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Santosh Suryawanshi

Thane,Maharashtra
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Santosh  Suryawanshi

Summary

Bachelor's in pharmacy with diverse practical and medical knowledge with over 17+ years of work experience in CRO and Healthcare industry focusing on pharmacovigilance, especially supporting Consumer & Pharma Drug, Medical Device, Vaccines and patient safety for several large global pharmaceutical organizations helping ensure Patient Safety, while complying with regulatory requirements. focused drug safety experience with hands on experience in the capacity of individual contributor and leading teams for global delivery operations in the following areas: Aggregate safety report writing, Medical Writing, Risk Management, Signal Detection, ICSR Management, Label management, compliance metrics development; regulatory audit preparations, and management activities

Highly organized and self-motivated professional experienced in project management, team development and process improvement. Skilled in developing and implementing strategies to increase efficiency and performance. Passionate about driving business growth and creating positive work environment.

Contributed in creating a robust PV platform, developing & supporting newer offerings in the market, supporting & creating solution designs for varied RFPs and interacting with different potential clients interested in PV outsourcing within organization.

Currently working in Sitero Solutions , Bangalore as Associate Director.

Overview

16
years of professional experience
1
Language

Work History

Drug Safety, Sitero Solutions
Bangalore

Associate Director
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Lead development of both short-term and long-term Aggregate report group strategies to assure compliance and client satisfaction for investigational and marketed products
  • Subject Matter Expert in all kinds of Aggregate reports (PSURs/PBRERs, PADERs/Annual Reports/ ACO/ DSUR) for submission to local and other Health Authorities
  • Subject Matter expert in handling regulatory agency/ Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) inquiries
  • Predicts project pipeline, resource requirements, and recruitment needs and strategies in collaboration with head of DSS
  • Provided leadership to global aggregate reporting team including training, mentoring and development of processes compliant with current regulations
  • Leads business development initiatives by providing operational input into proposals and scope of work
  • Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
  • Trained and developed department leaders and management staff for specific projects and ongoing operational needs

Labcorp Clinical Development Private Limited
Mumbai

Senior Manager
12.2016 - 03.2023

Job overview

  • Account and delivery: management
  • Overall Project Management, Team Management and Client coordination
  • Implement and promote use of consistent, efficient and quality processes to meet timelines and deliverables according to requirements and standard operating procedures, and assume accountability for the deliverables
  • Ensure delivery of services meets or exceeds Service Level Agreements through focused metrics management of process performance
  • Accountable for managing delivery of service for the assigned engagement(s) as per the defined process and SLA
  • Responsible for profitability and other key service delivery related metrics
  • Solution
  • Provide guidance and support to the team of Associates, TM and PMs for proactive solution to the business issues
  • Support responding to RFPs as required
  • Implement transition plan for new process engagements to establish delivery of service by Labcorp team
  • Involved in preparing SOWs and co-ordination with legal team for finalization post successful pursuit
  • Support sales group during first pitch, client visit, due diligence and advisory meetings
  • Support the solution development team and proactively engage with experts across LabCorp to create bespoke regulatory solutions that maximize value for the customer and differentiate Labcorp from its competitors
  • Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
  • Consolidated vendors and renegotiated contracts to optimize costs.
  • Executed appropriate staffing and budgetary plans to align with business forecasts.

Tata Consultancy services
Mumbai

Manager
08.2012 - 12.2016

Job overview

  • Domain Lead-Pharmacovigilance, Product safety surveillance and Risk Management
  • To support and manage functional areas of the Aggregate report writing team (writing, records management, budget, training and mentoring and QC)
  • Plan and oversees the daily activities of aggregate report writing project
  • Overall accountability for delivery on Service Level Agreements
  • Provide mentoring and development of staff to take on additional responsibilities and advance in their career path
  • Prepare and manage project budgets and resource models
  • Governance, develop and oversee the training plans for department
  • Support the tactical execution and detail deliverables to support global regulatory requirements
  • Subject Matter Expert on creating a global PV standardization/harmonization Framework in organization
  • Supporting business development team to create effective model on pharma business solutions for EU and US market
  • Respond and design solutions to RFPs, creating business plans, mainly create a platform to develop Pharma domain at TCS
  • Establishing complete and full-scale Pharmacovigilance operations, Business Development (RFIs, RFPs, Bid defense, Due-Diligence, Strategic and Transition planning), Training, Project Management, Expertise in Drug

