base as well as developed new commercial opportunities.
• Directed commercial negotiations and developed new commercial opportunities for branded and generic products.
• Managed all commercial operations for strategic clients, including Pfizer, GSK, AZ and Astellas.
• Introduced innovative business models and proposals, driving business evolution and improving commercial relationships.
• Managed complex senior stakeholder relationships, increasing engagement and discovering new opportunities.