Eric T. Olsson

I'm a technology and data executive with more than twenty years spent building the systems companies actually run on. Today I lead Enterprise Information Management at SpringWorks Therapeutics, 

(a healthcare company of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) where I own the customer engagement and enterprise data platforms behind our commercial business. I was hired the same week as our Chief Commercial Officer and built the commercial tech stack alongside the organization it serves. That stack supported the approval and launch of two rare disease therapies in the US inside fifteen months, both of which went on to launch in the EU.

Before biopharma, I spent fifteen years at Under Armour, joining when the company was around $225 million in revenue and staying through its growth past $5 billion. I ran distribution systems as we went from one manual warehouse to 2.5 million square feet of automation, led International IT from Panama City while we launched subsidiaries across Latin America, Asia, and Australia, and finished as Director of Enterprise Reporting and Analytics where I managed a team responsible for an omnichannel customer data platform with ~275 million customers. 

In between, I rebuilt the data platform at 14 West, moving a billion-dollar publishing consortium off Hadoop and onto Snowflake in six months and taking $650K a year out of the run rate.

Please take a look at the Projects section of my site to read about some of this work in more detail.

I build and lead high-performing teams across a wide range of organizational maturity, from a startup commercial function with no systems at all to a fifty-developer program rebuilding an enterprise data warehouse. I've launched and run tier-one transactional systems (ERP, WMS, retail, ecommerce, Veeva CRM and Network) and the analytic platforms that sit downstream of them (Snowflake, dbt, SAP HANA, Power BI, Tableau, Sigma).

I've done this work in the United States and well outside it. As part of Under Armour's international leadership team I helped grow a $200 million non-US business past $1 billion, and at Merck KGaA I sit on the global enterprise architecture committee for Healthcare Marketing and Sales, advising IT business partners across roughly eighty countries.

What I enjoy most is finding talent and pointing a good team at a hard goal. I'm at my best moving forward, building something new, and taking an organization to the next level.

I am looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, executive leadership team with responsibility for either IT overall or with a focus on data and analytics.  

I'm most interested in startups and companies in a period of explosive growth where the work is genuinely transformative and where the role carries real decision-making authority and the room to get things done.