Chief Quality Officer and CMC Lead, Pharma Holdings
Mr. Hammarstedt has a background as Master of Science in chemistry, chemical and pharmaceutical engineering from KTH, the royal institute of technology in Stockholm Sweden. He has more than 15 years of experience from specialist and management roles within Quality Control, production documentation, project management and Quality Assurance within the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries. In his most recent experience Niklas focused on defining and building a company-wide quality management system from a compliance, sustainability, and best practices perspective. These efforts resulted in an EcoVadis silver medal for sustainability compliance, successful implementations of an ERP system and an EQMS, as well as an approved certification for ISO 9001 and indicative approval for ISO 13485. Niklas led multiple process improvement projects for raw material sourcing, manufacturing method optimization and scale-up of production, as well as LEAN optimization of the production scheduling.
Compliance, process optimization and efficiency together with support system implementations were key focus areas throughout previous positions.