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Lisbon Area, Portugal

Reporting to the Board of Directors, driving and structuring the IT Department for a group of companies operating in the Agricultural and Livestock segments in Portugal and Angola. Design, implementation, and management of the group´s ERP and Business Intelligence programs.+ Refurbished and extended Primavera ERP implementation for the different legal entities in Angola and Portugal, by deploying a common template and adopting best practices for ERP and master data.+ Co-designed and… Show more Reporting to the Board of Directors, driving and structuring the IT Department for a group of companies operating in the Agricultural and Livestock segments in Portugal and Angola. Design, implementation, and management of the group´s ERP and Business Intelligence programs.+ Refurbished and extended Primavera ERP implementation for the different legal entities in Angola and Portugal, by deploying a common template and adopting best practices for ERP and master data.+ Co-designed and implemented financial controlling and costing principles at the ERP level for all business areas, as part of the ERP template setup, leading to more scrutiny in BU performances.+ Designed and implemented a full-scope BI reporting landscape focused on delivering on-line management reporting information for all business areas.+ Defined and implemented a cloud-based strategy for document management (Microsoft 365, SharePoint) allowing easier information sharing and traceability regarding ERP registers. Show less

Switzerland

Group CIO Direct Report / Functional team manager: Regional Program Managers (Europe, US), 6 Business Relationship Managers (BRM), 5+ Project Managers / yearly 50+ Projects, EUR 2.0M capex , 1.5M opexIT Management Board member and Chair of the IT Project Portfolio Board.Demand Management organisation and Enterprise Business Applications strategy definition.Corporate IT Business Applications demand management and Project Portfolio Management.Financial responsibility for… Show more Group CIO Direct Report / Functional team manager: Regional Program Managers (Europe, US), 6 Business Relationship Managers (BRM), 5+ Project Managers / yearly 50+ Projects, EUR 2.0M capex , 1.5M opexIT Management Board member and Chair of the IT Project Portfolio Board.Demand Management organisation and Enterprise Business Applications strategy definition.Corporate IT Business Applications demand management and Project Portfolio Management.Financial responsibility for project budgets, forecasts and cost control.Change Request governance process for strategic applications.Project Management methodologies, processes and templates ownership.+ Professionalized the BRM organisation: clarified role, streamlined processes, ensured alignment with IT supply groups and established a feedback collection / communication platform.+ Contributed decisively to business processes and tools standardization goals across the organisation: ensured business requirements collection, analysis, solution proposal and promoted business and IT stakeholder alignment.+ Ensured transparency in the IT Project Portfolio execution performance: identified and communicated key issues, risks and respective corrective and mitigation actions.+ Designed and deployed a streamlined change request platform adopted collaboratively by business and IT stakeholders: ensured decision making transparency, traceability and overall process optimization.+ Designed the Omya Project Lifecycle methodology: instituted as the group-wide standard for project request, initiation, delivery, hyper-care and benefits confirmation phases. Show less

Switzerland

Group CIO functional report / Head of BI direct report / Team Manager: 10-20 internal and external developers, 3+ external partners, 10+ business stakeholders / EUR 10M+ budget / SAP BW/BO, SAP DS, SAP IP, SAP CPS.Lead roles in corporate green-field BI reporting landscape project life-cycle: core team member in design and initiation phase, IT Project Lead in the implementation phase.Reporting landscape design: KPIs, dashboards, standard reports, ad-hoc reports.Technology… Show more Group CIO functional report / Head of BI direct report / Team Manager: 10-20 internal and external developers, 3+ external partners, 10+ business stakeholders / EUR 10M+ budget / SAP BW/BO, SAP DS, SAP IP, SAP CPS.Lead roles in corporate green-field BI reporting landscape project life-cycle: core team member in design and initiation phase, IT Project Lead in the implementation phase.Reporting landscape design: KPIs, dashboards, standard reports, ad-hoc reports.Technology assessment and selection, including tender and POCs with major providers (SAP, ORACLE).Implementation partner selection and management.Software development life cycle SDLC accountability (requirement collection, analysis, solution design, implementation and testing).Full budget and cost control accountability.+ Completed project in budget despite critical technology and scoping challenges: ensured focus on key deliveries, re-aligned and re-prioritized scope according to value delivered, ensured alignment between business and IT.+ Achieved and sustained full cooperation with business teams and sponsors in the design and requirement definition, allowing the IT teams to develop to specification.+ Secured business and IT teams engagement through high-pressure situations.+ Ensured full development process traceability, key in technology issues´ root cause recognition by all parties and technology providers. Show less

