Benjamin H.

Owner & Managing Director

Village-Neuf, France

Experience

May 2025 - Present
8 months
Village-Neuf, France

Owner & Managing Director

Wolf Advisors GmbH / LLC

  • For Investors: assessment of potential investments, preparing Q&As and giving independent opinions to specific questions that the investors have to validate the candidates.
  • For Startups: assessment of lifecycle strategy, TPPs, calculating a business case and acting as commercial sparing partner in key phases, e.g. Series A, Bs etc.
  • For Big & Small Pharma: providing launch concepts, access-, strategic- and go to market-plans.
  • For High Confidentiality: acts as independent expert at the international court of arbitration and other high confidentiality projects.
  • For all / freelancing: happy to take temporary assignments where bottlenecks exist for global, regional and local roles, provided capacity allows.

Main expertise is the global, European and Swiss market, with support for launches in Germany.

Deeper experience and established network in neurosciences (MS, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Epilepsy), oncology (solid and hemato-oncology), hematology, rheumatology, cardiology, metabolism, and biosimilars; routes of administration include orals, inhalers, pens, infusions, injections.

Jan 2025 - May 2025
5 months
Basel, Switzerland

Global Integrated Strategy Leader Oncology (a.i.)

Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Led a cross-functional team (medical, marketing, access, public policy) in malignant hematology for a rare disease: driving strategic projects, building lasting relationships, defining capabilities, communication, employee motivation, delegating, assessing and deciding, briefing senior management and working closely with general managers worldwide.
  • Voluntarily left Roche for personal reasons, maintaining excellent relations with the company.
Feb 2019 - Dec 2024
5 years 11 months
Basel, Switzerland

Global Marketing and Integrated Launch Leader

Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Led global marketing as designated cross-functional launch leader for Multiple Sclerosis (2019-2021), Alzheimer’s Disease (2021-2022) and rare disease Oncology/Hematology (2023-2024): driving strategic projects, implementing outcome-based planning, agile methodologies, co-creating go to market models, planning and executing omnichannel and digital marketing, social media marketing, launch of subcutaneous applications/pens, leading global work-product teams in close cooperation with teams in the USA, China, Japan and key European countries.
  • Tripled launch performance from 9% to 27% patient share within six months using customer insights and ‘rational choice’ science; repositioned a global brand with a new campaign shifting perception of a targeted segment; introduced digital customer interfaces successfully post-pandemic; saved hundreds of thousands CHF by internalizing processes and services through cocreation.
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
2 years 1 month
Reinach, Switzerland

Disease Area Leader

Swiss Affiliate of Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Led Swiss neurology and autoimmune franchises (150 million per year) by launching brands, line extensions and new formulations (pen); as line manager and cross-functional matrix leader: conflict management, team performance improvement, market access and regulatory strategies, strategic portfolio planning, organizational development, performance calibrations, team design, agile methodologies, launch excellence, sales excellence, complexity management, training organization and large team management.
  • Grew a brand from zero to 30 million within one year; achieved best launch performance worldwide with state-of-the-art project management, execution excellence and sales excellence training, outperforming the runner-up country by 10% per capita; improved customer interactions through digital solutions and video training for face-to-face and events.
Jan 2012 - Dec 2016
5 years
Basel, Switzerland

Regional Launch Leader

Region Europe of Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Led launch efforts in 23 European countries and the Swiss Biosimilar Task Force to mitigate patent cliff risk for biologic antibodies: set up and led a cross-functional task force shaping Swiss stakeholder engagement, public affairs, policy and lobbying, negotiating within Interpharma and science industries, coauthoring whitepapers, managing media relations, public speaking and organizing launch reviews.
  • Achieved optimal regulatory framework through negotiations with pharma associations and Swissmedic; led an award-winning biosimilar awareness campaign and PR; presented task force outcomes to the Roche Board of Directors and executive committee; ensured crossfertilization and launch excellence across all countries by preparing over 30 launch reviews and training sessions.
Jan 2007 - Dec 2011
5 years
Reinach, Switzerland

Product Manager

Swiss Affiliate of Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Led marketing of MabThera in oncology (40–60 million annual sales, 1–2 million CHF budget) in Switzerland: responsible for all brand marketing aspects, annual planning, senior management presentations, applying strategic marketing concepts (Road to Purchase, SWOT, PESTEL, Ansoff Matrix, Balanced Scorecard, Blue Ocean, Risk Mitigation, value chain analysis, scenario planning, Porter’s 5 Forces), positioning, content marketing, digital marketing, campaign creation and execution, budget planning and monitoring, agency selection and negotiation, forecasting, market and sales analysis, sales meetings, customer events, congress and event management, regulatory processes, stakeholder collaboration, segmentation, targeting and customer insights collection.
  • Doubled sales while reducing costs; created a digital app for health care professionals that became a bestseller within Roche, generated 150 k CHF additional cash flow and won Roche’s Best Digital Marketing Concept worldwide in 2011.
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006
3 years
Zürich, Switzerland

Sales Representative

Swiss Affiliate of Hoffmann-La Roche AG

  • Managed primary care customers in the Greater Zürich area: organized sales calls and executed sales excellence with general practitioners, cardiologists, nephrologists and gynecologists for products including Xenical, Dilatrend, Torem, Pegasys, Elevit and Bonviva.
  • Consistently overdelivered on sales targets by double digits through active listening, consultative selling and optimized follow-up management; achieved five calls per day and won the national sales award multiple times with ongoing senior management support.
Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
1 year 3 months
Japan

Staffer at Koya Nishikawa Office

The National Diet of Japan

  • Supported a member of Prime Minister Koizumi's cabinet in Tokyo: contributed to reelection campaigns with political marketing and campaigns, managed office administration, project management and basic Japanese-English translations.
  • Transformed Swiss Japanese Chamber of Commerce scholarship practice with a report that became the standard for new recipients and led to the first private donor event presentation.
Nov 2000 - May 2001
7 months
West Chester, United States

Marketing Intern in MedTech

Synthes Stratec AG

  • Gained experience in the US market during a marketing internship at the maxillofacial department in West Chester, PA: worked in cross-functional teams, improved English fluency, engaged in intercultural communication, supported competitive intelligence, medtech marketing, project management, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, device testing and HTML programming.
  • Launched an internal website with HTML and a database standard for the firm and presented it department-wide to full satisfaction of superiors.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate
Japanese
Elementary

Education

Oct 1999 - Jun 2002

University of St.Gallen (HSG)

Master in Political Sciences, Honors ‘Magna Cum Laude’ · Political Sciences · St. Gallen, Switzerland

Oct 1997 - Jun 1999

University of Basel (WWZ)

Bachelor in Marketing, Honors ‘Cum Laude’ · Marketing · Basel, Switzerland

Certifications & licenses

Certified Swiss Pharmaceutical Sales Representative

Swiss Health Quality Association

Digital Sales & Social Selling

Institute of Marketing and Customer Insight at University of St.Gallen

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