Interim Program Director for SAP ECC -> S/4HANA (SAP Activate incl. Retail in Europe)

-           Orchestrating, leading and monitoring a group wide IT-program with a focus on SAP Activate systematic within both green- and brownfield approaches

-           Planning of the program with 9 moduls and 7 side projects controlling all business and IT processes as well as major milestones and governance issues

-           Development and implementation of strategic business & IT targets

-           Assessment of project risks and frequent benefit-risk valuation

-           Ensuring the project is delivered in scope of contractual obligations and within forecasted costs, time and required quality

-           Steering of all 3rd-party providers and freelancers with a focus on RICEFW, migration and implementation processes

-           Monitoring all deliverables and reporting to the board of directors

-           Guidance and support of the organisational change management

-           Communication regularly with the board of directors 

Steering, leading and monitoring of the major digitisation projects

-           Accountable to plan and manage the rollout of the deployment activities for production companies in Europe

-           Ensuring the project is delivered in scope of contractual obligations and within forecasted costs, time and required quality

-           Responsible for leading both internal teams and 3rd-party services (TataConsulting) with more than 150 ppl incl. approving worklogs

-           Coordinating project tasks and issue resolution, managing the project plan, and moderate expectations between business and IT teams

-           Controlling progress in all related streams like data accuracy and their migrations as well as leading escalating issues to problem solving e.g. changing the SAP Template or reducing scope

-           Staffing new rollout-consultants or technical SAP S/4 HANA specialists

-           Reporting to the programm-management bi-weekly and to the Group Steer-Co regularly every month-end on high-level

Steering, leading and monitoring of 12 IT digitisation projects

-           Coordinating, prioritising, and planning of workstreams and sprints in cooperation with each scrum master of the sub-projects

-           Stakeholder management and resource planning besides utilisation time

-           Frequently controlling of the business case (75 Mio. ?)  

-           Taking the mediating role in case of conflicts between projects, their team members, other stakeholders, and members of the SteerCo

-           Compiling new supplier and customer frame-contracts and added both new descriptions and specifications of deliverables

-           Anticipation and management of technical and business risks

-           Building up and implementing a new change management system

-           Monthly high-level reports to the Group C-Level SteerCo  

Strategic Business Development, KPI?s Controlling & Monitoring

IT Management of Salesforce & SAP S/4 HANA switch

Business Unit operation with P&L responsibility > 50 Mio. ?

Preparation for the change from XELLA --> ETEX Group

Key Account Management DACH/BeNeLux/SLO/SK/CRO

NDA

Contract / Change / Customer / Warehouse / Financial / Sales & Marketing Management

Volumen >25 Mio.?

S/4HANA Greenfield Approach

PreProd preparation with a clear masterplan and milestones for next 18 months

Building up conditions for Stakeholder-, Masterdata- and Changemanagement 

(this project was put on hold after 8 weeks due to the Covid-Pandemia)

Interim Director Sales & Administration

Building up international Business Development & Go2Market Strategy, Steering of Product- & Pricing management, Leading and steering of the Sales, Admin & Marketing Teams, IT-Management of Navision ERP

Implementation of a new PLM Software within the whole group and 41 production units wordwide 

Leading & steering of 7 project managers and the external services (Tata consulting) 

Monitoring frequently the risk-matrix and reporting to the C-Level Steerco

Creating a hybrid workflow including gates for SIT & UAT allowance 

Steering the overall change-management 

Orchestrating, developing and executing the test-management for the master-data migration                            

Revision of existing products/solutions and validation of the business model 

Compilation and leading of a powerful project team 

Setting up change management and creating of new working processes 

Integration of a hybrid project work stream using both the existing gates and adopting agile style  

Implementation of an engineering software into the existing SAP-architecture

Market Analysis EU

Business Development Strategy 

Recruting and leading sales agents in DACH, BeNeLux and SCAN

Supporting Navision --> SAP ECC switch

• Process analysis and creating a continuous improvement process
• Company strategy for new products and emerging markets
• Creating a brand new CI/CD
• Coaching and supporting the admin
• EBIT target 10% achieved 

• E-commerce brand management for the new textile brand „Zugspitze“
• E-commerce business development for European markets
• Purchase and supplier management

• Business development strategy for B2B customer management
• Coaching all employees and freelancer

Sales & Marketing Director and Member of the Board

Pushing the qualitative and quantative growth potential

Strategic company planning focused on international sales & marketing as well as effective production-, energy- and risk management

Consolidation and reorganisation of administrational processes ? set-up and realisation of change-management and new SAP Software implementation

Continuous controlling of the commercial KPI?s with assumption on costs optimisation and assertation of a sustainable investment and quality management following TQM guidelines

Increasing EBIT > 10%

4   Winning of prestigious projects  (e.g. )

aeroproducts INC. Schaumburg, Illinois, USA

(TO 100 Mio. ? - FMCG industry ? Private Equity)  

Sales & Marketing Manager Europe

Recruitment and steering of 30 sales agents across EU

Set-up of a portfolio management and product-diversification oriented on customer needs and regional characteristics

Significant rise in sales from 1,2 to > 30 Mio. Euro

• Brand, product & sales development in Europe for and together with key accounts like Aldi, Boots, Brico, Kesko, Makro, Tesco
• Increased sales from 9,5 to more than 12 Mio. €
• Enticed away by AEROBED, USA

• Project manager supply chain and claim management
• Project consulting architects and libraries in Germany
• Contract closed because of a private stroke of fate