Principal Solution Architect and Project Manager Procurement and Finance

10/2017 – 2/2024

As a global Procure to Pay company, Coupa operates against SAP Ariba and is seen as one of the leaders in the P2P rim. In the role of a Principal Solution Architect, I support the initial rollout and the enhancement of Coupa Modules for End-Customers, either directly under Coupa contract, or via an implementation partner. In addition, I provide my expertise in purchase to pay and invoicing compliance to support business process changes for customers and prospects.
 Responsible to provide SME expertise on P2P processes and eInvoicing
 Provide implementation consultancy to customers and partners
 Oversight partner implementation projects
 Provide project management expertise in project delivery
 Provide Coupa Platform expertise in customer implementations.
 Support sales organization in prospects meetings and communications.
 Customer Projects for AboutYou, Accenture, Airbus, Akzo Nobel, American Airlines, AstraZeneca, Axa, BSH, Burda, Buda, BMW, CooperStandard, CRH, DEA Wintershall, Disney, DHL, ERGO, ESL Gaming, Eurofins, Fiege, Galderma, GoFlink, Glencore, GLS, Huber&Suhner, Idorsia, IQVIA, Jazz, Kenbi, Kingfisher, Klöckner Steal, Lowell, MunichRe, Nike, NovoNordisk, PMI, Ringier, Rituals, Rolls Royce UK, Rompetrol, Salling, Sanofi, Scout, SealedAir, Siege, Sixt, SSB, Tecan, Telenor, TomTom, Trane, UPS, Veam, Zalando, Zolar, Zurich Insurance

Business Process Model and Notation, Corporate Finance, Transformation Management

8/2015 – 9/2017

As a global FinTech company, Taulia operates against established banks and their programs to inject early payments into the supply chain of large organizations. In the role as solution consulting director I am supporting the sales process to DAX and “Mitchelstown” companies in the DACH region and provide technical and process expertise and consulting as part of the sales process. As part of the role we support the financial and procurement leaders of these companies to establish new ways of thinking, besides the existing path of using a bank program, but instead to use new cloud technologies to boost up the supplier relationship and lift it to a new level of cooperation.
 Responsible to support RFI and RFP requests technically and process related.
 Consulting to customers for SaaS Platform as also SAP FI/MM, Security and Architecture when on site and in sales process.
 Consulting of Procurement, Finance and IT Teams of Customers in follow-up requests either technically or process related over the course of the sales process.
 Support in final contract negotiations and blue print design.
 Architectural and process consulting to connect the SaaS platform with existing SAP FI and MM environments of customers and prospects
 Setup of demo environments used on customer sessions and follow-ups over the course of the sales process.

Design (allg.), Solution Architektur, Vorverkauf

7/2014 – 7/2015

responsible for consulting sales and customer relationship management in project and operations for the DACH region. Product Portfolio is add-on to SAP Finance and SD Products to streamline Pricing, Deals, Awards, Chargebacks and Contracts.
• Responsible for sales activities of the Vistex additions (price administration, deals, awards, chargebacks and contracts) to SAP SD and FO modules in follow-up to license sales.
• Support of pre-sales team at customer meetings
• Responsible for all customers in DACH region on day-to-day requests and after sales activities
• Negotiation of consulting contracts following license sales
• Support of consultants on site while implementing the tools

Postsales, Vorverkauf