Heads of Transformation in Germany

In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.

Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.

• Designed program realignment and project portfolio management

• Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects

• Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities

• Established governance and regular meetings

• Worked out operating model for flagship projects

• Assessed AI and automation ideas

• Clarified roles and responsibilities

• Implemented change measures

• Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops

• Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model

• Increased transparency and decision-making ability

• Strengthened commitment in steering

• Sharpened the operating model structurally

• Integrated three top-5 institutes

• Involved over 80% of stakeholders

• Governance

• Portfolio steering (PPM)

• Change management

• Artificial intelligence

• Workflow automation

• AI use case assessment

• Confluence

• Jira

• Stakeholder management

• Electronics – Surface Solutions | Carve-out of IT, data and system landscape*

• Separation of a full business division's IT, data and system landscape following divestment; centrally governed investment envelope in the three-digit m€ range

• Laboratory notebook and laboratory analytics platform stream: Palantir Foundry, Snowflake, Signals Notebook, Power BI and connected laboratory instrumentation; site transition completed without interruption to laboratory operations

• Decision authority and escalation point for business, IT infrastructure, IT security and vendors; separation executed across globally distributed users and systems, handed over on schedule

• After several S/4 go-lives, structure, role clarity, and decision clarity were missing in Finance and IT; governance mechanisms, prioritization logic, and responsibilities were not defined well enough.

• Unclear interfaces, high coordination effort, and inconsistent ways of working led to organizational instability and limited leadership and steering capability.

• The existing operating model between Finance, Controlling, and IT was not working, which affected transparency, collaboration, and decision paths.

• Designed the transformation and organization architecture for Finance and clarified roles, decision paths, and priorities.

• Diagnosed and structured the Finance and IT organizations (DE/UK/PL), including collaboration, responsibilities, and interfaces.

• Redesigned the Finance–IT operating model with a focus on governance, steering routines, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Enabled leaders and teams, especially Global Process Owners, Key Users, and Finance Leads (systemic organizational development / leadership).

• Steered the transformation portfolio, including clarity on risks, dependencies, and cross-functional decision processes.

• Restored structural steering capability by clearly defining roles, decision paths, and priorities and anchoring them across the organization.

• Strengthened governance and cross-functional collaboration in a systemic way - Finance, Controlling, and IT worked again in consistent, aligned structures; friction losses dropped measurably.

• Harmonized working and communication logic, making coordination faster, more transparent, and less conflict-heavy.

• Enabled the organization in a sustainable way, including the build-up of a strong Key User / Process Owner community and clearly defined steering routines.

• Made the transformation structurally manageable - prioritized initiatives, clear risk and progress logic, and consistent decision formats increased execution speed.

• Selected as SME for a government executive authority in Dubai, benchmarking four PPM platforms against technical fit and delivery risk and developing the target operating model and strategic benchmarks.
• Led an operational optimization project for a performance-based road maintenance contract, directing two consultants and delivering a 10% improvement against contract KPIs.
• Managed delivery of a smart city implementation as the consulting firm's project manager, coordinating the specialist solution consultant and the site's asset owner, and owning project governance and reporting.

• Designed and implemented comprehensive business processes, leading cross-functional teams to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs
• Provided training and ensured benefits realization through end-to-end workflow development
• Contributed to the “Generate Insights from Hidden Knowledge” initiative by developing and deploying AI-driven workflow automation solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs) and low-code/no-code platforms
• Designed multi-agentic workflows integrating OpenAI, LangChain, Haystack, and n8n to automate document review, data extraction, and knowledge summarization processes
• Led the orchestration of AI and automation frameworks to enhance medical and business review processes, ensuring compliance, explainability, and transparency
• Collaborated cross-functionally to translate complex business requirements into AI-enabled automation prototypes aligned with enterprise compliance and data privacy standards
• Applied Power Automate, UiPath, Nintex, and ServiceNow to deliver rapid, scalable, and secure automation solutions within validated operational environments
• Leveraged Lean Six Sigma, Agile/SAFe, and ITIL principles to structure AI development pipelines ensuring measurable impact, auditability, and sustainable governance
• Managed cross-departmental collaboration to standardize workflows, reducing errors and enhancing task management. Established governance frameworks to ensure the sustainability of automation solutions

• Migration of financial data from Microsoft Dynamics to SAP ECC for eleven companies, as well as from SAP S/4HANA to SAP ECC for one additional company. At the same time, an interface from an operational leasing tool to SAP S/4HANA had to be tested from a business perspective and aligned in an audit-proof way.

