Accomplished Sales & Marketing Professional
Srikanth Puthenmarath
Consultant Profile
Strategic business leadership at Eisai: Business turnaround through focused
optimization of resources across product portfolio, distribution and supply chain
management, managing stakeholders and business partners in consensus with the
parent company. Identified revenues through new product and division launches
while accelerating the team performance through measured corrective steps.
Established patient care initiatives with disease experts and setting up third party
patient support systems
Kick start commercial operations: for a start-up organization: New division
launch involving disease & product portfolio identification, search for suppliers,
pricing, packaging, building KOL advocacy group, collaborating with NGOs,
developing commercial launch plan, sales team recruitment and training.
Versatile and a result driven professional with 3 decades of
experience in the Indian pharmaceutical industry with indepth expertise in the Strategic Business Leadership,
Project management, P&L Initiative, Revenue
Enhancement, Brand management, KOL management,
Communication strategies, New Division Launches, Brand
Launches, Brand Life cycle management, Patient support
services, Business Alliances, and Team Management .
Has the experience of managing multiple therapy areas like
Rheumatology, Oncology, CNS and Pain and has managed
blockbuster brands like Frisium, Clexane, Arava, Halaven
and Ultracet. He has worked with Sanofi, Mylan, J&J and
Eisai Pharmaceuticals where he held Leadership position as
GM, Sale & Marketing for CNS and Oncology divisions
Exploring newer avenues for revenue and LCM: Opened new revenue streams for
an existing profitable heritage brand through in depth analysis of patient journey,
validating with disease experts, creating a new pilot through contract FF for
strategic rollout within project timelines to validate the practical relevance of the
business proposal. Led a campaign to brick wall a heritage brand from counterfeits
collaborating with an agency involved in raids along with local FDA.
In-clinic brand promotion and KOL management: Experience of launching many
research and generic brands across companies through the right identification of
doctors across specialties, focused and applied analytics on attitudinal
segmentation, exploring differential communication methodologies leading to
faster prescription generation. Managed high end disease specialists exploring
identified needs to add value to the health care practitioner. Experienced in setting
up and managing sales teams marketing value added premium brands across
chronic super specialty disease areas. Experienced in driving disease awareness
campaigns through well designed channels and publishing the analyzed data
Srikanth brings in a 360° understanding and expertise in the management of
commercial operations in the Indian pharmaceutical industry.