Nicolai Brauns
Director IT & Digital Germany
Experience
Director IT & Digital Germany
Bergman Germany HoldCo GmbH
Overall responsibility for IT, including creation and implementation of the IT roadmap/IT strategy and the resulting actions in organizational structure and processes as well as the system landscape
Member of the management board
Organizational development
Development of corporate strategy
Introduction of a new SteerCo process for Germany in coordination with the Dutch group
Restructuring and optimization of incident, problem and change management
Moderation and execution of software and partner selection processes for implementing new systems/applications
Initiation and negotiation of business relationships with external service providers and suppliers, including contract drafting
Ensuring IT security and data protection in compliance with legal requirements and best practices
Expansion of internal data centers and infrastructure to secure SLAs for internal operations, including cloud services and cybersecurity
Budget planning and control as well as resource management for own area of responsibility
Head of IT
C. Otto Gehrckens GmbH & Co. KG
Overall responsibility for IT, including creating and implementing the IT roadmap/IT strategy and the resulting actions in organizational structure, processes and the system landscape
Member of the management board
Organizational development
Development of corporate strategy
Program management for the introduction of lean management
Establishment of new project management standards
Introduction of a new demand management process
Restructuring and optimization of incident, problem and change management
Roll-out of M365
Implementation of production controlling along the supply chain
Various expansion and optimization projects in the ERP application (proALPHA)
Advising the executive board and departments on IT issues and new technological developments
Moderation and execution of software and partner selection processes for implementing new systems/applications
Initiation and negotiation of business relationships with external service providers and suppliers, including contract drafting
Ensuring IT security and data protection in compliance with legal requirements and best practices
Expansion of internal data centers and infrastructure to secure SLAs for internal operations, including cloud services and cybersecurity
Budget planning and control as well as resource management for own area of responsibility
Director IT / CIO
Ludwig Görtz GmbH
Overall responsibility for IT, including creating and implementing the IT roadmap/IT strategy and the resulting actions in organizational structure and processes as well as the system landscape
Member of the executive board
Restructuring and optimization of the ERP competence center
Restructuring and optimization of incident, problem and change management
Development of a new target operating model for IT
Advising the executive board and other business stakeholders, especially for the collection, analysis and design to optimize or newly implement business processes
Moderation and execution of software and partner selection processes for implementing new systems/applications
Initiation and negotiation of business relationships with external service providers and suppliers, including contract drafting
Outsourcing of 1st and 2nd level support for the nationwide branch network and internal logistics
Expansion of internal and external data centers to secure SLAs for internal operations, including cloud services and cybersecurity
Roll-out of MS D365 SCM for internal logistics
Set-up of a second logistics center, including full infrastructure
Various expansion and optimization projects in the e-commerce area
Build-out and expansion of the omnichannel marketplace platform Görtz Connected with over 70 partner companies (e.g. Amazon, Zalando, …)
Introduction of digital invoice dispatch
Roll-out of the E-PEP system from Atoss
Budget planning and controlling for own area of responsibility
Director IT
Libri GmbH
Overall responsibility for IT, including IT strategy
Member of the management board
Leading three departments with a total of 40 in-house employees
Initiation and negotiation of business relationships with external service providers and suppliers
Building a new organizational structure within IT (DevOps)
Restructuring customer support to optimize incident, problem and change management
Relaunch of our own e-commerce platform as a white-label solution for approx. 1,800 customers
Initiating and developing a merchandise management system for approx. 1,600 customers (SaaS architecture on AWS)
Building a new development framework, including CI/CD in a new cloud-based infrastructure (Kubernetes / Docker)
Ensuring service level / operational level agreements for the supported customers, including escalation management
Setting up and shaping the organizational development process for the entire company
Outsourcing / sale of applications and partial services
Direct contact for the executive board and department heads on IT-related issues
Moderation and facilitation of organizational and project workshops
Budget planning and controlling for own area of responsibility
Head of Enterprise Applications Development
ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H & Co. KG
Project lead for group-wide projects (e.g. SAP and SEPA rollout)
Coordination of internal and external staff
Product owner for the rollout, development and operation of all ERP systems (SAP, Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, …), both nationally and internationally
Leading an eleven-member team of IT consultants/project managers in the development area
Leading a twelve-member team of IT application managers in the operations area
Direct contact for executive management and business units on ERP, CRM, SharePoint, analysis, development, standard reporting, application operations and system architectures
Budget planning and controlling for own area of responsibility
IT Project Manager and Head of SAP and Advertising Systems Development
Bauer Systems KG - Bauer Media Group
Project management for company-wide projects (e.g., SAP upgrade)
Coordinating internal staff and about 20 external employees
Product owner for development and operations of all advertising systems
Regular workshops with SAP to align the enhancement of the deployed SAP modules
Leading the SAP developer team
Direct point of contact for management and departments regarding ERP, CRM, BI, DWH, analysis, development, standard reporting, data mining, and system architectures
Budget planning and controlling for my area of responsibility
BI Logistics Team Lead
Bauer Systems KG - Bauer Media Group
Leading a five-person BI team
Project management for logistics IT projects
Product owner for BI development and operations
Direct point of contact for management and business units regarding BI, DWH, analysis, development, standard reporting, and data mining
Budget planning and controlling for my area of responsibility
Data Mining Manager
VKG Verlagvertriebs KG; Con.Vidis KG; Bauer Vertriebs KG; Bauer Systems KG - Bauer Media Group
Establishing the logistics consulting business
Data mining (predictive modeling, scoring)
Creating ad hoc analyses
Setting up standard reporting (web-based, OLAP)
Project management for IT-wide projects
Developing test scenarios for quality measurement (benchmarks)
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Experienced in Media and Entertainment, Retail, Real Estate, Chemical, and Information Technology.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Operations, Logistics, and Product Development.
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Education
FH-Wedel
Diploma in Business Informatics (FH) · Business Informatics · Wedel, Germany · good
FH-Hamburg
Diploma in Civil Engineering (FH) · Civil Engineering · Hamburg, Germany · good
Gymnasium Farmsen
General higher education entrance qualification · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Cambridge BEC Vantage Certificate C1
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