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- Define and implement sustainability strategy for steam turbines & generators business- Develop roadmap for sustainability, define and track measures- Drive implementation of EU-Taxonomy and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

- Conduct customer frame satisfaction surveys - large gas turbine maintenance service- Driver Voice-of-the-Customer-processes to identify future product development needs - Develop long-term product strategies / Define Turbine Frame Roadmap- Drive and lead strategic projects - cross Siemens divisions levelSuccesses:• Successful project management for strategic product development projects, e.g. "Hot Gas Parts Life Record / Gas Turbine" - innovative parts data management digitatlization project. Project lead of four project management streams, coordination of 30+ colleagues from various disciplines.• Develop and provide future-oriented product strategy for large gas turbinesF, approved by management• Conduction of Customer Frame Surveys: concept, questionnaires, analyses and conclusions & reporting; based on results I initiated customer improvement projects, this contributed to rising customer satisfaction scores.

- Responsible for strategic product development gas turbine service business - Identification of innovation requirements for gas turbine development- Market research, analysis, trend monitoring in energy markets- Customer satisfaction surveys, voice of the customer workshops -Team leadership of working group Frame Customer and Frame Performance 4000FSuccesses:• Successful project management for strategic product development projects, e.g. Gas Turbine Operational Flexibility: I led project teams of up to twenty colleagues, within one year most important Flexibility products were developed and ready to offer • Develop and provide future-oriented product strategy for gas turbine 4000F, approved by management• Conduction of Customer Frame Surveys: concept, questionnaires, analyses and conclusions & reporting; based on results I initiated customer improvement projects, this contributed to rising customer satisfaction scores.• Implement scenario technique as method for integrated trends analyses and identification of innovation requirements for gas turbine product development as part of planning

- Analysis of market, competitor & customer requirements for product development gas turbine - Project management to develop modernization & upgrade products for gas turbine 4000FSuccesses:• I conducted benchmarking project Gas Turbine Service; results initiated top management programs aimed at developing innovative services and cost-out measures in maintenance business• I managed product development project "Predictive & Condition Based Maintenance 4000F". I identified customer needs, initiated project, developed business plan, internal alignment, product allows customer-specific, tailor-made maintenance @ optimized maintenance efforts.

Responsible for modeling of service market in fossil power generation business, provide transparent, valid service market volume & market forecast by regions, countries, service lines.Successes:• Update & enhancement of Service Market Model concept, this improved significantly the accuracy to quantify the service market volume and forecast• Replatforming Market Model from Excel-based into online-data based application: this increased the transparency of model input & output, user-friendly handling & layout incl. visualization of results• Conduction of scenario-based strategic planning workshops with top management: resulted in consistent long-term planning for Region Europe

- Responsible for market surveys and analyses, focus on business potential for building society’s saving agreements and financial market incl. business environmental & competitor analyses- Special analyses for the board of managementSuccesses:• I conducted market studies in housing construction & building loans• LBS customer surveys: I developed concept, questionnaires, provided analyses and conclusions & reporting; this triggered customer improvement projects with effect of rising customer satisfaction score in follow-up surveys.• Based on market studies I calculated the market volume for building society’s saving agreements, this was applied by management as basis for decision-making for sales planning• Compilation of several market reports for internal and external communication.

- Controlling of all financial matters of German VALCO plants; - Coordination of accounting matters with headquarters in US and UK,- General business administration Successes:• Managed successfully invoice verification, payment transactions, administrated vehicle fleet.• Responsibility to take inventory at German plants, approved by auditors • Calculation of prices for products and services based on cost allocation sheet

- Consulting of Ghanaian entrepreneurs in finance, accounting, administration & marketing - Conduction of business cases & feasibility studies for small scale business for granting loans- Administration of the Centre, controlling of all financial matters Successes:• I facilitated the participation of three Ghanaian companies as exhibitors at the international Craft Fair “Import-Shop” in Berlin; successful contacts with German companies, resulted in orders entries• I organized 9 business management seminars and 15 branch-specific trainings• Small loans granted to approx. 60 entrepreneurs

- Market research, market analysis & development of long-term strategies in automotive industrySuccesses:•Leadership of several research studies, market and feasibility studies, coordinated project team: Research studies resulted in identification of future market potentials & business opportunities in automotive industry• I organized future scenario planning processes for strategic long-term planning for business units with strong involvement of key personnel from business units , e.g. “Future Otto-Engine – long-term market and product requirements ”, “Future-oriented Services Automobility in new media”: successful completion of these planning processes: Future-oriented long-term strategies were defined based on future trends incl. strategic measures, and accepted by business unit management.

Machine builder – NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Berlin