Jens-Peter Kjær Jensen

Expertise in Complexity and Innovation

I thrive in the face of the unknown and complex—whether in technical or business domains.
I’m one of the frontrunners to use AI models and agents to enhance creativity.

Outsourcing and Partnerships

I have extensive experience in defining and controlling outsourcing setups and partnerships within R&D development, leading to success and efficiency where outsourcing/partnerships otherwise has failed.   

Leadership and Development

I have a deep understanding of the “engine room,” having successfully led people and teams, defined products that simplify the user experience and have overseen extensive and highly complex R&D programs in software, hardware, and mechanics.

Bridging and Organizational Culture

I build bridges between highly technical teams and top management, understanding how to foster a creative and effective environment across organizations and levels.

Product and Organizational Development

I have a track record of defining products, organizations, processes, and governance models that reduce ambiguity, enhance execution, and enable sustainable delivery. I excel in complex and ambiguous settings, bringing strong customer focus combined with an entrepreneurial mindset.

International Experience

Throughout my career, I have worked in international settings, enabling me to achieve business success across countries and cultures.

Communication and Public Engagement

I am an experienced and effective communicator, both within organizations and in public settings, with a history of appearances in newspapers, on radio and television, and as a speaker at conferences, panel debates, and roundtable discussions.

Personal Qualities

Above all, I am always curious and possess a strong entrepreneurial spirit with a keen eye on customer needs.

DEMANT

Director, Area Product Owner / SAFe PM, Connectivity.

June 2022 – 

Overall product manager/area owner for all connectivity related activities within Demanat Hearing Instrument Group.

Responsible for defining vision, roadmap and solutions from identified market needs within APPs, Hearing Instruments, and accessories, setting the direction for project/program product owners.

Achievements 

• Responsible for connectivity vision and strategies.
• Changed a technology driven approach to be Outside – In focused.
• Supporting line function in People motivation and development.
• Introducing focus on simplicity to make the solutions easy to understand and use for the end-user
• Successfully guided and steered product managers in the detailed decision making within the project/programs.
• Instrumental in the definition of a new outsourcing process with focus on reducing misunderstandings and increasing efficiency on both sides.
• AI advocate leading AI initiatives in R&D for efficiency and creativity

PHILLIPS-MEDISIZE

Senior Director, Product Manager/Owner, Connected Health 

January 2022 – May 2022

Reporting to the Exec VP for Front End Innovation the role included:

• The Why and What for the Connected Health business area – full systems of systems scope.
• Leading business development activities and market exploration.
• Defining connected health strategy and platform roadmap against Pharma customer needs.
• Solution definition and backlog accountable for APP, cloud, and web portals projects.

Achievements 

• Building a new strategic Product Manager/Owner role providing a focused and unambiguous decision making for the R&D projects by bridging market needs and technology capabilities/development.

Senior Program Manager, Connected Health 

August 2020 – December 2021

Responsible for connected health (App, cloud and web portal) strategy, product definition and execution of projects for pharma customers utilizing development partners to achieve industry leading solutions. Participating in business development activities and market exploration.

Achievements 

• Short- and long-term strategy and profit/loss responsible for connected health activities closely aligned with device strategy for combination products.
• Optimizing existing projects to an agile and more optimal work mode within design control
• Introducing the Product Owner role and the Grooming concept to the project.
• Change management and turnaround of partner cooperation to ensure higher productivity and clearer responsibilities and deliveries.
• People leader, development, resource planning and hiring for connected health projects.

FORCE TECHNOLOGY

Senior Director / Consultant

August 2019 – August 2020

Reporting to the Exec. VP, responsible for connecting IoT vendors with customers in a new Danish ecosystem.

• Secure latest knowledge gained at universities and knowledge institutes are shared through the ecosystem in a clear and accessible manner.
• Guide customers to the optimum product definition for connectivity/IoT/OT products.
• High focus on reliability and Cyber security.                 

Achievements 

• Transforming ecosystem activities from being mainly technology focused to more customer and business focused.
• Including data analytics in the ecosystem.
• - Identifying IoT/OT and Cyber security synergies and optimization opportunities within the   FORCE   Technology organization itself.
• Speaker at conferences and participating in round table discussions.

COLOPLAST

Cyber security responsible R&D

January 2017 – July 2019 

Responsible for defining the Cyber Security strategy for Global R&D                             

Achievements 

Introducing Cyber Security as a high focus area for Coloplast including:

• Consultant for R&D projects, It, legal and marketing
• GDPR compliance in R&D
• Driving the risk management process for R&D taking all other organizations into account.

Post market set-up responsible and outsourcing consultant.

January 2016 – July 2019  

Responsible for defining a new post market set-up and organization change for handling a new Medical Device digital product line. The new digital product line requires a radically different approach to how products are developed, controlled, maintained and supported compared to Coloplast normal way of working.

Acting as internal consultant on outsourcing incl. strategies, org. set-up, contract templates and negotiations. 

Achievements 

Definition of, and stakeholder buy-in for the new set-up, including: 

• Change Management including process definition, people development and motivation into the SW area new to Coloplast.
• Supplier Agreements
• Supply chain including forward and reverse logistic
• Customer care including complaint handling and root cause investigation
• Proactive Post Market Surveillance
• Product design update process
• Cyber Security evaluation and identification of mitigations

DENCRYPT

CEO

March 2012 – April 2015 

DENCRYPT offers a complete solution for protection of your mobile communication with the highest security possible. 
The solution consists of a complete secure VOIP system with front (APP) and backend (Cloud). 

