Projects

A selection of engagements across industries and geographies.

Projects are selected for their relevance and impact. The complete engagement history is available on request.

Operational Excellence — Organizational Transition
Transformation Operational Excellence
Role
Senior Manager, Transition Manager
Challenge
A business unit is to be adapted to a new organizational model. Mission: manage the transition towards the matrix structure and ensure business continuity in the context of changing market conditions.
Contribution
Strategic Account Planning. Communication strategy across teams and functions. KPI monitoring across Sales, Delivery, and Finance. Financial and business review. Portfolio analysis and management. Transition management.
Outcome
Successful organizational transition with maintained business continuity. Clear governance structure established across the new matrix model.
Global Delivery Transformation
Transformation International Delivery
Role
Senior Manager, Account Delivery Executive for International Engineering Business
Challenge
Drive business transformation towards new organizational entities. Build the new sales organization at account level with focus on China and India. Lead the Global Delivery Transformation Initiative.
Contribution
Contractual and financial definitions for cross-national engagements. Portfolio analysis and sales pipeline monitoring. Offshoring India accelerated. Synergies across group deliveries. Implemented Information Security Standards for project infrastructure at two sites.
Outcome
Transformation plan established. Delivery structures operational across Germany, China and India.
B2B CRM Rollout — Post-Acquisition Integration
Transformation
Role
Senior Project Manager CRM
Challenge
Following an acquisition, the company merges organizational entities. The new sales organization requires tight CRM support. Goal: implement standard sales processes to support the new organizational setup.
Contribution
Change management. CRM rollout and management. Deployment of CRM tool. Process optimization. Introduction of data quality task force and Opportunity Management. Prepared Salesforce as the successor CRM solution.
Outcome
CRM fully rolled out and operational. Successor solution Salesforce prepared for rollout.
Project Recovery in China — Connected Services
Project Recovery International Delivery
Role
Senior Project Manager
Challenge
A client faces delivery, budget and technical challenges on its Connected Services project in China. Mission: project recovery and stable delivery. China project team to be set up locally, backed by German experts.
Contribution
Stable team set up. Project financials stabilized. Proper team and client communication established. Technical pre-requirements enabled in China. Intensive knowledge management. High management attention secured in both countries.
Outcome
Stable project environment restored. China team operational. Project recovered and delivery stabilized.
Connected Services — 3-Location Transition
Transformation International Delivery
Role
Senior Project Manager
Challenge
In a rapidly growing company with interfered development processes, take over all Ticket Management Services from the previous supplier to an international team in 3 sites. Challenges: siloed knowledge, bilingual experts, remote IT.
Contribution
Quick and stable project setup of local and nearshore teams. Intensive transition management. Overcame technical restrictions. Growth plan including training and mentoring — achieving 40+ project staff in 3 sites within 6 months.
Outcome
Project on time, on quality, on budget. Project team fully operational across 3 sites in EU and Northern Africa within 6 months.
PLM Operational Data Migration — Group Program Recovery
Project Recovery Operational Excellence
Role
Senior Project Manager
Challenge
A Group PLM migration covering data from more than 60 product structures across 14 organizations in Europe, China and South America. Initial setup had failed. High-risk fixed-price project with high management attention. Mission: project completion on quality and time.
Contribution
Project stabilization through structured team setup (10+ staff), organizational breakdown structure and project infrastructure. Proper communication and reporting established. Project quality, productivity and customer satisfaction recovered. Roadmap of delivery aligned with high management attention.
Outcome
Delivered on time, on quality, and on budget. High customer satisfaction achieved.
SW Development Recovery — Fixed-Price Scrum Project
Project Recovery
Role
Senior Project Manager
Challenge
A fixed-price SW development project requires recovery after customer escalation. Mission: recover the project, increase productivity to the expected level and rehabilitate the customer relationship.
Contribution
General PM in Scrum environment. Team replacements and ramp-up (project staff of 9). Project financials recovered. Productivity restored. Advanced lessons-learned session with customer. Customer relationship rehabilitated.
Outcome
Productivity restored to expected level. Customer relationship rehabilitated.
In-Vehicle Apps & Mobile Apps Program
International Delivery Operational Excellence
Role
Senior Program Manager
Challenge
A global car manufacturer transferred more than five ongoing and new in-vehicle app projects to our team, covering both further development of existing applications and the development of new apps across four locations. New In-Car technology introduced. Contract: fixed-price service catalog, SAFe, nearshore with GEC Portugal.
Contribution
45+ FTE across 4 sites in EU; up to 12 app projects in parallel. Iterative E2E design process introduced. Integrated UX/UI team. SAFe integration at client level. Cross-entity projects with shared apps across 3 car brands.
Outcome
Project on time, on quality, on budget. Contract renewed. Program running at scale across 4 locations.
Car Infotainment — HMI Development
International Delivery
Role
Senior Project Manager
Challenge
SW development of the HMI for a new generation of car infotainment systems for a first-tier automotive supplier. Extraordinary contract volume generating high executive attention. Mission: build an international team fast, establish a Software Delivery Center in Portugal, and build a long-term partnership.
Contribution
Management up to 30+ staff. Integrated delivery team combining a Germany based frontend with software development teams from the Software Delivery Center in Portugal. Two additional development teams ramped up within 4 weeks. Automotive SPICE 2.5 QA applied. Value-adding process feedback to customer.
Outcome
Project on time, on quality, on budget. High customer satisfaction.
Salesforce Global CRM — PoC and RfQ
Transformation International Delivery
Role
Senior Project Manager CRM
Challenge
A Technology and Innovation Consulting company wants to evolve its global CRM to enable the rollout of the advanced corporate strategy. Analysis required across 7 European subsidiaries.
Contribution
System analysis in 7 subsidiaries. PoC with Salesforce.com. Standard Sales process defined (Miller Heiman). RfP performed with 4 CRM vendors (cloud and on-premise). Group CRM project initiated.
Outcome
Global CRM direction established. RfP completed. Strategic decision basis delivered at Group Executive Level.
Telecommunications Service Management
Operational Excellence
Role
Senior Project Manager, Service Manager
Challenge
Manage the HW and SW update of the network's Management Platform for a department delivering voice, data, and video services within a telecommunications network with strict SLA compliance requirements.
Contribution
Contract management. CR management. SW Project management. Supplier management. Financial forecasting. Regular project communication.
Outcome
Network Management Platform updated within SLA compliance. Full governance established across contract, supplier, and finance streams.
Cross-Selling Data Analytics and Campaign Management
Operational Excellence
Role
Senior Consultant
Challenge
Following a division merger, improve Cross-Selling capabilities and extend the campaign management and customer data base with a harmonized, customer value-based CRM approach supporting both divisions.
Contribution
Planning, design, execution and reporting of Cross-Selling, Inbound, Outbound, Lead, and Market Research campaigns. Data management extension. Concept design of value-based customer dialogue and Privacy/Permissions framework. Testing.
Outcome
Cross-Selling campaign capabilities operational across both divisions. Harmonized CRM approach implemented.
Multi-Channel Campaign Management — Banking
Operational Excellence
Role
Project Manager CRM
Challenge
Concept design and setup of a multi-channel campaign management system with CRM integration, monitoring and reporting, and immediate data connections to the Data Warehouse for a direct banking group.
Contribution
Concept and process design. Detailed design of data connections, contact logic and controlling features. Vendor selection. Project management.
Outcome
Multi-channel campaign management system fully implemented and operational.
The complete engagement history is available on request.