Alexander Köhler

IT Business Partner @ Rheinmetall | PMP, ITIL, Computer Science Graduate

Obfelden, Zurich, Switzerland

About

At Swissgrid AG, our team focuses on sculpting the future of digital workspaces, where I lead with a PMP certification and a specialism in cloud strategy. Our work revolves around setting the digital workplace and cloud roadmap, ensuring seamless execution of strategic projects that enhance remote capabilities and infrastructure resilience. During my tenure, we've introduced innovative solutions like device-as-a-service at FIFA and successfully coordinated digital workplace initiatives. My approach harnesses agile methodologies to align stakeholder vision with practical product roadmaps, propelling customer management and team leadership within the realm of IT project and program management.

Experience

  • IT Business Partner at Rheinmetall
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    • Act as a strategic bridge between business needs and IT capabilities, aligning technology with enterprise objectives. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement IT solutions that enhance operational efficiency. • Develop strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure IT initiatives support business goals and drive innovation.

  • Swissgrid AG (Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland)
    • Principal Digital Workplace & Cloud
      Sep 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Definition of Digital Workplace & Cloud roadmap. Prioritization, coordination and execution of Digital Workplace projects.

    • Senior Project Manager
      Feb 2022 - Oct 2022 · 9 mos

      Agile Project-Management for IT Infrastructure transformation projects.

  • FIFA (Full-time · 7 yrs 5 mos)
    • Group Leader Digital Workplace Products
      Apr 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

      - accountability for digital workplace products (e.g. collaboration, telephony, workstations, etc.) - customer management - agree and align vision with stakeholders to develop individual product roadmaps - apply agile methods to create, maintain and implement product backlogs - lead team of product managers responsible for digital workplace products - introduction of device-as-a-service to FIFA

    • PMO Manager
      Sep 2017 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      - conceptualisation and implementation of custom project management framework - training and onboarding of project managers - maintenance and monitoring of project portfolio - reporting of project portfolio KPI's to IT management - design and implementation of a quality management framework for FIFA IT - project management on key projects (IT QMS, CMDB, Collaboration Roadmap) - deputy head of IT governance

    • Information Systems Manager
      Oct 2014 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      - project management - application management - PMO support - supplier management - controlling - customer support and training - release management - procurement and contract negotiation

  • Consultant Senior at Avanade
    Mar 2010 - Sep 2014 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    - Focus on collaboration tools (SharePoint) - Project and team management (on-shore and off-shore) - Resource and budget planning - Industries: Banking and financial services, public service, chemicals and goods production

  • Application Architect at CSC
    Jun 2007 - Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    - C# and ASP.Net architecture and development - Team and project lead - Industries: Banking and financial services, public service