Sara Vigne

- Responsible for Plan-Source-Make activities of a surgical robot and its instruments within MDR/FDA regulation - Management of 6 departments (total 30 FTE): S&OP, Strategic Sourcing, Manufacturing (consumables & capital equipment, with Contract Manufacturers), Supplier Quality (till March’25) and Program Management - Responsible for sourcing & manufacturing strategy, capacity & capability scale-up, operations management, COGS reduction

- Established and led the PMO, including recruitment and development of a team of project and program managers - Defined and implemented a structured project management framework and governance - Directed the transition from a single-project structure to a multi-project portfolio, ensuring prioritization and integrated planning across product development, regulatory submissions (De Novo, MDR), and clinical programs - Managed a team of specialists focused on the design, optimization, and standardization of organizational and business processes

- Led cross-functional product development projects/programs for complex electro-mechanical medical devices, from requirements engineering through development, verification and validation (V&V), design transfer, and commercial rollout, within ISO 13485 and FDA-regulated environments

Global Senior Project Manager in the field of rail vehicles upgrade (budget > 100 millions CHF): - Managing complex cross-functional CAPEX projects: 6 sub-projects, 40 team members (matrix projects) - Defining and monitoring deliverables, budget, planing and quality (phase-gate model) - Selecting suppliers and subcontractors through tenders - Stakeholder Management Projects: - DTZ: Modernisation of 244 train cars for S-Bahn Zurich - Project Lastmanagement (Electrical Power Load Management) - Upgrade IR Dosto

Production planning of a rolling stock maintenance depot (~ 400 FTE) : planning of overhaul and modernisation programs for 6 fleets of Passenger traffic (regional and long-distance traffic) on a five-year planning horizon. - Demand planning and forecasting of production facilities and personal resources utilization - Development and analysis of scenarios - Process standardisation Team member of KIH APS Project (Digitalisation of production management methods with SAP PM Module): definition of specifications for planing, master data and mobile application.

Methods Engineer for the overhaul and modernisation programs of a SBB regional fleet (locomotives Re450 - Zurich S-Bahn - 115 vehicles) : - Design and implementation of productive process (industrialisation of components) - Optimisation of manufacturing costs and productivity (continuous improvement) - Calculation of commercial bids for internal / external clients - Computer-aided process planning (SAP)

Master thesis title: Combinatorial approach toward programmed decomposition of bioconjugate transporters for drug solubilisation

Materials Science and Engineering - Exchange Year Bachelor Thesis: Nanotube Electrode for Biofuel Cells (Nanomaterials Group)