Rupal Sood
Healthcare Strategy and Intelligence
About Me
In my role as an independent consultant, I provide support to
global pharma, wellness and healthcare companies.
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I help them navigate complex business challenges and offer
innovative solutions through agile and design thinking
methodologies. My expertise spans across the entire value chain
including product development , manufacturing and
commercialization
Hyderabad, India
Professional Experience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupal
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Independent Consultant/ Self Employed
Apr 2023– Present
Achievements
2022 – Present
Led the transition of a
large Pharma player to
direct to patient
telehealth by
introducing and
implementing a digital
platform across 4
geographies
Supported a successful
drug launch in rare
disease space by
enabling digital patient
engagement
Skills
Business Strategy
Digital Transformation
Business process management
Innovation Management
Cross Team Collaboration
Customer-centric solutioning
Commercial Planning
AGILE Methodology
Cross Team Collaboration
Consulting and advisory support to strategy,
transformation and marketing teams in areas like
organizational change, situation analysis and
implementing new initiatives, functional areas:
Digital Transformation + Excellence
Risk assessment and due diligence
Competitive Analysis and Market Assessments
Adametnext | Director
2020 – March 2023
Key responsibilities:
Set up and scale up for a global delivery team, responsible for
growth of operations, building capabilities and service
offerings. P&L responsibility for a team of 20+, nurturing a high
growth environment and designing growth trajectories
Stakeholder Engagement: Identifying and growing key
accounts; front role in scoping key projects and leading client
conversations, designing customized engagement strategies
for them, ensuring strong win-win outcomes
Delivery and Execution: Manage and drive programs and
projects across R&D innovation, digital transformation and
patient centricity. SME on industry best practices, trends,
emerging technologies, and competitive landscapes
Akums Drugs | Sr Manager, Strategy & Portfolio
2018 – 2020
Key responsibilities:
Continuous Improvement & change Management lead who
combined project management and process improvement
principles to successfully support business strategy, innovation
and enterprise transformation, communication and change
initiatives.
Aligned with disparate teams from areas such as R&D,
Commercial, Finance, Procurement to common Portfolio and
Pipeline goals across consumer healthcare and pharma
verticals
Business Development and In-licensing in nutrition and wellness
Rupal Sood
Life Sciences Strategy & Consulting
Professional Experience Contd.
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Hyderabad, India
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupal
-sood-aba67920/
Educational Background
National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research (NIPER)
MBA, Pharmaceutical Management
Completed in 2011
DIPSAR, University Of Delhi
Bachelors in Pharmacy
Completed in 2009
Akums Drugs | Manager, Strategy & Intelligence
2015 – 2018
Key responsibilities:
Market intelligence & Monitoring: Developed niche
capabilities that addressed key business needs and
provided insights to the C-Suite
Designed processes that enabled effective knowledge
flow among business units
Monitoring and Surveillance of market, policy, regulatory,
health technology segments to identify trends, key
opportunities and emerging risks
Opportunity Assessment and collaborating on BD
collaterals for effective engagement
WNS Holdings | Lead Associate-Global BioPharma-
Key responsibilities:
Worked across capability areas like market assessments,
portfolio optimization, opportunity assessment, BD&L,
unmet need analysis, analogy identification and analysis
etc
Processing small and large scale secondary healthcare
datasets and perform complex analysis to derive insights
Presales enablement by RFP/RFQ/RFI handling, Client
Presentations/Solutions Selling, and Client relationship
management
Gather insights from various sources, including public &
proprietary databases, and translate the information into
insightful stories that help in developing strategies
Evalueserve | Business Analyst-Lifesciences-
Key responsibilities:
Monitored Lifesciences industry trends, conducted
competitive intelligence using primary and secondary
research
Performed market landscape studies and deep dives
Areas of Interest
Innovation Management
Sustainable Development
Patient/customer Centricity
Women Health
Health ecosystems in developing countries
