Jennifer Lynn Blomqvist

• Responsible for regional commercial activities across Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark.
• Assisted in the integration of new bladder cancer monitoring solutions in Danish and Swedish urology clinics.
• Supervised daily operations, including contracts, legal matters, tenders, supply chain, and customer support.
• Guided and mentored teams across the Nordics, aligning operations with strategic objectives and promoting commercial innovation.
• Managed stakeholder relations within complex healthcare systems and regulatory frameworks.
• Promoted staff morale, resulting in increased team engagement scores
• Developed strategic partnerships to support HCV elimination initiatives in Finland.

• Both led end to end product development from concept/market assessment through industrialization, clinical studies, regulatory approval and then launch of 8 products.
• Responsible for innovation pipeline and maturity assessment of new product development pipeline, balancing strategic fit and ROI calculation to prioritise programs.
• Responsible for Program Management and portfolio strategy of all New Product Development and Innovation R&D teams of 33 Program Managers Globally across 3 sites (Sweden, USA and India) within development of New Product Introduction for molecular diagnostics solutions around assay development, instrument, and software programs. (approx responsible for $200M USD of R&D budget)
• Sponsor for entire IVDR conversion of on market portfolio and subsequent organizational changes in order comply with new IVDR requirements.
• Financial responsibility for R&D budget
• Executive leadership roll when company was first to market with COVID test during pandemic. Close collaboration with health officials and changing government strategies and regulations.
• Maintained high staff morale through effective leadership techniques, especially during hyper growth from $1B to $5B revenue and 3x scale up of employees and company footprint.

• Assisted project management team of 8 in manufacturing and technical operations for medical device products.
• Supported project managers and functional managers with project management tools and facilitation of gate reviews.
• Coordinated with local stakeholders to align project portfolio and methods for effective project planning and delivery.

GE Healthcare Custom Bioprocess Systems – Uppsala
LEAD SYSTEM DESIGNER (May 2014 – Sep 2015)
Responsible for cross functional collaboration during detailed design phase of customised bio process systems (Äkta instrumentation).

PARENTAL LEAVE May 2013 – April 2014
St. Jude Medical – Uppsala

DESIGN ASSURANCE COORDINATOR Feb 2013 – May 2013 (4 months)
Responsible for coordination and design of verification activities of test methods to be used in R&D development of a heart pressure wire.

R&D PROJECT MANAGER Dec 2011 - Dec 2012 (12 months)
Lead project team with goal to develop and implement a cost effective design change in an existing disposable product for dialysis machines. Coordinated “Design Transfer” activities from R&D into production as well as DFM/DFA, Product and production Risk analysis (FMEA), Design and Process Verification and Validation. The project involved multiple external suppliers for the purchase of injection molding machines, custom vision and robotics systems as well as assembly machines. This project was a multi-disciplinary global team with a total of 5-15 project members throughout the project life cycle. Total project investment budget of 11MSEK. Responsibility for budget, timeplan and reporting to global management.

Novo Nordisk – Denmark
GLOBAL INTEGRATION PROJECT MANAGER 2010

• Responsible for representing Danish production facility in a global “Center of excellence” project. The goal was to streamline and share best practices among 4 different production sites all over the world to result in a global productivity increase.
• Facilitated Value stream mapping of all steps in injection moulding, assembly and packaging process

Novo Nordisk – Denmark
R&D and DESIGN TRANSFER PROJECT MANAGER 2007-2009

• Responsible for design transfer of “Drug delivery system” devices from R&D into production.
• Project activities included purchase, installation and qualification of equipment for production to enable assembly of device.
• Coordination of component suppliers as well as machine suppliers along with the design team. The core project groups usually consisted of engineers and specialists who were responsible for the design, FMECA and DOE for the products and production methods as well as for verification and validation.