Interim CIO / CDO

Senior leader of large and global organizations with focus on digital transformation and digital products, operational excellence, automatization of business processes, leveraging the power of data

• Change Management
• Digitale Transformation
• Einkaufsverhandlungen
• IT-Governance
• IT-Strategieberatung
• Management (allg.)
• mitarbeiterführung
• Offshoring
• Outsourcing
• Programm Management

Responsibility for the global Digitization, Innovation and IT management with excellent track record at the interfaces to the business divisions
Leader of extensive transformation-, strategy- and development-processes
Identification and realization of digitization and technology potentials with focus on market effectiveness (sales, services, products) and internal efficiency
Successful change manager of large transformation initiatives
Program Leader for large scale and multi-year business transformation projects and project-portfolios (70+ Mio. € budgets)
Designer of process- and product-oriented organizational structures
Team player with focus on priorities and the achievement of agreed goals. Used to communicate and collaborate on all hierarchical levels
More than 20 years of experience with different perspectives (C-Level, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Interim Manager) – everything seen and done

Transformed companies to an acknowledged digital leader in its industry through setting up Digitization with focus on digital business models, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Industry 4.0, IoT
Disrupted and digitized business models (eg Aftermarket, Reinsurance) through innovation methodologies (Design Thinking, MVP & agile development)
Driven and enabled digital cultural shift on all levels
Enabled global growth through cloud and enterprise platforms, technology standardizations, global rollouts
Entrepreneur and developer in eCommerce, digital business, digitization/software development, Engineering
Delivered large digitalization lighthouse projects, eg. intelligent components, Smart Factory, predictive maintenance, digital aftermarket services (eCommerce)
Increased internal Customer Satisfaction from 50% to 76% within 3 years
Successful global rollouts of SAP S/4Hana, Infor, MES-systems, Microsoft O365, infrastructure (cloud) and cyber security standards
Reduced recurring costs and increased EBITDA (10.7m € pa) through restructuring, automation and technology innovation (eg smart intralogistics, predictive maintenance, data and process mining)
Established efficient and effective global matrix-organizations, business partner organizations and (nearshore/offshore) shared service centers