Sarra AYADI, PharmD.
München
Summary
Experienced professional with dual expertise in medical affairs and Agile transformation coaching. Skilled at fostering team collaboration and consistently delivering results in fast-paced environments. Strong advocate for cross-functional purposeful strategies and mindfulness-based interventions in driving success. System-awareness and customer-centricity are fundamental principals. Recognized for reliability, adaptability, and consistently achieving goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Agile Coach
Boehringer Ingelheim - Global Biostatistics & Data
01.2023 - Current
- Coaching Clinical development teams (DevTeam) by setting up a framework by which the team become high performing.
- Help the team identifying impediments and removing them
- Coaching POs and DevTeam members adopting the Agile way of working.
- Facilitation or helping the Product owners conducting key meetings and workshop.
- Working as a thought partner with the products owner to strategically manage the work and prioritize.
- Coaching team towards empowerment, self-organization and cross-functionality.
Principal Pharmacy doctor - Director
Private pharmacy AYADI
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Primary Medical Consultant: Provided initial medical consultations, ensuring patient care and satisfaction.
- Chronic Disease Management: Oversaw a portfolio of chronic disease patients, monitored treatment efficacy, ensured patient adherence, and maintained close communication with treating physicians.
- Business Development: Strategically developed and expanded the pharmacy business.
- Staff Management: Supervised and managed a team of pharmacy professionals, including pharmacists and pharmacy assistants.
- Training and Development: Conducted training sessions for new employees, fostering their professional growth.
- Digitalization Initiatives: Led the digital transformation of the pharmacy, implementing new technologies to improve efficiency and patient care.
- Workplace Culture: Cultivated a positive and productive work environment.
Patient Partner | Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
06.2021 - 12.2021
- Strategic Leadership: Integrated and agnostic role as the disease area lead, responsible for developing and executing a customer-focused strategy.
- Cross-Functional Team Management: Orchestrated a cross-functional, self-managed team to deliver innovative solutions and remove impediments within the patient journey.
- Agile Framework: Worked within an agile framework, building strategies based on patient and ecosystem needs. Collaborated closely with customers to identify pain points and co-create impactful solutions to enhance the healthcare system.
- Budget Management: Accountable for managing the disease area budget with an investment mindset.
- Medical Education: Delivered high-level medical education to key opinion leaders to accelerate access to innovative drugs and solutions for Tunisian and Libyan patients.
- Patient Advocacy: Collaborated with Patient Advocacy Groups to understand the patient journey, identify potential pain points, and support their role as integral partners in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Healthcare System Partner: Established strong and trustful relationships with all ecosystem actors to offer solutions that shape the entire patient journey.
Disease Area Medical Manager | Rheumatology & Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
01.2019 - 06.2021
- Strategic Leadership: Key role requiring therapeutic area expertise and business acumen to identify and address unmet medical needs, supporting the optimal use of Roche products.
- Scientific Communication: Delivered high-level, accurate, and balanced scientific communication to accelerate access to innovative drugs in the Tunisian and Libyan markets through trustful 1:1 interactions with Therapeutic Area Experts (TAEs) and during national and international scientific gatherings, in compliance with local laws and Roche codes.
- Advisory Boards: Organized and executed advisory boards with country TAEs to gain insights on disease areas/indications, informing medical strategy decisions.
- Scientific Training: Responsible for the scientific training of the cross-functional team on pathology, disease area products, and pipeline.
- Peer Relationships: Established enduring peer-to-peer relationships with TAEs and key experts, delivering high-value interactions aligned with therapeutic strategies.
- Medical Strategy Execution: Contributed to the development and execution of medical strategy and related tactical plans, demonstrating strategic thinking.
- Collaboration Opportunities: Identified collaboration opportunities with scientific groups to advance patient care and transform clinical practice.
- Competitive Intelligence: Provided competitive intelligence at both country and international levels, along with scientific insights.
- Innovative Problem-Solving: Shaped medical strategy through an innovative problem-solving approach.
- Budget Management: Accountable for the disease area budget, demonstrating an investment mindset.
Affiliate Transformation Lead (Part Time)
Roche Tunisia & Libya
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Drive the affiliate towards the Agile transformation being responsible and accountable of the transformation strategy at Organization / Teams and individuals levels with three main focus pillars: Mindset & Behaviors, Processes and Organization & governance.
