SAP MM Experts in Munich

• Program governance support: assisted in maintaining planning and resource utilization, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, and timeline constraints
• Meeting and communication strategy: facilitated organization of steering committees, working groups, and all-hands meetings; prepared materials, created meeting minutes, and coordinated logistics
• Project reporting and coordination: collaborated with project managers on comprehensive project deliverable reports and ensured effective communication across all levels
• Deliverables oversight: monitored and controlled project deliverables to meet program requirements
• Change initiative coordination: supported assessment of change impacts on the integrated program management plan
• Project management certifications: trained in Prince2, IPMA, certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner
• Problem-solving: proactively identified and resolved issues efficiently
• Analytical and organizational skills: exhibited strong analytical abilities and exceptional organizational skills in structured and unstructured environments

• Lead commercial controlling team (3 direct reports) and ensure ongoing department operations such as sales reporting, planning and budgeting, ad-hoc business analyses on improvement potentials and business partner role to address strategic challenges as well as sales steering and sales management setup (e.g. sales incentives definition and monitoring, definition of key sales processes driving performance, tracking and reporting of strategic sales initiatives)

• Collaborate with key stakeholders including PE investor, P&L owners (management board, head of sales) and functional heads (head of controlling, head of SCM, head of IT)

• Provide functional leadership of commercial excellence team (department head and 6 direct reports) to define, further develop and execute commercial excellence roadmap as well as critical commercial operations such as long-term transformation agenda, price steering, CRM operations, EDI system, strategic customer planning process

Project: Develop a new generational Pricing system & Integration analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implemented PROS Pricing integrated with SAP S/4HANA 2022 Greenfield implementation.
• Led pricing process transformation, improving business process efficiency through automation.
• Defined migration strategy, conducted user training, and supported solution rollout.
• Acted as Business Analyst for SAP BTP applications (Online ATP, Track & Trace, Order Status), translating business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Managed cross-functional delivery by coordinating SAP ABAP and Full Stack development teams.

• Developed organization, task descriptions, processes and systems of the controlling system to improve activities.
• Harmonized ERP software within the group across IT procurement, plan data, controlling and reporting.
• Designed the basis for an agile and modern IT control system.
• Set up budget plans and supported master data and planning.
• Monitored and validated projects in the PM tool Sciforma, covering OPEX and CAPEX in line with legal requirements and group rules.
• Performed PMO assistance activities including meeting minutes, presentations and reports.
• Tools: SAP FI/CO, SAP MM, SAP PPM, PM-Tool Sciforma, MS Office 365.

• Responsible for cutover planning and go-live management of multiple parallel IT releases in the e-commerce environment
• Creating and maintaining cutover plans, runbooks and rollback scenarios, plus audit-ready documentation of all cutover activities
• Defining and managing go/no-go decisions, escalation paths and resource availability in the cutover window
• Coordinating technical and business workstreams, managing external service providers and ensuring data consistency
• Managing and reviewing trial cutovers, structured handover to the hypercare phase
• Cutover reporting and communication before, during and after go-live at decision-maker and C-level
• Result: All releases delivered on schedule, cutover processes sustainably established and handed over

• Large roofing projects worldwide – stadium roof of CF Valencia/Spain
• Preparing purchasing materials according to engineers’ specifications
• Contract negotiations with stakeholders and suppliers (both external and internal)
• Ensuring on-time delivery in optimal quantity
• Coordinating all peripheral areas on site in Valencia
• Ensuring supplier performance and compliance with high standards
• Overview and control of global logistics
• Developing and coordinating safety plans for on-site employee training
• Saving nearly €1 million by preventing steel anti-dumping duties

• Headed the establishment of a procurement organisation in Europe, including Lead-Buyer and NPD Buyer roles for the region as well as e-procurement and procurement tools.
• Started global sourcing.
• Drove increase in savings by three times from 2019 to 2020, reduced suppliers by 10%, quality complaints by 15% and improved on-time delivery by 10%.
• Inspired a high-performance team of more than 60 purchasing managers, regional lead buyers, supervisors supplier quality, supplier quality engineers, commodity buyers, NPD buyers and planner buyers through regular training, coaching and mentoring.
• Administered a spending budget of $200M for more than 10 production plants and regional distribution centres in Europe.
• Reduced costs by 3% EBITDA increase through effective negotiation, standardisation, VEVA/design to cost, BCCS, SCM, benchmarking, MoB, buy and resale, market analysis, relocation, outsourcing, insourcing and consolidation activities.
• Supervised formulation and implementation of category strategies with a rolling forecast by category.
• Set up SSC in Hungary including NPD, commodity and supplier quality function.

