Microsoft Excel Experts in Munich

• 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 Punkteübersicht”
• Coordination with PAYBACK program partners (including American Express, Netto, EDEKA, Marktkauf & Trinkgut), PAYBACK departments and agencies
• Documentation of tasks and processes as well as onboarding of future job holders

• Active sourcing and recruiting for individual assignments (Finance, IT, Procurement)
• Training of recruiting departments
• Training of specialists and managers for job application situations and interview techniques
• Application coaching and CV consulting

• Development of a comprehensive transformation model for IT departments and ITSM organizations, from operational stabilization through structuring and optimization to strategic advancement
• Design of a transformation matrix that connects development phases with the implementation activities Position, Focus, Model, Enable, Anchor and Develop
• Development of assessment, maturity and decision-making logic to determine the operational starting point, the appropriate entry point and the prioritized areas of action
• Structuring of an end-to-end approach from current-state assessment and target vision through operating model, roadmap and service modules to implementation and integration into steady-state operations
• Derivation of combinable consulting and implementation modules, including methods, deliverables, role models, governance structures and transformation paths
• Collection, structuring and prioritization of business requirements from the perspectives of IT management, service management and operational roles
• Translation of requirements into target visions, process and role models, decision criteria and traceable deliverables

Environment / Tools: ITIL 4, IT4IT, Operating Model Canvas, SIAM, maturity models Kanban

• Leading enterprise BI transformation across Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, delivering scalable data models, automated reporting, and high-performance analytics solutions for commercial and operational leadership.
• Building and optimizing Power BI Dataflows, Fabric Lakehouse datasets, semantic models, and automated reporting pipelines to improve data scalability, governance, and reporting performance.
• Driving dashboard modernization and KPI governance by translating complex business requirements into executive-level insights, interactive visualizations, and decision-ready analytics.
• Designing end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architectures integrating data ingestion, transformation, virtualization, and enterprise reporting across cross-functional business domains with SAP BW to Qlik to Power BI migration.
• Delivering AI-enabled reporting capabilities, threshold-based alerting, and automation frameworks within the Power BI ecosystem to accelerate business decision-making.
• Partnering with commercial leadership, analytics teams, and IT stakeholders to standardize KPIs, optimize BI strategy, and deliver scalable, business-critical reporting solutions.
• Recognized for combining strong stakeholder leadership, technical architecture expertise, and business-driven analytics to deliver impactful enterprise BI transformation initiatives.

• Led a 16-person finance and accounting organization during a restructuring phase; strengthened closing discipline, financial control, cash transparency and accountability.
• Supported cost programs with approximately €2 Mio. in annual savings; established regular KPI reviews for P&L, working capital, POC and cash topics.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly and annual closing under HGB/IFRS, management/group reporting, audit, tax and GoBD compliance.
• Finance automation with clear business benefits: 13-week liquidity planning, cash flow reporting, P&L versus plan, variance analysis and bank reconciliation; reduced manual work by 40–60 %.
• Improved accounts payable processes through OCR-supported invoice processing and three-way matching with exception handling.
• Sparring partner to management on restructuring, liquidity, working capital, risks and process simplification.

• 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%

Sub-project lead in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to customers and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to guide product development
• Structuring product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector incl. knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the sub-project charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Controlling service delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and controlling human resources including budget planning for the sub-project
• Ensuring the work capacity of the sub-project participants, e.g. by requesting access rights and documents for the sub-project team
• Planning and control for the respective sub-project (time, scope, budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Alignment with the business department and Product Owners to plan the sub-project scope and the corresponding implications
• Executing milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of sub-project controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting sub-project status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing action and decision requirements
• Escalating sub-project issues to the project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (time, scope, and budget)
• Implementation management of the overarching guidelines and requirements in the sub-project, supported by cross-functional roles on the functional and technical side.
• Identifying, managing, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across sub-projects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and managing commissioning including the required documents and protection needs assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the full-stack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Implementation of the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown charts), metrics, as well as conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparation of Scrum events such as Daily, retrospectives, Review, Sprint planning, estimation, and refinement (agile way of working)
• Moderation of retrospectives and elimination of obstacles to move the team and product forward
• Preparation of action items and retros via whiteboard and Figma
• Application and improvement of agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creation of filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up cycle time
• Use of Jira & Confluence
• Setting up a progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual efforts for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "velocity", "burn-down chart", "throughput", "costs", "quality", "scope"
• Evaluation of agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Methodological competence proven in conflict discussions

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

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.

• 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

• Defined the vision, strategy, and roadmap of AI-powered analytics products, ensuring they met the business needs of Sales, Marketing, Finance, and executive teams across Europe.
• Collected business requirements, prioritized AI product features, and led Agile development of forecasting and analytics solutions. Defined product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure successful delivery.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders, Product Owners, data scientists, ML engineers and software engineers to transform AI models into scalable business products and integrate AI insights into operational workflows.
• Designed and implemented Generative AI solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate reporting and enable natural-language querying of enterprise data, reducing manual effort by approximately 30%.
• Defined product goals and success metrics, tracked product performance and user adoption, and continuously improved the product based on user feedback and business results.
• Established data governance, master data quality and reporting standards across SQL, BigQuery and Power BI environments to ensure reliable, secure and scalable analytics.

• Directed full lifecycle of embedded software projects including LiDAR, BMS, OCU, and Cybersecurity systems.
• Coordinated internal and external stakeholders including suppliers like Bosch, Bertrandt, Magna, Continental and IAV.
• Managed cross-country teams of 12–15 engineers, conducting project onboarding and role-based training.
• Implemented change control and risk registers for safety-critical automotive platforms.
• Oversaw project schedules using MS Project, JIRA, and Azure DevOps to ensure milestone alignment and transparency.
• Extensive hands-on expertise in test planning and execution for ECUs in compliance with Automotive SPICE (SWE.4–SWE.6) and ISO 26262.
• Led digital transformation project with a cross-functional team of 15+, ensuring successful integration of systems and workflows.
• Maintained project overviews and tracking in tools like Milestones (Daimler) and MS Project, and managed status reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinated with third-party transformation partners and ensured timely delivery of decision templates and risk assessments.
• Applied PRINCE2 methodology for structured delivery; facilitated agile ceremonies and maintained Confluence-based documentation.
• Strong leadership in cross-functional teams and working in agile environments (SAFe, Scrum).
• Successfully led and supported IT and transformation projects, including those in regulated sectors (e.g., KRITIS or energy sector).
• Represented or supported overall project leadership in large-scale transformation programs.
• Maintained and updated complex project plans (Gantt charts, milestone tracking, and resource allocation).
• Coordinated workstreams and interdisciplinary teams; ensured timely delivery of all work packages.
• Acted as central communication point between project team, senior management, external vendors, and transformation partners.
• Prepared and delivered concise status reports, steering committee presentations, and decision memos.
• Identified project risks, maintained risk registers, and led mitigation planning.
• Assessed resource needs and supported reallocation based on project priorities and constraints.
• Proficient in JIRA, Milestones, Confluence, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Used both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall (PRINCE2, PMI) methodologies.
• Created and tracked action lists, meeting protocols, and backlog items.
• Conducted critical analysis of project progress, resource bottlenecks, and deliverable timelines.
• Ensured alignment of transformation goals with enterprise IT architecture and business objectives.