Daniel van de Velden

Project Management Office Lead at IQVIA Health Systems (PPG) Services | Dr. rer. nat. | PMI-PMP | PMI-PMOCP | PMI-RMP

Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Passionate, dedicated, and highly organized, I bring over a decade of experience leading and contributing to successful national and international projects. My strength lies in combining strategic vision with hands-on execution—guiding cross-functional teams and complex programs with clarity and purpose. My background includes scientific programming and computational methods, along with mentoring Master's and PhD students, as well as colleagues and team members holding advanced degrees, fostering growth and collaboration across diverse academic and professional backgrounds. I excel in communication, organization, and project management, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and complex programs. I successfully designed and established a comprehensive Project Management Office (PMO) framework and team structure, which continues to guide and oversee more than 50 projects across 15+ countries. Holding multiple certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMP®, PMI-PMOCP™, PMO-CP™). From day one of my career I’m driven by a clear mission: to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of healthcare through impactful project delivery.

Experience

  • IQVIA (Remote)
    • Head of Project Management Office
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      - Designed and established a enterprise-wide Project Management Office (PMO), governing a $20M+ project portfolio while defining the technical framework, strategic PMO vision, SOP constructs, and governance models to enable seamless delivery. ​- Lead and supervise high-scale multi-project programmes, ensuring 100% adherence to regulatory and quality standards; successfully directed the on-time, in-budget deployment of 12+ IQVIA software solutions. ​- Oversee a portfolio of 75+ medium-to-highly complex projects within the healthcare software sector; equip project managers and cross-functional teams with standardized artifacts, tools, techniques, and strategic guidance to allow adherence to scope, timeline, and budget. ​- Serve as the primary escalation point for internal and external stakeholders to maintain top-tier satisfaction; drive process innovation and provide high-accuracy costing estimates for RFPs across the entire product portfolio. ​- Architected advanced project planning and risk management strategies, significantly reducing customer disruptions, safeguarding critical deliverables, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives that boosted overall team productivity. ​- Provide governance leadership and compliance design while mentoring and coaching project staff, demonstrating a proven track record of evaluating, designing, and scaling PMO functionalities to meet evolving stakeholder needs.

    • Project Manager
      Sep 2024 - Nov 2024 · 3 mos

  • IT Project Manager at KAIROS GmbH - an IQVIA business (now IQVIA HSS Germany)
    Nov 2023 - Sep 2024 · 11 mos

    - Managed multiple concurrent projects and programme-led DigiONE I3 initiatives, delivering on-time completion and maintaining cost variance. - Executed full project lifecycle—initiation to closure—achieving 100% compliance with delivery standards and operational norms. - Led customer engagement and contract closure across 10+ international sites, delivering high customer satisfaction on training and requirements analysis. - Developed stakeholder communication plans, designed Project Target Concepts, drove change management, ensuring minimal disruption to project delivery. - Evaluated outcomes against success metrics, implementing process improvements that boosted team productivity. - Led a team of project managers for the DigiONE I3 project.

  • Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Scientific Researcher (PostDoc)
      Feb 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr

      - Management of cross-regional projects on multimodal brain imaging. - Computational analysis of study data from parallel and consecutive medical imaging modalities for epilepsy disease assessment. - Development and implementation of a research toolbox for the pooling and analysis of multimodal imaging modalities for clinical use in the assessment of epilepsy disease (target audience: clinical staff).

    • Scientific Researcher (Doctoral Candidate)
      Oct 2018 - Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      - Controlling and monitoring of multiple cross-departmental and cross-regional multimodal brain imaging studies. - Analysis of large clinical and study datasets from parallel and consecutive medical imaging modalities (EEG, (f)MRI, 18F-FDG-PET, CT) to assess biomarkers in epilepsy patients. - Development, implementation and validation of computational methods for pre-surgical evaluation procedures in focal epilepsy patients. - Creation of curriculum to teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students in learning programming languages (MATLAB, C++) and in applying and interpreting computational methods in the field of brain imaging.

  • Data Scientist (PostDoc) at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    Apr 2023 - Nov 2023 · 8 mos

    - Management of an international study (German and Israeli children aged 6–7 years). - Establishment and development of a data analysis toolbox for (f)MRI. - Independent acquisition (Siemens PRISMA 3T) and Analysis of BOLD fMRI EPI datasets, for the evaluation of multisensory integration in the temporal lobe in first-graders.

  • Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at Forschungszentrum Jülich
    Apr 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

    - Analysis of biomagnetic imaging data for comparison of inverse computational methods for cortical and volumetric reconstruction of brain activity, including interface development for the presentation of the results. - Designed and implemented novel computational methods for non-linear spatial normalization of MRI data (implemented in MATLAB). - Presentation of study results at in-house conferences.