Portugal

Regional Europe CIO direct report, Head of IT Program Management & Service Management functional report. Definition and implementation of Corporate IT Governance framework (processes and templates) for enterprise business application´s Projects and Change Requests.Management of IT business application delivery / project requests in region Europe.+ Contributed decisively to the design of Project, Program & Portfolio Management processes and methodologies.+ Contributed to… Show more Regional Europe CIO direct report, Head of IT Program Management & Service Management functional report. Definition and implementation of Corporate IT Governance framework (processes and templates) for enterprise business application´s Projects and Change Requests.Management of IT business application delivery / project requests in region Europe.+ Contributed decisively to the design of Project, Program & Portfolio Management processes and methodologies.+ Contributed to substantial savings by streamlining locally driven project portfolios. Show less

Portugal

Head of IT Program Management & Service Management functional report / Team manager: 20+ stakeholders from business functions in region Europe SW (Portugal, Spain and Italy).Project initiation (including business case) for SAP ERP regional deployment .SAP ERP roll-out impact / gap analysis regarding local processes, legal requirements and applications.+ Ensured successful continuous cooperation between the Business Organisations, Corporate IT and SAP Competence Center in a… Show more Head of IT Program Management & Service Management functional report / Team manager: 20+ stakeholders from business functions in region Europe SW (Portugal, Spain and Italy).Project initiation (including business case) for SAP ERP regional deployment .SAP ERP roll-out impact / gap analysis regarding local processes, legal requirements and applications.+ Ensured successful continuous cooperation between the Business Organisations, Corporate IT and SAP Competence Center in a challenging transformation context.+ Successfully aligned integration issues and opportunities which fostered change readiness. Show less

Portugal

Team Manager: 1-3 FTEBusiness applications (ERP, BI, Quality Management System), IT Infrastructure and Telecommunications management.ERP System sponsorship, selection and deployment: business process analysis, standardization, and optimization.Business Intelligence solution design and development: data sources consolidation via ETL capabilities; design and development of analytical and operational mission-critical business reports.Quality management system design… Show more Team Manager: 1-3 FTEBusiness applications (ERP, BI, Quality Management System), IT Infrastructure and Telecommunications management.ERP System sponsorship, selection and deployment: business process analysis, standardization, and optimization.Business Intelligence solution design and development: data sources consolidation via ETL capabilities; design and development of analytical and operational mission-critical business reports.Quality management system design, development and implementation: process description, document management, incident & non-conformity management, laboratory management, quality relevant KPIs.+ Ensured compliance with corporate controlling & reporting requirements: contributed decisively to the quick and successful integration of the local organisation in the Omya Group.+ Ensured process streamlining and standardization, invaluable for the organisation´s business development.+ Provided a cost effective, streamlined but sound platform supporting quality management processes. Show less

Portugal

ISO 9003 successful certification project leadership in cooperation with the Quality Manager.Internationalization support; market research and marketing & sales initiatives in China, Mozambique and Israel..Sales and marketing reporting processes optimisation and international delivery process management.Economic studies for strategical decisions (e.g. production plant extension, production plan centralization).

Post Graduation, Knowledge Management

Postgraduate in Information Management, with a specialization in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence in NOVA IMS (Lisbon).

Executive Mba, International Trade

In Partnership with ESADE Former "Instituto Empresarial Portuense (IEP)"

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

UCP - Lisboa

It Management

Specific adapted training for CIO candidate level. Joint program of Omya, Franke, Geberit, Hilti, HP

Bw310 Bw Enterprise Data Warehousing, Data Modeling/Warehousing And Database Administration