Sandra Walker Email & Phone Number

Canada

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Operational Excellence team (Strategy and Execution, PMO, Governance and Internal Communications)Fostering an inclusive culture where employees are respected, belong, contribute and thrive. Ongoing prioritization and execution of multiple, simultaneous high impact projects with cross business impact including cost savings/efficiency gains, cost avoidance, increased speed to deliver patient benefit and create an enhanced experience, reduction in organizational duplication, enhanced capability building, and data/automation experimentation and implementation. Architect and Steward of the Collective Operating Model and Operating RhythmActively monitoring system health, sensing strategic opportunities, diagnosing operational challenges and designing holistic solutions by synthesizing VoC, patient and employee experience insights. Co-create org design, and empowerment with clear accountability. Orchestrate synchronized cadence of priority setting and aligned execution including outcomes based planning. Envision the future of work and co-created digitally enabled solutions to enhance patient/customer impact including AI, LLM and automation, experiments and road map.Strategic Advisor, Thought Partner and Leadership Operations for CEO Genentech/Head of CMGPartnership for US senior executive team orchestration, design and facilitation of strategy and execution, optimization of financial decision making, and foster leadership community.Chief of Staff to SVP, Genentech Business OperationsTrusted advisor/thought partner. Business manager of operational senior team including leadership of prioritization, impact measurement, interdependencies, collective resource allocation and team mindset/culture. Integration between US, Non-US (130 countries) and Global functions US rep on 7 person key global advisory body - instrumental in shaping model design, fostering alignment, enabling deeper cultural understanding and ideate on collective solutions.

Canada

Co-chair and member of the Canadian Senior Leadership team with responsibility for leading the Roche Canada Diagnostics organizational transformation.Organizational Design and Change Led co-creation and architecture of sweeping changes to the organizational structure (total model redesign and implementation, new hiring of 30% of the organization's roles).Developed a Change Agent Community Local, volunteer change agents that grew to include 20% of employees - who developed practical, high value initiatives (e.g., increasing psychological safety, improved on-boarding, optimizing internal and external communication).Crafted Aligned and Transparent Organizational Mission, Vision and Goals Co-created and implemented transparent organizational goals and a 90 day iterative process - bringing the voice of the customer and patient into the goal setting process.Embedded Customer Centricity into the Culture Ensured robust collection of feedback and skill building to turn data into insights into action/iterative change to continually improve the customer experience. Founding member and executive sponsor of Patient Co-Creation council.Stakeholder Engagement and Thought Leader Development Co-creation architecture of cohesive, strategic stakeholder planning that built internal stakeholder engagement skills and externally built confidence in Roche as a trusted partner.Optimized Internal and External Communications Included employee engagement, philanthropy, social media strategy and execution, and employee communication skill building.

Canada

Strategic implementation of complex, cross-functional change, and integration of new ways of working across all customer-facing teams. Multiple workstreams including sales, marketing, medical, communications, ethics and compliance, and payer teams.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Leadership - Moved a fragmented team with low employee engagement to a high functioning, productive, cohesive team that lead the country in engagement. Change Agent - Identified and led multiple change initiatives including sales force capabilities, sales leadership prioritization, sales/marketing/training interfaces, and communication optimization. Deliver Results - Team enabled unprecedented expanded patient access to high value treatment.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Develop the therapeutic area strategies, provide business development support and operations support to the global commercial organization and senior global leadership. Enable therapeutic area portfolio/asset strategy quality decision-making and support business and strategic planning. Responsible for communication and execution of the strategy and business development in collaboration with diverse cross functional teams. Therapeutic areas of focus: Immunology, Pain and Neurodegeneration.

Toronto, Canada Area

Strategy through to Execution - Rooted in customer insights, financial ROI, risk analysis, thought leader relationships, and deep market knowledge. Drove execution excellence through customer-facing teams including Reimbursement/Access, Sales and Patient Support via clear communication, performance metrics, rapid feedback loops and cross-functional collaboration. Patient Support Program - Led the creation and execution teams for a multi-million dollar program that became the most trusted, best in class autoimmune Biologic PSP. Completed the design through an innovative co-creation with national key thought leaders, resulting in rapid enrolment and outstanding feedback from day one. Global Launch Advisor – Consulted on launch preparation and execution for Australia/New Zealand, Caribbean, Israel, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. Completed a short term assignment in Australia - coaching and accelerating marketing, medical education and learning/development launch preparedness, developing the sales and sales leadership team, and negotiating vendor PSP development and execution.

Toronto, Canada Area

Senior Leadership Advisor - Organizational change management, prioritization, risk analysis and process improvement to drive growth, performance and enable consistent, exceptional customer experiences. Cross-functional transformation- Led multiple affiliate wide projects including customer-facing capabilities, thought leadership engagement, payer heat maps, medical education innovation, clinical execution effectiveness and medical cultural evolution. Change agent leadership - Developed and mentored 11 green belt project managers across multiple functions.

Vancouver And Vancouver Island

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead projects to move launching products from development to local commercialization including cross functional coordination across regulatory, manufacturing, packaging, marketing, access and sales.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working with clinicians to monitor patient safety and investigate product concerns. Facilitated evidence based continuous improvement to improve customer experience and patient safety across manufacturing, packaging, supply chain and commercial.

Master Of Business Administration - Executive Mangement, Management Consulting

Business Administration And Management, General

Financial Accounting Business Analytics for Managers Economics

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General