• Organization: PharmaSecure
  • Posted: June 4 2009
  • Location: Delhi, IN

Status: Full-Time
Effective Date: July 1, 2009 (see Application Instructions below)
 
About PharmaSecure
PharmaSecure is a company dedicated to curbing the global trade of counterfeit medicine and providing unprecedented branding services and market data to leading suppliers of quality medicine.  The annual global trade in counterfeit drugs is estimated at $50 billion. Counterfeits penetrate every pharmaceutical market and have been blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. In emerging markets where more than 30% of available medicines may be fake and ineffective, PharmaSecure allows consumers to authenticate medicine using mobile phones and the internet. PharmaSecure also provides targeted market research and advertising services by capturing data from authentications. The
company will expand to authentication of other consumer products and will enlarge its geographic scope in emerging markets through its research and marketing efforts.
 
Job Summary
The Technology Manager is responsible for PharmaSecure’s technical development and operations.  This individual will coordinate technical exchanges with current and new clients and support existing IT infrastructure.  S/He will be accountable for meeting development objectives created alongside the senior management team.  Key performance indicators are functionality of the client-facing system and customer satisfaction.
 
The Technology Manager will advise PharmaSecure’s executive team on technical
strategy.  This individual will interface with PharmaSecure’s partners -- primarily
manufacturers of drugs and formulations but also service providers of related services globally.  Opportunities exist for more senior candidates to oversee expansion with partners globally and/or for consumer products beyond drugs.  The Technology Manager will oversee the technical effort in India (and potentially a larger team globally).
 
Responsibilities
1) Manage company’s data systems.

  • Maintain IT infrastructure, including servers and data security.
  • Oversee product development. 
  • Respond to technical problems and QA issues.

2) Manage technical team.

  • Manage sub-contracted programmers.
  • Recruit and hire additional programmers and systems admins as the company grows.

3) Mediate between clients’ and prospective clients’ IT departments.

  • Build custom data interfaces into packaging and data management systems of current and future customers.   
  • Be available for troubleshooting across a wide variety of issues related to project implementation including but not limited to technical integration.
  • Work closely with Sales Group to develop executable projectimplementation plans.

4) Work with PharmaSecure executives to design current and future products as well as develop functional goals for PharmaSecure’s technology and design system architecture.

  • Work with PharmaSecure executives to set functional objectives and create a development plan. 
  • Regularly report development progress to CEO against plan. 
  • Serve as primary technology architect for future development of PharmaSecure’s system.  Work with technical and non-technical members of team to determine functional requirements of new products.


Qualifications

  • Highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with expert oral/written communication skills towards individuals with technical and non-technical backgrounds.  Strong commitment to excellence. 
  • Able to operate independently and flexibly in an unstructured but demanding multicultural environment. 
  • Minimum three years programming experience in open source environment. 
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with PHP, Cake PHP experience desirable. 
  • Skilled in MySQL. 
  • Corporate experience in Linux and Apache administration. 
  • Minimum three years project management experience. 
  • Extensive experience working with external clients. 
  • Proven track record of managing teams of developers, ensuring quality, timely completion of a range of concurrent development projects in unstructured environments with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership. 
  • Ability to write detailed specifications and effectively manage developers working on different projects. 
  • Available for moderate travel (10-30% of time, depending on scope of responsibilities). 
  • Exposure to healthcare and/or telecomm industries (e.g.; IT, network security, packaging, quality assurance). 
  • Experience working with a major IT company and start-ups is a plus. 
  • Pre-sales and sales engineering experience desirable. 
  • MBA desirable.  
  • Experience living or working abroad is a plus. 
  • Individual will be based in Delhi, India.

 
Application Instructions
To apply, e-mail Letter of Interest, CV, and contact information for three references to jobs@pharmasecure.us.  In the subject field of the email please type Technology Manager.