Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany
Experienced visionary leader in technology-driven industries, healthcare, automation, pharma and medical device technologies, solid background in strategic innovation management and R&D, business and digital transformation. AI and data-driven business development. Strong academic record with PhD in “Automated Systems”, and MBA in General Management, combined with 15+ years of practical international project/program management experience. COMPETENCIES: • Executing digital strategies & technology transformation, aligned with business priorities and goals, driving impactful solutions across diverse markets. • Global leadership in innovation & strategic program management, leading business growth initiatives, and overseeing programs driving digital transformation and excellence. • Analytical & strategic decision-making with strength and critical thinking to enable sound decision-making. • People leadership and stakeholder engagement with a focus on building high-performance teams and effective communication, while fostering relationship building and cross-functional collaboration.
• Advancing integrated product, platform, and AI capabilities across global markets, enabling differentiated digital offerings, expanded clinical use cases, and enhanced customer value through unified technology ecosystems. • Driving cross-organizational transformation initiatives, focusing on cloud enablement, SaaS delivery models, and data-driven digital services that strengthen operational efficiency and commercial scalability. • Building and empowering a global engineering organization, establishing cohesive processes, architectures, and governance frameworks that support consistent delivery, innovation, and long-term technical excellence. • Enabling customer-centric digital growth, through reliable platform operations, scalable subscription models, and integrated lifecycle support that enhance adoption, retention, and recurring revenue streams.
• Fostering product-centric digital solutions and services in served markets, targeting growth revenues and optimized service operations, partnerships and external collaboration. • Leading global cross-business initiatives as part of company's Digital Transformation, with focus on customer-facing digital opportunities, applications and service platforms. • Enabling homecare service business growth globally by establishing comprehensive digital and IT landscape. • Realizing growth in the medical device business, by guiding and developing digitalization pathway, driving transition to new sub-scription-based cloud-enabled business models.
• Lead global “Digital Platforms” function within the CIO organization, with high-performing teams of project managers and solution architects. • Lead development and execution of digital roadmaps, building technology capabilities and solutions for business, incl. collaboration and partnership with external partners. • Directed creation of global harmonized digital & IT landscape, optimized customer-centric business operations across the organization • Drove governance for harmonized digital capabilities on global, regional, and local levels, consistent with corporate standards.
• Company positioning as innovation thought leader, by leading cross-business technology strategy role within the CTO organization, actionable roadmaps for cross-business high-impact technology fields. • Strengthened cross-business initiatives,managing global "Innovation Community with representation of all business areas. • Empowered corporate investments in new technology innovations, by managing corporate innovation fund with an efficient governance process.
• Increased access to public funding with utilization of external investment in millions per year, with strategic external partnerships & submission of projects. • Supported digitalization foundation, by leading company-wide digitalization initiative with focus on digital strategy and required capabilities, engaged with BUs and external partners. • Represented the company in various national and global industry bodies (EIT European Institute of Innovation & Technology, COCIR, German Research and Innovation Programs)
• Secured existing business with long-term technology outlook and 5-10 years future growth, by leading global strategic marketing initiatives, with business visions and impact on offerings. • Realization of mid-term opportunities by setting up and initiating in-depth technology implementation projects. • Lead global project teams, stakeholders and external partners globally (USA, Europe, China, India, Japan)
• Future business scenarios and strategic innovation management - global projects to secure existing and develop new businesses of the company • Development of comprehensive technology portfolio with implications on products and service offerings • Business development Management Consulting
• Established BU R&D competency center for SW development services with multi-million of development assignments, heading SW R&D for the BU "medical electronics, IT and Imaging solutions". • Realized R&D assignments with strong software development team, distributed along 3 locations. (build up competency centers in East Europe, Asia) • Achieved efficiency increase in product releases , introducing a new framework for software release and delivery, with required QM-standards.