Avanade

Leading Avanade´s fastest growing Digital Strategy Advisory & Organisational Change Management team for Digital Business Transformation, GEN AI Disruption, Enterprise Architecture, Security Strategies, Future of Work & Organisational Change Management

Business Group Lead - Digital Strategy Advisory & Organisational Change Management ASG (DACH)

As the Industry Lead - Healthcare & Life Sciences, I am responsible for the overall strategy, performance, and growth of the Industry in Europe. This includes building a strong market presence, opening new market opportunities, and enabling regions to drive growth in the Healthcare and Life Sciences business. 

Key responsiblities:

Market Development & Sales:
- Focus account teams to drive market development within Healthcare and Life Sciences.
- Managing relationship ecosystems with partners Microsoft & Accenture/AMBG in industry.
- Enabling and grow Avanade´s Healthcare and Life Sciences industry customer portfolio.

Offering strategy:
- Collaboration With Your Global Industry and Offering Leadership.
- Curating a comprehensive set of Healthcare-specific assets, go-to-market content.

Delivery support:
- Lead and support the delivery of a broad range of Advisory engagements.
- Working with senior client executives to identify their business problems and develop the right 
   approach and analytical solutions.

Team Development:
- Partnering with Talent Community Leads and Regional Capability Leads to maintain and identify the capabilities needed to deliver Healthcare-led solutions.

Senior Director - Industry Lead  Europe for Health & Life Sciences

Science4Life e.V.

Independent Expert & Juror & Mentor for Digital Health & HealthTech Startups

Life Sciences Startup Venture Cup - Independent Expert for Digital Health & HealthTech

House of Pharma & Healthcare

Member and Supporter of association and Pharma MBA Program

stromerX

Advisory for:
- Business Development for Fleet Management offering 
- Digital Sales and Marketing campaigns

Advisory Board Member

Zühlke Group

Strategic guidance for CDOs, CTOs  & CSOs for digital business- & healthtech innovation - creating new digital patient journeys & business models in the digital healthcare ecosystem.

Responsibilities:
- Industry Lead of an interdisciplinary management team
- Responsible for strategic sales-, marketing- & growth initiatives 
- Business Development in the digital Healthcare & HealthTech market
- Strategic Account Portfolio Management
- Developing a Data-Driven Sales Organization
- Key Account Management for German Healthcare 
- Sales Partnership development 
- Digital Health and BioTech Startup guidance as mentor & adviser
- Startup and corporate collaboration builder 
- Key Member of Health-Industry associations
   (House of Pharma, Science4Life, Plug & Play, Gesundheitswirtschaft Rhein-Main)
- Zühlke Venture and Group alignment
- Circular Economy and sustainability
- OKR board responsible for the industry team

Industry Lead - Digital Healthcare & Life Sciences

Strategic guidance for CDOs, CTOs  & CDOs for digital business- & healthtech innovation - creating new digital patient journeys & business models in the digital healthcare ecosystem.

Responsibilities for the Healthcare Industry:
- Go to Market Management 
- Digital Ecosystem Strategy for healthcare CDOs & CTOs 
- Digital Business (Model) Innovation
- HealthTech - agile System Engineering & SaMD
- IoMT and Connectivity for Medical Devices
- Digital Health SaMD & Regulated AI solutions
   (DTx, Disease Management Platforms, Digital Biomarkers, Decision Support Systems)
- Digital Product - Product & Life Cycle Management
- Data Science, Chatbots, Speach Recognition and Federated Learning
- Decentralized Ecosystems (DLT & Blockchain)
- AR/MR 
- Startup support and mentoring & connector of startups with the corporate world

- Cross Industry Product Innovation 
- Rent a Start-Up & external Innovation Center 
- Lean Start-Up Methods
- Technical Due Diligence

Senior Manager Business Development - Digital Healthcare & Life Sciences

Bertrandt

Program management for a SUV - platform on behalf of General Motors/ PSA Joint Venture

- Steering committee member reporting to JV management and Bertrandt CEO 
- Leading ten international strategic interior suppliers from selection to start of production (SOP)
- Build, drive and lead 20 project managers for interior systems 
- Stakeholder management of JV members from concept phase to SOP
- Leader of task force and cost reduction projects  

