Egor Nikitin, PhD

Head of Digital Cinematography at Carl Zeiss AG | ex Roland Berger

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

About

Awarded PhD with many years of work experience in project team management, strategy development, corporate transformation, international joint venture and lean management. Provide ability to work under extreme work pressure, high work load and deadlines. Broad project experience in international environment, highly responsible, self-motivated and committed specialist with strong intercultural skills, willing to travel. Fully bilingual in German and Russian, fluent in English. Unlimited work permit for Germany/EU and CIS Counties

Experience

  • ZEISS Group (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Digital Cinematography
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Senior Manager Corporate Strategy
      Jan 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Rodenstock Group (Full-time · 4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Head of Lens Team/Business Development Manager
      May 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Corporate Project Manager Executive Board
      Nov 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Roland Berger (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Project Manager
      2017 - 2019 · 2 yrs

    • Project Manager
      2016 - 2017 · 1 yr

  • Director Trade Development at TMK
    2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs

    • Strategic controlling: - definition of strategic targets and corporate development opportunities, monitoring and analysis of global sales, forecasting and capacity utilization planning, identification of potential risks • Management of corporate transformation projects - coordination of transition of sales functions from Trade House to HQ of the company - launch of international project management office (PMO) for sales development - functional split of back and front office, including description of processes, definition of functions and responsibilities • Set up and launch of a global sales coordination committee in order to define responsibility zones for international sales teams, to execute effective request allocation between production facilities, to secure minimum efficient scale and to reduce supply chain costs • Elaboration of KPI system for international sales teams • Effectiveness assessment for international sales process, including lead time estimation, workload optimization • Supervision of CRM integration (Customer Relationship Management): systematization and standardization of customer information and inquiries, monitoring and evaluation of sales manager effectiveness, analysis of request denial

  • Senior Consultant II at Roland Berger
    2010 - 2014 · 4 yrs

    • global strategy development, benchmarking, product portfolio assessment, mapping of compe-tencies, for one of the largest turbine engine production companies in Russia • elaboration of strategy, definition of high potential market segments and regions, creation of financial model and roadmap for a large Russian development and construction company • development and implementation of project monitoring and controlling tools for large modernization project (investment over 1,7 bln USD) in one of the world’s leading mining companies • global strategy realization plan development for implementation of innovative power generation solutions and business diversification for a Russian nuclear power engineering company • elaboration of market development strategy for electric vehicles and network of charging stations for one of the leading Russian power grid operators; financial business model creation • PMO set-up, structuring, planning and controlling of a large international JV project between Rus-sian subsidiary of a global Banking group and one the largest Russian Banks • optimization of procurement function (~200 m USD sourcing volume), incl. business processes management, category and supplier management system implementation for a large production company • operational optimization and cost cutting projects in Brazil and Russia for one of leading Global financial groups; elaboration and validation of initiatives, roadmap definition, cost reduction up to ~20%