Aleš Glomb Email & Phone Number

Kosice, Slovakia

At Sudolabs’ Product Lab, I help founders of startups and scaleups transform ideas into successful products by leading product discovery, aligning with user needs, and guiding design and development. My role balances strategic planning with hands-on execution.Core Responsibilities:• Leading product discovery, shaping concepts, and defining MVPs• Conducting user research, segmentation, and customer journey mapping• Designing prototypes, conducting user testing, and guiding UX/UI design• Validating with no-code/low-code tools, setting OKRs, and creating go-to-market strategies• Managing product scopes, roadmaps, and coordinating development phases (agile sprints, QA, release planning)• Supporting key account management and contributing to business development for future clientsHighlighted Projects:• The Expert: Led the launch of a new e-commerce vertical (Showroom) and scaled the product, overseeing a cross-functional team of 16 in design, analytics, and engineering. Delivered three major releases (Vintage 09/22, Showroom 01/23, FC Integration 05/23) and integrated AI-driven image recognition.• Hungry Robot Gen AI: Enabled AI transformation to increase lead generation and scalability, utilizing a tech stack that includes vector and relational databases, knowledge agents, and large language models.• Stream: Developed a digital portal for a life insurance provider, covering client onboarding, quote generation, enrollment, and policy management. Integrated APIs with insurance carriers and implemented automated workflows, reducing quote delivery time from 3 days to 3 seconds.• Ideapp: Built a GenAI-powered tool for internal innovation, enabling employees to propose and refine new business ideas. This conversational AI tool fosters innovation by allowing teams to submit and validate ideas efficiently and streamlining the whole process from months to 5 minutes.Tools:Figma, Notion, Slack, Zenhub, Linear, GitHub, GA4, Heap, Auryc, Hubspot

Kosice, Slovakia

Product management:• Successful product vision, strategy and goals (OKR, SMART business objectives)• Product ownership for Business Intelligence value streams within DT group (HR & Finance)• Establishing product success metrics• Modern road-mapping (rolling, customer centric, value & problem based, outcomes)• Old-school road-mapping (planned features, targeted releases, project delivery plans, outputs)• Product discovery phase (design thinking, business models, value propositions, hypothesis, validation, interviews, surveys, e-mail campaigns, prototyping, proof of concepts, MVPs)• Prioritization frameworks (KANO, Impact mapping, MoSCoW)• Effective and efficient product backlog management (refinements, writing user stories & acceptance criteria, story mapping)• Understanding product technical domain (MS-BI stack: data-warehouse, SQL, SSIS, SSAS, Power BI) and CI/CD• Covering full product life-cycle management• Pro-active management of stakeholders & dependencies• Active collaboration & leadership in agile frameworks and cross-functional teams (SCRUM, Kanban)• Good eye for holistic User Experience (UX) / User Interactions (UI)• Using collaborative tools like JIRA, Confluence, MIROOther activities:• Active member of leading coalition in chapter product life-cycle management• Mentoring & coaching about product management and agile• Continues improving & learning

Košice, Košický Kraj, Slovensko

Product Owner:# looking after Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for internal BI4TSI customers namely for Finance International and Human Resources (HR)# covering complete Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)# collaboration with Scrum Master (SM) and development team# daily communication with customers, consultants, project managers or stakeholders# managing backlog & stakeholders expectationsGroup leader for BI team:# on-going responsibility for setting up agile team / Business Intelligence Competence Center in Kosice# involvement in operational management, internal processes set-up# involvement in people management, training plans, hiring, disciplinary flow ...

Slovak Republic

# Direct responsibility for establishing Business Intelligence Competance Centre (BICC) in Kosice.# Project lead / team activities cordination for BI International project - implementation of BI dashboarding solutions for 21 countries (up to 3,000 users) and different groups of end users (CEOs, CFOs, VPs, Controllers, Business Partners and Analysts).# Product owner for BI4TSI Finance International.# Running pilot in finance organization for Agile / Scrum / Kanban teams’ transformation.# Daily direct communication with TSI customers, BI developers, top-management, project managers, systems owners, IT provider (DT-IT) ....# Working in MS-BI environment: SQL servers incl. SSIS and SSAS packages, Visual Studio, Power BI report server and Power BI (M, DAX).# Responsible for ETL processes in the BI Int. prototyping phase incl. the SAP Web Intelligence (WebI) interface for data exports.# Cordinating front-end, back-end developers and admin support in agile / scrum mode.# Submitting requests for Physical Data Model (PDM) for direct platform connections to SAP systems, signing off UAT (User Acceptence Tests) for SAP FiCo data sets exports.# Setting up UK LBU project for portfolio logic implementation in Qlik Sense environment.# Internal trainer for SAP Business Objects clients 'Analysis for Office' (AO) and 'Enterprise Performance Manager' (EPM); WebEx / Teleconference presentation skills and Qlik Sense.

