Dr. Reto M. Ziegler

R&D Business Consulting at Veeva

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Originally a Molecular Biologist, graduated in Technology Management, drawn to IT and digital, and consulting enthousiast. I have over eight years of experience in Management Consulting for the Life Sciences industry with a focus on R&D and digital transformation and strategy. I enjoy networking and finding ways how methods, technologies, and concepts can be applied to real cases with the goal to improve patients’ lives. I embrace new challenges in this environment I am very passionate about.

Experience

  • R&D Business Consulting at Veeva Systems
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Life Sciences Consulting at Deloitte Switzerland
    Nov 2018 - Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Management Consulting for Life Sciences clients with focus on R&D, clinical development, digitalization, and operating model design.

  • Management Consulting for the Life Sciences at Accenture
    Nov 2013 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Member of Accenture Management Consulting’s Life Sciences practice. Active member of Life Sciences and Research & Development focus groups as well as several initiatives on client account level. Roles performed in several consulting projects for international Pharma and MedTech clients: - Project manager for several individual project-streams during strategic planning for a new product - Risk manager on program level in a product development program - Planning lead in a product development multi-project environment - Masterplan manager in a product development program - Solution designer & architect for a global tracking & reporting solution - Application manager for several global finance applications - Portfolio manager for a variety of IT assets - Global standardization lead to align global processes after a re-organization - R&D IT Strategy

  • Research Associate & PhD Student at University of St Gallen
    Nov 2008 - Oct 2013 · 5 yrs

    Research focused on managerial and organizational implications of cross-functional collaboration in highly regulated industries (e.g. Pharma, Biotech). Several consulting and research projects with mainly Life Science and Public Sector clients: - Research on organizational models and managerial implications of Integrated Development (Life Sciences) - Strategic capacity management (Life Sciences) - Operational excellence benchmarking & consulting (Life Sciences) - Transformation of operational excellence models into R&D space (Life Sciences) - Cooperations & outsourcing strategy development (Public Sector) - Cooperations & outsourcing model development (Public Sector) - Increasing efficiency & effectiveness through re-organization (Public Sector)

  • Master Student in Molecular and Developmental Immunology at University of Basel
    Sep 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Master thesis about the involvement of Notch signaling in T and Dendritic Cell development in vitro.