Pharmaceuticals Division
The Pharmaceuticals Division specialises in marketing and sales of medicinal products and related products, for humans as well as animals. The Pharmaceuticals Division´s main scope of cooperation is with the producers of proprietary medicinal products, the cooperation with the bigger suppliers being in the form of hosting, i.e. the Icepharma personnel is closely connected to the supplier, gaining information and access to the marketing work and the domain knowledge of the suppliers as if they were their own employees.
The division is divided into departments, each of which is occupied with certain foreign suppliers and frequently, there is a considerable competition between departments, creating high demand on Icepharma regarding the keeping of and limited access to confidential information.
Regulatory Affairs is a department within the Pharmaceuticals Division taking care of medicinal products´ regulatory affairs, i.a. communication with the authorities, applications and renewals of marketing authorisations. Distributors of medicinal products in Iceland are subject to great demands, to comply with international regulations and law. Here, Regulatory Affairs department plays an important role.
All the employees of the division work by the code of ethics set by Frumtök (The association of producers of proprietary medicinal products) and Læknafélag Íslands (the association of Icelandic doctors), toghether with the code of ethics set by the suppliers they work for.
Bessi H. Jóhannesson is the Director of the Pharmaceuticals Division.