Basel Metropolitan Area
Senior director with 20+ years global leadership experience in strategic, operational and project management roles in clinical development, sourcing and IT in the Pharmaceutical industry. Currently in Strategy & Operations staff function in Early Clinical Development for General Medicines. Successful leader of strategic internal and external projects (consortia) with a motivating and enthusiastic personality. Able to develop talent and to generate positive environment for high performing teams motivating them to leave their comfort zone. ‘Intrapreneur’ mindset with business sense for the big picture and comfortable working in challenging environments. Core Competencies / Tags: Staff Function, Global Project Management, Leadership, Talent Development, Operational Excellence (OpEx), Early Drug Development, Digital Endpoints, Information Technology, Operations, Engineering, Service Management, Sourcing, Procurement, Commercial Governance, Contract Management, Strategy, Benchmarking, RfP, RfI, RfQ, Vendor Management, Outsourcing Management, Data Integrity, Telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, wearables, biosensors, Pharmaceuticals, Lifesciences, Clinical Development, Shared Services
• Directed strategy and operations for the medical function in General Medicine Early Development at Novartis. • Facilitated Early Drug Development Medical Leadership Meetings, ensuring effective communication and follow-ups. • Managed the IMI project "Mobilise-D," focusing on innovative approaches to clinical development. • Completed a 7-month rotation in Internal Audit, assessing tech implementations and service center setups.
Development and implementation of strategy for digital endpoints in clinical studies (phase I and II) in Novartis Research (NIBR)
Lead for cross-functional innovation workstream in Clinical Development Operations.
Lead for sourcing digital components into clinical trials (e.g. search & evaluation projects, commercial advice, multi-vendor simulation workshops, technical proof-of-concept studies).
Lead for commercial governance of global hosting services contract, including regular benchmarking projects, day-to-day contract management, RfP/RfQ projects and development of negotiation strategies.
Global system engineering team lead, Rollout of real-time collaboration platform to Pharma Development function and later to Roche globally
Support of and engineering for Microsoft Outlook / Exchange environment and Lotus Notes environment. Project Management of various system changes of corporate enviromnent (e.g. upgrade to '2000' versions, implementation of Groupware functionality)