About this event
Change is coming and that is the only certainty.
It’s also coming fast, and suppliers need to be ready to respond if they want to ensure compliance and tender success.
Join us for a master class with our Medtech and Pharma tender experts, Sarah and Derek, who will walk you through the changes and how you and your organisations can be prepared.
Including insight into how different contracting authorities in the home nations will be evaluating the new requirements and what evidence they will require from suppliers in relation to:
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Sarah is a qualified nurse in adult and pediatric care, with an additional 15 years of excelling in the medical device industry. She is known for her enthusiasm and energy, with a genuine desire to ensure that, as well as product and company success, patient outcomes are improved and customers’ needs are met. Sarah’s nursing and medical sales experience has given her extensive knowledge of the sector and she brings established contacts and working relationships to all contracts that are taken on. These include relationships with NHSSC, Welsh Health Supplies, National Services Scotland, procurement hubs and private sector groups. An area of particular expertise is the tendering process, both administering tenders and producing winning bids. She has also gained a working knowledge of ISO 9001 and 14001, reviewing and writing documentation to required standards, ensuring processes are compliant, conducting internal auditing, with the result that external audits are passed.
Derek is a highly professional and entrepreneurial international executive with extensive experience of commercial management, sales and marketing, supply chain and bringing complex products to market. He has over 33-years global pharmaceutical corporate experience and has worked with some of the largest companies in the world, most recently as Hospital Director for Accord UK Ltd, the biggest speciality company in the UK where he launched a number of generic, branded and biosimilar products. Derek brings a wealth of expertise in launching products across Europe and developing new structures, supply chain solutions and partner agreements to expedite uptake of new entrant products.
Ian co-founded the Life Science Access Academy with Nigel Robbins to bring together all the best ideas in people development from more than 20 innovative specialist consultancies.
Sarah is a qualified nurse in adult and pediatric care, with an additional 15 years of excelling in the medical device industry. She is known for her enthusiasm and energy, with a genuine desire to ensure that, as well as product and company success, patient outcomes are improved and customers’ needs are met. Sarah’s nursing and medical sales experience has given her extensive knowledge of the sector and she brings established contacts and working relationships to all contracts that are taken on. These include relationships with NHSSC, Welsh Health Supplies, National Services Scotland, procurement hubs and private sector groups. An area of particular expertise is the tendering process, both administering tenders and producing winning bids. She has also gained a working knowledge of ISO 9001 and 14001, reviewing and writing documentation to required standards, ensuring processes are compliant, conducting internal auditing, with the result that external audits are passed.
LSAA is a truly Global Membership Community for all staff from across the Life Science sector including: commercial, clinical and financial sales teams, medics and support teams.