
Sara Mohamed Abdel Khalek
Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist Serving Middle East & GCC at Amico Group
Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist Serving Middle East & GCCFull Time
Jan 2022 - Present -3 yrs, 5 months
- Job Details:▪ Main Responsibilities include: - Understanding the registration requirements for several countries. - Requesting suppliers to provide different documents required for the registration. - Feeding the different governmental systems with the required registration information and uploading needed documents. - Understanding the Comments received from the Authorities on any registration and passing it to the supplier in an easy understandable manner. - Attending Conference calls with suppliers, prioritizing the requirements, conveying the needed tasks in an understandable manner. - Maintaining the Archive system. - Ability to bridge the communications between Authorities/our local agents in the countries with the suppliers. - Follow the internal regulations in Amico. - Other regulatory activities such as classification, prequalification. - Communicating with the legal department in Amico for all legal concerns. - Close follow up for all pending issues - Preparing reports related to the progress of work.
Consultant Regulatory Affairs Associate - MENAFull Time
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 -1 yr, 11 months
- Job Details:▪ Main Responsibilities include: ▪ Governance of dossiers’ technical aspects based on the knowledge for existing & emerging regulations. ▪ Validate registration dossiers to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines. ▪ Compile, Prepare, submit and acquire approval for registration dossiers supporting various regulatory activities including submission and maintenance of marketing authorization (new registration & renewal applications), submission of variations (Labeling & CMC), submission and maintenance of relevant licenses (to import, store and distribute medicinal products) across MENA markets. ▪ Maintain & archive technical documentation, databases, or systems. ▪ Develop internal and external communication channels with different stakeholders to support regulatory projects. ▪ Provide needed regulatory support & advice to different departments: marketing, supply chain, commercial, medical, Pharmacovigilance…etc. ▪ Analyze, prepare, and respond to queries raised by Health Authorities. ▪ Coordinate, create, translate & proofread packaging materials, product information leaflets, and summary of product characteristics in local language as needed. ▪ Maintain contacts with relevant key personnel in local Regulatory Authorities, local representatives, partner companies, and company affiliates. ▪ Analyze, assess and report changes in the regulation guidelines and ensure its communication to relevant stakeholders & implementation in company policies and procedures. ▪ Ensure compliance with local health authorities’ regulation, company policies & procedures. ▪ Maintain knowledge of company products.
Regulatory coordinator - PGSFull Time
- Job Details:▪ Main Responsibilities include: Regulatory strategy development & Implementation for Human pharmaceutical products: ▪ Executes the agreed plans by coordinating dossiers submission within planned timelines for renewals. ▪Handle re-registration process with health authorities for locally manufactured products to secure successful continuation of products in the market. ▪ Maintain licenses (e.g. Marketing Authorizations) in compliance with local regulations by ensuring that corporate regulatory processes, SOP’s and systems are followed ensuring training in P2L and PLS are completed 100% (systems and procedures). ▪ Handle any changes in (manufacturing ingredients, packaging materials, artwork, storage conditions & suppliers) with MoH & taking the necessary actions to assure compliance with health authorities, for example: leaflet/packs updates, pack/composition/adding supplier variations submission & implementation). ▪Handle stability/dissolution/bioequivalence studies submissions to MoH to assure compliance. ▪ Manage the completion of Lifecycle (LC) submissions and approvals as per established Regulatory performance metrics ▪ Ensure submitted product documents will fully meet the local regulatory & perform follow-up with the regulatory authority during submission review and ensure all questions /requests are provided/clarified within due time to ensure timely approval of product. ▪ Maintain compliance (GDMS, EPALM, PEARL, CMC change control, product labelling, etc.) at 100%. Archive and maintain regulatory related records according to local, global SOP’s ▪ Develop strong partnerships with in-country (e.g. Country Strategists, Submission and labeling/artwork Hubs, WSR-Team) to facilitate the development and implementation of registration strategies to expedite the renewal of products and life-cycle optimization. ▪ Ensure all regulatory activities for assigned products are executed effectively & efficiently in compliance with external regulatory requirements & internal quality procedures. ▪ Develop effective relationships with local & global internal partners.
Regulatory Affairs SupervisorFull Time
- Job Details:▪ Main Responsibilities include: Regulatory strategy development & Implementation for wide range of products: Human pharmaceutical, Nutritional products, Veterinary products, Cosmeceuticals, Cosmetics products, Medical devices. ▪ Managing preparing & submitting all types of registration files for all types of products, according to the guidelines at different MOH divisions including CAPA, NODCAR. ▪ Set preparing the regulatory affairs time plan & outlining the time limits for granting the registration license of each product submitted for registration. ▪ Follow up the company’s factory for preparing technical data for registration files & submitting them at MOH. ▪ Preparing scientific reports & files for scientific specialized committee submission. ▪ Follow up the legalized centers for conducting the studies required for every registration stage, either clinical or bioequivalence studies & submitting them to the relevant committees. ▪ Follow up the products registration procedure, and submission to different committees (Pricing, stability, pharmacology, scientific specialized committees and so on. ▪ Preparing leaflets for the products follow up submission to pharmacology committee. ▪ Follow up & submission of any newly requested data upon file revision or upon committee submission & follow up for final decisions. ▪ Receiving all documents, decisions, & licenses for the products & resending them to the relevant parties at the company. ▪ Follow up the factory for preparing the bioequivalence Pilot batches after granting the registration license, prepare for conducting the study in a legalized center. Sara M. Abdel-Khalek – Mar. 2023 Page 3 ▪ Follow up the registration analysis files at NODCAR, sending the reports to the factory if any missing data is requested by NODCAR until granting NODCAR conformity reports. ▪ Submitting new molecules every month at CAPA. ▪ Follow up the samples sent to NODCAR (finished products), for inspection or random samples till granting NODCAR conformity reports. ▪ Follow up the latest update of the registration ministerial decrees & guidelines & preparing for meetings to explain new procedures or decisions to the relevant parties in the company. ▪ Providing the scientific office with the regulatory & technical data for the products. ▪ Share in revising the packaging materials before printing & marketing. ▪ Submitting the brochures & marketing materials to relevant dept. at CAPA for approval before launch.
Education
MBA in Global business
ESLSCA Business SchoolJan 2017 - Jan 2019 - 2 yr
Master of Cytology, Histology& Genetics in Cytology, Histology& Genetics
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2010 - Jan 2013 - 3 yr
Bachelor of Science (Chemistry – Zoology) in Chemistry – Zoology
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2003 - Jan 2007 - 4 yr
High School - Thanaweya Amma
El-Orman Secondary SchoolJan 2003
Achievements
High ability to work under pressure. Able to work independently and with team. Professional in technical reports writing. Have high flexibility to new concepts and responsibilities. Presentable and have high communication skills. Always eager to learning.
Skills
Languages
English
Advanced
Training & Certifications
TOEFL
2012Clinical Pharmacy
National institute for tumors (Clinical Pharmacy).·2006