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Schöneck, Sn, De

Schöneck, Germany

• Member of the Extended Management Team at global leader for software store solutions/checkout systems with 1,200 staff (partner of SAP).• Assume overall responsibility for the GK SOFTWARE partner business worldwide including disciplinary management of up to 15 own employees and up to 34 experts in the project, distributed over Germany, Czech Republic, Mexico and South Africa.• Establish and develop a new strategic business unit as a profit center – this way, drive core business as cooperation with partners which is a strategically important business area to increase scalability as a basis for future license business.

Südafrika

• Contributed to development of the local subsidiary founded in 2014 within the scope of a two-year assignment to South Africa – supported Country Manager in direct reporting line to the headquarters in Schöneck.• Professionalized operations, introduction and anchoring of the GK standard processes with the necessary further training measures for all teams of the local units of Supply Organization, Project Management, Consulting, Development and Quality Assurance. • Simultaneously managed international assignments, acquisition and management of lighthouse projects in India and Mexico as well as partner activities in UAE and Egypt.

Schöneck, Germany

• Assumed strategic, operative and personnel leadership of the Project Management Department after the merger of the operative areas into the business unit Global Solutions – direct responsibility for the results (P&L) for a part of the customers by using the GK/Retail Suite.• Held overall responsibility for project management and project administration (resource management and financial planning) within the corresponding matrix organization.

Schöneck, Germany

• Assumed strategic, operative and personnel leadership of the Project Management Department after the merger of the operative areas into the business unit Global Solutions – direct responsibility for the results (P&L) for a part of the customers by using the GK/Retail Suite.• Operational and personnel management of the Store Solution project area and the associated sup-port organization with a total of up to 100 employees.• Held P&L responsibility for more than 30 customers using the GK/Retail Store Solution.• Transformed global resource management with centralized resource planning into a system of project teams for better scaling as part of the overall efficiency program – including change management and team coaching.

Schöneck, Germany

• Executed overarching resource management as well as overall capacity planning for the GK-Group for all worldwide large-scale projects.

Schöneck, Germany

Schöneck, Germany

Schöneck, Germany

Schöneck, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

• Managed projects in the area of IT consulting and software development with customer projects across several disciplines and topics

Hamburg, Germany

• Set up, developed and managed of the start-up including project acquisition, solution design, resource planning, team management, project controlling.