SAP R/3 Experts in Switzerland

• Project Management Office: analysis and setup, master plan, standardized project planning (generic work breakdown structure according to HERMES), earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Finance management at portfolio, program and project level.

• Resource management and single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Process management.

• Implementation of a program management tool for unified program and project management.

• Program controlling: finance management, earned value management, milestone trend analysis, consolidation of project budgets, actual costs and forecasts at the program level.

• Variance analyses at program level.

• Transition from total cost view to commitment credit view (federal administration terminology).

• Calculation of available reserves (rolling), forecasts and scenarios.

• Monthly, quarterly, half-year and annual reports, preparation of annual planning at program level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Project controlling: support for project managers in project planning, earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Review of projects for budget compliance, adherence to phases and schedules, deliverables, resource planning and deployment.

• Variance analyses at project level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Resource management: resource planning based on program and project plans, review of timesheets.

• Supply chain (until April 2022): single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Change management: involvement in change management for cost-relevant changes (change requests), tracking of service contract price for contract-related changes, participation in change control boards / decision boards at management level.

• Establishment of controlling structures in a new Swiss federal agency (becoming a federal office as of January 1, 2024) since April 2022.

• Credit monitoring with validation of actual costs and commitment values.

• Resource management: cross-project resource planning (HRP).

• Earned value analysis and milestone trend analysis for key ICT projects of the federal government.

• Participation in the introduction of the JIRA Tempo module.

• Tools & methods: HERMES 5.1 / Agile HERMES, Sciforma 7, JIRA, Confluence, Tempo, Signavio, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Prof., Excel-VBA.

• Project management, hustler (identifying the full financial picture including sales, pitching, financial analysis, & business models) and hound (identifying real customer needs including research & analysis) to build a project metrics system on the Internet.
• The system allows users to make informed decisions to keep projects on track according to key data or to realign them when they deviate negatively from the plan.
• Providing a forecast alongside the current status.
• Automatic calculation and display of metrics based on user-entered project key data.
• Skills: project management, project metrics.
• Problem space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), corporate innovation team setup, team profile / team canvas, design thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, market exploration, defining the problem.
• Solution space: narrowing the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, business model canvas, value proposition canvas, prototyping, refining the prototype and business model canvas, final pitch.

• Developed a compliant information security management system (ISMS)
• Advanced a modern risk management framework based on NIST for NIS2 compliance

• Test method validation for destructive testing (peel-force testing) according to ASTM F88/F88M

• Restructuring and modernizing the purchasing department
• Responsible for all purchasing activities within the company
• Modernization and automation of the system environment
• Designing and implementing the purchasing strategy, including inventory optimization
• Strengthening the purchasing department profile and defining core processes

• Corporate management
• Interim management and consulting in strategic and operational procurement in the medical technology, mechanical engineering, automotive, and vehicle manufacturing sectors
• Leadership
• Procurement management
• Personnel and technical leadership of procurement teams of up to 15 members; onboarding new purchasing managers
• Negotiation
• Market economy
• Developing and implementing purchasing and sourcing strategies
• Analyzing procurement markets and selecting suitable suppliers
• Restructuring
• Conducting contract negotiations and annual discussions with A and B suppliers; contract management
• Developing and implementing logistics concepts
• Introducing and improving key figure and evaluation systems to increase procurement efficiency
• Revising supplier evaluations
• Supporting reorganization and restructuring of procurement departments
• Supporting optimization of procurement processes
• Participating in the digitalization of business processes
• Project support for product launches and investment negotiations
• Supporting product launches
• Assisting in production relocations

Consulting on Cyber Security, Governance, Risk Management, audits, Cloud Security, and compliance in regulated environments.