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Switzerland

-Spearheading the development of innovative advisory services, aimed at empowering clients to navigate complex business challenges and achieve sustainable growth.-Leveraging deep lifescience industry expertise to design and implement strategic frameworks that enhance organizational performance and drive transformational change.-Cultivating a culture of excellence within the advisory team, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and a commitment to delivering exceptional client outcomes.-Building and nurturing strategic relationships with key stakeholders, clients, and industry leaders to expand the firm's influence and impact in the consulting space.-Championing the integration of AI technologies and data-driven insights to elevate the advisory practice and deliver tailored, forward-thinking solutions to clients.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Building commercial strategy and operations capabilities for growth minded life-science organizations• Developing go-to-market models and strategies for lifesciences businesses of all sizes• Providing technology companies with competitive and market insights for geographic and service line expansion• Best practice based due diligence, search and evaluate, and market sizing for biotech and life-sciences clients• Benchmarking digitalization approaches, strategies, and best-practices

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Chief of staff for Head of Global Commercial Operations

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Regional commercial effectiveness, strategy, and commercial optimization.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS1. Designed and delivered a fit-for-purpose vaccine operating model which will support up to 80+ markets, 1,000+ FTE's, and 2.0BN+ in revenues, ensuring strategic alignment and harmonization of objectives across the Takeda organization to deliver optimal speed to value for the enterprise while maximizing patient access. 2. Assessed markets for BU vertical integration, establishing cross-links within and outside the business unit to hard-wire the vaccine business into the pharmaceutical organization to ensure a platform exists to seamlessly execute one global product strategy.3. Delivered resourcing plans and structures for above market vaccine organization to build out Medical Affairs, Commercial, and Regulatory Affairs organizations, ensuring clear link between capability building and strategy execution.4. Aligned business critical activities across organizational boundaries to ensure harmonization and strategic alignment of vaccine operations.5. Defined and delivered BU governance model for steady state vaccine business to ensure executional excellence and to align strategic and commercial decision making and execution inside and outside the BU.6. Delivered innovative local resource models in 17 markets across APAC, EU, LATAM, and North America to secure organizational readiness.RESPONSIBILITIES• Work with senior leadership across functions and business units to effectively define and deliver an integrated, cross functionally vetted, organization and business-unit-spanning operating model to support the commercialization of vaccines within the organization.• Leverage strong matrix management skills to lead, oversee and integrate 6 working groups delivering: business structure recommendations, above market functional structure and resourcing, local market resourcing and P&L’s, roles and responsibilities for critical steady state business activities, governance structures within the BU, and operational business management protocols.

Zurich

Developed competitive strategy and strategic initiatives platform in support of discovery, development, commercial, marketing, and business unit level decision making in support of lead programs.Developed disease area strategy process and assessment protocol to deliver holistic, cross functional assessments of new disease areas such as RSV and pneumo and to screen new investment opportunities for alignment with core company competencies, financial, organizational, and business unit level strategy.Contributed to business unit operating model development, resource planning roadmap, and interfaces with existing pharma organization.Design and implement competitive strategy and strategic initiatives function in support of key VBU verticals including discovery, development, global marketing, and VBU leadership team.Define processes to ensure integration of market insights into key work streams and strategies across the full breadth of the development lifecycle.Own and implement design of disease area strategy assessments in support of partnering opportunities, pipeline strategy, and new product planning. Work closely with business development to represent commercial and market realities in deal assessments, partnering discussions, and opportunity valuations.Deliver robust commercial assessments of external opportunities integrating market, competitive, and development insights.

Tokyo, Japan

• Responsible for global commercial operations optimization and integration activities• Strategic advisory and consulting• Process design and implementation

Oversee quality control and project management for long range strategic planning engagements as well as competitive intelligence system design and implementation.

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