Astrid Friesecke

Director & Programm Manager (she/her) @ Aldi DX | Women in Tech

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Experienced Program Management Office Lead with a demonstrated history of working in projects for software development/ implementation, IT Outsourcing, Management Consulting, Business Process Outsourcing and the project portfolio management in a Client Account Management. Ensuring project success through a clear, structured and pragmatic project management office. Practiced in assessing, designing, developing and implementing PMO Solutions, covering processes of project portfolio, project pipeline, financials with budget/ forecast and actual reporting, business case, MSProject planning and tracking, status reporting, SLA reporting, resource management, timetracking, stakeholder management

Experience

  • ALDI DX (Hybrid)
    • Director & Programme Manager (she/her) Reporting @ Aldi DX
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

      Programme Manager (she/her): ALDI SOUTH’s strategic initiative to globally harmonise over 90% of KPIs and reports, aiming to enhance trust, quality, and performance in reporting while delivering tangible value to functions, countries, and the executive board

    • Director & Programm Manager (she/her) Data & Analytics @ Aldi DX
      Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

      Programme Manager (she/her): ALDI DX's strategic initiative to deliver measurable business value by enabling data-driven decision-making across ALDI SÜD through strategic portfolio prioritisation, benefit tracking, and cross-functional alignment on high-impact use cases

  • ITERGO (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • IT-PMO Lead Implementarion programm (Project Assignment)
      Jun 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      - Leading the IT PMO Team with 10 members, covering the Projectmanagement process impelementation, improvement and run. - Processes: Financials, Resource mgmt, Risk mgmt, Status Reporting, and Planning & Tracking (Clarity)

    • Division Manager IT Project Portfolio (Line Responsibility)
      May 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      - Lead of the project portfolio department with 48 employees. Teams of project manager, PMOs and Portfolio Manager - Project Management Process implementation, improvement and adherence - Responsible for the process of external personal onboarding (according to compliance) - Contribute to the PM department set-up in Poland

  • ALDI SÜD (Full-time · 2 yrs 9 mos)
    • IT Manager International IT
      Nov 2020 - Apr 2021 · 6 mos

      Project PMO Lead for a SAP System Landscape Transformation • Management of the project team (4 internal and external members) • Mobilization and execution of project management practices, like: governance management, project planning (JIRA), project status reporting, issue and risk management, decision management, resource management, financial management, document management (MS SharePoint, Confluence) and stakeholder management Lead Team Project Services • Part of the Department leadership team • Setting-up and leading the PMO services for the department • Provide PMO services as fulltime staffing to dedicated projects and shared services for multiple projects of the portfolio • Hiring, onboarding and providing knowledge to new team members, team development, assignment of people to projects • Creating PMO assets and PMO mobilization processes • Services like project planning, financial management, risk management, status reporting, resource management

    • IT Manager International IT
      Aug 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Global Planning Lead in a global IT and Business Transformation program • Management and planning of the global program deployment plan. Implementation of a rolling wave planning approach • Alignment and communication with the countries and the international IT department • Implementation of a deployment toolkit • Mobilization of upcoming deployment projects • Planning of central and country resource demand • Close alignment with all support functions, like HR, Legal, Accounting • Disciplinary responsible for 4 employees

  • Accenture (10 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Managerin Project Portfolio Management
      Nov 2017 - Jul 2018 · 9 mos

      Project-Portfolio Management and Reporting of Accenture Interactive (part of Accenture Digital) Implement PM/PMO best practices in the associated projects Trainer and coach for PM/PMO process excellence Drive the refresh of project management in the digital transformation context

    • PMO Lead (Senior Manager)
      Oct 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Main responsibilities: Leading and executing an operational project PMO of an SAP deployment program continuous optimization of PMO processes Processes in scope: MS Project planning, status reporting, budget and cost forecasting and tracking, resource mgmt

    • PMO Capability Lead Düsseldorf at Accenture (Senior Manager)
      Mar 2011 - Jun 2017 · 6 yrs 4 mos

      I am part of the PMO Capability Leadership Team within Accenture with the two major ares of - Leading the local group in Düsseldorf - Leading the PMO Mobilization capability Main responsibility - Build the entire ASG (Austria-Switzerland-Germany) PMO Capability/Team from 12 member to currently 175. - Create PMO assets - Create PMO mobilization processes - Faculty for PMO/PM trainings - Team development - Staffing of people to projects - Conduct interviews for Graduates and Experience Hires - Intense collaboration with India for a collaborative way of working between onshore and offshore

  • Diplomand at Vivantes – Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH
    Feb 2007 - Aug 2007 · 7 mos