Establishing Effective Business Strategies for Managing Outsourced Services

Why Should You Attend:

Outsourcing and offshoring have become part of the strategy for pharmaceutical development but it is clear that the strategy needs to extend to the continuing management of suppliers.This presentation starts with the drivers for outsourcing and investigates the importance of measures of success and how they apply in implementing strategy. It also considers barriers to success, how to anticipate and over come them and finally the use and abuse of performance measures.

Topics covered will include:

• What is a strategy?
• What drives strategy?
• The importance of measuring success
• The needs for an intelligible implementation process
• Barriers to success, the three R's
• Performance measures – what are we trying to measure?

Who will benefit?

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to internal auditors, audit managers and personnel dealing with risk management within medical device or IVD companies regulated by the FDA and/or certified to ISO 13485. The employees who will benefit include:

• Line managers
• Study team leaders
• Procurement / outsourcing personnel
• Project managers
• Quality managers
• Financial controllers

Instructor Profile:

Richard's background is mainly in the pharmaceutical sector where he held senior roles in Pfizer Global Research and Development and with Pfizer Corporate Marketing Ltd. He also worked in GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where he managed toxicology research projects, and within the international sector of Covance, an American corporate contract research organisation.

His particular expertise is in establishing clinical laboratory processes that are central to regulatory approval and post marketing surveillance of pharmaceutical products. He has extensive knowledge of the global laboratory business having been responsible for identifying and qualifying laboratories throughout the world for use as suppliers of laboratory data for major pharmaceutical products such as viagra. To achieve successful outcomes he has developed management tools such as resource and cost forecasting to ensure that major projects come in on time, budget and with internationally recognised standards of quality.

His expertise in developing improved laboratory processes while at the same time recognising different cross cultural approaches has had a significant impact on the global management of clinical trials within the pharmaceutical industry. His working life began as a Biomedical Scientist in the National Health Service and in Harley Street.

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