Global Innovation and Change Director

5/2020 – 8/2022

• Plant and foster a strong product and innovation culture throughout the organization
• Create and execute a multi-year vision and strategy by working with multiple competing stakeholders and priorities to deliver value to customers
• Engage with senior business and IT leaders and lead the transformation of internal innovation processes throughout the portfolio
• Generate analysis and insight to build an evidence base to support data-driven strategy development and long-term change
• Empower and engage a large community of experts to encourage adoption of the program by building and nurturing relationships with various stakeholder groups

Innovationsmanagement

2/2020 – 4/2020

• Evaluate existing processes and drive continuing process improvement initiative with C-Level Management
• Set up teams, establish Agile processes and bring trust and validation to processes and people
• Talent development: train team members to become Scrum Masters and Product Owners for 5 product teams
• Managing, mentoring & developing cross-functional and distributed teams
• Lead Agile and Design Thinking workshops

Agile Methodologie

8/2019 – 11/2019

• Act as a subject matter expert for peers and senior executives by assessing the impact of customer experience with recommendation for optimization
• Digitizing the process of online sales and achieve a more radical focus on user-centricity and innovation/differentiation from existing offers
• Collect and evaluate quantitative and qualitative user data to validate assumptions and define value propositions
• User-centric feature conception for digital online car sales

Agile Methodologie

6/2019 – 8/2019

• Develop and implement strategic objectives
• Build, lead and hire cross-functional team of software developers and designers
• Design and execution of product roadmap for iOS and Android App Marvelroad
• Define and prioritize product requirements with stakeholders incl. KPI´s
• Close alignment with design to combine user-centricity with business acumen

Agile Methodologie

12/2018 – 3/2019

• Develop and implement eCommerce strategy that support growth and monitor progress
• Establishment of local Heineken BLADE eCommerce platform
• Integrate change management activities into project plan and define KPI´s
• Consult and coach project teams
• Lead ideation and Design Thinking workshops with eCommerce Team and Management

E-Commerce

9/2018 – 11/2018

• Identify and define a product strategy with focus on short term implementation
• Research market dynamics & opportunities from a product perspective
• Define USP & product strategy
• Create product roadmap, backlog, feature list & user stories
• Actively lead ideation, UX design, technical development & launch of innovative products / ventures

IT-Strategieberatung

1/2018 – 6/2018

• Shaping and owning the product road-map and vision for Industry 4.0 Machine Automation Initiative
• Lead Ideation and Design Thinking process
• Leading cross-functional team to deliver user-centric products and generate business impact.
• Own the creation and prioritization of the product backlog for Cobots (Collaborative Robots)

Change Management, eBusiness-Strategie, IT-Strategieberatung, Produktdesign

9/2017 – 1/2018

• Conception, execution, development and Go-to market for Vattenfall Mobile App
• Managing stakeholders, gathering requirements and create product roadmap

Agile Methodologie, Change Management, Mobile Application Development, Produktdesign, User Experience (UX)

4/2017 – 8/2017

Developement and excecution of marketing and market entry concept for new biometric access controll card

Marketing, Markteintrittsstrategien

3/2017 – 4/2017

• Consult management and eployees on Agile Methodology and Strategic Planning
• Conduct workshops on product developement process (from ideation to shipable product)
Leading team during concept phase of project

Agile Methodologie, Schulung / Training (IT), Management (allg.), Schulung / Coaching (allg.)

7/2016 – 12/2016

Conception, Excecution and Go-to market for first use case for IoT Platform
Own and excexute end to end product strategy of Dogsens, a sensor system to monitor dogs
Full E2E responsibiltity of IOT product solutions including hardware, plattform integration, iOS and Android App

Hardware-Design, Betriebssysteme, Android, iOS, User Experience (UX), Management (allg.), Produktmanagement, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

3/2016 – 6/2016

Leading the gathering and priorization of business requirements for KAIROS, Siemens new Digital eBusiness Platform

E-Commerce

5/2015 – 11/2015

Business Case und Konzept für Überarbeitung und Neuaufsetzung Online Shop inklusive Wireframing und User Testing

Testen, Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Management (allg.), Produktmanagement, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Handel, E-Commerce

4/2014 – 4/2015

• Working with various teams to understand and define user needs and gather requirements
• Devise and design solutions, and drive them through completion, to address those needs.
• Owning the product vision, driving the backlog and managing the product road map
• Driving delivery of products for web and mobile features with a highly skilled agile development team and UX professionals

Indesign, Agile Methodologie, Design (allg.), Hardware-Design, Mobile Application Development, OnRoad, User Experience (UX)