• Led agile transformation programmes that reduced delivery cycles by 20% and significantly increased adaptability of distributed ARTs.
• Guided leadership and teams in establishing self-organization, psychological safety and continuous improvement, resulting in higher team satisfaction.
• Moderated PI planning and Inspect & Adapt workshops to ensure transparent and aligned collaboration across nine teams.
• Built high-performing cross-functional teams and supported their skills development and trust-building.
• Linked agile transformation with intercultural team development to enable more effective collaboration among globally distributed teams and dismantle cultural barriers.
• Advised executive leadership on fostering diversity and inclusive corporate culture through targeted diversity workshops.
• Led two project teams (each with 11 developers and 2 testers) focusing on delivery excellence and high team autonomy.
• Conducted SAFe and Scrum training for over 60 staff members, achieving a 90% success rate in certifications.

• Support of BASF units in change management for the introduction of a Sales & Operations Planning process based on OMP SOP

• Overall process definition, planning, training, tools, effective execution, and progress and quality measurement of test activities at the release level
• Defining and improving the test process
• Scheduling of releases
• Coordinating alignment with release management for test setup and data provisioning
• Coordinating migration test planning for Westnetz, Mitnetz, and EON Grid
• Monitoring test progress, audit-proof documentation, progress tracking via defects, OSS reports, and incidents
• Designing and coordinating potential test automation

IT environment: Jira Zephyr, Confluence, SIGMA, PowerBI

• Transformation project to S/4HANA
• Test management and coordination of functional tests for SAP
• Preparation and support of tests (SIT 1+2, MOCK 1+2, UAT) as part of the SAP S/4HANA rollout (SD, MM, FI/CO, MD)
• Creation of test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure system quality
• Monitoring and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) as well as ensuring the timely delivery of agreed performance indicators
• Coordination of the approach with test managers from other regions (US, JP)
• Planning of European test activities in the SAP implementation project in cooperation with test managers from the supplier
• Coordination of interdisciplinary business and technical test teams in Europe
• Business collaboration with global implementation partners
• Use of Tricentis qTest and ValGenesis as test management tools (for validation-relevant processes)
• Training functional consultants in testing and test tools
• Creation and evaluation of change requests, including effort estimation, prioritization, and tracking
• Reporting on test progress

• WRICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow) in the FI and CO modules of S/4HANA ECC with ABAP OO
• Use of SAP HANA Studio, AIF, SAP Solution Manager, Confluence and Jira
• Environment: SAP S/4HANA on Premise 2020

• Org design & HR transformation project.
• OKRs development.

Streamline – implementation of S/4 HANA Utilities in cooperation with Accenture

• Consulting and coaching of program management (OPL)

• Planning and support in executing all organizational and system technical activities to migrate from SAP IS-U to SAP S/4 HANA Utilities

• Communication and coordination with involved stakeholders and committees (core team, program management, steering committee)

• Project and process management

• Coaching of the stream leads in the main project

• Requirements management for interface connection of ancillary systems (non-SAP systems)

• Risk management

• Resource and capacity planning

• Consulting the existing migration, test, interface/ancillary system, and training teams

• Consulting on managing the SAP systems cut-over

• Planning and management including necessary post-migration activities (e.g., verification, documentation, adjustments)

• Team coaching & servant leadership: supporting one or more Scrum teams as coach, facilitator, and servant leader

• Promoting self-organization, personal responsibility, and continuous improvement

• Facilitation and continuous improvement of Scrum events (daily, planning, review, retrospective)

• Ensuring adherence to Scrum values, principles, and practices

• Identifying and actively managing impediments to ensure team productivity

• Working with product owners, agile coaches, and leaders to resolve structural hurdles

• Supporting agile scaling in frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus

• Co-designing agile transitions as part of MVV's digital strategy

• Building an agile mindset in the organization through training, workshops, and active role modeling of agile principles

• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches in the company-wide agile chapter

• IT systems: ERP: SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA Utilities