Christopher Rowley Email & Phone Number

Garden City, MI

Andover, MA

• Developed IT strategy, SAP integration roadmap, IT budget and project portfolio for Global Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing and Procurement
• Launched and governed mission-critical UDI project across a matrix organization featuring strong competing priorities. The project improved business processes across 20 global validated business applications, adding.
• Launched and governed Inventory Planning transformation, using Logility over 4 SAP instances, which achieved $85M inventory reduction.
• Launched and governed indirect procurement transformation project, achieving $2M annual savings.
• Coached and developed new project leaders from the business and within IT

Modena, Italy

• Founded HR PMO and delivered HR Transformation project portfolio.
• Delivered the 2020 Business Capability Strategy Project, gained approval from Global Leadership Team.
• Launched and governed project to digitize the global Employee Performance Management / Salary Review processes using cloud SuccessFactors over SAP.
• Gained deep understanding of the HR function from the inside

Singapore

• Founded Singapore IT function while delivering Business Warehouse / e-Business project portfolio.
• Reduced complex data and competing corporate agendas in final proposal approved by the CEO.
• Created 200-person IT function which saved $5M annually and enabled follow-the-sun global support from knowledgeable internal staff.
• Won Gartner 2009 BI Excellence Award for Business Process Effectiveness Metrics.
• Introduced Agile methodology to achieve company wide adoption of Business Intelligence solution.
• Nourished mature e-Business setup, which processed €5B of customer packaging material and spare parts orders annually, both technically and by motivating the team.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Founded new IT P&A function including design and implementation of project selection and initiation/business case process. Examples:
• Led strategy development as a member of global IT leadership team.
• Reduced IT costs from 4.2% to 2% of sales.
• Managed engagement and trust between global business process owners and IT, transforming the organization into a data-driven, well-governed process.
• Recruited 5 staff as original members of IT P&A, all of which later attained Director level positions
• Achieved 81% of projects and 88% of services delivered at planned cost, time and scope with high business satisfaction

Lund, Sweden

• Collaborated with Global Business Process Owners to transform Tetra Pak’s $13B order fulfillment processes and generated measurable performance improvements
• Sole IT Representative in ISP Business Process Globalization Management Team. Accountable for SAP/R3 implementation, Global Design and Process Leads.
• Turned around underperforming organization, recruited / managed 160 SAP specialists and realized $50M annual savings, single-instance global SAP solution
• Chaired SAP supplier management team

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Oversaw the application of technology to implement a global trade flow process which generated $700M of cash flow
• EDI program manager for Tetra Pak trading entities

• Turned around underperforming MIS & Financial Consolidation teams
• Managed HQ Data Center / Infrastructure, led infrastructure projects for operations outsourcing and networking, implemented Help Desk organization and tools

• Led team that implemented MFG/Pro to automate $1B European Supply Chain
• Implemented standardized desktop system for 1,500 users
• Led change management for European Siebel Sales Force Automation initiative
• Improved development effectiveness and efficiency by applying IT processes

Master Of Finance, Finance

Geneva, Switzerland campus

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration

Geneva, Switzerland campus

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Computer Science