ELODIE DE ROO CONNOR

• Accountable for commercial launch and technical lifecycle management of assigned products
• Lead the Technical Product team (Quality, regulatory, supply chain, Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finance...)
• Develop and own the end-to-end product strategy and execution
• Voice of the Product at Pharma Technical Leadership team, as well as at Life cycle
• Translate and influence LCT to support patient centricity and increase commercial benefit
• Stakeholder management to influence PT strategy
• Key achievements:

- Commercial Launch of key Roche blockbuster (>$2B) globally (incl. China)

- Preparation of Products for Light touch lifecycle management

- Global strategy deployment at products level

- Change management

- Lead of the breast cancer POD (4 Product strategy leaders) to support appropriate development of PT strategy

- Lead of sustainability initiatives

- Lead for key company initiatives (eg CDMO strategy, individualized Therapy industrialization)

- Technical Program lead for products from diverse technologies: Antibody drug conjugates, Antibodies, bispecifics, cancer vaccine

• Global responsibility for sourcing of biologics Drug substance at Contract manufacturing Organization in both biologics and small molecules
• Development of global category strategies and global external partner strategies
• Management of global key accounts: Supplier relationship management, strategic collaboration, escalations - Lead of major contract negotiations (> 500M CHF)
• Cross functional work with legal, finance, manufacturing team
• Ensure contract creation and execution
• Lead on supply negotiations for key collaborations
• Conduction of due diligences with external manufacturing team to support identification of new supplier
• Team lead for Drug substance category managers (Line management and functional lead)
• Key achievements:

- Management of biggest accounts which serve Roche Pharma Technical

- Responsibility of over 400M annual spend in 2019

- Key contributor towards saving targets in direct pharma procurement (>100M/ year)

• Management of contract manufacturing activities for commercial products at multiple drug substance (biologics and small molecules)
• Contract manufacturing Organization including contract negotiation,
• CMO selection, process technology transfer, routine cGMP manufacturing
• Cross-functional team lead of technical, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, supply chain and other subject matter experts to achieve CMO site business, operational and quality objectives, plans, and performance goals
• Key achievements:

- Site manager for products from different technologies: Antibody drug conjugates, Antibodies, small molecule

- Multiple project related recognition awards

• Technology transfer lead
• Drive of cross functional project team (Production, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Technology, Health Safety Environment)
• Ensure that timelines and costs are met in alignment with quality standard
• Site Single Point of Contact for Supply chain, development, Drug product interactions
• Evaluation of facility fit and organization of necessary implementations
• Representation of the local receiving team in the global biotechnology product transfer team
• Definition of content, objectives, and resources (personal and material) for conduction of a transfer
• Key achievements:

- Budget responsibility of over 10 million Euros

- Technology Transfer of development program to commercial facility in 6 Months

- Green Belt certification: Technology Transfer acceleration

• Late-stage cell culture development, Scale up and Technology Transfer to manufacturing business units
• Process optimization, characterization, and validation, Support and troubleshooting of manufacturing cell culture processes (Raw material testing)
• Evaluation and implementation of disposable technology & financial evaluation
• Product Technical Team member for Cell Culture
• Facility upgrade and qualification
• Management of technicians and engineers (7 employees)

Graduated with honors, Dean List

Graduated with honors