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Jan Fischer

Jan Fischer

Senior Program Manager
Berlin

Summary

I’m a Project Manager with 15+ years in the BioMedTech and life science sectors, specializing in New Product Introductions and global market expansion. With an M.Eng. in Biotechnology and an MBA in BioMedTech, I combine scientific expertise with strategic execution to lead cross-functional innovation from concept to launch.

Over the past 7 years, I’ve delivered complex, high-impact projects at Illumina, Axolabs, and Precision for Medicine, managing full project lifecycles with a hands-on, structured approach—ensuring scope clarity, risk control, and cross-functional alignment across technical, regulatory, and commercial teams.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Sr. Program Manager

Illumina Inc.
01.2021 - Current

Global role as Program Manager in New Market Expansion with focus on market entry of IVD medical device in the emerging geographies

  • Program Manager in Commercial Excellence
  • Focus on IVD products and new market expansion in emerging markets
  • Program coordination, planning, execution, risk management and monitoring
  • Senior-level stakeholder collaboration
  • Matrix environment, leading cross-functional overlay teams
  • Portfolio management of projects in 30 countries, achieving $70M revenue forecast
  • Budget management in global expansion projects
  • Cross functional team collaboration in Commercial Operations, Sales Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Trade Compliance, Marketing, Distributor Operations, Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain

Project Manager

Epiontis - Precision for Medicine, Berlin, Germany
04.2019 - 12.2020

Biomarker-guided clinical trials and immune monitoring solutions, global central lab and bioanalytical services

  • Project Management – Commercial project management in global clinical trials, clinical sample logistics, central lab and bioanalytical services, data assessment and compliance
  • Business Development - Proposal strategy, scientific sales communication, marketing collateral
  • Clinical Trials - immuno-oncology, autoimmune diseases, inflammation, orphan diseases
  • Exploratory Biomarker Assays - Immunophenotyping, Receptor Occupancy, Epigenetic Assays, Next-Generation Sequencing
  • Quality Management System - DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation

Field Application Scientist - Europe

ProteinSimple - Bio-Techne, home office based, Berlin, Germany
09.2014 - 03.2019

A platform-based instrument manufacture offering a wide range of protein tools for research and product quality control in biopharmaceutical research industry.

  • Product Support - customer support for of >150 accounts in Biopharma and Academia across Europe
  • Scientific Sales - funneling prospect customers through scientific sales process, won multiple equipment sales at key customer generating $600k revenue increase p.a.
  • Marketing Strategies - communicate and contribute to marketing collateral
  • Account Management - increase consumables revenue and customer satisfaction at key accounts
  • Business Development - navigate customers to new business opportunities and novel applications

Application Scientist

Scienion AG, Berlin Germany
10.2011 - 08.2014

Lab-automation and service provider - ultra-low volume liquid handling and microarray technologies

  • Application and product design - novel applications led to new products
  • Technical engineering and process integration - production line setup
  • Sales Support- feasibility studies, demos and science & tech talks
  • Customer Support - workshops and trainings

Research Associate

Brahms (Thermo Fisher) / ICI GmbH
05.2008 - 03.2010

Development of a diagnostic lateral flow assay for rapid detection of

procalcitonin (PCT)

  • Assay development, Production process design, Preclinical device testing

Education

MBA - Business Administration - "BioMedTech"

University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
11.2014 - 07.2018

Master of Science - Master of Engineering - Biotechnology

Beuth University of Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany
04.2001 - 05.2007

Skills

Software

Regulatory & Compliance - GxP; ICH; CE IVDR; ISO17025;ISO 13485; FDA 21 CFR part11

Project Management Tools - MS Projects / Asana / Confluence / SmartSheets

Business CRM & Quality - SFDC, SAP, Teamcenter

Timeline

Sr. Program Manager

Illumina Inc.
01.2021 - Current

Project Manager

Epiontis - Precision for Medicine, Berlin, Germany
04.2019 - 12.2020

MBA - Business Administration - "BioMedTech"

University of Potsdam
11.2014 - 07.2018

Field Application Scientist - Europe

ProteinSimple - Bio-Techne, home office based, Berlin, Germany
09.2014 - 03.2019

Application Scientist

Scienion AG, Berlin Germany
10.2011 - 08.2014

Research Associate

Brahms (Thermo Fisher) / ICI GmbH
05.2008 - 03.2010

Master of Science - Master of Engineering - Biotechnology

Beuth University of Applied Sciences
04.2001 - 05.2007
Jan FischerSenior Program Manager