QIAGEN digital accelerator team meeting
QIAGEN Digital Expertise

Our digital ambition

The future at QIAGEN looks digital

Digitization is a key strategic ambition for QIAGEN. The reason? Our customers are researchers and clinicians whose work has life changing potential. Through digitization we hope to make their day-to-day work lives a little easier, so they can spend more of their time making improvements in life a reality.
We have embarked on an exciting journey to leverage digital trends and advanced technologies. Through digital lighthouse projects and hackathons, we are pioneering tools to better address our customer needs and provide a seamless user experience. It is changing the way we do our business and shaping QIAGEN for the years ahead.

Digital Accelerator
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Embracing next generation digital sales platforms

We believe the best way to provide relevant digital solutions is by listening to our customers. And our research tells us that customers want to experience tailored content, personalized shopping, exclusive benefits and easy and fast purchasing. We are developing digital platforms to address all of these points. Today QIAGEN’s 5,000 products can be purchased via our web shop and various other digital channels including punchouts and WeChat.

Seamless user experience

Research is absolutely key to our customers and we want them to thrive. We offer our customer various digital tools to navigate our product portfolio and retrieve information and thus help them to make the best choices and optimize the work they do. Our ambition is to continuously integrate all our digital solutions into one connected ecosystem to provide a seamless data flow and excellent user experience.

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Thorsen Harzer, VP of Digital Accelerator at QIAGEN

Decision-making through smart data

Our data science and analytical capabilities are transforming QIAGEN into a data-enabled company - turning data into value and driving efficiency. We do this by embedding advanced analytics and data science applications into business processes to increase transparency, informed planning, and flexible & smart decision-making.
The technologies we use track important patterns throughout the entire value chain, which in turn provide us with key insights into previously untapped data. 

Keeping up to date on cutting-edge technologies

Making use of digital innovations is our goal both within QIAGEN and in all of our external endeavors. We collaborate with startups, conduct hackathons, and boast an internal network of digital enthusiasts and ambassadors. These activities ensure we stay up-to-date on cutting-edge technologies that drive our digital lighthouse projects' implementation and success.

Digital Accelerator
Digital Accelerator

Who we are

The Digital Accelerator is QIAGEN’s central digitalization enabler, mandated with driving QIAGEN’s digital transformation along the entire value chain. It is a cross-functional team of specialists from IT & Software Development, Data Science, eCommerce, Social Media Marketing, and Innovation & Strategy. Together with our partners across the entire business, we build digital solutions to bring QIAGEN's ambitious goals to life. We embody the idea of “select – build quick – test, learn & adapt – scale what works” and aim to foster an agile and innovative culture across the company.

  • “In my job every day is different, and no idea too far-fetched to enhance customer experience. “
    Targeting a global customer base requires flexibility, curiosity and a can-do attitude. Naturally, we seek to target our customers with the best possible digital solution that fits their digital environment. Just recently, together with our colleagues in China, I developed our WeChat-based eCommerce application.

    Digna Hoffmeister, Digital Strategy Manager
    Digna Hoffmeister, Digital Strategy Manager at QIAGEN
  • “What I love about my job is connecting the worlds of IT and Business.”
    At QIAGEN, I am responsible for our global eCommerce solutions. Together with my five scrum teams, I develop and support new features on the QIAGEN.com website that is visited by nearly 40.000 users on daily basis. For me, digitalization is all about improving the efficiency of work and processes that enable new possibilities for us to grow as a company.

    Maciej Fojtar, Digital Accelerator Manager
    Maciej Fojtar, Digital Accelerator Manager
  • “Great UX design cannot be achieved on your own – it's teamwork.”
    Technological disruption influences our customers’ behavior and as a UX designer, making an impact on someone's life in a tangible way is incredibly rewarding and a great motivator for me and my team. Great UX design cannot be achieved on your own – it’s teamwork and we work closely with a combination of designers, developers, copywriters, product managers, business stakeholders and, of course, customers.

    Lukas Bunkowski, UX Manager
    Lukas Bunkowski, UX Manager at QIAGEN
  • “Working on digital projects amidst such skilled talents motivates me to give my best each day!”
    I am working on customer friendly enhancements of our customer engagement portal - My QIAGEN. It’s the gateway for our customers to connect and collaborate with us. No need to wait for a weekday 8 am to 5 pm to reach out to us to get info on or order a product.

    Aashima Sharma, Digital Utilization Manager
    Aashima Sharma, Digital Utilization Manager at QIAGEN
  • “I love to drive digitalization day by day with colleagues from all over the globe.”
    It is hugely rewarding to drive the digitalization of products that have the potential to help customers develop life-saving solutions. As a Product Owner Lead, I am supporting our agile product teams to continuously enhance our digital offering with a strong focus on our customer’s needs.

    Björn Schröder, Product Owner Lead
    Björn Schröder
  • “Standing still is not an option, you have to continuously reinvent yourself.”
    Our goal in the Digital Lab is to develop ideas for new digital business models, identify opportunities, create concepts, and initiate their realization. We routinely search for digital technologies that are used in our industry and beyond and constantly collaborate with experts and startups in the digital ecosystem.

    Dr. Ali Murat Kaya, Digital Innovation Manager
    Dr. Ali Murat Kaya
  • Digna Hoffmeister, Digital Strategy Manager at QIAGEN
    “In my job every day is different, and no idea too far-fetched to enhance customer experience. “
  • Maciej Fojtar, Digital Accelerator Manager
    “What I love about my job is connecting the worlds of IT and Business.”
  • Lukas Bunkowski, UX Manager at QIAGEN
    “Great UX design cannot be achieved on your own – it's teamwork.”
  • Aashima Sharma, Digital Utilization Manager at QIAGEN
    “Working on digital projects amidst such skilled talents motivates me to give my best each day!”
  • Björn Schröder
    “I love to drive digitalization day by day with colleagues from all over the globe.”
  • Dr. Ali Murat Kaya
    “Standing still is not an option, you have to continuously reinvent yourself.”

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