Salome Lassner

Senior Program Manager Transformation Office & Consultant

Nuremberg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
1 year

Senior Program Manager Transformation Office & Consultant

Getinge

  • Management of a transformation program of 7 projects across 3 sites in Europe with special focus on coating, CTD, combination products

  • Development of strategies, monitoring of progress and control of results

  • Defining the scope in Jira, managing the schedule and milestones in collaboration with the project managers of the standalone products

  • Coordinating cross-program collaboration and managing dependencies between all projects and suppliers

  • Tracking progress and creating reports for C-level management

  • Developing risk mitigation strategies and implementing effective measures

  • Establishing collaboration between the projects, the development team and the core team

  • Defining and establishing communication channels across sites and projects

  • Identifying potential program risks and managing suppliers

  • Defining roles and responsibilities across all projects

  • Planning, organizing and moderating cross-departmental meetings for the analysis and documentation of dependencies and requirements

  • Implementing and further developing cross-divisional guidelines and recommendations to harmonize common processes

  • Developing proposals to reduce complexity

  • Defining the work culture

  • Defining deliverables to ensure program gates and milestones

  • Coaching key team members to increase interdisciplinary cooperation

  • Maintaining tasks in Jira

  • Conducting regular audits and reports to TÜV Süd and SUKL

  • Increasing transparency for a complex program setup

  • Implementing measures to reduce risks

  • Creating a clear communication strategy for all involved projects and departments

  • Achieving CTD submission for combination products to TÜV Süd and SUKL

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year

Project Manager & Consultant

Bavaria Medizin Technologie GmbH, part of Lubrizol

  • 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

Jan 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years

Project Manager & Consultant

avateramedical GmbH

  • Agile project management for a robotic-assisted surgery machine

  • Controlling

  • Supplier management

  • Analyzing technical requirements in accordance with project objectives

  • Deriving work packages and defining milestones based on the analysis

  • Managing suppliers and developing a second source strategy

  • Tracking milestones, work packages and approvals in Polarion

  • Documenting deviations from the project plan

  • Preparing weekly project reports on progress

  • Participating in regular project meetings to provide information on project status

  • Documenting all project activities including forecasts, analyses, recommendations and plans, and coordinating approvals and regulatory acceptances

  • Creating project plan and reports

  • Developing a second source strategy

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years

R&D Project Manager & Consultant

HARTMANN GROUP

  • 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

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year

Project Manager & Business Lead

Charité Berlin

  • Consulting the team in all business matters
  • Managing project for development of an AI algorithm decision support system for chest X-rays as a plug-in for PACS providers
  • Conducting customer validation and competitive analysis
  • Developing business strategy, financial planning and commercialization strategy
  • Acquiring partners and investors
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year

IT Project Manager

Eurofins Genomics

  • Defining and implementing concepts and specifications for new IT applications in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Migrating concepts into a minimum viable product
  • Defining and implementing IT requirements and release including testing
Jan 2019 - Present
6 years 6 months

CEO & Co-Founder

NextStep AG Consulting

  • Business development
  • Conducting DIGA workshops in Berlin and collaborating with _fbeta
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year

Project Manager

Siemens Healthineers

  • Defining and testing user stories with customers
  • Ensuring availability of customer feedback on each development phase
  • Establishing a global customer network for co-creation
  • Considering legal and compliance aspects for manufacturer
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
4 years

Project Manager

Siemens Healthineers

  • Conducting innovation and usability workshops with customers considering cost and value innovation and value proposition design

  • Establishing a global customer network for co-creation taking into account legal and compliance aspects

  • Agile project development

  • Managing project managers for individual sub-projects

  • Introducing agile development methods with a focus on innovation and co-creation

  • Planning, organizing and moderating cross-departmental meetings

  • Managing projects including prioritization, planning, reporting and controlling

  • Creating synergy effects and quality assurance in communication between departments

  • Increasing efficiency in resource management by implementing measures at early stages of development

  • Developing a customer and solution-oriented product development concept

  • Obtaining early customer feedback on product definition through co-creation

Jan 2011 - Dec 2019
7 years

PMO in Program Management

Siemens Healthineers

  • 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

Jan 2009 - Dec 2014
4 years

Project Manager

Siemens Healthineers

  • Developing interface between R&D, marketing and sales worldwide

  • Managing projects across business units

  • Transitioning pilot phase into standard processes of business units

  • Developing training and communication channels including hotline for new sales processes

  • Agile project management including prioritization, planning, reporting and controlling of efforts per business unit

  • Establishing cross-functional cooperation between six R&D business units

  • Increasing after sales revenue through simplified R&D requirements

  • Implementing software and hardware upgrade solutions in the development process

  • Planning, organizing and moderating cross-departmental meetings for analysis and documentation of dependencies and requirements

  • Designing and maintaining configuration diagrams

  • Implementing and further developing cross-divisional guidelines and recommendations

  • Developing proposals to reduce complexity

  • Streamlining data quality worldwide

  • Achieving cross-divisional collaboration

  • Producing findings for establishment of a more sustainable development concept across business units

  • Reducing complexity and complaints

  • Identifying data-based business potential

Jan 2002 - Dec 2010
9 years

Team Lead Customer Experience

Siemens Healthineers

  • 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

Jan 1998 - Dec 2003
4 years
Nuremberg, Germany

MTRA

Dr. Lindner & Kollegen, Radiological Practice Nuremberg

  • Working full-time as medical-technical radiology assistant in a private radiological practice focusing on diagnostics
  • Performing CT, MR, angiography and X-ray procedures
Jan 1998 - Dec 1999
1 year
Nuremberg, Germany

State examination

Business school for medical-technical radiology assistant, Nuremberg

Summary

After more than 20 years of professional experience, I can look back on a large number of successful projects in the medical, pharma, AI and IT industry. With my pioneering spirit, I took the leading role in numerous cases of groundbreaking restructuring, product development and business model conception.

One of my strongest quality characteristics as a leader being enthusiasm, I am always able to form committed and assertive teams with a high success rate.

Sustainable knowledge transfer is moreover a protruding aspiration of my approach, which is why inspiring workshops as well as extensive training offers constitute an eminent component of my operations as an entrepreneur.

My sense of interdisciplinary links and cross-industry collaboration makes me an expert in creating powerful synergies.

My network, which I closely linked through commitment, gives me scope for action in a wide variety of fields of activity.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Business school for medical-technical radiology assistant, Nuremberg

State examination · Medical-technical radiology assistant · Nuremberg, Germany