Florian Ripper
Director Enterprise Strategy & Digital Transformation
Experience
Director Enterprise Strategy & Digital Transformation
finterms
Enterprise Strategy, Program & Transformation Leadership, Financial & Commercial Governance, Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Strategic Collaboration, Global Team Mobilization, Direction & Decision Authority, Contract Negotiation & Vendor Governance
Career hiatus + founding finterms
finterms
Senior Program Manager, Strategic Solution Consultant
NNIT Group
Enterprise Innovation & Program Leadership, Financial & Commercial Governance, Stakeholder Engagement & Strategic Alignment, Global Team Management, Contract Negotiation & Vendor Governance
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fme AG
Enterprise Transformation & Project Leadership, Budget and Scope Management, Senior Client & Functional Stakeholder Collaboration, Cross-Functional Delivery Team Management, Contractual Scope and Vendor Coordination
Project Manager, Business Consultant
fme AG
Project Delivery and Workstream Leadership, Functional Stakeholder Coordination, Delivery Team Coordination and Execution Oversight, Vendor and Platform Coordination
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University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main
Implementation of SAP SLCM - Identity Management Access Management, Interfacing Concepts SAP/LDAP Subproject Lead SAP Student Lifecycle Management (SLCM) Process Establishment according to ITIL V3 via BPMN for Change Mgmt., Incident Mgmt., Request Fulfilment and Access Mgmt., Liaison of SAP Operations with central Service Desk, Planning and Implementation of Early Life Support, Risk Assessment according to BSI
Summary
Operating at the director level, I hold end-to-end accountability for program delivery, investment and commercial governance, and senior stakeholder alignment. I regularly orchestrate international teams and multi-vendor ecosystems, manage delivery risk, and ensure regulatory, quality, and security compliance. My engagements range from director to senior director/VP-track levels, where I act as program lead, transformation leader, or strategic advisor.
I am a director of enterprise strategy and digital transformation, specializing in global, regulated environments across electronics, healthcare, and life sciences. My work focuses on leading complex enterprise transformations at director and executive mandate levels – at the intersection of business strategy, data, technology, and compliance.
Over the past 11+ years, I have led global initiatives, including enterprise data platforms, digital R&D transformations, laboratory automation, pricing optimization, and large-scale platform and organizational separations. My roles sit at the intersection of C-level strategy, with accountability for governance, architectural decisions, vendor strategy, regulatory alignment, and global rollout execution.
I partner with executive leadership at Merck Group, Fresenius Medical Care and CSL Behring, delivering high-impact transformations in regulated environments. I translate strategy into executable, compliant, and scalable solutions, aligning business, IT, data, quality, security, and partners. I operate internationally in director-level and executive mandates that require clear ownership and delivery excellence.
Skills
Main Focus Stakeholder Management, Communication
Sustainable And Lean Management
Program And Project Management
Tendor And Vendor Management
Methodology Agile Management (Safe 6.0 Practitioner, Scrum)
Project Management (Prince2 Practitioner)
Service Management (Itil V3 Expert)
Vendor Management (Sla/ola/uc)
Change And Risk Management
Business Case And User Requirements Management
Regulatory Affairs Environment (Ctm, Ectd, Patient Safety)
Validation And Testing Frameworks (Csv, Gamp5, V Model)
Electronic Signature And Records (Fda Cfr Part 11)
Process Analysis (Bpmn 2.0, Epk)
Use Case Modeling, Unified Modeling Language (Uml)
Data Analysis (Er Modelling, Class Diagram)
Parametrization (Csf, Kpi, Okr)
Infrastructure (Client/server, J2ee, Soa, Virtualization)
Languages
Education
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Integrated Master's Degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · Frankfurt, Germany
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Computer Science · Darmstadt, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAFe® Practitioner
SAFe® by Agile Certification Academy
PRINCE2® Practitioner
APMG International
ITIL® v3 Expert
APMG International
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