Marcel von der Haar

Head of Product Management for Ecosystem Software bei Sartorius

Germany

About

Experience

  • Director Automation, PAT & Digital Product Management at Merck Life Science
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Full-time · 3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Product Management for Process Applications & Data Analytics
      Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

      • Together with a strong team, leads product strategy for advanced data analytics, machine learning / artificial intelligence / AI, and advanced process control technologies to enhance Sartorius' competitive edge while broadening the biopharma industries access to the benefits of these technologies. • Managing the evolution of Sartorius' data analytics expert product portfolio towards a scalable biopharma data analytics and AI industrialization framework, • Spearheaded the expansion of Sartorius' Data Analytics business towards a solution-focused service model, integrated with Automation and PAT offerings. • Managed, guided and enabled his team to reshape the embedded hardware business model while repositioning Sartorius Digital Solutions Hardware, Automation and Data Analytics with an internal service provider framework. • Drove collaboration across functions and departments to establish business processes, pragmatically balancing specific needs of a software-as-a-service business model with the existing strengths and best practices of Sartorius. • Continuously monitors and adapts Go-to-Market approaches in close alignment with commercial • As part of the Product Management Leadership, collaboratively and pragmatically reshapes organizational setup and roles in alignment with surrounding stakeholders and affected team-members to adress gaps and bottlenecks and ensure that team-members and colleagues can contribute according to their strengths and where it matters / creates most impact.

    • Head of Product Strategy Digital & Data Analytics
      Dec 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Together with a strong team, led product strategy for advanced data analytics, machine learning / artificial intelligence / AI, and model process control technologies to enhance Sartorius' competitive edge while broadening the biopharma industries access to the benefits of these technologies. • Managing the evolution of Sartorius' data analytics expert product portfolio towards a scalable biopharma data analytics and AI industrialization framework, • Drove collaboration across functions and departments to establish business processes, pragmatically balancing specific needs of a software-as-a-service business model with the existing strengths and best practices of Sartorius. • Continuously monitors and adapts Go-to-Market approaches in close alignment with commercial

  • Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (Darmstadt, Hessen, Deutschland)
    • Head of Data Science for Life Science
      Feb 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Leading a team of highly skilled Senior Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. We support Merck's Life Science Business in generating business value by identifying problem statements, ideating, scoping and executing data science-focussed PoCs as well as the subsequent industrialization of those. I had the pleasure of building this team from scratch. Today I focus on identifying high potential data science use cases with internal business partners and my team as well as developing the team and extablishing knowledge and best practice exchange across the Life Science organization and Merck as a whole. In order to support Life Science I interface with a range of internal stakeholders, including the executive leadership to understand business needs and to educate on the potential of machine learning and AI for the various branches of our business.

    • Data Scientist
      Jul 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Ph.D. Student at Leibniz Universität Hannover
    Jan 2014 - Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Bioinformatics and Bioanalytics: developing a solution for statistical analysis of microarray data as well as development/optimization of the technology's experimental basis at the Institut für Technische Chemie.

  • Student Researcher at OptiEnz Sensors
    Mar 2013 - Aug 2013 · 6 mos

    Master's Thesis: Development and Characterization of Whole Cell and Enzyme-Based Optical Biosensors for the Detection of Melamine