Juha Leppänen Email & Phone Number

Finland

Promoting a culture of security and data protection compliance across the business unit. Coordinating that technical and non-technical security and data protection is taken into consideration in all BU/DG and client projects and services throughout their life cycle. Participating in all client engagements during the bid process and contract drafting as a security and data protection expert.

Helping teams and individuals to meet the high security compliance requirements efficiently and to exceed the customer expectations. Working on culture, governance, process and technology aspects of the compliance. Focus on change.

Helping individuals and teams to create value for customers. Leading and coaching scaled agile development teams in large scale insurance and public sector initiatiatives. Supporting customer in change, managing stakeholders and communications.

Espoo

Responsible for leading strategy execution via projects and managing the daily operations. My goal is to support the business growth by value adding services and build and deliver efficient scalable back office solutions.I also contribute to business development by providing support in service product development and facilitating business concept creation.Needed competences, skills and methods* Project management, in all disciplines, utilizing agile and lean methods*… Show more Responsible for leading strategy execution via projects and managing the daily operations. My goal is to support the business growth by value adding services and build and deliver efficient scalable back office solutions.I also contribute to business development by providing support in service product development and facilitating business concept creation.Needed competences, skills and methods* Project management, in all disciplines, utilizing agile and lean methods* Lean startup, Service design * Startup financingWe were selected to Kasvu Open Growth Plan 2016 https://www.kasvuopen.fi/yritykset/niinu-agility-sport Show less

Helsinki

Responsible for leading the organization digitalization efforts as part of the organization's strategy implementation. Planning and developing eServices for the organization and its customers and ensuring the organizational targets were met. My goal was to lead the service transformation from organization centric to customer focused and value adding service portfolio.Led the digitalization strategy work and project portfolio management including annual budget planning. Led the execution… Show more Responsible for leading the organization digitalization efforts as part of the organization's strategy implementation. Planning and developing eServices for the organization and its customers and ensuring the organizational targets were met. My goal was to lead the service transformation from organization centric to customer focused and value adding service portfolio.Led the digitalization strategy work and project portfolio management including annual budget planning. Led the execution of the key projects. Established governance model for managing services and suppliers. Led the organization change related to eService deployment and established targets and monitoring practises.Needed competences, skills and methods * Strategy work * Business requirement analysis* Budgeting * Project portfolio management * Project management, in all disciplines, lean and scrum * Service design * Internal and external stakeholder management, focus communication and CoDe * Coaching * Tendering and Supplier management * IT Service creation Program team size: x0 persons.Program investment size: xM€Program impacted people: x00 internal users, xx 000 customers Show less

Objective of this business acquisition case was to ensure seamless business continuity during the early phase of the transition. This included carving out a large process and systems landscape in and integrating the business processes and supporting systems to acquiring company's operations.Project manager role in this global multivendor project included project planning, resourcing, business process analysis and change impact, organization change management, process and systems… Show more Objective of this business acquisition case was to ensure seamless business continuity during the early phase of the transition. This included carving out a large process and systems landscape in and integrating the business processes and supporting systems to acquiring company's operations.Project manager role in this global multivendor project included project planning, resourcing, business process analysis and change impact, organization change management, process and systems mapping, creation of conversion tools, large business process related data migration testing. As a part of the harmonization we had to enhance the existing system features to support new business needs.The project played a critical role in the whole big-bang business carve-out and was executed in close operation with both acquired and acquiring business teams and IT.I also participated into program level steering team to support the overall transition. With the joined business, IT and supplier teams were were able to ensure the business continuity and also deploy harmonized processes and working culture in selected business areas according to targets.Needed competences, skills and methods * Gap analysis* Organisation change management, stakeholder management, change leadership * Team buildling and leading teams * Project management including all disciplines * Supplier management Program investment size: xx M€Project investment size: xxx 000 €Project team size: 18 personsProgram impacted people: xx 000 Persons in 20+ Countries Show less