Achievements 

• Full responsible for the company reporting to the Board of Directors.
• People manager for the leadership team and overall responsible for the organization.
• Complete definition of product, strategy, organization setup, people hire, work-mode definition, roadmap/portfolio, project planning and execution, administration setup, contract negotiation, business case calculation, sales and marketing, CRM setup. Customer support setup.
• Successful product launch according to plan set at company start. First large customer landed (The Danish Defense). 

NOKIA

Director / Outsourcing 
(Head of Partner Account) 

July 2009 – March 2012 

Partner/supplier selection and management, responsible for: 

R&D, Due diligence (Incl. FRI, FRP and FRQ’s), legal agreements, negotiations, budgeting (50 MEur/yr), work mode definition, portfolio alignment.

Responsible for global engine program and portfolio management, reporting to Mobile Phones top management. 

People manager for the account team and were responsible for change management and motivation of a team of 80 people.

Accountable for the activities of more than 300 people including outsourcing.

Achievements

• Successfully managed the change of internal development to external development of HW and SW while keeping the motivation and positive spirit of the internal employees.
• Optimized work mode between Nokia and Intel, optimized cost, improved quality and  simplified legal contracts which increased the transparency of requirements and limitations. 
• Synchronized roadmaps and portfolio to decrease redundant R&D cost. Lead internal Program managers and external Directors as direct reports.

Senior Program Manager 

January 2007 – July 2009

Overall responsible for several release programs, implementing 3'rd party HW and SW.

Managing teams and resources globally (Finland, England, US, France, Germany, China)

Achievements

• Oversaw several release programs while planning the next to come.
• Lead R&D managers as direct reports and more than 250 project members.
• Transparent reporting to steering group and stakeholders 
  
   

R&D Manager 

June 2004 – December 2006 

Head of a spearhead program, which introduced a new chipset and SW to the Nokia Mobile Phone Programs. 
Focus was on introducing new way of working at Nokia and Supplier. 

Achievements 

- Work-mode, documentation practice and communication alignment, formed the way of working for the similar projects to follow. 
- Lead project managers as direct reports. 

Senior Project Manager 

January 2003 – May 2004 

BB Technology program. 
Spearhead program for further miniaturization of the Base Band. 

Achievements

- World leading new technologies were introduced in close co-operation with suppliers. (e.g. Samsung and TI)

- 4-way supplier management and contract negotiation. 

HW Manager 

September 2002 – January 2003 

Responsible for the HW of the radically different 8800 and 7280 phones. 

Directly involved in the full process from concept definition, industrial design, HW and SW specification and development.

Achievements

- New ways of miniaturization of the HW was introduced, in order to support the industrial design. Optimized supplier management for shorter development time. 

- Inventor of a patented new industrial design. (Nokia 8800 pop-up display/keyboard) 

Senior Project Leader 

September 2001 – August 2002 

Base Band responsible for a WCDMA (3G) concept phone 

Achievements

- Successfully combined several areas of expertise throughout the entire Nokia organization to develop one of the first WCDMA (3G) basebands. 

PE Manager 

December 2000 – August 2001 

Overall responsible for the high volume 3210-phone program until ramp down. Lead a multidisciplinary international organization including the dedicated production in Ulm Germany. 

Achievements

- Introduced several variants for operator customers. Secured optimal production process and execution. Further developed the quality process and took hard decisions like full line-stop. – 

- Ensured further product improvement and cost optimizations. Optimized the organization and communication flow. 
- Received the Nokia Quality Award 2001, together with the team. 

Team Leader / Task force leader

July 1998 – November 2000

Phone product Base Band Team Leader for the 3210, 6210 and 7110 phones. 

Achievements

- Lead two separate teams of baseband designers to the completion of the two products.  

- Successfully used the combined expertise in the two teams while still having full focus on the two very different products plans and issues. 

- Boosted the team spirit for especially one of the teams. 

- Completed updates to legacy baseband design. 

- Introduced new automatic use feedback initiatives, which led to the correction several errors, prior to the successful launch of the Nokia 6210 phone.

DANTEC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY 

HW Design Engineer 

1995 – June 1998 (3 years) 

ASIC / VHDL design. 
Design of advanced flow measurement equipment for the car industry 

Achievements                              

- Completed redesign of laser-based flow measurement instruments. 

- Introduction of several new types of components and manufacturing techniques to the company. 

Positions of trust

Danish Medical Device Industry Association

Chair of the Cyber Security Expert Group Medical Devices,

                      August 2016 – August 2020

Achievements

Representing the Danish Medical Device Industry Association in cyber security related activities within the Danish healthcare system. Giving input to the national cyber security strategy as well as the ongoing national threat analysis in close cooperation with the Danish Centre for Cyber Security, Sundhedsdatastyrelsen and lægemiddelstyrelsen.

Facilitating a common strategy for handling Cyber Security in the Danish Medical Device Industry with a defined process for products and infrastructure protection, preparing the industry for the firm regulatory demands to come within Cyber security.

Participating in the development of the UL2900 standard recognized by the FDA for proving prober handling of Cyber Security in Medical Devices to be sold in the US.

Chair of the GDPR network group

                      August 2018 – August 2020

Achievements

Facilitating expert knowledge are provided for the proper handling of GDPR issues in all aspects of the Danish Medical Device industry including HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance and general IT.

Building awareness of the importance of especially the data protection by design and by default in the R&D departments.

Danish Standards

Former member of the S-840 - IoT/Cyber Security committee

Former member of the S-491 – Smart and Sustainable Cities committee

Confederation of Danish Industry

Former member of the IoT network group

1995   M.Sc.E.E    Robotics and AI, Technical University of Denmark

2003  “Excellent Team Leadership & Program Management” Nokia internal 1yr. education 

2023  SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager