Vivek Sukumar
Deputy General Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Motivated specialist focused on pursuing a dynamic career in Pharmaceutics, utilizing knowledge and skills to enhance team performance and support organizational development.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy General Manager
Accenture
09.2023 - Current
- Cultivated and advocated for collaborative and supportive working environment enhancing employee morale, productivity, and effectiveness.
- Enabled cross-functional collaboration, ensuring successful project completion within deadlines.
- Optimized operations through identification of inefficiencies and execution of process enhancements.
- Analyzed performance results to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions with authorization and escalation.
- Cultivated robust partnerships with stakeholders, enhancing collaborative work environment.
- Directed departmental budgeting, guaranteeing financial sustainability and prudent resource allocation.
- Facilitated employee performance reviews, synchronizing individual goals with organizational objectives.
- Developed policies and procedures to enhance operational efficiency.
- Offered insightful guidance to personnel for navigating and resolving productivity snags.
- Mentored and coached team members to sustain high productivity and performance metrics.
- Facilitated recruiting, hiring, and training of team members.
- Evaluated individual strengths of employees and launched mentoring program to enhance areas of weakness.
Operations Specialist 2
IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS)
07.2019 - 09.2023
- Team Lead activities.
- Responsible for case intake, duplicate check and registration.
- Source document preparation, maintaining the log and other communications.
- Responsible for data entry of case safety reports into the safety database.
- Review and evaluate AE case information to determine validity of a case, seriousness and expeditedness as per client and internal policies and procedures.
- Reviewing literature articles and validating the scenario for syndication.
- Reviewing the Non-interventional study cases.
- Reviewing the clinical trial cases and management of queries to the site.
- Extraction of legal and medical records for the legal reports.
- Process all incoming cases in order to meet timelines.
- Full data entry including medical coding and safety narrative.
- Responsible for coding all medical history, events, drugs/procedures/indications and laboratory tests according to the appropriate dictionary (For e.g. MedDRA, Company Product Dictionary, WHO-DD).
- Preparation of drafting of manuals and training files, SOP management.
- Reviewing maintenance activities for the database guideline manual of Argus.
- Participate and present in client and team meetings.
Associate Operations Specialist
IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS)
04.2017 - 07.2019
Senior Medical Services Analyst
Accenture Services Limited
06.2014 - 09.2016
Drug Safety Associate
Synowledge Pharmacovigilance Services Pvt Ltd (currently known as Bioclinica)
02.2013 - 06.2014
Project Trainee
Syngene International, Biocon
07.2012 - 11.2012
Education
M. Pharm - Pharmaceutics
J.S.S University
Mysore01.2012
M. Pharm - Pharmaceutics
J.S.S University
Mysore01.2011
B. Pharmacy - undefined
University of Calicut
01.2009
Intermediate(+12) - undefined
Board of Higher Secondary Education
Kerala01.2004
Skills
Into operations deliverables and team management
Leading the Development of AI enhanced database
Part of Implementation of new Viva PV database
Operations management and Profound skill at the Inventory management
Conducting training session for the team to improve the overall efficiency
Team building
Highly proficient in processing literature, post marketing and clinical trial ICSRs
Well experienced in ArisG and Argus Databases
Experienced in legal cases medical records extraction process
Remarkable knowledge to monitor and track Serious Adverse Events, serious and non-serious adverse drug reactions, and other medically related information
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ATTENDED
- Participated in INDO-US symposium on “Frontiers in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery” Molecule to Medicine held at J.S.S University Mysore, on April 21st to 23rd 2011.
- Participated in INDO-EUROPEAN seminar on “Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing” held at J.S.S College of Pharmacy Ooty, on December 8, 2010.
- IPC Students forum 2008, Mumbai University, Kalina, Mumbai.
- Poster presentation on "An Attention to Epitope Mapping", IPC Students forum, Mumbai University 2008.
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge. Date: 30 Nov 2020 Place: Kochi Vivek Sukumar
CONTRIBUTION TO CURRENT PROJECT
- Consistently met targets with respect to productivity and always delivered quality work.
- Helped in clearing the backlog on several occasions by taking extra responsibilities.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Vested Interest in Pharmacovigilance
- A self-directed professional with excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work independently in safety related duties manage and mentor other employees.
Timeline
Deputy General Manager
Accenture
09.2023 - Current
Operations Specialist 2
IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS)
07.2019 - 09.2023
Associate Operations Specialist
IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS)
04.2017 - 07.2019
Senior Medical Services Analyst
Accenture Services Limited
06.2014 - 09.2016
Drug Safety Associate
Synowledge Pharmacovigilance Services Pvt Ltd (currently known as Bioclinica)
02.2013 - 06.2014
Project Trainee
Syngene International, Biocon
07.2012 - 11.2012
M. Pharm - Pharmaceutics
J.S.S University
M. Pharm - Pharmaceutics
J.S.S University
B. Pharmacy - undefined
University of Calicut
Intermediate(+12) - undefined
Board of Higher Secondary Education