Sam Shepherd

IT Business Strategy & Transformation | IT Business Partner for Medical | International & Global Business Relationship Management

Zug, Zug, Switzerland

About

Sam has IT delivery and consulting experience in small, medium and large UK, EU and global enterprises. He has experience across the lifecycle of IT transformation; IT strategy, IT service management, IT effectiveness, sourcing, procurement and delivery projects across a range of industries, including aerospace, consumer goods, financial services and in the public sector. He has also led or supported a number of projects with a focus on IT finance and with IT security. Sam led the IT finance management proposition within the Technology IT Effectiveness practice at Deloitte and he is currently undertaking the ITIL Intermediate courses and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) course. Sam currently works as the IT Functional Lead for transparency within Biogen, leading projects in the area of HCP / HCO Transparency across Biogen's global offices.

Experience

  • Associate Director at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Biogen (Switzerland)
    • IT Medical Lead for International
      Apr 2018 - May 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos

      Medical IT Functional Lead (business partner) for 40+ affiliate & distributor countries x-US: - Stakeholder engagement & partnering – engaging leadership and teams across Medical and other functions to understand business context, process, goals and challenges - IT Strategy & roadmap – Documented business strategy, challenges and opportunities, and defined Medical IT strategy and roadmap - Portfolio management – identified and prioritised regional Medical projects, leading business cases and leading delivery of key projects - Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) – led detailed process and system analysis to identify improvement and automation opportunities and agree improvement plans - IT Lead for Medical projects & enhancements across key systems (Veeva CRM/Network/ Events/Engage/Link, Appian, Steeprock OLA/OLMS, Salesforce Healthcloud, MS O365/PowerAutomate/BI, Medical Information call centre, SAMD)

    • IT Functional Lead
      Sep 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      IT Functional Lead within Global Therapeutic Operations IT, leading the Transparency function for EU (EFPIA), Australia (Medicines Australia) and Japan (JPMA). - IT Business Partner to affiliate offices (Business Relationship Management) - Strategy and planning for the Transparency function - Defining strategic target state of processes, systems, resources - Leading a large team of data stewards across 3 regions, 22 affiliates - Enabling and managing compliance with complex Transparency regulation and codes of practice - Building HCP engagement model for the future - Defining and realising efficiencies and savings

  • Manager, Technology Consulting at Deloitte
    Oct 2008 - Sep 2015 · 7 yrs

    Manager in Technology Consulting - Leading projects across industry sectors in IT strategy, IT operating model design, IT effectiveness, IT financial management, sourcing & procurement, business analysis and system design. - IT Financial Management proposition and capability group manager - IT Effectiveness, IT Service Management capability group

  • Connectivity & Security Technical Specialist at Atos Origin
    Oct 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr

    Leading the implementation of a number of security products: - Intrusion Detection / Protection - Vulnerability Scanning - Content Filtering / Heuristic Scanning - Data Loss Provention and Auditing - Compliance (PCI DSS) Internal Advisory and Product Portfolio Development

  • Consultant at Lindsay King Group
    Oct 2006 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr