Senior Program Manager Transformation Office & Consultant

Management of a R&D project in cooperation with Reflow, Eurofins and Lubrizol with focus on GMP

Preparing, implementing and following up on the GMP inspection by the government of Upper Bavaria for the extended manufacturing authorization

Tracking and coordinating the project plan

Ensuring compliance with milestones

Supporting operational and development-related topics

Collaborating closely with the development team, internal departments and external partners such as customers, analytical laboratories and authorities

Communicating with logistics regarding document review and sampling

Coordinating with laboratory for testing starting materials including offers, ordering and clarification of cost assumption with customer

Organizing communication with all internal and external interfaces in pharma and medical device sectors

Coordinating with logistics and QM regarding release of materials

Organizing the transfer of materials to the C-Lab

Coordinating the planned sub-projects with all internal and external interfaces in pharma and medical device sectors

Coordinating milestones with customer and project team

Coordinating to-dos and priorities with project team

Tracking the completion of tasks

Coordinating times with laboratory

Requesting quotation and clarifying cost coverage

Monitoring the charging of invoices, possibly processing via cost units

Checking and requesting resources for external personnel

Estimating costs for other departments

Creating the forecast

Preparing and implementing internal project meetings

Conducting weekly major project meetings and bi-weekly regulatory meetings with customers

Organizing customer visits

Organizing on-site workshops

Serving as contact person for questions from customers, external consultants and logistics

Creating the project plan and monitoring progress

Reporting to C-level management

Technically coordinating internal and external team meetings, reporting and meeting minutes

Supplier management and second source strategy

Independently coordinating the project budget

Achieving design freeze including master artwork

Creating a recycling concept

Setting up customer support and 24/7 service concept

Defining market price for the product

Creating supplier contracts

Monitoring verification and validation activities at suppliers

Creating the business case

Preparing the launch plan

Managing agile multi-project management

Providing worldwide customer support during market launch phase of 6 product launches

Conducting market research for development of customer values considering cost and value innovation and value proposition design

Defining and implementing the modular product platform SOMATOM.go for the target market entry level

Establishing and developing a new modular product platform similar to automotive industry

Acting as PMO for efficient strategy implementation

Increasing profitability in the target market

Moderating reliability FMEA

Defining and implementing a reliability concept for components of the modular system (hardware and software)

Defining project and status reports for all components in Germany and China

Planning, organizing and moderating cross-departmental meetings and project steering groups

Introducing LEAN structures such as daily standups and agile development methods

Managing projects including prioritization, planning, reporting and controlling

Synchronizing annually executed projects from the platform

Developing measures for critical project phases and overlaps

Co-designing the cross-functional business unit restructuring into an agile product line

Successfully launching the modular product platform SOMATOM.go in Europe

Releasing and market launching 6 innovative and low-maintenance products including software versions

Establishing customer focus and increasing product quality in R&D

Providing global customer support during market launch phase

Acting as quality gate expert for quality assurance of software release

Conducting system integration testing with focus on integrating customer feedback into development process

Defining and implementing a training concept for R&D employees in software testing

Reducing software errors, findings and complaints

Integrating hardware and software development

Increasing product quality and customer satisfaction

Managing agile project in an extensive project environment

Analyzing findings and developing solution proposals with software developers

Defining and tracking content per milestone to increase transparency

Developing measures for critical project sections

Expanding test methods in system integration

Piloting and setting up interface for cross-functional collaboration between specialist departments

Establishing clear quality gates over entire development period

Improving holistic quality with aim of achieving high customer satisfaction