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Taking care of your career in healthcare

C. Billy, Ph.D, MBA

Biomedizin Post-Doc clubBasel

23/01/15

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Making

your choice

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Academia, Agency or Industry?

Expertise or management?

Entrepreneurship or working for a company?

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Academia, Agency

or Industry?

Employers Activities

Industry .Medicines.Chemicals.Cosmetics.Consumer  products

Efficacy  and  safety  assessment

Agency (FDA, EMEA,...) Review  and  Regulation

Academia Exploration  of  molecular  mechanisms  

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Applied Research, Product development

Industry?

-­Resources  (no  need  to  apply  for  grants,  teaching)    -­Databases-­Space  to  reinvent  yourself-­

-­Limited  freedom  for  Research  and  publication-­Regular  evaluation  of  objectives-­Focus  on  costs  and  timelines-­

It is a business!

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Expertiseor Management?

Expertise-­Biology-­Chemistry-­Toxicology-­Drug  metabolism-­HR-­Patents-­Strategic  alliances,...

Management-­Laboratories-­Projects-­Scientific  Coordination

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Entrepreneurship orworking for a company?

-Expertise - Experience

-Independancy - Freedom

-Multitasking

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My career path-From Project to Global Management-From Science to Business-From Biological to Human Interactions

-From Science to Change and InnovationManagement

Ph.D

Post-Doc Pfizer

MBA

Novartis

One  Main  Project Multiple  Projects Multiple  Project  Teams

France USA France Switzerland France

Ph.D

- Academia - Industry

Consulting

PMP/ACC

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Trends

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Over 90% of medicines developednever reach the market!

Strategy:-­Develop  more  predictive  scientific  approaches  (new  technologies)-­Focus  on  science,  not  processes-­Develop  modeling  tools  (virtual  trial)

Needs:-­cutting  edge  expertise-­-­designing,  carrying  out  and  analysing  in vivo/in vitro experiments-­building  models  to  extrapolate  data  cross  species  and  into  man

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Recommendations

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Experience

Networks, Mentors

Trainings

Joining Industry?

-drug development, therapeutic areas

-project management, in vivo/in vitro, systems biology, drug metabolism

-connection with industry leaders (networks, mentors)

-Ph.D advisors from Industry, internships

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Be honest with yourself!

-Know what you really want, what you really like to do and not to do

-Work hard to identify and to continuously develop your unique talents

in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are those who look for the »

- George Bernard Shaw

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Be the entrepreneur of your life!-Get a range of diverse experiences (academia, industry,

biotechs/big pharma, local/global responsabilities)-Take calculated risks

-Develop your personal brand

« I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how do to it »

- Pablo Picasso

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Take 100% responsabilityfor your career!

-Follow your intuition,-Take or (better) create a position that you feel

exciting and which you believe will enable you to grow

« Go where the growth is » - Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

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Get prepared for best success

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No Network, No Work!

At least 70% of jobs are filled through networking

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-We work in isolation

-Sharing ideas and different points of viewssupports creativity and personal development

Are you networking?

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-Review your professional network (suppliers, customers, competitors,people who do similar activity or got similar education as yourself)

-Identify your long term goals

-Define your target (people that are doing similar activity or who may beinterested by what you are doing, or people with who you share commoncontact or interest)

-Prepare your questions

-Get introduced/reach to the person through e-mail, mentioning your goaland thanking the person for his/her time

-Get to know the person, stick to the schedule, gather enough informationto be able to help the person in the future

-Send a thank you note and follow-up on any action agreed

-Keep your contact regularly updated on progresses toward your goal

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Giving first, getting later!

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-Be more interested by others than yourself, be careful about peoplethat ask more than they give (this is not networking!)

-Listen, be open, know what is going on around you

-Have always something of interest to share with your contacts

-Behave with respect and integrity (make sure you are allowed to sharethe information, gossip!)

-Make yourself available to talk with new contacts, to share information,ideas

-Quickly update your network about any change in your career orcontact details

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Networking is a journey

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-Remain focused on your long term goals (instead of shortterm)

-Help others achieve their goals

-Develop a networking strategy (ex: 1 or 2 meetings a week,having at least one lunch with a new contact each week,...)

-Stay yourself, stick to your values

-Enjoy!!!!!

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Social networking and branding

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-Set-up social networks profiles (LinkedIn, Xing, Viadeo, Twitter,...)example: http://ch.linkedin.com/in/christinebilly

-Share on your passion and expertise, contribute to onlinediscussions (blogs, groups,...)

-Get involved in associations as members or volunteers

-Get mentors and sponsors to identify opportunities for your personaldevelopment and for your organization

-Develop your own network..... be shy!

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Be aware of trends,

however focus on your unique talent, follow your intuition

Go where you can shine!

Thanks! Good luck!