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Michael Stanek

Michael Stanek

Former VP & General Manager of API Global at Thermo Fisher Scientific; 25+ years leading CDMO operations and transformations in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Jul 20, 2026

30:04
And did you bring operations into those sales conversations earlier?
30:12
Yeah, in principle, it was not about bringing the operations directly into every sales call, right? So it was more about building a sales model that indirectly integrates operational expertise from the very beginning on.
30:26
So, of course, this also had something to do with the scale of the organization.
30:31
And that's why I created this dual sales approach I mentioned before with a clear split of responsibility between the sales manager and the business manager.
30:43
So you need the technical depth, process understanding, and the realistic view of what the site can deliver.
30:51
And at least the business manager needs to have all these capabilities.
30:56
In fact, the split was having a business manager with strong technical capabilities and the sales manager with the drive natural sales manager.

7 MINS LATER

37:58
What's the biggest risk, I suppose, you took when integrating pharma sites into the CDMO network?

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