- Coach and support Therapeutic Areas squads and leadership Team to implement the agile methodologies and ways of working.
- Simplify processes to empower people, delegate and accelerate the decision making and free-up resource and time allocation to reduce bureaucracy and replace it by innovation.
- Drive the organization towards the self-management to strengthen the business performance.
- Conduct and Lead a cross-functional and self-managed Team into a sprint to deliver and establish the final Agile Affiliate Operating model.
Medical Science Liaison | Rheumatology, Onco-hematlogy & Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
02.2016 - 01.2019
- Bridge Between Company and Healthcare Professionals: Reported to the Medical Manager, providing scientific and medical expertise.
- Event Coordination: Orchestrated medical events such as educational meetings, symposia, and preceptorships, enhancing professional development.
- Therapeutic Area Knowledge: Maintained comprehensive knowledge of therapeutic areas, market dynamics, products, and competitors.
- Training Programs: Spearheaded and executed training programs for field teams, showcasing leadership and strategic thinking.
- HCP Support: Proactively addressed healthcare professionals' requests for medical/scientific information, supporting optimal patient care with Roche products.
- Material Validation: Conducted medical validation of all disease area-related promotional and non-promotional materials.
- Clinical Trial Support: Supported the local clinical trial manager as a strategic consultant and monitored trial sites.
- Pharmacovigilance Expertise: Provided expert knowledge in pharmacovigilance, ensuring the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products.
- MedInfo Expert: Provided necessary bibliography for healthcare professional questions.
- Regional MedInfo Quality Check Expert: Conducted quality checks on all MedInfo answers across all therapeutic areas and the Africa French-speaking countries cluster.
Agile Coach (Rotation) PDMA external sourcing transformation
Roche global
01.2021 - 08.2021
Product Specialist | Rheumatology & Virology
Roche Tunisia & Libya
03.2014 - 02.2016
Agile coach (Rotation) PD overarching operating model : strengthening business performance
Roche global
01.2021 - 08.2021
Education
Pharmacy Doctor - PharmD. - Pharmacy
Faculté De Pharmacie - Université De Monastir
Tunisia 06.2017
Skills
- Medical affairs
- Strategic thinking
- Scientific communication
- Customer engagement
- Training and coaching
- Team effectiveness
- Agile Transformation expertise
- Agile Leadership individuals - teams - Organization
Certification
- Agile leadership for organization | Scrum Alliance
- Agile leadership for Teams | Scrum Alliance
- Agile leadership for Essentials | Scrum Alliance
- Scrum Master | Scrum Alliance
- KANBAN
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Arabic
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Intermediate (B1)
Hobbies and Interests
- Sports: Tennis, horseback riding, yoga & ski
- Reading
- Travelling
Assignments
January 2021 - July 2021 | Roche Global Product Development & Medical Affairs
Agile Coach (Rotation) gPDMA External Sourcing Transformation
June 2021 - August 2021 | Roche Global Product Development
Agile Coach (Rotation) gPD Overarching Operating Model : Strengthening Business Performance
Timeline
Senior Agile Coach
Boehringer Ingelheim - Global Biostatistics & Data
01.2023 - Current
Principal Pharmacy doctor - Director
Private pharmacy AYADI
01.2022 - 12.2022
Patient Partner | Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
06.2021 - 12.2021
Agile Coach (Rotation) PDMA external sourcing transformation
Roche global
01.2021 - 08.2021
Agile coach (Rotation) PD overarching operating model : strengthening business performance
Roche global
01.2021 - 08.2021
Disease Area Medical Manager | Rheumatology & Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
01.2019 - 06.2021
Affiliate Transformation Lead (Part Time)
Roche Tunisia & Libya
01.2019 - 12.2021
Medical Science Liaison | Rheumatology, Onco-hematlogy & Neuroscience
Roche Tunisia & Libya
02.2016 - 01.2019
Product Specialist | Rheumatology & Virology
Roche Tunisia & Libya
03.2014 - 02.2016
Pharmacy Doctor - PharmD. - Pharmacy
Faculté De Pharmacie - Université De Monastir
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