VIATRIS
Viatris
- A global healthcare company
Rayapureddy shared his thoughts on what energised him and his team about the integration and their critical role to stand up a new kind of healthcare company : " At Mylan , we had the global scale , but we saw certain pockets where we could benefit from having a broader reach . Upjohn brought iconic products and a strong presence in Emerging Markets and Greater China . This is how we complemented each other . The coming together of these two great companies created a new kind of global healthcare company well-positioned to achieve its mission of empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life ."
The goal was to create a global company that brought together the firms ’ scientific , commercial and operations expertise and portfolio of more than 1,400 approved molecules to more than 165 countries . The question facing Rayapureddy was defining a technology strategy to support the business strategy .
" It looks magical when it happens , but there was a lot of work going on behind the scenes ," Rayapureddy says . The first thing he did was to create a command centre of leaders from both companies and task them with driving the business alignment of the twenty-two workstreams required to get Viatris to a successful Day 1 . Viatris ’ workforce of nearly 45,000 employees spans the globe , and Rayapureddy set the expectation from the start that there was to be no business disruption during integration , and everyone was to collaborate on the same Microsoft Office365 platform .
216 July 2021