Obinna Egbuonye
adwlo9@r.postjobfree.com
*** ********** ****, ******* ***, Ontario, P7B 5K7
OBJECTIVE
A pharmacist/highly motivated/goal-driven Healthcare professional with broad experience in patient care, account and people management, training, Customer service relationship, sales and marketing across Health Management Organizations in Nigeria, Health Technology, Pharmacy practice (both hospital and community). Outstanding background in managed and long-term care and also technically proficient in introducing new brands to markets by winning and sustaining the customers and Consumers loyalty.
EDUCATION
Health informatics Jan 2023 – Till Date
Confederation College • Thunder Bay
The overall idea is to use my acquired skills from Health informatics to integrate healthcare sciences, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of healthcare information and fundamentally use information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes.
SKILLS
Additional capabilities in; *Critical thinking *Ability to work under pressure without supervision and lead team to deliver exceptional results *Proactive and Result oriented with passion and drive to exceed targets *Resilience*Microsoft skills* *Communication and Presentation skills *Conceptualization *Cross functional team *Channel Planning * Time Management Techniques * Interpersonal skill & Leadership qualities & Teamwork*
WORK EXPERIENCE
Long-term care administrator Feb 2019 - May 2021
Wellness Health Maintenance Organization • Lagos, Nigeria
Wellness HMO is one of the accredited health insurance organizations that provides individual and corporate health insurance to citizens of Nigeria. I worked as part of the Care-coordination team that implements the pharmacy benefit scheme for patients with chronic ailments who require long term management. I also worked as a business development officer for the company.
Community pharmacist Nov 2016 - Jan 2022
New Nayborhud Pharmacy & Stores • Lagos, Nigeria
New Nayborhud Pharmacy is a community retail practice located at the central part of the cosmopolitan city of Lagos, Nigeria. Here, I worked for over three (3) years the superintendent pharmacist and saddled with the responsibilities of:
Processing, compounding of medications, counselling of patient and dispensing of medications.
Proper prescription record keeping & Patient data management.
Providing appropriate drug information and education to patients
Providing of drug information to other health-care professionals
Key accounts officer - sales Nov 2004 - Oct 2008
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals plc • Lagos, Nigeria
GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals plc, is a British multinational and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London. In GSK plc, i started my career in sales and marketing as a medical representative and moved up to the position of a key account manager. Overall responsibility was to actively promote amongst other healthcare professionals, the company's range of new chemical entities introduced into the Nigerian market.
Intern Pharmacist Sep 2003 - Aug 2004
Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital • Nnewi, Nigeria
This employer, Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, is one of the federal government-owned teaching hospitals that provides one-year internship training for newly graduated pharmacists in Nigeria. It afforded the opportunity to work in a closely knitted environment with other healthcare professionals.
VOLUNTEER WORK
CB-SHIP Coordinator Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Wellness HMO • Lagos, Nigeria
CB-SHIP simply means Community Based Health Insurance Scheme. This scheme was introduced by the different state governments to cater for the primary healthcare needs of the less privileged, the unorganized private sector and the vulnerable groups within the different communities. I worked as one of the pharmacist coordinators for the 3-year programme and my role was to always ensure access to medications for patients throughout the scheme.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Arthur Andersen Academic Excellence Award 1997
The Arthur Andersen Academic Award is a yearly international award amongst university students for the best in academics and I was a recipient of this award in the year 1997.
Key Account Development Award 2007
The Key Account Development Award was given to me in 2007 by my previous employer, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Nigeria for my outstanding performance as the best sales representative for one of the company’s foremost product, Seretide (a drug developed for the management of patients with chronic Asthma).