DIKSHA Choudhury
Amritsar
Summary
Dynamic POP Analyst with extensive experience at Novartis, excelling in vendor management and patient-oriented programs. Proven ability to enhance compliance and streamline project approvals, leveraging proficiency in MedDRA and strong team collaboration skills. Successfully coordinated global projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to regulatory standards.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
POP Analyst
Novartis
Hyderabad
11.2024 - Current
- Responsible for discussing with the Pharmacovigilance team regarding patient-oriented programs.
- Responsible for liaising with the vendor for the required documents and project details before initiating project classification.
- Manages the approvals for all the countries and ensures that the vendor’s associates do not start fieldwork in any country before requiring relevant approval.
- Coordinates with global/US PVR to classify the projects and initiate the required approval accordingly.
- Coordinates with the brand team and disease area leads to understand their requirements, take the quotations from them, and accordingly connect with the vendor.
- After receiving the required approval, gives the go-ahead to the vendor for initiating the fieldwork in the country.
- Collates the AE training records of the vendor associates before they start working in the field for any Novartis project.
- After completing the last fieldwork in all the countries, asks for the required AE & SDV reconciliation to understand if any AEs were identified and reported to the country PVR within the timeline of 24 hours.
- Responsible for uploading the relevant start and end dates of the fieldwork in the Novartis internal system within the timeline after fieldwork is over for compliance purposes.
- Decision-making in determining the scope of the program.
- Managing RLT supply chain management GPS tracking for the drug shipments and ensuring on-time delivery of the products from the manufacturing site to their destination at hospitals.
- Managing the US knowledge management SharePoint as a data steward involves uploading the files, creating SharePoint tracker entries, and validating the data to ensure quality for market research, competitive intelligence, and social media listening projects.
- Collaborating with therapeutic area SPOCs and the UX/UI team to design the brand pages.
- Handling social media listening project approvals in one registry platform.
POP Analyst
Randstad source right
Hyderabad
05.2024 - 10.2024
- Responsible for discussing with the Pharmacovigilance team regarding patient-oriented programs.
- Responsible for liaising with the vendor worldwide for the required documents and project details before initiating project classification.
- Manages the approvals for all the countries and ensures that vendors' associates do not start fieldwork in any country before requiring the relevant approval.
- Coordinates with global PVR to classify the projects and initiate the required approval accordingly.
- Coordinates with the brand team and disease area leads to understand their requirements, take the quotations from them, and accordingly connect with the vendor.
- Post-receiving the required approval, giving the go-ahead to the vendor for initiating the fieldwork in the country.
- Collating the AE training records of the vendor associates before they start working in the field for any Novartis project.
- After completing the last fieldwork in all the countries, we are asking for the required AE and SDV reconciliation to understand if any AEs were identified and reported to the country PVR within the timeline of 24 hours.
- Responsible for uploading the relevant start and end dates of the fieldwork in the Novartis internal system within the timeline after the fieldwork is over for compliance purposes.
- Decision-making in determining the scope of the program.
- Contributed to CRM SharePoint by creating lists and folders.
- Downloaded material from FUSE for Kisqali, prepared an Excel file with links, and uploaded all the documents to SharePoint for audit purposes.
- Managing RLT supply chain management GPS tracking for drug shipments and ensuring on-time delivery of the products from the manufacturing site to their destination at hospitals.
- Presented the RLT supply chain management workflow in the monthly knowledge-sharing session of GBS.
POP Analyst
Manpowergroup Services India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
10.2023 - 04.2024
- Responsible for discussing with the Pharmacovigilance team regarding patient-oriented programs.
- Responsible for liaising with the vendor worldwide for the required documents and project details before initiating project classification.
- Manages the approvals for all the countries and ensures that vendors' associates do not start fieldwork in any country before requiring the relevant approval.
- Coordinates with global PVR to classify the projects and initiate the required approval accordingly.
- Coordinates with the brand team and disease area leads to understand their requirements, take the quotations from them, and accordingly connect with the vendor.
- Post-receiving the required approval, giving the go-ahead to the vendor for initiating the fieldwork in the country.
