Rubina Farooqui
Healthcare Research And Consulting
Mumbai,MH
Summary
Engagement Manager with over 13 years of successful experience in healthcare research and consulting. Experience spanning a wide set of clients in lifescience and consumer health markets and portfolios
Advised and supported top MNCs in projects across product lifecycles from clinical to post marketing, growth and maturity phases
Expertise in market entry, pricing, brand performance, communication and segmentation studies
Successful at keeping customers happy and working with cross-functional teams to manage clients and projects. Collaborative and hardworking with a flexible approach and strategic mindset
Articulate communicator, team leader and organized manager
Recognized for performance excellence and contributions to success in primary market research teams
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Engagement Manager
IQVIA
Mumbai, Maharashtra
03.2019 - Current
- Lead planning, growth and profitability of primary intelligence and medical solutions offering for IQVIA in South East Asia
- Contributed to growth and development of offering many folds since 2016 with average growth of 38%
- Diversified PMR business by launching consumer health sub-offering under primary intelligence in 2018 which now contributes more than third to total PI business and secured top clients from CPG and Pharma with consumer health product portfolios
- Lead development of IQVIA online survey platform and its adoption by respondent panel which supported business during 2020 COVID lockdowns and also helped in revival after first quarter
- Strengthened medical solutions offering and increased business from 1 to 3 active programs since 2019
- Mentored team of 10 researches and consultants for different sub-offerings catering to lifescience, consumer health and medical solution
- Drove marketing efforts by releasing syndicate reports and conducting workshops
Senior Consultant
IQVIA
Mumbai, Maharashtra
08.2016 - 02.2019
- Lead credential and business development for PMR offering and increased sales by 30%
- Streamlined processes for project management, documentation and pharmacovigilance and developed SOPs
- Lead end to end project delivery with team of analysts and associate consultants under guidance of Principal
- Conducted excel and power point trainings for team
- Mentored team on research material design, analysis and report writing
Research Manager
IPSOS RESEARCH PRIVATE LIMITED
Mumbai, Maharashtra
01.2014 - 08.2016
- Developed proposals, conducted client pitch and collaborated in business development
- Lead projects from conception to delivery bringing out actionable insights for clients
- Managed over 50 projects each year
- Mentored team of researchers in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, projects and techniques
- Developed long term relationships with clients
- Maintained budgets and ISO guidelines and conducted internal audits for quality control
Senior Researcher
IPSOS
Mumbai, Maharashtra
08.2011 - 12.2013
- Collaborated with manager in proposal writing and project delivery
- Managed designing of research instruments for both qualitative and quantitative projects, analysis and report writing
- Managed vendors and project level budgets
- Collaborated with team members to initiate best practices to achieve organizational goals. formulated pharmacovigilance SOP for 20+ PMR team to ensure project level compliance
- Participated in India and global trainings to enhance PMR skills and techniques
- Streamlined research processes to meet tight deadlines for multiple projects
Senior Business Analyst
PharmARC Analytic Solution
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2009 - 08.2011
- Managed projects with respect to resources, project deadlines and allotted tasks
- Delivered market assessment and competitor benchmarking projects
- Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes
- Used secondary desk research and datasets for project level data collection and analysis
- Collaborated with regional SPOCs to streamline project outcomes aligned to client objective and expectation
- Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management - Business Management
SIES College of Management Studies
Navi Mumbai 07.2007 - 03.2009
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
Royal College
Mumbai 06.2003 - 06.2006
HSC - H.S.C. Mumbai. Board
Royal College
Mumbai 06.2001 - 02.2003
SSC - S.S.C. Mumbai. Board
Royal Girl’s High School
Mumbai 03.2000 - 03.2001
Skills
P&L Management
undefinedReading fiction and biographies
Love to read fiction and especially the mystery genre, Arthur Conan Doyle is my favorite author followed by Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie
Some of the recent authors that I love to read are Fredrik Backman, J.K Rowling and Dan Brown
Work Availability
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Timeline
Engagement Manager
IQVIA
03.2019 - Current
Senior Consultant
IQVIA
08.2016 - 02.2019
Research Manager
IPSOS RESEARCH PRIVATE LIMITED
01.2014 - 08.2016
Senior Researcher
IPSOS
08.2011 - 12.2013
Senior Business Analyst
PharmARC Analytic Solution
05.2009 - 08.2011
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management - Business Management
SIES College of Management Studies
07.2007 - 03.2009
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
Royal College
06.2003 - 06.2006
HSC - H.S.C. Mumbai. Board
Royal College
06.2001 - 02.2003
SSC - S.S.C. Mumbai. Board
Royal Girl’s High School
03.2000 - 03.2001
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