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Vilnius, Lt

Prague, Czechia

At Novartis, I was responsible for the creation and growth of new Business Excellence & Execution department with my role primarily focused on:- Building and leading a multidisciplinary team of 20 professionals and managers, specialising in Product Management, Sales Force Effectiveness, Business Insights & Analytics, Event Management, Digital & Innovation. Leading with empathy, putting a strong emphasis on talent development and employee well-being, resulting in improved team empowerment, work-life balance and personal growth metrics. - Managing the performance of Established Brands, with a $100 million business and a portfolio of 80+ products across Oncology, Hematology, Neurology, Ophthalmology and other therapeutic areas. Under my leadership, we reached 120% sales performance for 3 key products within Established Brands and optimized portfolio promotion costs by 50%. - Driving Transformational Change and Operational Excellence by embracing customer-first approach, implementing data-driven decision-making strategies, and applying agile principles. Created new data infrastructure & analytics dashboards, expanded the use of digital tools for customer satisfaction and introduced agile framework in the department. - Actively promoting a culture of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, by applying new innovation framework based on rapid experimentation and collaboration with external Healthcare ecosystem. Initiated a fully digital business model for a new indication of established dermatology product. This role allowed me to blend my entrepreneurial background with corporate leadership experience, contributing at shaping healthcare sector and improving patients' lives.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

During my time as Digital Lead at Novartis Oncology, I pioneered the digital transformation across 15 European Central Cluster (ECC) countries, primarily covering Baltic and Adriatic regions. Initially appointed as the sole digital function representative, my role was to establish and lead a cross-country Digital and Innovation organization, with main responsibilities in: - Organizational Leadership: Starting as the single point of contact, I built and directed a team of 14 digital experts, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration across multiple countries.- Strategic Development and Execution: I was directly accountable for formulating and implementing cross-country Digital & Innovation strategy, which was focused around 4 key pillars: Omnichannel Engagement, Data Infrastructure & Analytics, Digital Health Solutions, and Digital Culture Transformation. - Cross-Cluster Communication and Alignment: As part of the cluster Leadership team, I acted as the bridge between country leadership teams and the Global & Region Europe digital teams. My role ensured the integration, funding, and successful execution of digital priorities and projects within each country's strategy and tactics. - Digital Culture Transformation and Upskiling: I significantly contributed to the digital cultural shift in entire organization, focusing on data-driven decision-making and internal operating models. Initiatives under my leadership included launching Data Visualization Hub Globally and piloting a new ways of working model based on Fluid Organization frameworks and Agile principles across Region Europe. - Innovation in Digital Health Solutions: I was directly involved in developing, piloting, and scaling impactful Digital Health Solutions aimed at patients and healthcare professionals. Additionally, I was playing an active role in shaping local healthcare and health-tech ecosystems through collaborations with patient organizations, hackathons, and startup accelerators.

Vilnius

As a part-time consultant I was helping Novartis Oncology to kick start digital transformation journey in Central Eastern European countries. Part of my responsibilities were to assist shaping and implementing digital strategy, initiating and driving digital projects (from digital health solutions to digital marketing to HCPs), supporting change management and culture transformation activities.

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Match My Thesis helps companies implement various data science, business strategy, operational excellence and innovation projects in collaboration with top university students and professionals from around the world. We are an online platform and service provider specialising in business case formulation, talent recruitment and consultancy project management. We have been a part of over 200 projects that were successfully implemented to various Scandinavian and Global companies like LEGO, Telia, Volvo, Maersk, etc. Some examples of our projects involve:- Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm for automating procurement department of world's leading shipping company- Creating product Positioning Strategy in Dubai for global pump producer- Maintenance process optimisation for Danish oldest packaging companyDuring the lifecycle of the start-up, my responsibilities as a co-founder and active team memberranged from shaping and executing business strategy & growth, overlooking products development (marketplace and internal recruitment system) & sales process optimization, building and leading entire start-up team which reached its peak at 15 people, based in Copenhagen and Lithuania, and working with Sales, IT, Project Management and Recruitment. In 2015 Match My Thesis was part of GoGrow start-up accelerator in Copenhagen.

Lithuania

It was a summer internship at the leading bank in Sweden and Baltic countries. I assisted Human Resource Managers at various tasks, mainly with recruitment and selection of new employees. My primary duties were evaluation of job applications and conducting job interviews. I was also highly involved in Organisational Identity and Organisational Diversity projects, participated in various training programs and familiarized with internal structure and organisational culture of the bank.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bsc In International Business

Education record

Erasmus exchange program at University of Valencia