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South Africa

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, De

Product Director and Program Manager in Marketing department's Digital Solutions team, leading tool-build, programs and product-led transformation.Go-To-Market ToolSuccessfully led a green-fields app-build from inception to scaling to 2000+ adidas employees globally, connecting design & marketing content (boards) to Sales - driving workload efficiencies and data accuracy. PO to a 20+- person product team, consisting of web development (FE, BE, QA), AWS, user-onboarding & roll-out.Program Manager - Digital Creation adidasProgram manager to the €10m+ transformation program to build and roll-out end-to-end connected 3D Footwear & Apparel design tools, connecting marketing, suppliers & sales departments of adidas.. Responsible for business-roll-out, reporting, stakeholder management and project tracking of the program.Product-Led TransformationInternal change-lead for the product-led transformation of the adidas marketing departments' product-domain. Leading PO trainings & upskilling, comms and team-maturity drive.

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, De

Led a team responsible for building brand & marketing focussed solutions to help improve the Adidas employees in their daily work.Acted as Product Owner for multiple solutions focussed on product-data reporting, go-to-market platform, etc.

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, De

Acted as the Product Owner and project manager to various Retail-related projects during the 3 years.1 - SAP F&R Implementation globallyProduct Owner to the implementation and go-live of SAP F&R (store forecasting & inventory replenishment solution) for two major markets for Adidas (Europe, North America), covering the retail back-office tasks of 400+ retail stores in these markets.This involved hosting / facilitating various global workshops to tailor the solutions to each market and their unique needs, as well as user trainings, comms & support.2 - NYC Flagship Store Inventory SolutionConceived, built and implemented a unique Store Replenishment model for the Adidas New York flagship store to ensure continuous product availability.Project completed in 2 months from conception to store & dark-store opening, with on site presence in New York.3 - Merchandise Allocation Tool BuildProduct Owner for the definition and build of an Adidas wide merchandise allocation system to be rolled out globally to all Adidas DTC stores.Entailed workshopping, facilitating and training teams through-out North America, Europe, China and Russia.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Multiple assignments to customer projects:1 - Pick & Pay FMCG Retailer, South AfricaActing as the Groceries Planning Business Process Owner and Product Owner for Pick n Pay’s Groceries division.This entails managing various improvement projects between suppliers, distribution centres and stores: implementing multi-echelon planning, new process implementations such as Exception based planning and S&OP meetings, demand-planning pilot projects, forecast process and functionality enhancements, enabling reporting enhancements and facilitating various training courses for groups of individuals from a myriad of retailers.This involved designing and implementing an advanced planning system and process (SAP F&R), and creating and implementing business processes and simulation tools for key users (Inventory Optimisation modeling, Delivery frequency optimisation modeling, Inbound & Import planning processes, etc).Successfully reduced company inventory levels by 10-15%.2 - Indigo Books, CanadaProject team member for the design & implementation of SAP F&R for a large Canadian retailer (Indigo - Book & General Merchandise). This consisted out of solution definition, training, implementation and testing of the new planning system (SAP F&R) and accompanying processes.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Actively embedded as a consultant in the IT and logistics department of a large South African FMCG retailer.The work primarily revolved around product inventory and logistics projects, to ensure the 700+ store fleet was continuously stocked well and offered high availability to consumers.This entailed implementing, and supporting the change-management related to SAP Retail and SAP F&R for both the store and distribution centre fleets.

Created and successfully ran an independent wedding and event photography business as a secondary job while working as a Consultant.This entailed creating setting up a company, creating branding and comms, customer acquisition, event management, post processing.Completed 120+ weddings in the space of +- 4 years.

Part time event photographer covering a multitude of mostly university related events: banquets, sports events, corporate events.

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, In

Worked on projects to implement knowledge management software, years before SharePoint became a thing.Projects completed at large South African parastatal company.

Worcester, Western Cape, Za

Design office intern who became competent with AutoCAD supporting the creation of manufacturing designing plans and artifacts for road tanker designs, design document management system and steel structure force analysis.

Msceng (Cum Laude), Engineering Management

Bsceng, Industrial Engineering