Basel Metropolitan Area
๐ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ: Scientist and global people, project, and program leader with a proven track record in Pharma. Expert in translating strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes via high-stakes initiatives, projects, programs. Former R&D Head of Laboratory. Executive MBA candidate at the University of St. Gallen. My cross-shaped skillset allow me to thrive in environments where cross-disciplinary communication, collaboration, leadership, and navigation through complex human and organizational systems are keys to success. And it enables me to shift seamlessly between strategy shaping, strategy execution, and day-to-day operations โ connecting the dots across these domains, bridging the strategy-to-execution gap, and navigating the double S-curve. ๐ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: I build high-performing global, cross-functional, cross-divisional teams from scratch and lead them in strategic multi-year drug substance, drug product, and medical device technology & development projects & programs to success. I shape the governance frameworks, in which strategic projects & programs operate to ensure business value realization in full alignment with corporate strategic goals. ๐ ๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐: Strategic project, program, portfolio management, research & development, shaping strategy & translating strategy into business outcomes & value, bridging the strategy-to-execution gap, building high-performing teams, coaching & mentoring, leadership, science & technology, medicine, pharma, chemistry, manufacturing, process design and optimization, digitalization, operational excellence, engineering, investing, artificial intelligence... โฆand hitting the ski slopes in winter and extended gravel bike tours and mountain hiking trips in summer.
โข Fully responsible & accountable for planning, execution, governance of global drug product (DP) and medical device technology transfer projects; full lifecycle: from project initiation till operational launch. โข Project leader for global teams with up to 50 members across several continents, cultures, time zones โข Fully responsible & accountable for simultaneous planning, management, leadership, governance of 9โ12 global multi-year projects that are associated with a forecasted annual revenue of 50โ80 Mio. USD โข Project manager & leader of DP projects with 1) Acino as CMO and 2) Acino as customer to CMOs; and of DP projects with 1) Acino as market authorization holder (MAH) and with 2) customers as MAHs โข Project manager & leader of Drug Substance (DS) supply change projects: From supplier evaluation, DS/DP analytics & manufacturing process verification/validation, till closing with variation package submission โข Global, cross-functional collaboration with ext. and int. SMEs from SC, BD, CM, MS&T, AS&T, QA, QC, Production, Packaging, Engineering, Planning, F&A, EHS/CSR, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Site & Top Mgmt. โข Management of interrelated projects as programs for efficiency, opportunity realization, risk reduction โข Consultant for product portfolio reviews & business case creations, refinements, and reviews โข Initiation & organization of international business trips to business partners (3-6 per year) โข Liaison with regulatory authorities during inspections, audits, submissions, findings, inquiries โข Full responsibility for the resolution of any project-related deviations and issues, pursuit of scientific root cause investigations, CAPA implementations and CAPA effectiveness verifications โข Project status reporting to Acinoโs / Arceraโs senior management and C-Level (CEO, COO, CQO) โข Customerโs advocate on-site in Contract Manufacturing projects
โข Fully responsible & accountable for planning, execution, governance of global B2B & B2C drug product technology transfer projects as project lead with global internal & external stakeholders โข Cross-functional interface between external partners, technical teams, and the sales organization โข Support of S&T teams as PM and scientific SME in solving technical issues of any kind in Acino projects โข SME for a major update of Acinoโs CH siteโs Cleaning Validation (CV) Master Plan & CV Framework
โข Team Leader, Scientist, Project Manager, Lab Head, Process Engineer โข Management of a team of 3โ4 direct reports; responsibility for >5 direct reports when covering for peers โข Fully responsible & accountable for planning & execution of feasibility studies, process designs & developments, -optimizations, -characterizations, tech transfers, production campaigns of peptide based drug substances (DS, API) with tight timelines & budgets; DS use: from preclinical use up to phase III studies supply โข Simultaneous management of several research projects, usually 5โ10, with different complexity, worth per project ranging from CHF >10 k up to CHF >1 Mio.; often in an interdivisional and international setup โข Project manager & leader for 4 CAPEX projects with a total worth approx. CHF 1 Mio. and approx. 30 Drug substance process development projects & feasibility studies led from '19-'22; total worth: CHF >10 Mio. โข Planning & execution of innovation projects with industry partners to strengthen Bachemโs tech leadership โข Communication with customers and authoring of reports and PPT presentations for customers (weekly) โข FTE, cost, time, material estimations, risk assessments for process development RFQs, RFPs as R&D SME โข Implementation of technological and organizational improvements: Lean Tools (such as Kanban), PAT, etc. โข GMP infrastructure responsible and (co-)author of GMP documents, such as SOPs and MBRs
โข Quality-, budget-, due-date-adherent planning and execution of tech transfers, feasibility studies, process optimizations as scientist working in the laboratory
โข Doctoral studies, teaching and coaching as research associate in the group of Prof. Dr. Eric Meggers โข Design, optimization, application of Rhodium- and Iridium-based "chiral-at-metal" catalysts โข Coaching and training of bachelor's and master's students โข Conception and delivery of live lectures to >100 students โข Responsibility for practical classes โข Exam conception and performance appraisal of master's and bachelor's students โข Conception and supervision of bachelor's theses and grad student projects
โข Planning and execution of experiments aiming at the introduction of the first stereocenter within the envisioned synthetic route to ยซSpectomycin B1ยป