Deniz Celikoez

Experience in Pharmaceutical Industry

• Initiated a community and managed a global commercial AI portfolio and governance framework to align AI initiatives across affiliates. Consolidated a single source of truth, eliminated duplication, enabled prioritization, enterprise-wide scalability & reuse at a large pharma company

• Served as a Lead AI champion for senior leader mentoring and organizational AI upskilling and change management for the headquarters cohort, driving GenAI adoption and ethical compliance

• Co-designed and implemented a comprehensive KM ecosystem to optimize information retrieval, deployed a "Single Search" platform and defined core behavioral principles to ensure data quality.

• Co-designed resource fluidity & agile strategy as a strategic advisor at a large pharma company.

• Enterprise agile coach and target operating model expert at a large Pharma company, supporting countries on business and operating models; coaching leaders & squads, setting stage for sprints, facilitating, experimenting with own spiral tool for innovation

• Facilitated Digital portfolio sprints of 5 divisions at a large pharma company, aligning the visions and the tools portfolio

• Managed finance and processes workstream of a capital expenditure program at a large pharma company, including business cases, demand management, and procurement optimization.

Experience in Chemicals Industry

• Planned IT migration for a carve-out (Rev. CHF 2B) of a consumer goods company, including infrastructure, applications, end-user computing, organization, roles, governance as interim CIO.

• Designed governance frameworks, managed Day 1 & operating model for a carve-out (Rev. EUR 4B) integrating agile PMI & focus on Finance, IP, Legal, Procurement, and Engineering.

• Planned, designed program governance, managed closing of a transaction (Rev. EUR 1B) & carve-out program from a large chemicals company to a big private equity group, including operating model, PMO, and workstreams of legal, finance, services, IT & communication. Achieved successful Day 1 readiness, including transition services agreements.

• Conducted field force effectiveness project, including KAM marketing plans for retailers, scenarios, customer segmentation, capability assessment, and KPIs for sales in chemicals.

• Architected customer service and technical support operating models, fostering innovation in seed and agro-chemical solution development.

• Implemented new commercial strategy at a global agro-chemical client and benchmarked organizational structure, processes, roles, and governance 1.5 years after a large transformation.

• Coordinated legal, tax, and transfer pricing, legal entity consolidation for a global agro-chemical client, including processes, delegation of authority, policies, and competition law.

• Directed digital strategy, portfolio, customer experience as interim CIO in agro-chemicals.

• Enhanced business case evaluation methodology and modeling with risk and uncertainty for new solutions, including digital, for an agro-chemical client.

Experience in Other industries

• Led business model implementation for new retail strategy extending the value chain of a consumer company.

• Led business development of a cash logistics company, including marketing, pricing, modeling.

• Managed logistics outsourcing project at a pharma company, including models and partnering.

• Aligned & reinforced goals, interdependencies, cross-functional joint roadmaps, and resources of five strategic programs of a food company.

• Optimized alignment of agile structures with traditional structures, agile scalability, governance, reducing bias in decision making, and process improvements in manufacturing.

• Led management information systems diagnosis and implementation projects to improve data quality & self-servicing BI at a process manufacturing company, including communication.

• Worked on analytics project to offer new service business models in digitization - industry 4.0