Sarah Iqbal

Chief Of Staff at Deloitte Consulting
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, MY
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Malay Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Elementary proficiency
  • Tamil Native or bilingual proficiency

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Bethany Sharma

I worked alongside Sarah in her role as Head of Digital Life Sciences at Biotaware, a digital health startup. Even during a relatively short time of working together, I found that Sarah brought valuable industry insight and an infectious positive energy to both internal projects and client projects. I saw her excel not only in core elements of her role - such as marketing and business development but also supporting the business to develop culturally, organising social events, going above and beyond for the business. Sarah is a true professional, a passionate and engaging member of a team and would be a valuable asset to any business.

Jowita Emberton

Sarah makes working with her great pleasure. She always ensures everyone (the dev team, design team and the client) is on the same page before proceeding to the next stages of a project. Not only she is a resourceful team player but also a professional project manager. Her communication with the client and myself have always been well coordinated and effective. She is dedicated to her work, driven by the project goals and attentive to detail. Would highly recommend her to anyone.

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Credentials

  • Professional Scrum Master I
    Scrum.org
    Jan, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
    Examagram
    Apr, 2019
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Chief Of Staff
      • Jun 2021 - Present

    • Senior Consultant
      • Sep 2021 - Sep 2021

    • Consultant
      • Nov 2019 - Sep 2021

    • Malaysia
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • YCM Convenor
      • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

      Young Corporate Malaysians (YCM) is Malaysia's leading and largest corporate and business networking community for the youth. YCM seeks to build an extensive network of young professionals through both social and formal events and provide opportunities for them to meet gain insights from various corporate leaders Young Corporate Malaysians (YCM) is Malaysia's leading and largest corporate and business networking community for the youth. YCM seeks to build an extensive network of young professionals through both social and formal events and provide opportunities for them to meet gain insights from various corporate leaders

    • Founder and Business Owner
      • Jan 2014 - Dec 2019

      Business start-up venture, established in January 2014, whilst studying the business modules and took part in the Student Venture Challenge, won the prize for idea generation and subsequently went on to launch one the idea as a start-up venture.Secured a highly-prized Graduate Entrepreneur endorsement from The University of Nottingham-Launched a business venture SiQ Innovation, a hybrid bioscience and business ingenuity platform, identifying a market gap to provide multi-disciplinary consulting services in the UK Consulting services enabled technology transfer for other start-ups, and provided marketing analysis and innovation audits for a range of health related organisations, education institutes and SME companies.SiQ provides a cross disciplinary consultancy service in digital health. Whereas a conventional consultancy typically provides expertise in a particular sector or discipline, business projects often require science or engineering knowledge, or an understanding of multiple markets. Particularly in digital health, SiQ looks at design innovation in technology to be incorporated in health care and clinical settings.Undertaking business developments projects with SMEs and start-ups in digital health care i.e. business plan writing, digital health and growth strategies, digital marketing and recommendations to establish in the chosen market.Developed and evaluated potential mobile apps for students health data in the university and hospital (mHealth)•Featured in 1 Million Women in STEM campaign (1MWS)-see link below•Developed market entry strategy for generic drugs in Australia with a lead consulting company.•Performed innovation audit for UK’s leading Cisco reseller for healthcare IT; strategy implemented won the client the Cisco Partner Award for Innovation •Managed a team of 4 bio-sustainability engineers for an energy project. The analytical outcome resulted in more than £100K in energy cost savings

    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • Head of Digital Life Sciences
      • Apr 2016 - Sep 2018

      Biotaware is a digital health software development/wearable tech company in clinical and well-being industry. Biotaware develops IoT, mHealth and Cloud Server technology solutions, with cutting edge Bluetooth, Analytics, Smartphone and hardware digital sensor technology for the digital health markets. Biotaware's solutions provide organisation benefits in cost, timeliness and data accuracy leading to improved health outcomes.Sales, Marketing and Business Development:•Create content marketing campaigns with KNECT 365 Life Sciences and Company Connecting which led to increased brand awareness and inbound through company website.• Lead business engagement with investor; secured and managed investment portfolio for the company•Supported the spinout of Biotaware by rebranding all digital content to focus on connected health- led new website design & development to reflect company’s new portfolio.Project Management and Operations:•Managed a £1M wearable health project bid for client through thee Innovate UK Grant.•Managed end-to-end digital health projects i.e. digital health adoption projects in clinical trials, consumer health, well-being and medical technology/medical devices.Strategy and Growth:•Shaping the company's overall business strategy.•Developing strategic plans and assessing company performance. •Conducting research and data analysis to inform business decisions.

