My primary responsibilities are
1. Business Development Manager - Global Innovation Animal Health and Nutrition
Driving Novonesis Animal Health global innovation within health and nutrition for farm animals, and filling the innovation pipeline using agile way of working, sprints, business cases calculations and risk analysis etc.
2. NPD project Owner
Driving early and late stage NPD projects as Product Owner in core groups with multi-functional teams across divisions and global regions
3. Alliance Manager
Ensuring daily trustful and transparent business with global commercial partners and developing new partner NPD projects (Boehringer-Ingelheim, Adisseo, Bactolife)
4. Portfolio management of current products
5. Internal stake holder management across Novonesis with quarterly presentations & seminars (Research departments, Regulatory, IP, Formulation, pilot production, in-vivo trial group, Marketing, Regional Sales staff)
6. Scouting for new technologies and start up companies

As Director of Veterinary Business and Quality Control in SEGES/Danish Agriculture and Food Council, I was heading 5 departments with a total of 75 staff members within swine and cattle health and production. The colleagues were mainly veterinarians, lab technicians and quality technicians.

All 5 Business units were commercial units and had to earn there income on veterinary and quality services to swine and cattle farmers in Denmark, as well as larger international customers. Main responsibilities were to continue the development of the 5 business units, based on empowerment, development of the team leaders and individuel staff members, in order to reach an even higher customer satisfaction score and a healthy profitability. Building Team Spirit and collaboration between business units was a key task, making the colleagues belong to one big Veterinary Department - which we succeeded to accomplish. The benefit of this work culture excercise was increased flexibility across the business unites, where colleagues on regular basis started to assist colleagues from other business units, and as a result, the annual turnover of the Veterinary Business and Quality Control Department increased.

Reporting to the Boards of Swine and Cattle Farmers and the Excecutive Directors of SEGES were additional important tasks. Here at the monthly Board Meetings, short and long term strategy, budgets, research projects, customer services to farmers, commercial and political development and many more agenda points were discuss and decided. Subsequently, my tasks was to excecute the decisions to real life activities.


Collaboration and negociations with the Danish Veterinary and Food Agency , universities, diagnostic labs and similar public agencies were also key tasks.

Press and media contact, lobbying with national and international political bodies, international farmers organizations and quality ensurence organizations were among the prioritized activities.

Head of Nordic Marketing livestock, Bayer Animal Health

Planning and execution of marketing campaigns for animal health products in the Nordic

countries (pigs, cattle, sheep, poultry, salmons)
- Product launches, kick off meetings,
- Distributor price negotiations and general price positioning
- Competitor landscape analysis
- KOL management
- Organizing scientific product trials for regulatory and marketing purposes
- Management of Nordic Veterinary Advisory Board
- Planning and execution of Nordic and European customer seminars
- Head of Bayer Animal Health Global Swine Advisory Board reporting to the VP of Bayer Animal
Health
- Identification of treatment gabs and strategical planning of lead candidates and products for the
livestock pipeline
- Merger and acquisition analysis for Bayer Head Office
- Several years of frequent customer travel to Asia, Americas and Europe working successful in a
pure multicultural business environment
- Profound knowledge of the Animal Health industry

Marketing and business school education at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and Bayer Academy

with London Business School