Helmut Winkler

About

I'm focused on accelerating patient access to innovation while building high performing teams and sustainable growth. I lead with execution excellence, accountability and purpose turning strategy into measurable patient impact.

Experience

• Executive Business Unit Director Oncology at MSD Polska
  Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

• MSD Österreich ()
  • Executive Business Unit Director Oncology
    Feb 2024 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs

  • Oncology Franchise Lead
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Commercial Operations Lead Oncology
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Business Owner at Influential Business Consulting
  Mar 2018 - Feb 2024 · 6 yrs

• Novartis (2 yrs 1 mo)
  • Commercial Execution CEE
    May 2020 - Oct 2020 · 6 mos

    Driving Commercial Execution agenda across countries of the Central Eastern European region.

  • Head of Training
    Oct 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Leading transformation towards commercial excellence in execution in iCEE (indirect reporting countries of the Central Eastern European Cluster/ 26 countries)

  • Head Commercial Execution ad interim
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2019 · 5 mos

    ▪ Drive implementation of commercial execution in Serbia ▪ SFE analytics ▪ Implement digital marketing projects ▪ Sales manager training & upskilling

• Novartis (3 yrs)
  • Head Customer Facing Model & Transformation
    Apr 2015 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs

    Reimaging commercial operations across the Novartis divisions, to drive excellence in execution.

  • Sales Manager ad interim
    Jul 2017 - Dec 2017 · 6 mos

    Sales Manager Immunology & Dermatology portfolio.