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• Analysis of affected business processes taking numerous stakeholders into account
• Interface analysis, architecture and system design
• Communicating and coordinating various subprojects and interface partners
• Creating epics and user stories, maintaining the backlog, workshops and review presentations
• Support during implementation between business departments and development
• Test management including strategy and approach definition
• Test case definition, execution and approval
• Cross-team organization of integration and acceptance tests
• Support of test environments
• Technologies and tools: Java, Angular, Kubectl, REST, AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, S4/HANA, Bruno

• Project management of a simplification project to reduce effort for an IT transformation project
• Stakeholder management and preparation of decision papers for top management
• Scoping and PI planning across multiple delivery streams
• Planning requirements for the transformation project
• Creating partner and customer journeys for structured end-to-end capture of requirements
• Designing suitable tracking methods for project progress
• Coordination with IT service providers and transformation project committees

• Project management in the area of "Campaign, Offer and Performance Management Classic" for PAYBACK partners from the retail, FMCG and financial services sectors
• Campaign planning, development and implementation of offer-specific concepts and measures for the channels newsletter, digital advertising (web and app), stand-alone mailings and the print mailing "PAYBACK points overview"
• Coordination with PAYBACK program partners (including American Express, Netto, EDEKA, Marktkauf & Trinkgut), PAYBACK specialist departments and agencies
• Documentation of tasks and processes as well as onboarding of the future role holder

• Acting as a professional sparring partner for management and leaders on HR topics
• Advising employees on HR matters
• Maintaining department capability during transition
• Analyzing weaknesses in the performance appraisal process
• Integrating the SAP appraisal tool
• Negotiating and organizing short-time work
• Analyzing and consolidating employment contracts
• Preparing references and recruiting
• Advising on organizational development

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

• Focus areas: restructuring, operations management, commercial management, purchasing, production
• Industries: automotive, metal processing, shipbuilding, electrical, elevators / escalators

• Active sourcing and recruiting for individual mandates (finance, IT, procurement)
• Training recruiting departments
• Training specialists and managers in application situations and interview techniques
• Application coaching and CV consulting

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• Analyze existing configuration
• Compare to HR process and organizational designs
• Develop redesigns and roll-out plans
• Adjust security concept
• Perform testing and implementation
• Prepare documentation and hand-over

• Developed & maintained customer analytical reporting solutions to identify revenue trends, performance drivers, risks & optimization opportunities to ensure data driven decision making across Sales, Finance, Product, Data Engineering & Controlling.
• Defined & analyzed customer trends & performance metrics to identify root causes behind variances, anomalies & emerging risks across business domains to deliver actionable recommendations.
• Developed & owned analytical data models & reporting layers to ensure scalability, performance & analytical robustness to support executive & operational reporting across business domains.
• Planned, tracked & executed projects by ensuring adherence to timelines, data accuracy, consistency, deliverables, reliability & data quality standards through rigorous validation & reconciliation processes.
• Raised the analytical maturity by formalizing analytical workflows, documenting data processes & standard operating procedures (SOPs) & conducting training sessions to drive adoption of self-service analytics & embed a data driven culture across operational and business teams.
• Took ownership of the end-to-end lifecycle roadmap from requirement gathering, collection, transformation, developing robust business logics to data storytelling & stakeholder delivery.
• Converted complexity into structured clarity by translating requirements & business processes into analytical recommendations to ensure alignment between non-technical & technical stakeholders.
• Conducted advanced SQL based analysis of complex business datasets to uncover trends, correlations & performance improvement opportunities.
• Drove process automation & efficiency improvements by leveraging Python, SQL optimization & AI assisted tools to reduce processing time & increase reliability across analytical & operational workflows.
• Standardized KPI definitions & reporting logic to ensure consistency & trust across reporting solutions.
• Developed process monitoring dashboards & analyses to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks & compliance deviations across end-to-end business processes to derive actionable recommendations for process improvement & automation.

• Built a Python pipeline that converts lectionary web content into structured daily JSON, applying liturgical-calendar rules for accurate weekday and Sunday coverage.
• Shipped a read-only FastAPI REST API with shared Pydantic models and delivered a Kirundi-first web client for browser and mobile use.
• Owned the data layer and backend architecture, collaborating closely on system architecture and interfaces while automating refreshes with GitHub Actions and validating the ETL with pytest.
• Impact: Created a reliable, API-driven source of truth for daily Bible readings in Kirundi, enabling consistent access to previously unstructured content.

Outcome: Implementation of an APS solution (Eyelit) across multiple international production sites, including definition of target planning processes, integration architecture (SAP – APS via middleware), and alignment of complex manufacturing requirements (e.g. autoclave planning, alternative routings). Establishment of governance structures, steering formats and decision frameworks to manage scope, cost and timeline across multiple stakeholders. Successful handover of project leadership to internal successor, ensuring continuity and sustained project delivery.

Role in Project: Project Lead / Program Manager

Main Tasks in Project:

• Led APS implementation across multiple plants (Germany, Canada, France, US) with focus on end-to-end planning & scheduling processes and system integration
• Acted as central interface between business stakeholders (plants, operations), IT (SAP/middleware) and vendor (Eyelit)
• Drove requirements engineering, including consolidation of plant-specific requirements and steering of sign-off process
• Managed vendor (Eyelit) performance, including scope clarification, effort discussions and commercial alignment
• Identified and challenged gaps between standard APS functionality and complex manufacturing requirements (e.g. autoclave planning, batch optimization, alternative routings)
• Defined and implemented project governance structures, including Steering Committees, risk reporting and decision frameworks
• Led escalation management on cost overruns, scope deviations and delivery transparency
• Coordinated integration strategy (decision for custom middleware vs. standard connector) and alignment with SAP landscape
• Improved project transparency and way of working, including definition of reporting structures, tracking logic and communication cadence
• Facilitated alignment between global and local stakeholders to ensure feasible timelines, resource planning and plant readiness
• Prepared and delivered SteerCo updates and executive decision documents
• Managed structured project handover to internal project lead, including knowledge transfer, documentation alignment and stakeholder transition.

• Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
• Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
• Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
• Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
• Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
• Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.

• Analysis of planning processes and management system
• Observation and evaluation of managers
• Derivation and implementation of personnel measures
• Interim production management
• Establishment of proactive production planning processes
• Implementation of a management operating system from the shop floor to the management team
• Reports and structured meetings
• Interim Production Manager and Head of a task force
• Repeatable throughput increased by 10%