Senior Digital and R&D Consultant

11/2023 – 6/2024

Lead international cross-functional teams (40 employees, €4M budget) for group-wide internal engineering services and consultancies, including patent and IP management, structural durability, CAE, truck and trailer innovation, and the group technology center in Pune, India.

Directed strategy development, coordination, and implementation of a centralized engineering organization, including Haldex post-merger integration.
Supported group-wide SAP S4/HANA implementation and global PLM harmonization as global R&D and master data management process owner.
Initiated internal digitalization strategy via the center of process and data excellence, realizing over €4M in value within a year through inventory optimization and improved accounts payable and receivable processes. Scaling the team up to 6 internal Process and Data consultants within 7 month.
Led the establishment of an offshore technology center in Pune, India, expanding to 30 FTE by 2025 for CAE, FMEA, E/E, software development, cost engineering, and IT support.
Developed group innovation strategy focusing on electrification, autonomous driving, and digitalization.

Business Intelligence (BI), Data Mining, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Innovationsmanagement, Pega Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Virtual Engineering (VE), Outsourcing

5/2023 – 6/2024

Managed international cross-functional team (22 employees, €3M budget) to perform internal R&D services and establish global standardization for structural durability, CAE, master data management, functional safety, requirements engineering, and patents/IP.

Reduced IP expenses by 15% YoY while growing the portfolio focused on aftermarket business.
Established a global R&D project management organization, implementing standardized R&D controlling as well as a consolidated project management process, thereby enhancing cross-regional development quality and on-time delivery.
Set up a group-wide master data governance organization, improving data quality across the organization.
Led master data post-merger integration for Haldex, developing short- and long-term MDM strategies.
Ensured safety-relevant developments of mechatronic systems per ISO26262 and UN ECE R155/R156.

Business Process Model and Notation, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Digitale Transformation, Digitalisierung, SAP Datenmigration, Sap Mm, SAP S/4HANA, Transformation Management

7/2017 – 9/2021

Facilitated stakeholder alignment through regular communication and collaborative approaches.
Delivered structured load and requirements sets for product lines, collaborating with road load data acquisition and test engineering teams.
Led a comprehensive road load data acquisition campaign for the Chinese market, supporting premium trailer suspension product developments.
Established global focus groups for modeling, materials and fatigue, fostering global discussions and best practices development.
Expanded capabilities and correlation through an open-minded, failure-tolerant leadership culture.
Consolidated the global Ansys license portfolio with a future ready scaleable global license pool within 5 month including demand management. Reducing annual expenses by €100k adding functionalities (e.g. HPC)

Computer Aided Engineering, Virtual Engineering (VE), Digitale Transformation, Software Asset Management