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Florian Ripper

Director Enterprise Strategy & Digital Transformation

Florian Ripper
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Sep 2021 - Present
4 years 5 months
Frankfurt, Germany
Hybrid

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

Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
8 months

Career hiatus + founding finterms

finterms

Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
3 years 2 months

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

Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 10 months

Senior Project Manager, Senior Business Consultant

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

Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
3 years 1 month

Project Manager, Business Consultant

fme AG

Project Delivery and Workstream Leadership, Functional Stakeholder Coordination, Delivery Team Coordination and Execution Oversight, Vendor and Platform Coordination

Mar 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years 10 months

Identity Manager, Assistant Professor Business Informatics

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

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Mar 2006 - Feb 2009

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Integrated Master's Degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · Frankfurt, Germany

Aug 2002 - Feb 2006

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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