• Lead and plan the migration work packages, create the migration concept for accounts payable and accounts receivable with active customer-vendor integration, set up the reconciliation and QA method, test management, cutover planning, and audit-proof project documentation.

SAP/business focus: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, FI, Business Partner/CVI, Finance Data Migration, Reconciliation, Test Management, Cutover

• Traceable and audit-proof migration of multiple companies with clear reconciliation logic, strong QA evidence, and controlled cutover.

• Responsible for driving digital transformation and aligning country organizations with the Rhenus platform model

• Initiated the digital transformation roadmap for five countries, ensuring alignment with global group strategy

• Built and led a high-performing digital transformation consulting team, expanding delivery capacity from one to three value streams and thereby fast tracking the roadmap from 3 to 2 years

• Acted as strategic advocate for 5 country organizations, ensuring group-wide cross-functional alignment

• Redefined business analysis into an agile approach, reducing time-to-value for platform harmonization by 50%

• Manage a multi-million-€ budget for labelled data for AI products, optimising cost, capacity and commitments.
• Lead end-to-end data labelling operations across internal teams and external suppliers, ensuring on-time delivery.
• Coordinate around 200 data labellers in Asia via a local project manager.
• Establish delivery governance (KPIs and cadence) across stakeholders and suppliers to ensure quality and cost control.
• Initiate and lead a cross-functional program with Product Portfolio and Sales Controlling to improve team efficiency through digitalisation and strengthen pricing governance and long-term financial performance.
• Build an automated pricing analytics solution using Salesforce data, replacing manual spreadsheet-heavy analysis and reducing process workload by 75%.
• Identify approximately €75M revenue improvement potential across the high-impact product portfolio (2026–2028, ~3.3%) by establishing Price Change Ratio governance.
• Identify high-impact quick wins and guide implementation to improve overall departmental efficiency.

• Diagnose genuine AI-readiness in procurement environments before technology investment is committed
• Identify where data quality gaps, process immaturity, and governance failures will cause AI initiatives to stall
• Guide leadership teams through the strategic, organisational, and technical decisions that determine whether AI deployments succeed or fail
• Conduct the PAF-I Diagnostic (Procurement AI-Fitness Index), a structured assessment across procurement data, process maturity, technology landscape, governance, and organisational capability
• Produce a scored AI-readiness profile with a prioritised action roadmap for leadership
• Deliver engagement models including clarity work packages, alignment work packages, momentum work packages, transformation advisory, and executive workshops

• Led the project to introduce AI tools for creative teams for image, video, and text creation (Yuma, Google, Flux, cogniwerk.ai, comfy.ai)
• Relaunched Asana and rolled it out to 100 users for shared workflow management and KPI reporting
• Managed the pilot project for the creative workflow automation tool Bannerflow
• Contributed to the overall marketing restructuring project focused on organizational structure and processes

• Migration of SEPA direct debits, credit transfers & card clearing to Worldline's internal platform as part of the outsourcing contract

• Definition of the MIGR strategy

• Mobilization of the community (300+ experts at client & Worldline)

• Creation of the MIGR runbook (100+ workshops)

• Close collaboration with upstream project streams: BUILD & TEST, as well as with the operating units

• Set up of the governance framework, capacity management & reporting

• 100% of SEPA DD, CT & CC transaction traffic migrated (7 months)

• ~80 migrations carried out with a success rate of 70% ("first-time right")

• Set up technical & manual production monitoring

• Established a "fast-track" incident management process in the MIGR & hypercare phases

• Set up 20+ exception handling processes

• Conducted trainings

• Implemented SLAs & billing

AI-first workforce management platform for medical practices (scheduling, time tracking). Market insight: no modern SaaS solution for the sector. Product insight: only fully autonomous with AI agents.

• Vibe-coding with Claude Code — built the entire platform myself, including the AI agent "Kira" as autonomous scheduling support.
• Brand building (medishift) including SEO distribution; built onboarding and sales.
• Early-stage traction (May 2026): 7 paying practices plus 70+ practices and 500+ users on the free plan.

Training wave for education of first transformation agents. Training of candidates in: Lean management, Six Sigma & data analysis, change management, rationalization meetings, conflict & crisis management, stakeholder management international, project management, cultural development, AI for OpEx. Strong response to training & certification concept.

• Agile coach and Scrum Master for an international, remote-working team (5–7 experts).
• Building the product vision, roadmap, and MVP.
• Implementing Scrum, training on agile values and principles.
• Establishing lean processes and continuous improvement.