Vatsal Oza, Business Analysis Principal

Vatsal Oza

Business Analysis Principal

Amgen

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, MBA, Finance and Healthcare
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

Business Analysis Principal at Amgen
  • United States
  • My current job since September 2015

Manage corporate wide projects for strategic deployment and implementation of information systems
• Gather requirements and analyze business processes in R&D and Manufacturing systems to comply with federal regulations FDA CFR Part 11
• Manage operations and financial planning to deliver innovative IS solutions to biopharma business
• Create user stories and business cases and work with developers to manage requirements and design

Business Development at PatientsLikeMe
  • United States
  • February 2015 to May 2015

• Identifying trends and opportunities within the wearable devices and biosensors industry.
• Providing strategic directions to the product development and data science team based on market insights.
• Building relationships and securing early buy-ins from pharma and wearable device companies for new product offerings.

Business Development at WITHINGS
  • United States
  • May 2014 to September 2014

Intern - Healthcare 2014
• Carried due diligence to understand market opportunity and competition for Withings in health care
• Collaborated with R&D team, presented findings to senior leadership for strategic product development
• Generated relationships with 4 clinical organizations and secured interest from a big pharma company for
the use and development of new products in healthcare space

Research Associate at Harvard University
  • United States
  • August 2011 to August 2013

• Designed, developed and executed 9 large high-throughput small molecule screenings to identify new therapeutic drugs molecules that can alleviate neurological disorders.
• Successfully identified 2 new drug molecules efficacious in Spinal Muscular Atrophy, resulting in interests from pharma companies to develop drugs further and more funding from the SMA Foundation.
• Partnered with several research labs and principal investigators to help them design and optimize their stem cell models for drug discovery.
• Managed the compound library and robotics platforms to ensure efficient and optimal operations of
multiple research projects at the Therapeutic Screening Centre

Research Associate at NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
  • United States
  • January 2011 to July 2011

Developed a novel drug metabolism model based on kidney cells for early stage drug development
• Implemented an alternate robotic platform to test a backlog of chemical analogs to overcome delays when
the initial set up failed
• Collaborated with scientists to generate a stock of cell lines for researchers to use for model studies

Student Consultant at MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
  • United States
  • January 2014 to

Conducted extensive market research for business intelligence tools in the healthcare and clinical space
• Developed a strategy for implementation of clinical BI tools for the radiology department at MGH

Education

Master's degree, MBA, Finance and Healthcare
  • at BOSTON UNIVERSITY - QUESTROM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
  • May 2015

• GRE 1460 (Quantitative 800/800, Verbal 660/800, Analytical 4.0/6.0)

Master's degree, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
  • at NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology
  • at VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
  • May 2008

Specialties & Skills

Consultancy
Market Research
Healthcare
Business Analysis
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
DEVELOPMENT
DUE DILIGENCE
LEADERSHIP
MARKET RESEARCH
MARKETING
RESEARCH
ROBOTICS
STRATEGIC

Languages

English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Film Direction and Editing