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Florian B.-Senior BI Manager and PMO

Florian B.
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Germany

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Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
Remote

Management Consulting for BI & Project Management

Position Summary
Management Consulting for BI & Project Management
Industries
Energy
Insurance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Operations
Product Development
Project Management
Sales
Strategy
Supply Chain Management

Developing a blueprint for reorganizing project management for a confidential solar equipment provider:

I developed measures to improve control during a restructuring program:

  • PMO setup to enforce transparency and data-driven decisions
  • An integration template for moving team silos in software, field installation, and supply chain into a cross-functional project structure with lean tracking systems for timeline, progress, and KPIs

Product Management for the "Analytics and KPI Portal" at the confidential insurance group:

I led the redesign of the existing CLV information system:

  • Key advisory work on integrating the analysis of claims volume and compensation, as well as premium profitability, into the CLV analysis for fleet customers
  • Evaluation of KPIs, dashboards, and UX to enable intuitive insights and best practices for contract selection in the system

Business development of my freelance work:

  • Building new business relationships through lead pipelines and low-threshold communication strategies (outreach, presentations, webinars, proposals)
  • Converting prospects through pre-sales consulting and RFP management
  • Developing AI-driven methods to improve efficiency in project administration
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Munich, Germany
Hybrid

Manager

Position Summary
Manager
Industries
Automotive
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Legal
Operations
Product Development
Project Management

Product Manager in Traton's TMS1 multi-brand integration program (MAN, Scania, International, VW Brasil)

Responsible for the work package "Legal & Homologation" (type approval) on behalf of MAN

I:

  • Revived the work package after 18 months of standstill and brought it onto the project roadmap
  • Identified critical compliance gaps that would have delayed the product launch and escalated them to the project steering committee.
  • Drove cross-brand alignment of the involved software systems, data, and processes within an international, politically complex, multi-stakeholder project
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
Hybrid

Senior Manager BI

Position Summary
Senior Manager BI
Industries
Retail
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Customer Service
Information Technology
Operations

Rescuing an unstable BI infrastructure: reports 70% faster and 90% fewer incidents

  • Implemented refactoring of an unstable mySQL/Tableau environment that was unable to deliver consistent reports on time

→ I checked, corrected, and adjusted KPIs for consistency so that customer service could again provide reliable shipping status information → Redesigned the ETL pipelines (SQL, NiFi) and data architecture within a few weeks for long-term stability, significantly shorter loading times, and a major reduction in incidents → Trained the BI teams in best practices so the improvements were sustained long term

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Hybrid

Team Manager Data Science

Position Summary
Team Manager Data Science
Industries
Banking and Finance
Manufacturing
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Logistics
Operations
Project Management
Sales
Supply Chain Management

Management and delivery of data and BI projects for fintech, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecom clients, and support of sales in pre-sales consulting

Selected projects:

→ Fintech scale-up (QUIRION AG, 2.5 years): Led the managed service of a KYC & marketing data warehouse, which helped the client grow from €0.5bn to €2.5bn AuM (with full MaRisk/BAIT audit compliance)

→ Semiconductor manufacturing (ELMOS SE): Refactoring of the S&OP monitoring process and supply chain management reporting

→ Telco (O2): Refactoring of the sales target algorithm for the bonus structure of the retail & partner network → Disciplinary leadership of 4 consultants in the data science team incl. coaching in project delivery

Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Hybrid

Solutions Consultant

Position Summary
Solutions Consultant
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Research and Development

I:

→ Developed and implemented the design of the ontology layer for a Word plugin for document search based on a language model → Designed the enrichment of context with a company wiki and scientific literature to enable context-driven search results

Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Frankfurt, Germany
On-site

BI Consultant

Position Summary
BI Consultant
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Audit
Business Intelligence
Finance
Information Technology

Building the reporting infrastructure for Europe's largest financial compliance program (MiFID II/MiFIR 2) for the Trading Office of Commerzbank AG

I have:

→ Built data integration processes for BaFin reporting, which are needed to keep licenses as a trading partner in the capital market → Implemented scalable ETL pipelines for millions of daily trades on a Hadoop platform → Ensured audit-proof archiving of securities trading and master data using a bi-temporal data model in line with BaFin requirements

Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Regensburg, Germany
On-site

Controller

Position Summary
Controller
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Accounting
Business Intelligence
Finance
Operations

Building the controlling infrastructure in fleet management

I have:

→ Automated business controlling processes together with the C-level and removed manual reporting bottlenecks → Optimized the profitability of the fleet's KASKO insurance and enabled cost savings in the millions → Designed cost planning and forecast models for maintenance and turnaround of the vehicle fleet

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Automotive, Telecommunication, Energy, and Insurance.

Manufacturing
Banking and Finance
Automotive
Telecommunication
Energy
Insurance
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Operations, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management, Sales, and Supply Chain Management.

Operations
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
Sales
Supply Chain Management
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Summary

Track record: Reviving a work package in Traton's international multi-brand integration program.

I designed the blueprint for a lean and efficient project organization for a solar equipment provider.

Implemented the rebuild of a fintech's data warehouse infrastructure to support AUM growth from 0.5 billion to 2 billion euros.

I led the turnaround in a BI department that cut report loading times by 70% and reduced incidents by 90%.

15+ years of project management in manufacturing, data, and business architecture topics: brand integration in the automotive sector, analytics and IT architecture setup, PMO setup during restructurings, KPI design and data architecture in telecom, fintech, and semiconductor manufacturing. Shaping communication between executives, stakeholders, and development teams to create fact-based decision-making.

Skills

  • Professional

  • Enterprise Architecture Management

  • Business Development

  • Project And Product Management

  • Requirements Management

  • Hypothesis Validation

  • Process Optimization

  • Contractor Management

  • Data Architecture

  • Compliance And Best Practice Implementation

  • Intercultural Competency

  • Team Management

  • Business Intelligence

  • Controlling

  • Product Development Process

  • Homologation (Type Approval)

  • Scrum

  • Safe

  • Technical

  • Claude (Code)

  • Perplexity

  • Dwh

  • Data Lake

  • Etl

  • Reporting

  • Analytics

  • Database Administration And Optimization

  • Software Architecture

  • Sql

  • R

  • Tableau

  • Powerbi

  • Aws

  • Nifi

  • Jira

  • Confluence

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

B.Sc. · Business Administration · Augsburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO 1)

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 7
Experience in Manufacturing 5.5 y
Avg length 1 y 6 m
Longest experience 3 y 11 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 1 (Germany)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Management Consulting for BI & Project Management, Manager, Senior Manager BI
Main industries Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Main business areas Operations, Business Intelligence, Information Technology

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor
Certifications earned 2

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Florian speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Intermediate).
Florian has at least 11 years of experience. During this time, Florian has worked in at least 7 different roles. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 7 months. Note that Florian may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Florian would be well-suited for roles such as: Management Consulting for BI & Project Management, Manager, Senior Manager BI.
Florian's most recent position is Management Consulting for BI & Project Management.
Florian is most experienced in industries like Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, and Automotive. Florian also has some experience in Telecommunication, Energy, and Insurance.
Florian is most experienced in business areas like Operations, Business Intelligence, and Information Technology. Florian also has some experience in Project Management, Sales, and Supply Chain Management.
Florian has recently worked in industries like Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, and Telecommunication.
Florian has recently worked in business areas like Operations, Project Management, and Information Technology.
Florian holds a Bachelor in Business Administration.
Florian has 2 certificates. These include: Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO 1).
Florian is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
Florian's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.
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