The client's challenge is to maintain the stability of supply to patients while divesting their portfolio and simultaneously allowing the business to focus on their core portfolio as quickly as possible.

I lead a team of 4 consultants as well as a wider project team across 9 Asian markets, 6 manufacturing sites and 13 contract manufacturers spread across the US, Europe and Asia. Our scope of activity includes design of proposed handover models, supporting negotiation of terms, planning and implementing migration of operations from my client to the buyer, another multinational pharmaceuticals company.

Mundipharma's GMP consumer R&D and Manufacturing facility in Singapore is a GMP compliant liquid mixing, filling and packing facility capable of manufacturing 44m packs a year at full capacity. The R&D facility is capable of taking processes from lab scale, through pilot scale on to small and finally large scale manufacturing. The facilities include a pilot plant, research, quality control and microbiological laboratories and supporting office space. The facility includes the first ever SAP4Hana implementation for a liquid fill and finish plant in Asian.

Led the design and construction of the facility. Reported initially to Global Head of Technical Operations and then to the Site Director, with a core team of 4 people. At the peak of construction, we mobilised a combined work force of 500 people on site. My responsibilities included planning and schedule control, budgetary control, key vendor procurement and management, stakeholder management and communication.

• Managed the search and acquisition of the site in Tuas, Singapore.

• Requirements gathering and documentation for the facility from the business stakeholders, based on the approved business case.

• Executed a preliminary design exercise to provide more accurate budget estimates and form a basis for bids.

• Managed bids and proposals process to select key vendors for construction, equipment, validation services and systems.

Led the overall program of projects for construction, equipment, IT, commissioning, qualification and validation, completing the USD38.5M project , USD4M within budget and on schedule.