Projektmanager // Product Owner

Since september 2019 I serve as an in-house consultant and project manager for the clinical research organisation Alcedis GmbH, which is specialised in realising large-scale clinical trials for new medication in the field of cancer-therapy (onkology).

Here I work directly for the c-level to guide the conceptualisation of new marketing-endeavours and their respective rollout.Our ultimate goal is to lead Alcedis from 2020 onwards by building up a strong digital brand around their highly professional services to attract new prospects for clinical trials.

Responsibilities include:
- Consulting on digital marketing-strategy and measures
- Selection, vetting and briefing of external suppliers for realisation of marketing-measures
- Coordination and supervising of the realisation-process
- Continuous reporting and planning with stakeholders

Since June 2019 I am the lead product owner in a digitisation project with on of Switzerlands leading companies in the optical-lenses industry (subordinate to Essilor Group, one of Europe´s biggest corporations in this industry).

NDA forbids giving detail on the product, but the project evolves around the digitisation of a key sales-process.

Responsibilities include:
- Ongoing delivery of new features to enhance the existing prototype
- Monitoring prototype and feature adaptation through the market
- Re-working feedback from customers as well as sales/marketing feedback into concepts for new features
- Consulting key stakeholders of the project and c-level on application-functionality and feature rollout
- Full ownership of release plan and release-pipeline
- Coordination of production with development-unit
- Reporting and demonstration to key stakeholders and c-level

For one year I joined the Picus BV as the product owner for the team.

The Picus BV with it´s headquarter in Achterveld, Netherlands has the vision to become Europe´s leading platform for the sharing of agricultural machinery ( 'Airbnb for Tractors' ). Complementing the Mechan Groep´s digital strategy for the coming decade, the vision is to accumulate the total machinery-potential of the Benelux-Area, make it transparent and available for sharing, while at the same time deriving data from all transactions to guide sales

I joined the startup as the product owner, with the following responsibilities:
- MVP-Planning: Deciding in collaboration with stakeholders from executive team and sales/marketing on MVP-functionality
- Roadmap ownership: Setting release-plans and prioritising development work
- Supervising development work: Constantly serving as the go-to guy for the 5-headed SCRUM-team, counselling and clarifying on any business-related issue
- Feature-conceptualisation: Deriving ideas for new features from existing MVP-Functionality and stakeholder, as well as market feedback
- Guiding stakeholders through technological decisions
- Backlog-Ownership: Full responsibility for writing user stories, prioritising issues and tracking resolvement
- Continuous reporting to executive team and steering committee