Following the Vaillant contract, engaged in independent advisory and entrepreneurial exploration while remaining open to SAP programme management opportunities. 

• Advisory on IT/business strategy, SAP landscape analysis, and programme structuring for early-stage ventures
• Maintained and deepened expertise in SAP S/4HANA trends, SAP Activate methodology, and market developments
• Business concept development: ideation, business planning, financial modelling, and MVP definition for sustainability-aligned ventures
• Available immediately for contract or permanent SAP PM / programme management engagements

Programme: Digital Process World ? full S/4HANA Greenfield implementation and EU rollout, including integration to Salesforce (Brownfield CRM), Data Migration from ECC, RICEFW development and transfer, and multi-country go-live. Served as the central integration point between six technical stream leads and the business/CIO level ? collecting all stream updates, resolving cross-stream dependencies, and consolidating into a single programme view reported to SteerCo and CIO. Multi-team, multi-vendor environment. Team of 80?100. 

Programme Integration & Executive Reporting

• Sole interface between six technical stream leads and business stakeholders ? collected, consolidated, and translated all stream updates into a single executive programme view
• Reported directly to SteerCo and CIO ? programme status, risks, cross-stream dependencies, and go-live readiness at each governance cycle
• Primary escalation authority across all streams; resolved inter-stream conflicts and maintained overall programme momentum
• Owned budget and resource planning, timesheet approvals, external audit compliance, and technical documentation sign-off 

Six Stream Leads Steered & Reporting to Central Factory Lead

• RICEFW: steered stream lead on development tracking, RICEFW transfer from ECC, milestone adherence, jour fixes, and escalation resolution
• Data Migration: governed migration template design, phased planning from ECC source, multi-supplier coordination, and overall migration concept ? including mid-programme supplier transition
• Basis & Infrastructure: oversaw upgrade planning, architecture decisions including Salesforce (Brownfield) integration architecture, CHARM/transport governance, system and client structure planning
• UX/Fiori: coordinated stream delivery against business requirements and go-live readiness criteria
• SolMan/CHARM: ensured Solution Manager ownership, transport quality, and authorisation sync between MDM and S/4HANA
• Authorizations: steered user approval governance, productive and development user management, customising alignment 

Rollout Delivery & Cutover

• Coordinated end-to-end cutover planning and regression test governance for EU country rollouts
• Consolidated go-live readiness sign-off across all six streams before each country go-live
• Managed JIRA setup for support tasks, refinement and impediment meetings, and external audit contact 

• Key Account Management for NSCs/OEMs/Importers across Japan, India, South Korea, USA, Canada, Spain, UK, Mexico, Italy, UAE, Australia ? VW, Audi, Porsche, Seat, Skoda brands
• Market analysis covering AS-IS IT landscape, infrastructure, applications and integrations ? deriving TO-BE roadmaps aligned to Group Strategy
• Consolidated and derived synergies from rollout plans, market roadmaps, and integration scenarios across brands
• Managed rollout projects with status reporting and escalation handling (e.g. DMS implementation & rollouts)
• Led GDPR assessment, solution analysis and system decommissioning for multiple Brands/NSCs
• Product Owner for JIRA implementation, knowledge portal and GDPR solution assessment 

Key Outcomes:

• RT template assessment for strategic DMS providers 
• Integration platform ready for VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat 
• Stakeholder analysis and KAM for all key markets 

Rollout Governance ? as Central Rollout IT Project Lead

• Central IT project lead delegated to each market ? led all local IT activities and template adoption
• Responsible for all CRM IT topics: synchronisation of local requirements with global template and application landscape
• Coordinated and tracked market-specific central and local development, and central resource allocation
• Integrated IT deliverables into market project plans; accountable for timeline, milestones, and cost/benefit analysis
• Supported Business PM with cost-effective IT solutions and communicated central IT requirements to local teams 

Product Governance ? as Central Data Migration Product Owner

• Defined template migration methodology, concept, and overview; derived market go-live strategy (Wholesale ? Pilot Dealers ? Mass Rollout)
• Defined business objects, volumes, legacy switch-off strategy, and TO-BE IT landscape
• Managed full migration lifecycle: source analysis, field mapping, extraction, transformation, cleansing, UAT loops, and productive go-live 

Product Governance ? as Central QA Lead

• Defined test plan, test environment, acceptance criteria, SIT and UAT plans
• Ran Load & Performance testing; daily/weekly defect board reviews during SIT and UAT phases 

Product Governance ? as Central Release Manager

• Defined release plan, performed release cutover and upgrade, hosted transition alongside SAP HANA migration 

Key Outcomes:

• CRM template live for Wholesale and Dealer 
• Rollouts across VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat 
• Standard interface ready for Dealer and Local Services 
• BARC Benchmark concluded CRM@VWG is 'state-of-the-art, ready-to-use and ready for roll-out' vs two other OEM systems 

• Technical lead for pan-European SAP development programme
• Daily progress management across distributed teams; weekly status reporting; peer reviews and onsite coordination 

• Established Daimler AG's first-ever offshore delivery model ? a landmark programme for T-Systems and Cognizant
• Managed complex delivery of 15 SAP applications and ~30 non-SAP applications across multiple German sites
• Single point of contact for all incident escalations across SAP cluster; 24/7 on-call as Manager on Duty for P1/P2 tickets
• Led SAP cluster status meetings with Programme Stakeholder Heads and provided inputs for SteerCo
• Set up change/enhancement process, problem management and root cause analysis frameworks
• Orchestrated SAP knowledge exchange programme between Cognizant (CTS) and T-Systems (TSYS) India and Germany
• Monthly dashboard preparation; quality feedback collection from multiple stakeholders 

Key Outcomes:

First-time offshoring by Daimler AG · Complex 15 SAP + 30 non-SAP application landscape taken into support · Knowledge exchange programme across India and Germany 

• Full team management: incident, change, knowledge, and proactive problem management
• Monthly/quarterly customer service reviews; critical problem solving and escalation
• Established new SAP Solution Manager Support service line 

• Handled project deliveries across all SAP modules; client interaction and onsite knowledge transfer
• Formalised processes for taking the project into support; offshore knowledge transfer for team 

• Led team of 4; project planning, effort estimation, weekly status updates to management and T-Systems Germany
• Guided development methodologies and best practices for SAP IS-T RMCA module 

• ABAP developments in FI module; onsite coordination and testing; daily/weekly progress meetings 

Early career SAP development roles ? strong technical foundation in FI/CO ABAP development.

• ABAP support to Total Fina Elf (France) ? ticket resolution and change request deliveries 

Early career SAP development roles ? strong technical foundation in FI/CO ABAP development.

• ABAP development in FI/CO ? reports, BDC programs, interfaces, user exits, dialogue programs
• Designed and delivered Credit Limit Automation System optimising Sales & Distribution process and reducing lead time between pre-sales and final selling
• Developed rebate scheme module, G/L reporting, AR/AP automation, TDS/non-TDS BDCs
• Coordinated with Korean FI team (Samsung Asia, Singapore) for SIMS implementation in India ? sent onsite to Singapore to support knowledge transfer
• Mentored new employees; recruited and interviewed candidates; advised interns on university projects