    • United Kingdom
    • Information Technology and Services
    • Strategic Partnerships Manager
      • Aug 2014 - Mar 2016

      FirstApp is an innovative, forward thinking company working with expertise in mobile applications development (mHealth) for Healthcare & Clinical Trials. FirstApp is focused on building enterprise mobile and digital applications for Health Care and Clinical Trials.•Implemented marketing strategies and listed as Apple Inc.’s preferred medical App developer, • Managed projects implementing the Apple ResearchKit for mHealth development.•Successfully featured the company in Journal of Clinical Trial 2015 editorial for diversifying company’s pipeline and implementing growth strategies.•Lead business engagement for business development and growth.

    • Germany
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Pharmaceutical Analyst
      • May 2013 - Sep 2013

      Formerly knows as GfK Bridgehead Limited, GfK Healthcare provides consulting services to healthcare global companies in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries. At GfK Bridgehead, I worked as a pharmaceutical analyst placement student. The MSc dissertation was based on live project with GfK’s client in gene therapy. Reviewed focus of the company i.e. business development and market access strategy, financial security and funding, cash generating businesses, merger and acquisition and partnering options. Measured market opportunities and projected pricing strategy in gene therapy. Strong recommendations made for client to strengthen their businessEffectively researched and developed analysis on oncology (breast cancer) for a key pharma client and identified collaboration opportunities within genetic testing market; resulted in positive feedback from principal consultant for thorough understanding of the team. Thorough market research on genetic diagnostics in breast cancerAcquired knowledge on publication sources and comparison with competitors, which successfully gave an overview on status of GfK in publications. Successfully contributed to poster writing for International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)Exposed to pricing and reimbursement and market access within GfK i.e. historical pricing assessment for drugs in healthcare marketGene therapy project: reviewed focus of the company and product market entry: business development, market opportunities, sales, finances & funding. Submitted project as dissertation and scored a distinction-87%

    • United Kingdom
    • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Commercial Excellence
      • Mar 2011 - Aug 2012

      GSK is a pharmaceutical company producing drugs, vaccine and consumer health products. I successfully developed eLearning tools using Articulate ® software for therapy areas (Urology, Vaccine, Neuroscience) for the company team site to enhanced the understanding of the therapy area and effectively increased productivity and understanding level of sales and marketing teamEffectively tracked Key Performance Index with sales/marketing team using Excel software and efficiently communicated the results to sales team in assisting area sales manager on ways to introduce new (branded generic) drugs (Cardiovascular and Metabolism drugs) in the market fieldConducted fieldwork with sales representative to learn the different techniques to approach doctors in hospitals and clinics which gave me a clear understanding on how the sales and marketing team works

    • Malaysia
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Management Team
      • Dec 2010 - Feb 2011

      BiotechCorp is the lead development agency for the biotech industry in Malaysia and acts as a central contact point providing support, facilitation and advisory services for biotech and life sciences companies in Malaysia. As part of the management trainee program, I was exposed to elements of communication, technical and entrepreneurship modules and work as a team to develop solutions for environmental issues in composting, recycling, renewable and sustainable energy. BiotechCorp is the lead development agency for the biotech industry in Malaysia and acts as a central contact point providing support, facilitation and advisory services for biotech and life sciences companies in Malaysia. As part of the management trainee program, I was exposed to elements of communication, technical and entrepreneurship modules and work as a team to develop solutions for environmental issues in composting, recycling, renewable and sustainable energy.

Education

  • Nottingham University
    Applied Biopharmaceutical Biotechnology and Business Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Technology Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship
    2012 - 2013
  • Michigan State University
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Biotechnology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Healthcare
    2007 - 2010
  • Kolej Universiti Taylor's
    Certificate of Applied Sciences, Applied Sciences
    2004 - 2006

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