Slovak Republic

Reporting:> Continuously improving internal UK reporting processes, driving advanced business modeling, implementing dash-boarding & next generation reporting, BI systems or applications (Qlik Sense).> Instructing & translating business objectives for application developers.> Leading, coordinating and instructing virtual team in Kosice.> Responsible for design and creation of MS Excel master dashboards & data feeds for UK Modern Reporting project (using advanced nested functions, VBA, data matrix, ODBC data, dynamic graphs and interactive RISE tables).> Using data modeling, predictive analysis and comprehensive FLAT-files (MS Excel, Access, SAP, SAP Business Warehouse, EPM, PowerPoint and Think-Cell).Controlling:> Accountable for financial steering of Aldi account.> Month End Closing activities, posting journals, accruals and recoding in SAP, intercompany invoicing via SMART tool, dealing with reimbursements.> Analysis of cost elements & objects, revenues, OPEX, depreciation, EBIT and other KPIs.> Forecasting, bridging and reporting to account's managers (UK & Germany).Systems:> in 2016 supporting roll-out and admin work for global forecasting tool (GFACT), uploading SAP data extracts on SFTP servers, instructing & problem solving with application developers, data variance analysis etc.> in 2016 supporting / admin for SAP help-desk, Miles-Plus, running assessment cycles etc. Additional projects & achievements:> Identified the FC missing G&A values in SAP BW of around 450mil Euros on EBIT level, TSI central tools team implemented for 2017 fiscal year my proposed solution.> Best employee of 2017> Doubled the profitability for resp. account> Virtual Trainer and content owner for SAP Business Warehouse trainings.> Internal Trainer for Enterprise Performance Manager (EPM).> Stream leader for MAGENTA Game and MS Excel - external cooperation stream with Universities.> Driving the Open Knowledge Platform (OKP) in International Controlling team.

Slovak Republic

Key duties: • Design, develop and prepare complex internal financial, controlling and KPIs reports for international / top management and BPs.• Analysis of cost elements, cost objects, financial KPIs, prime & sec. costs, global accounts (e.g. Heineken).• Analysis of other KPIs: room costs, FTEs, total workforce costs (EWC & IWC), open & aging receivables and accruals accounts, production variances or KPIs’ deltas. • Analysis of cost & profit centres, secondary chargings and costs allocations. • Updating forecasts (bottom-up, top-down), projections, budgets and targets. • Reporting for whole business clusters (e.g. Automotive) or geographic regions (e.g. EMEA, America, APAC).• Direct upload, export or data refresh through MS Excel Add-Ins and corporate databases (e.g. SAP FiCo; SAP BW - BEx Analyzer; IBM - TM1).• Dash-boarding and changing reports' attributes, business modelling in MS Excel (Using combinations of advanced nested functions inc. V/H-lookup, DBRW, DGET/PRODUCT, OFFSET, plus VBA, dynamic graphs etc.)• Provide mentoring for junior controllers, coach and supervise his mini-team (4 controllers), support with expertise whole reporting team (24 controllers) and other TSI colleagues.• Daily communication with other experts or business partners in English, virtual working.Achievements: > Voted as the best colleague of the year 2015 on the FC BSC.> Speaker on all hands call about best practices held by T-Systems CFO and involving 500+ controllers.> Successful international training about TSI systems architecture overview, best reporting practices and SAP Netwaver 7.0 analytical module.> Selected by head of team as mentor for newcomers; trainer for SAP BW - BEx Analyzer; TM1 - IBM Cognos; Total Quality Management (TQM); Teleconference presentation skills.> Successful implementation of proposed projects regarding process standardization, quality or enhanced team working.

United Kingdom

Key duties: direct leading and coaching a team of six people on operational level, day to day planning, maintenance and implementation of budgets and new product ranges (approx. 25,000 per year), updating company’s systems (ERP, MS Excel), management reporting, control of costs and full responsibility for all undertaken projects.

Sevenoaks

Key duties: registering and inputting invoices into ERP system approx. 200 per month; updating sales based ordering systems and department’s journals.

Straznice, Czech Republic

Key duties: control of assigned accounts payables and receivables, inventory valuations (FIFO), registering invoices approx. 600 per month and monitoring compliance of accounting laws and statements.

Ba (Honours), Business Studies With Accounting, 2.1 Second Upper Class

2011 - Professional Certificate in Accounting - AAT/ACCA/CIMA equivalent

Cima Diploma In Management Accounting, Controlling / Management Accounting, Diploma

Diploma, Dis, Finance, Accounting And Financial Management

Tertiary education - Is considered comparable to BTEC / SQA Higher National Diploma Standard

Upper School Certificate, Management

Secondary education- Is considered comparable to GCE Advanced level Subjects: Czech language and literature (pass), German language.