What regulatory executives think about outsourcing · 85 WHERE COMPANIES DO BUSINESS % 33% 48% 22%...

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85 WHERE COMPANIES DO BUSINESS % 33 % 48 % 22 % 31 % Primary rationale for outsourcing REGULATORY AFFAIRS WORK 33 % To temporarily manage overflow 26 % To increase capacity 19 % Other responses 17 % To enable in-house staff to focus on strategic work 5 % To save cost outsource less than 10 % of their budget 50 % outsource more than 25 % of their budget 32 % Estimated percentage of total REGULATORY AFFAIRS BUDGET that is outsourced: MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS WHEN SELECTING AN OUTSOURCING PROVIDER EXPERIENCE COST THERAPEUTIC KNOWLEDGE FIT Internet search 8 % Leveraging our in-house procurement team 10 % Working with a large CRO 13 % Using referrals from trusted sources 69 % FUNCTIONS HANDLED BY THE REGULATORY DEPARTMENT AT YOUR COMPANY? Label review of regulatory signoff Advertising regulatory signoff Regulatory CMC Pharmacovigilance Quality assurance Study startup Environmental considerations Market access or reimbursement FOR OUTSOURCING OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS TOP AREAS Regulatory strategy Pharmacovigilance Regulatory operations (publishing) Overflow submissions Regulatory writing Mature marketed products support Regulatory CMC Quality assurance Labeling In the first quarter of 2013, Optum Life Sciences surveyed 46 small, mid-size and large life science companies to gauge their regulatory outsourcing practices and plans. Companies represented a range of therapeutic areas — predominantly oncology, CNS, GI, CV and respiratory. Below is a closer look at their regulatory outsourcing activities. OUTSOURCING PROVIDERS ARE FOUND What regulatory executives think about outsourcing HOW outsource 11-25 % of their budget 18 % Optum Life Sciences

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BUSINESS %

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48%

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Primary rationale for outsourcingREGULATORY AFFAIRS WORK

33%To temporarily

manage overflow

26%To increase

capacity

19%Other

responses

17%To enable in-house staff

to focus on strategic work

5%To save cost

outsource less than10% of their budget50%

outsource more than25% of their budget32%

Estimated percentageof totalREGULATORY AFFAIRS BUDGETthat is outsourced:

MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS WHEN SELECT ING AN

OUTSOURCING PROVIDEREXPERIENCE

COSTTHERAPEUTIC KNOWLEDGE

FIT

Internet search

8%

Leveraging our in-house procurement team

10%

Working with a large CRO

13%

Using referrals from trusted sources

69%

FUNCTIONS HANDLED BY THEREGUL ATORY DEPARTMENT AT YOUR COMPANY?

Label review of regulatory signoff

Advertising regulatory signoff

Regulatory CMC

Pharmacovigilance

Quality assurance

Study startup

Environmental considerations

Market access or reimbursement

FOR OUTSOURCING OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHSTOP AREAS

Regulatory strategy

Pharmacovigilance

Regulatory operations(publishing)

Overflow submissions

Regulatory writing

Mature marketedproducts support

Regulatory CMC

Quality assurance

Labeling

In the first quarter of 2013, Optum Life Sciences surveyed 46 small, mid-size and large life science companies to gauge their regulatory outsourcing practices and plans. Companies represented a range of therapeutic areas — predominantly oncology, CNS, GI, CV and respiratory. Below is a closer look at their regulatory outsourcing activities.

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outsource 11-25% of their budget

18%

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