Finland

In my role as an Application Development Manager, I was responsible for the progress of an application area project portfolio management. My goal was to support the business lines with strategically aligned value adding projects delivered on time.I prepared an annual budget and managed the activities within the budget. I led the creation of project portfolio to meet the company's strategic targets. I also tracked the progress of the portfolio execution and supported the program and… Show more In my role as an Application Development Manager, I was responsible for the progress of an application area project portfolio management. My goal was to support the business lines with strategically aligned value adding projects delivered on time.I prepared an annual budget and managed the activities within the budget. I led the creation of project portfolio to meet the company's strategic targets. I also tracked the progress of the portfolio execution and supported the program and project teams to meet the planned targets. I led the work of transferring application area business demands into detailed application requirements and financial analysis of these demands. I worked in a consultative role closely with the business demand teams and program/project steering teams. An important and highly interesting part of the role was to develop and implement relevant portfolio, project and supplier governance methodologies. This includes participation into transferring the waterfall type of PM process to agile way of working and supplier co-operation mode development to reduce the barriers to seamless team work in multi-supplier cases.Needed competences, skills and methods * Leadership* Project portfolio management * Requirement development * Supplier management* Negotiation * Stakeholder management, steering team work * Service design * Process and KPI development * Team building and coaching* Organization change managementProjects in annual portfolio: xxAnnual investment size: x M€ Show less

Espoo

Responsible for planning and executing programs and projects according to strategig targets. Starting from leading the work of transferring business demands into detailed application requirements. Planned budget and roadmap based on demand. Managed related suppliers. Built program and project teams and coached project managers and team members. Needed competencies, skills and methods* Program and project management in all PM disciplines * Iterative and agile (scrum)… Show more Responsible for planning and executing programs and projects according to strategig targets. Starting from leading the work of transferring business demands into detailed application requirements. Planned budget and roadmap based on demand. Managed related suppliers. Built program and project teams and coached project managers and team members. Needed competencies, skills and methods* Program and project management in all PM disciplines * Iterative and agile (scrum) methodologies* Leadership* Negotiation* Change management* Stakeholder management, Steering team work * ITIL Show less

Helsinki Area, Finland

Project Manager in a Project Management Competence Center. Serving multiple process areas and organization units. Responsible for planning and executing projects according to strategic targets. Typically the role covered the planning and executing of one or multiple projects through the whole project life cycle from study to handover to a service organization. The role included all project management disciplines. Projects were mainly global, teams consisted from internal resources and… Show more Project Manager in a Project Management Competence Center. Serving multiple process areas and organization units. Responsible for planning and executing projects according to strategic targets. Typically the role covered the planning and executing of one or multiple projects through the whole project life cycle from study to handover to a service organization. The role included all project management disciplines. Projects were mainly global, teams consisted from internal resources and supplier resources. Both Time and Material and Fixed price projects included. Period 2003-2006 was a time of rapid development in project management. This included process and methodology harmonization, consolidating project managers to competence pools as "internal consultants" and focus on strategy work support. Waterfall was the mainstream methodology, but Iterative way of working was established in software development.During the years I led all kind of project types: Concept, Process and Methodology development, PoC, Software development, Integration, IT service creation, Organization change, Process and Methodology as well as, Service and Application deployments. Needed competencies, skills and methods* Project management in all PM disciplines* Stakeholder management, networking* Communication* Team building, leading and coaching global multivendor teams* System Engineering* Sofware development* Data and technical architecture Show less

Coordination of release process, release content, release quality assurance

Espoo, Finland

Leading the engineering team in a multilanguage localization project including web sites, PC client software and help. Supporting localization, developing localization processes, evaluating internationalization, supporting multi-national localization teams in technical issues.

County Dublin, Ireland

Localization into Finnish of Microsoft operating systems, software, help and packaging. Preparing glossaries, terminological work. Located in Ireland, World Wide Products Group.

Economics, Machine Aided Translation And Terminology

Ma

Political Science

Activities and Societies: International Club