Natalie Schmitz-Change & Communication Expert
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Change & Communication Expert
Healthcare Cooperation
- Strategic consulting on knowledge transfer, change management and communication
- Stakeholder communication and engagement
- Development and implementation of change strategies
- Change impact analyses
- Ensuring quality gates
- Regular project communication (newsletter/intranet/Confluence/social media)
- Building and embedding a change agent network
- Design and implementation of relevant processes
- Coaching of executives
- Planning and execution of all activities in the area of change management
- Regular health checks to evaluate change readiness
- Facilitating reviews and workshops, including lessons learned
- Empowerment of specific target groups
- Designing and facilitating working sessions
- Coordinating implementation partners
- Risk assessments and planning of actions
Change Manager / Interim Manager Learning & Development; Internal Communications Manager
Life Science Start-up
- Designing and implementing training concepts based on agile principles and methods
- Increment planning and ensuring agile project implementation with Scrum in the L&D tribe
- Stakeholder communication and engagement
- Developing and implementing change strategies
- Change impact analyses
- Designing and implementing relevant processes
- Coaching of executives
- Release management
- Selection of learning tools
- Facilitating reviews
- Data-driven analysis for user acceptance
- Empowerment of target groups
- Designing and facilitating workshops and training
- Gathering and evaluating requirements (requirement management)
- Creating an overview of IT systems used
- Regular health checks to evaluate change readiness
- Regular knowledge assessments
- Risk management in change management
- Optimizing internal communication channels and systems
- Communication of company decisions
- Implementing relevant processes
- Creating an editorial calendar
- Creating audience-focused communication
- Selecting the right tools to distribute information strategically and effectively
Change Manager Digital Transformation
Life Science Start-up
- Requirement management
- Release management
- Empowerment of end users
- Independently designing and implementing a communication structure
- Supporting knowledge transfer
- Comprehensive release notes management
- Increment planning and ensuring agile project implementation using Scrum in the digital landscape area
- Facilitating reviews
- Designing and facilitating workshops and training
Active Sourcing Expert / Change Manager
Service Provider in Dialogue Marketing
- Responsible for roadmapping (design + strategy)
- Comprehensive evaluation of the current situation
- Confident presentation of solution models
- Creating suitable requirement profiles and personas
- Creating a catalog of measures with an action plan
- Executive coaching
Vendor Manager and Interim Change Manager
Life Science Start-up
- Ensuring implementation and adjustment of the L&D strategy through regular quality checks
- Designing and implementing standardized quality processes
- Comprehensive oversight of the quality assurance area
- Independently implementing necessary IT structures
- Empowerment of employees at various hierarchy levels
- Stakeholder communication and engagement
- Increment planning and ensuring agile project implementation
- Facilitating reviews
Active Sourcing Expert
B2B Crowd-supported solutions Start-up
- Building a recruiting model for a Dutch startup and launching it on the German market in an agile project environment
- Roadmapping (design + strategy)
- Market analysis
- Creating requirement profiles
- Planning and implementing solution models
- Designing and moderating workshops and trainings
Chief of Staff
Service provider in dialog marketing
- Implementing an organization with structures, processes and a governance framework
- Increment planning and ensuring agile project implementation according to Scrum
- Designing and implementing learning & development for inbound service teams (3 projects with 40 employees each)
- Building, training and supporting a successful outbound team (35 employees) in the health sector
- Designing, building and implementing quality management
- Designing a people experience framework and action plan
People Experience Expert
Service provider in dialog marketing
- Reducing turnover and sickness rates within a department
- Roadmapping (design + strategy)
- Organizing, conducting and evaluating employee surveys
- Designing and implementing solution models to improve employee satisfaction considering all factors (e.g. improving recruiting and onboarding processes, enhancing working conditions, and conducting leadership coaching)
- Creating requirement profiles and personas
- Stakeholder communication and engagement
- Measures catalogue and action plan
Business Development Manager & Change Manager
Recruitment service provider
- Transforming and expanding the existing business model
- Sparring with management and operational implementation
- Leadership coaching
- Communication with all stakeholders and stakeholder engagement
- Developing change strategy
- Change management
- Empowering teams at different hierarchy levels
- Designing and moderating sales workshops and trainings
Interim Change Manager
Service provider in dialog marketing
- Transforming a pure service team into a high-performing service & sales team, including roadmapping
- Sparring with management and operational implementation
- Leadership coaching
- Communication with all stakeholders and stakeholder engagement
- Change management
- Empowering teams at different hierarchy levels
- Designing and moderating workshops and trainings
Industry experience
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Experienced in Biotechnology, Professional Services, Healthcare, and Advertising.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Project Management, Human Resources, Quality Assurance, Strategy, Information Technology, and Customer Service.
Skills
It Skills:
- Microsoft Office 365
- Sap
- Userlane
- Atlassian Confluence
- Atlassian Jira
- Oce Personal (Salesforce)
- Oce Digital (Salesforce)
- Zendesk
- Talkdesk
- Adobe Learning Manager
- Qualtrics
Skills:
- Knowledge Transfer (Concept & Delivery)
- Agile Project Management
- Change Management And Communication
- People And Culture Management
- Project Management And Control
- Process Optimization And Implementation
- Facilitation And Coaching
Languages
Certifications & licenses
Certified Change Management Expert
People & Culture Manager
IHK
Certified Trainer
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Natalie is based in Essen, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.
Natalie speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
Natalie has at least 5 years of experience. During this time, Natalie has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 6 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 6 months. Note that Natalie may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Natalie would be well-suited for roles such as: Change & Communication Expert, Change Manager / Interim Manager Learning & Development; Internal Communications Manager, Change Manager Digital Transformation.
Natalie's most recent position is Change & Communication Expert at Healthcare Cooperation.
In recent years, Natalie has worked for Healthcare Cooperation, Life Science Start-up, Service Provider in Dialogue Marketing, B2B Crowd-supported solutions Start-up, and Service provider in dialog marketing.
Natalie is most experienced in industries like Biotechnology, Professional Services, and Healthcare. Natalie also has some experience in Advertising and Information Technology.
Natalie is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Human Resources, and Strategy. Natalie also has some experience in Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Customer Service.
Natalie has 6 certificates. Among them, these include: Certified Change Management Expert, Change Manager, and Manager for Applied AI Transformation.
The availability of Natalie needs to be confirmed.
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