- Collating the AE training records of the vendor associates before they start working in the field for any Novartis project.
- After completing the last fieldwork in all the countries, we are asking for the required AE and SDV reconciliation to understand if any AEs were identified and reported to the country PVR within the timeline of 24 hours.
- Responsible for uploading the relevant start and end dates of the fieldwork in the Novartis internal system within the timeline after the fieldwork is over for compliance purposes.
- Conducted a monthly internal team meeting to discuss growth, loopholes, and achievements.
- Conducted an internal team knowledge-sharing session on CoPilot.
Safety Specialist
PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
Hyderabad
07.2021 - 10.2023
- Monitoring, receipt, tracking, and acknowledgment of individual case safety reports (ICSRs).
- Checking for validity and duplication of ICSRs from different sources (post-marketing, literature) for their entry into the safety database (Argus).
- Triage ICSRs to prioritize their submission to regulatory authorities, as per regulatory timelines.
- Accurate and complete entry of data, including coding of events using MedDRA, and products using appropriate drug dictionaries.
- Summarize the narrative in chronological order.
- Support the team with other administrative-related activities.
- Effectively communicate with team members, client contacts, and adverse event reporters.
- Providing mentoring and work direction to more junior-level staff.
- Performing workflow management activities and ensuring that work is distributed equally according to staff availability and timelines for timely reporting, to avoid any late reports.
- Experience with the Argus and Arisg databases.
Pharmacovigilance Associate
AWINSA Life Sciences
New Delhi
11.2019 - 07.2021
- Performing a literature search.
- Triaging of ICSRs to determine whether they qualify for expedited reporting, or not, and the timelines within which they need to be submitted to the regulatory authorities.
- Performing case book-in into the global safety database.
- Performing data entry, which includes identifying and coding company suspects, concomitant medications, adverse events/adverse drug reactions, relevant laboratory tests, and medical history terms, as well as assessing the seriousness and expectedness of adverse events.
- Performing a duplicate check against the safety database for all individual case safety reports to identify the case reports that already exist in the safety database for that patient.
- Performing MedDRA coding in the safety database.
- Preparing monthly reconciliation and compliance.
- Preparing monthly billing data.
On Job Trainee (Conference Division)
Omics International Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2018 - 04.2019
- Performing data collection.
- Performing social media marketing, indexing, and making conference promotional content like posters and flyers.
- Performing email marketing.
Education
Masters - Pharmacology
G.N.D.U
Amritsar01.2018
Bachelor - Pharmacy
G.N.D.U
Amritsar01.2016
XII Standard -
P.S.E.B
Mohali01.2012
X Standard -
P.S.E.B
Mohali01.2010
Skills
- Proficient in MedDRA
- Knowledge of web sources
- Scientific information retrieval
- Search engines (EMBASE, EBSCO, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Hub)
- Market research
- Flexibility
- Patient-oriented programs
- Vendor management
- Team collaboration
Projects
Exploring the ameliorative effect of fruit extract of Aegle marmelos in experimentally induced depression in mice, Dr. Rajbir Bhatti, Assistant Professor (Pharmacology)/Head of Department, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Certification
Registered Pharmacist, Punjab State Pharmacy Council, India - Under Section 32 (2)
Accomplishments
Awarded as one of the top performers for the very first project in PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific in the year 2022.
Languages
Punjabi
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Pahadi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mr. Surinder Kumar
- Mother's Name: Mrs. Krishna
- Date of Birth: 06/19/95
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Unmarried
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above furnished information is true to the best of my knowledge, and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
Timeline
POP Analyst
Novartis
11.2024 - Current
POP Analyst
Randstad source right
05.2024 - 10.2024
POP Analyst
Manpowergroup Services India Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - 04.2024
Safety Specialist
PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
07.2021 - 10.2023
Pharmacovigilance Associate
AWINSA Life Sciences
11.2019 - 07.2021
On Job Trainee (Conference Division)
Omics International Pvt. Ltd.
07.2018 - 04.2019
Masters - Pharmacology
G.N.D.U
Bachelor - Pharmacy
G.N.D.U
XII Standard -
P.S.E.B
X Standard -
P.S.E.B
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