Experienced Radiation Therapist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled inPeople Management, People Development, Team Organisation, Administrative Assistance, and Community Engagement.Strong healthcare services professional with a Master's degree focused in Public Health from Monash University. Looking to move into project management.
I am a pharmacist and currently work with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Nigeria Ltd (GSK) as Policy and Advocacy Manager/Marketing Manager Payer Channel with responsibility to build strategic external partnerships with public and private sectors and policy makers to create awareness and support for GSK’s business. Recently, I completed my PULSE assignment with Save the Children International as Co-design Advisor to the GSK sponsored Infectious disease and pneumonia project supporting the teams in UK and Nigeria during the Inception phase.
I am a result-oriented and highly driven individual with experiences in leadership, business management/development, brand management, project/program management, audit and compliance, sales and marketing across multi-cultural and multi-national environment with over 15 years of professional experience.
My attributes include being focused, open and flexible, a strong leader who loves leading people to achieve results, a good team player who can work across boundaries, good interpersonal and networking skills, good communication skills and very resilient. I enjoy multi-tasking and very open to new ideas with huge appetite to learn and develop myself.
I have held several roles in GSK with increasing responsibilities and complexities such as Vaccines/HIV medical representative, Regional Sales Manager, Group Product Manager, Patient Access Manager, Marketing Manager Payer Channel and New Product Introduction Lead where I lead people directly and indirectly to achieve results as well as interfaced a lot with external stakeholders and decision makers. In addition, I also undertook stretching assignments and responsibilities like Brand Protection Lead, Audit and Compliance Champion.
I have won several awards such as Global employee recognition for Audit; Global employee recognition for Quality; STAR award for bravery, success and commitment to duty; best Regional Manager; fastest growing sales region over a period of three years; and best Vaccines Medical Representative.
I am also a fellow of the prestigious African Leadership Institute otherwise known as Tutu fellow, where I belong to a cohort of over 200 young leaders from over 30 African countries having gone through an intensive Leadership exposure in South Africa and Oxford University, London.
I have a strong passion to give back and impact my community and this motivated me to join the global GSK volunteer program called Global PULSE. In the same vein, I have been very involved in community projects like Orange days and conceptualized and served as the program lead for the Skills Based Volunteering program (SBV) in GSK Nigeria. I also did a community project with focus on access to quality health care in Port Harcourt during my time with the African Leadership Institute.
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