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai

Team Leader
01.2011 - 07.2012

Job overview

  • Handled the team of aggregate report writing for day-to-day activities
  • PSUR Writing with information from various literatures, clinical trial, regulatory and safety information, etc
  • Managing proper distribution of work by delegating the PSURs received according to the availability of resources
  • Preparation of Renewal PSURs, PADERs, Addendum Reports and Reviews
  • Arranging brain-storming sessions with the team on a regular basis to discuss about the feedbacks, process improvements, PSUR template update, variation in regulatory guidelines, etc
  • Use of Quality Tools like CAPA, RCA, Pareto Charts and Green Star to achieve higher Quality scores and increased client satisfaction
  • To train new candidates with respect to ICH Guidelines, EMEA, PSUR Writing, SOPs and WI, etc.

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore

Senior Safety Scientist
10.2009 - 01.2011

Job overview

  • Wrote regulatory PSUR, PADER, Annual safety report and SMR report for Epilepsy and Parkinson's disease
  • Collected line listing information, wrote summary narrative and sent it for final review for medical reviewer
  • Reviewed all forms and documents pertaining to a case for errors, missing information and legibility
  • Performed quality review of the all the safety reviewer, triage and case processing team member
  • Prepared monthly quality analysis report and sent it to the client
  • Prepared error trend analysis report
  • Discuss the issues regarding case processing with Client and seek clarification on the same
  • ICSR case processing of all post marketing and clinical trial reports
  • Submission of cases to FDA & helping the Medical Writing team with proper case alignment for PADER submissions

Tata Consultancy services
Mumbai

Senior Drug Safety Associate
07.2007 - 09.2009

Job overview

  • SAE receipt: receive serious adverse event report by email or fax, reports received from global sources
  • Case initiation: identify duplicate cases, enter basic data into database, create tracking number and acknowledgereceipt of case to sender
  • Triaging of all serious, non-serious and literature cases
  • Scientific Assessment: Assess appropriate labeling documents for client products, create company opinion ofcausality
  • Performing single case assessment of the medical report based on medical judgment
  • Letter/Report writing and sending write and send letters and reports, close report on database
  • Narrative Writing: Write narrative for all clinical and non- clinical medical reports based on medical judgment
  • Assess Serious Adverse Event / Post Marketing Adverse Event for seriousness, causality and expectedness as perthe Investigator Brochure/Basic Prescribing Information/US package insert, consulting the medical safetyphysicians
  • QR (Quality Reviewing): Assess the quality of the associate in terms of narrative writing, case processing, data-entry, find the error rate individual associate and prepare quality metrics for each associate
  • Preparation of SOPs & Working practices for Pharmacovigilance-related processes
  • Responsible for managing the Reports of Adverse Events, and providing assistance and support for FDA, EMEA,and MHRA'S post marketing safety surveillance

Education

Mumbai University
Maharashtra

Bachelor of Science from Pharmacy
06.2004 - 2007.07

Maharashtra State Board Technical Education
Mumbai

High School Diploma
06.2002 - 2004.06

University Overview

Diploma in Pharmacy

Skills

Strategic planning and execution

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Accomplishments

  • Bachelor of Pharmacy from Mumbai Educational Trust Institute of Pharmacy, Mumbai University, 2007
  • Creditable Mentions:
  • Awarded by Roche as “Best performer in terms of quality and productivity” For Year 2008
  • Awarded by TCS as “Performer of Year” in drug safety department for year 2014
  • INVENTION PROJECT OF YOUNG PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS” held on 19th Jan.2007 on “ANTIOBESITY”conducted by Mumbai University

Additional Information

  • ACHIEVEMENTS: , Completed the Six Sigma Green belt training with good scores Awarded as best performer of the year (2013) and award was handed over by VP Global safety. PERSONAL DETAILS:, Marital Status, Permanent Address : B-20, Shakun CHS no. 107, Swami Vivekananda Nagar, Vasant Vihar, Thane: 4000610
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Timeline

Associate Director

Drug Safety, Sitero Solutions
04.2023 - Current

Senior Manager

Labcorp Clinical Development Private Limited
12.2016 - 03.2023

Manager

Tata Consultancy services
08.2012 - 12.2016

Team Leader

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
01.2011 - 07.2012

Senior Safety Scientist

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
10.2009 - 01.2011

Senior Drug Safety Associate

Tata Consultancy services
07.2007 - 09.2009

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Science from Pharmacy
06.2004 - 2007.07

Maharashtra State Board Technical Education

High School Diploma
06.2002 - 2004.06
Santosh Suryawanshi