Mika Läärä Email & Phone Number

Helsinki Area, Finland

• Responsibilities: Owner of consistent process architecture, organizational logic and role alignment across KONE's corporate level operating model ("KONE Way"). Coach and support global core process owners and network.
• Reporting to Head of KONE Way
• Member of Global KONE Way management team
• Core team member in several corporate level organizational transformation programs

Helsinki Area, Finland

• Responsibilities: Develop and maintain the Delivery process architecture and integration between the Delivery sub-processes and between Delivery and other KONE business processes. Facilitate the Delivery process.
• Reporting to Global Delivery Process Owner.
• Member of Global Delivery Process Solution management team.
• Line manager for a cross-cultural team of experienced process development experts.

Taking a break and recharging my batteries before engaging in new challenges in January 2014.

Updating and refreshing my professional competencies through studies in Aalto PRO's Diploma in Operations Management (DOM) program (http://www.aaltopro.fi/dom).Studies included e.g. a development project implemented at Kone Corporation ("Improving Production & Material Scheduling in Kone Americas"), where the current Sales & Operations Planning process was.

Finland

• Responsibilities: Owning and driving strategic cross-organizational change projects in the areas of collaboration & decision making process development, consumer data & analytics capability development and cost.
• Reporting to VP Products, Mobile Phones
• Member of Mobile Phones Products management team.
• Managing several virtual project teams across global organization.Achievements:
• Setting up decision making processes and related collaboration tools across Mobile Phones organization.
• Definition and deployment of new consumer behavioral data & analytics solution, providing completely new type of consumer insight; results used in business decision making by global product management, marketing and.

Finland

• Responsibilities: Accountable for operations & logistics related cost efficiency and demand-supply network strategy for Nokia’s low-cost business globally.
• Driving profitability in the high-volume (>150 million units annually) & extremely cost sensitive part of Nokia’s business by identifying all possible means to drive cost efficiency in the demand-supply network and.
• Reporting to SVP Entry Business Unit
• Member of Entry business unit management team.
• Managing several virtual project teams across the global organization.Achievements:
• Definition and global deployment of dedicated low-end handset business model; industry benchmark in high-volume mobile phones demand-supply efficiency capturing >100M€ annual savings.

Finland

• Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for Mobile Phones product & business management activities in Europe & Africa area.
• Dual role of driving Mobile Phones business unit’s business in the sales area and representing sales area requirements in the business unit; Member of both Sales Area and Mobile Phones management teams.
• Reporting to SVP Business Line Management, Mobile Phones and in matrix to SVP Europe & Africa
• Customer interface responsibilities; sell-in of Mobile Phones products into major operator customer portfolios (e.g. Vodafone, T-Mobile); customer requirements management & negotiations.
• Managing line organization of 15 across sales area + matrix team of >50
• Participated in Nokia senior leadership training program (Panorama)Achievements:

Singapore

• Responsibilities: Product roadmapping and product strategy for Asia-Pacific region
• Collection, refinement and prioritization of product requirements from the stakeholders across the region; formulation of product portfolio strategy and target product roadmap for the region
• Driving through region’s requirements into global portfolio strategy and product roadmap.
• Reporting to VP Product Management & Business Development, Asia-Pacific
• Managing 3 highly skilled and specialist roadmapping team members + network of 20+ portfolio planning experts across the region.Achievements:
• Setting up & operatively running the processes within region to collect & prioritize product portfolio requirements and to communicate the roadmap changes to all parties.

Singapore

• Responsibilities: Operative and process development responsibility for regional logistics planning and supply management.
• Reporting to VP Logistics, Asia-Pacific
• Managing 11 direct subordinates + matrix organization of > 50 across five factories and sites in the regionAchievements: Setting up demand supply balancing / sales & operations planning process for APAC region.
• Definition & deployment of volume planning process from scratch in the fastest growing sales region.
• Build-up and development of the planning organization across the region.
• Development of Nokia’s global volume planning process together with the global network of planning owners across regions.

Finland

• Responsibilities: Project management, business process development, IT systems design.Achievements:
• Definition & global deployment of Nokia’s first global purchase agreement management system and related management process.
• Wrote Master’s thesis: “Supply Line Management in an electronics company”; definition & deployment of global value chain based component purchase logic & establishment of Supply Line Management practice in Nokia.
• Selection, definition & deployment of Nokia’s first global EDI (electronic data interchange) system.

Finland

Project management, IT systems design and programming

Finland

Project management, IT systems design and programming

M.Sc. (Tech.), Industrial Engineering And Management

Diploma In Operations Management