Helena Zaitzow Mikaelsen

Commercial Project Lead Oncology @BMS | Life Science Consultant | PharmaRelations | MScPharm

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

About

I’m a pharmacist currently working as a Life Science consultant at PharmaRelations, supporting pharmaceutical companies across the Nordics with different assignments. My current role is at Bristol Myers Squibb, where I work as a Commercial Project Lead in Oncology I have experience from both the healthcare system, including home care service, community and hospital pharmacies, and hospital wards - and the pharmaceutical industry, including sales (primary care (GPs) and hospital specialist), medical, marketing, and clinical trials. I’ve also been involved in product launches, event planning, and project management. I’m especially interested in the intersection of health, pharmaceutical science, business, and technology. I like collaborative environments and enjoy working with people just as much as I enjoy digging into strategy and data. I’m often described as easy to connect with and bring energy and structure to the teams I work with. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to connect 🙋🏼‍♀️ 🌐https://www.pharmarelations.com/ 📩[email protected]

Experience

  • PharmaRelations (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Commercial Project Lead Oncology @BristolMyersSquibb
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Responsible for different oncology projects within marketing, strategy, events, and omnichannel - Pre-launch mapping and contribution to Nordic medical launch plans and strategy (both field-based and internal work) - Working closely with brand lead, product manager, medical, market and sales, and external stakeholders

    • Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Oncology DK @BristolMyersSquibb
      Oct 2024 - Apr 2025 · 7 mos

      - Oncology; focusing on the Danish market - Medical support for sales/commercial and RCO - Feasibilities and clinical trials - Contribute to medical strategy and launch plans with field insights in pre-launch phase - Engage in scientific discussions and present scientific data and presentations to thought leaders (TLs) and HCPs - Part of cross functional oncology team working towards launches and medical activities

    • Project Lead Lung Cancer @Bristol Myers Squibb
      Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 · 9 mos

      - Responsible for the lung cancer portfolio; mainly non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and mesothelioma treatment (immunotherapy). This included working with new launches, pre-launch planning, event planning, project management, marketing- and customer activities, brand plans, and budgets. - Development, and approval in Veeva Vault, of new campaigns, marketing material and digital material in collaboration with event- and graphical design bureaus. - Cross-functional collaboration with sales, medical, marketing, market access, governmental- and corporate affairs in brand teams, and coaching of key account managers (sales force) on new campaigns and sales trainings.

  • Territory Manager at Boehringer Ingelheim
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

    - Sales representative working with diabetes type 2, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and COPD towards general practitioners (GPs) in Oslo and surrounding areas - Broad insight into the Norwegian health care system - License in «Lov- og bransjekurs» from Legemiddelindustrien (LMI)

  • BioBusiness Summer School 2022 Participant at Synapse - Life Science Connect
    Aug 2022 - Aug 2022 · 1 mo

    One week summer school organized by Synapse at University of Copenhagen (Panum) focusing on the business part of life science. Through lectures, discussions, workshops and case work I learned more about regulatory affairs, patents, intellectual property rights, venture capital, pricing, marketing, business strategy, bioentrepreneurship and innovation. During the case competition organized by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) I also developed my skills when it comes to teamwork, solving business cases, and pitching and presenting a solution to a case.

  • Diakonhjemmet Sykehusapotek (Oslo, Norway)
    • Pharmacist
      Jun 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - I got my student license to work as a pharmacist in June 2020. After that I got more responsibility at work. - Part-time job during pharmacy studies - Overview of both OTC-drugs and prescription drugs in the Norwegian market - Experience with communicating medical information to patients, customers, nurses, and doctors - Competent user of FarmaPro (e-resept) - Insight in both Helsenorge and Helfo

    • Pharmacy Associate
      Jan 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      This was my first work experience in a pharmacy, and I started to work as a pharmacy associate besides my pharmacy studies. I started in this job since I was interested in getting more practice and experience, and was also interested in how a hospital and a hospital pharmacy works.

  • Master Thesis Student at Lovisenberg Diakonale Sykehus
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 · 2 mos

    As a part of my master thesis I've contributed to a clinical multicenter study, that took place at this hospital among other places. Here I included 20 patients from the emergency room, and did medication reconciliation when the patients were moved to another medicine ward at the hospital. - Insight in how the Norwegian health care system works, and the patient journey within this system - Collaborated with senior physicians and discussed medical cases with them and improved my medical terminology - Had presentations about my findings for all the doctors at the wards I was working on - Worked with both kjernejournal and DIPS Arena