Key responsibilities in Business Development:

- Contribute to the business growth by identifying new business areas and building new strategic  
      alliances within the automotive industry (OEM and System Supplier).
- Development of new serial and after sales product solutions, service innovations and business    
      models to open new markets and win new customers
-Drive Industry 4.0 applications

Business Development  and Program Manager Automotive Interior Technologies

Leader of global strategic and operational procurement activities for the Bertrandt aerospace division (responsible for 15% of turnover in overall aerospace activities)

- Steering committee member, reporting to Bertrandt Aerospace CEO
- Responsible for strategic alliance management for engineering, consulting and advanced 
 technology supplier
- In charge of Supplier integration and acquisition according to aerospace make or buy strategies 
- Set-up of procurement and supply chain management processes in all Bertrandt aerospace 
 divisions - Hamburg (D), Bremen (D), Toulouse (F), Augsburg (D), Donauwörth (D)
- Set-Up cost optimization strategy for in- and outsourcing (Near- und Off-Shore) projects (in 
 Romania, France, Spain and India)
- Supplier quality management (EN 9100) including evaluation for supplier ranking and 
 performance improvement

Managing support for CEO and CFO in the area of strategy and business development:
- Manager of AIRBUS transnational sale alliance and competence integration
- Supporting account development of aerospace key system suppliers 
- Business development in new industries to open new markets for machinery and marine business 
- Creating key business KPIs for board reports, including current market, sales, competitors and 
 target-performance comparison

Alliance Manager and Global Strategic Procurement, Aerospace Industry

VDMA

Consulting 80% of the German plastic & rubber machinery industry (yearly production value of six billon €) in their market entry and technology strategies on Top Management level:

- Project manager for the new market and technology branch strategy 2020 
- Initiation of research project cooperations within the plastic & rubber machinery industry
- Leader of innovation network groups: steering committee technology, energy efficiency, after  
  sales and lightweight design „Composite Technology“
- Creation of trend and market analysis reports (fairs, trend-setting industries)
- National and international economic-political representative 
  (technology/ standardization/ EU legislation “Eco design directive EuP")
- Leader of international standardization working groups (DIN/EN/EUROMAP)

Publication:
See projekt Link : Branch-Roadmap Technology Strategie 2020

Director Technology and Innovation

Project Management Office (PMO) for automotive and aerospace development:

- Implementation and monitoring of project management methods, processes and KPIs 
- Technical and commercial project management, including controlling and claim management 
- Internal consultant for product development methods, processes and PDM/CAD systems
- Member of Bertrand-Group Project- and Quality Management Committee 

Head of Quality Management for the Bertrandt business units Rüsselsheim (D), Detroit (USA) und Trollhättan (S):

- Reporting to Bertrandt CEO as a member of steering committee
- Lead auditor according to ISO TS 16949 and EN ISO 9001
- Leading quality teams of and responsible for supplier quality
- Leader for continuous improvement process (CIP) - and lean management projects
- Driver for ideation management – highest idea output overall in Bertrandt group

Project Management Office and Head of Quality Management for Automotive Engineering

Intedis GmbH & Co. KG

Topic: „Optimization of the product development and project management process of a joint venture“. Thesis in automotive E/E architecture and on-board power supply development.

Diploma thesis at Intedis GmbH & Co KG (joint venture of Hella AG and LEONI AG)

Rolls-Royce

-Process optimization for jet engine manufacturing
-Analysis of KPI "process efficiency"

Team Leader university research project "HR and Quality"

Strategic guidance for CDOs & CTOs & CSOs for digital business innovation - creating new digital client journeys & business models in the digital ecosystem.

As the Business Group Lead at Avanade, I have successfully led our rapidly growing team for Digital Strategy Advisory and Organizational Change Management for over 1.5 years. My expertise spans digital business transformation, GEN AI disruption, digital business innovation, digital ecosyste business models and security strategies. 

In my parallel role as Industry Lead Europe for Healthcare and Life Sciences, I have shaped the market strategy, performance, and growth of the sector for 2.5 years. Collaborating with partners like Microsoft and Accenture/AMBG, I have unlocked new market opportunities and expanded our healthcare customer portfolio, aiming to enhance patient care through innovative technologies.

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