Rikke Winther

Rikke is highly specialized and globally experienced within Pre-clinical and Clinical R&D, Business Development and Contract/Outsourcing Management and has worked in the CRO and Pharmaceutical industry within these fields for more than 25 years.

For almost two decades, she headed up the R&D Outsourcing & Contracts Management R&D function at Lundbeck where she was globally responsible for all R&D outsourcing matters covering contractual, operational and relationship related activities with all CROs/vendors as well as complex research collaborations agreements with academia. Rikke has significant experience in developing and executing a broad variety of outsourcing strategies and is a strong negotiator with a win-win approach to retaining positive relationships with all stakeholders.

Prior to her employment at Lundbeck, Rikke worked for five years within bio-analytical research and clinical development in hospital/academia settings. This was followed by four years of employment in a larger CRO (International Project Manager followed by setting up the CRO’s first South East Asia office working as Business Development Manager and Line Manager in Singapore).

Rikke has since 2013 been a Steering Committee member of the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG.org.uk) in Europe.