André Overmeyer

About

Dr. André Overmeyer is heading the Global Technical Operations Unit at Ferring Pharmaceuticals. An organisation globally present in 14 sites serving customers and patients worldwide with high quality pharmaceuticals. Until early 2026 in various functions in Operations at Merck, lately as Head Global Plant Operations in Life Science, and before responsible for the Integrated Supply Chain Organisation of the Business Unit Display Solution within Electronics. Prior to this he was Site Head of Merck’s largest pharmaceutical production unit in Darmstadt, Germany. With more than 20 years of professional experience in Engineering, Operations, Biotech, Pharma and high speciality Chemicals. He held positions in Plant Management (Darmstadt, Nantong China, Taoyuan Taiwan), Strategy & Operational Excellence (Global Healthcare Operations), Process Development and Engineering (Large Scale Biotech Vevey Switzerland) within Healthcare, Electronics and now Life Science. From 2021 to 2022 he led the Merck Group level Enterprise Priority on Sustainability. He is strong advocate for project management and sustainability as well as people development and teamwork. Bioprocess Engineer from background, he got a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology, Master in process engineering and completed an executive MBA as well as Lean & Six Sigma Belt and is a certified Coach.

Experience

• Executive Vice President - CTOO at Ferring Pharmaceuticals
  Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  Global Technical Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Regulatory

• Board member I Vorstandsmitglied at DECHEMA
  Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  Elected board member of DECHEMA e.V. as process industry representative

• SVP - Head of Global Plant Operations at Merck Life Science
  Sep 2022 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  a global function overseeing with my team of regional heads in US, Europe and Asia all 50 global sites with about 12000 colleagues in the Merck Life Science Integrated Supply Chain Organisation.

• SVP - Head of Supply Chain Display Solutions I Geschäftsführer Merck Display Trading GmbH at Merck Electronics
  Jun 2018 - Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  7 sites globally with 1300 staff; integrated into business unit with high customer intimacy

• Co-Lead Sustainability - Enterprise Priority at Merck Group
  Jul 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  Enterprise Priority had the mandate to accelerate the execution of our Sustainability strategy. Define the Merck Sustainability Operating Model: Strategy Execution, Business Process Decision Making, Leadership Engagement and Ownwership. Reporting to Group CEO.