Kossi A.-Project Manager

• Analysis, identification, assessment and implementation of requirements and customer needs up to project and implementation readiness
• Coordination of business requirements and creation of the project structure and phase plan
• Organization of meeting structures, weekly regular meetings and project kick-offs
• Alignment of the target model including technical design and project scope with stakeholders
• Planning and implementation of EPICs/user stories incl. acceptance criteria with the IT department
• Running weekly regular meetings and tracking project progress
• Regular project status reporting
• Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management, MS Exchange, MS Outlook
• Team size: 15 people

• Conducting analyses and monitoring the program portfolio as well as reporting to different management levels
• Monitoring the project portfolio based on defined KPIs to identify issues in structure, costs, risks and interdependencies
• Supporting the setup of the 2022 annual portfolio
• Ensuring the quality and accuracy of project status reporting and compliance with global guidelines
• Planning, managing and steering agreed roadmaps in coordination with regions and countries
• Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management
• Team size: 75 people

• Support and consulting for various business departments on review, planning, and retrospectives in the integration team
• Moderation and follow-up of regular meetings
• Ensuring that agreed rules are followed and the target process is met
• Making sure teams deliver software in the required quality and in line with all standards
• Promoting the discipline needed for agile project execution
• Skills and tools used: communication, reporting, presentation, project management
• Team size: 80 people

Management consulting | €125 million revenue | 1200 employees

• Leading and coordinating complex customer projects, including using agile project management methods as Scrum Master and Agile Coach.
• Building strong customer relationships through long-term and successful project assignments.
• Working as an in-house personal coach and communication trainer for employees.
• Building the near-shore model and the offer management.

• Introducing a reporting platform as part of a BI program by merging and harmonizing two reporting platforms
• Working with IT interfaces, procurement, solution teams, and operations
• Defining project management methods and processes (project controlling, risk management, change request management)
• Operational handling of project management tasks
• Continuous tracking of project status and creating corresponding reports
• Quality planning and quality checking of project results
• Skills and technologies used: PMO processes, communication, reporting, presentation, project management (waterfall), Jedox, DB2, SAS
• Team size: 20 people

• Development of a new corporate portal system "MyPortal" to consolidate more than 20 department portals
• Responsibility for the governance & compliance stream
• Coordination of the integration process
• Conducting workshops with departments
• Definition of SLAs
• Status tracking and reporting
• Skills and technologies used: documentation, business concept design, communication, concept design, presentations, project management, ITIL, SAP NetWeaver, LDAP
• Team size: 25 people

• Reporting of secured loans as part of balance sheet statistics and sending monthly XML files to Deutsche Bundesbank
• Management of internal and external service providers
• Project and budget planning, management, and documentation
• Quality management
• Test management
• Skills and technologies used: documentation, business concept design, IT coordination, communication, concept design, presentations, project management (waterfall), MS Office, MV Host, MS SharePoint
• Team size: 12 people

• Rollout of a compliance system to meet all MiFID regulatory requirements
• Coordination of global data deliveries (China, India, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy)
• Turning controlling and inventory information into an analytical compliance system
• Planning and coordinating business approvals
• Managing internal and external service providers
• Managing offshore partners
• Coordinating globally operating delivery units
• Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, business concept design, IT coordination, communication, concept design, presentations, Cognos, MV Host, MS Office, MS SharePoint
• Team size: 12 people

Management consulting | €12 bn revenue | 90,000 employees

• Leading and coordinating various large-scale projects within the group and in client projects.
• Building strong client relationships through long-term and successful project assignments.
• Bid management and sales consulting.

• Implementation of an integrated planning and management tool (project PLANEO)
• Building the data warehouse, creating and adjusting DTS packages
• Creating dimensions and planning front ends
• Skills and technologies used: business concept design, MS PowerPoint, MS SQL Server, MIS ALEA, MS Excel Integration, Citrix Server, MIS Decision Studio
• Team size: 8 people

• Market and competitive research in the IT and telecom services market by country, customer, and industry segments
• Conducting SWOT and GAP analyses as well as big deal analyses
• Capturing and evaluating business processes
• Creation of market analyses, competitor profiles, and company profiles
• Skills and technologies used: requirements analysis, documentation, customer analysis, MS Office, web-based databases
• Team size: 15 people