Senior Director Product Engineering
Cytiva, Medemblik
2023 - 2025
In 2023 Pall and Cytiva merged into one company supporting the industry with the widest product portfolio for pharmaceutical manufacturing and bioprocessing. As part of the merge my task was to align engineering teams from both well established companies and drive the most efficient engineering methodologies.
Accomplishments:
- Directed global Product Engineering teams, establishing and implementing strategies for product lifecycle engineering to achieve global alignment.
- Oversaw the development and execution of a prioritized change roadmap, ensuring optimal execution and efficient resource allocation.
- Drove continuous improvement in change management, reducing NCRs, customer complaints and forced changes.
- Fostered strong collaboration and trust across R&D, operations, supply chain, quality, sourcing and product management functions.
- Championed talent development and succession planning, enhancing organizational capabilities.
- Restructured the product engineering team to sharpen the focus on innovation, improve prioritization and workload balance, and increased visibility of sustaining projects.
