Hassan FASLA
OTC Sourcing Manager, Middle-East North Africa Pakistan, Johnson & Johnson
I am a challenge driven industrial pharmacist with an Executive MBA.
After 7 years experience in manufacturing operations and project management across EMEA I am now in charge of building and driving the OTC sourcing strategy for the Middle-East, North Africa and Pakistan at Johnson & Johnson.
Definitely international manager; I lived and worked in France, Algeria, Syria and now in Dubai (UAE). I combine pharmaceutical technology acumen , deep business understanding and multilingual mastery to a genuine cross-cultural management practice.
Specialities:
- Licensing & outsourcing
- Projects management
- Operations management & pharmaceutical technology
- Contract management
- Change management & cross cultural challenges.
Languages:
- English:Full professional proficiency
- French: Native
- Arabic: native.
- Spanish: Intitial to intermediate level
313 contactsDevelop and drive the OTC sourcing strategy for the Middle-East, North Africa and Pakistan.
2008 - 2011Development of a project entity and management of various projects (stakeholders in Europe, Middle-East and Algeria) dealing with languages and cross cultural challenges including:
• Full country market and regulatory contract study
• Contract and internal qualification (more than 50 % of the plant equipments and systems)
• Investments: numerous production equipments (1M EUR).
• Quality and continuous improvement: reformulation, process, cleaning validation and new products.
2006 - 2008In a multiform production plant dedicated to contract manufacturing (Pfizer, Novartis, Schering-Plough…) I was charge of 75% of the site production activity with:
• Responsibility for planning, supervision, industrial transfers (from UE and ME) & cleaning validation.
• Lines upgrade, qualification and new workshop launch (1.5 million Euros investment)
• Technical and pay-back study for an European market outsourcing contract (full service & supply)
2005 - 2006In a dry form manufactruing plant (macrolids & non-macrolids dry forms):
• Production planning (internal & external manufacturer) &
Management (70 persons, 4 supervisors, 3 manufacturing and 3 packaging lines)
• Implementation/follow-up of production KPI and of a production database
• Involvement in industrial transfer and documentation activities.
2005 - 2005In the Industrialisation Department, setting-up of a new FDA approved dry dosage form manufacturing workshop (an investment of 2 millions Euros):
• Qualification & Validation (Process and Cleaning)
• Batch testing & process optimisation
2004 - 2004In a pharmaceutical multiform manufactruing plant, assist the Qualified Person for production, release and complaints management daily work as well as in site upgrade key projets management and master documents preparation.