Simon Cordrey

As Partner and Consultant, responsible for identifying and matching candidates for employment opportunities with international or domestic pharmaceutical companies through research, networking and referrals. Working closely with client companies to determine recruitment needs and expectations. - Use of sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract business from potential client companies. - Visiting clients to build and develop business relationships. Developing a solid understanding of a client’s work culture, environment and staffing requirements. - Providing advice and consultation to candidates on salary, training and career options. Advice and consultation to clients on candidate market, hiring approach (retained search, market mapping, contained search) and industry updates. - Identifying and approaching suitable candidates for specific roles. Building and utilising candidate databases to match potential employees to the client's vacancy.

Execution, management and support of specialized, cross-cultural, business skill training programmes for domestic and international pharmaceutical companies across Japan. Developing client competency and expertise in scientific presentations, global meeting skills, technical language skills, cross-cultural awareness and pharmaceutical document writing. - Successful development and maintenance of key accounts resulting in a steadily increasing client-base, and an escalation in programme sales. - Execution and facilitation of detailed training sessions and presentations to manager and director-level employees, involving leadership and supervision of up to 12 people per group, for up to 10 hours per day. - Continuous positive qualitative and quantitative performance feedback from key clients, demonstrated by pre/post score results from trainees, in-house reviews, and external customer assessment. - Provision of orientation, training and support for new pharmaceutical training instructors

Promotion, sales and support of pharmaceutical products to a large client-base of specialists, general practitioners and other healthcare professionals across New Zealand, for a range of therapeutic indications. - Effective organisation of local and regional education meetings for key doctors, resulting in a broader knowledge of leading medical treatments, competitor activity insight and strengthened business relationships with high-influence customers. - Proven track record in pharmaceutical sales, including various awards and recognitions for high ranking sales results and effective product promotion strategies. Maintenance of greater market share following generic competitor release. - Promoted to Senior Sales Representative within one year through consistent achievement of call-rate quotas, cycle goals and customer feedback.

Coordination of analytical assistance for the development, formulation and manufacture of new pharmaceutical products for a range of therapeutic indications. Training and guidance of technical support teams for handover of projects and test methods - Leadership of bioequivalence testing program for intranasal products; including training and facilitation of analytical teams, resulting in the timely completion of key project milestones. - Development and validation of Cascade Impaction™ Technology for inhaled compounds under development. - Primary contact for liaison with international Contract Research Organizations. - Promoted to Research Associate within eight months of joining the company, based on a high standard of work and analytical expertise. - Successful acquisition of New Zealand Permanent Residency under the ‘Skilled Migrant’ category. Application sponsored and supported by employer.

GMP laboratory analysis of early and late development pharmaceutical products by High Performance Liquid Chromatography, UV, LC Mass Spectrometry, and Gel Electrophoresis for product submission to U.S.A. and Europe. Interpretation and presentation of experimental data. Development and optimization of analytical methodology. Organization of equipment servicing or maintenance. Strict conformance to regional and international regulatory compliances (FDA, EMA) and ICH guidelines - Completion of projects and products currently in use throughout Asia-Pacific, U.S.A. and U.K. Supervision and leadership of overtime testing teams and Next Generation Impactor™ validation teams, to complete substantial workloads within tight project deadlines. - Promoted frequently over a five-year period, from Technical Assistant through Associate Scientist and Laboratory Scientist. Steering group member for Cascade technology development. - Achievement of BSc (Hons) Chemistry through company-sponsored scholarship, and day-release university program.