Greater Hamburg Area
A tireless passion for innovating business processes and creating sustainable business value utilizing more than 30 years’ of strategic and operational experience in IT, CIO, Finance & GM leadership and high profile transformational roles. Inspired by using technology to solve business challenges, disrupting and create something new or better. Extensive leadership and success in global standardization and transformation initiatives. Clear data driven vision that only those who can successfully utilize their own and the data their customers share with them will succeed. Inspired by sport, culture and the Arts, I have had personally rewarding success in creating high performance teams and I am a true believer that the creativity and talent of individuals successfully collaborating in diverse teams deliver the competitive advantage and the highest performance. Unintentional crisis proven management success from leading the recovery from a Cyber-attack, leading the IT COVID response and utilizing learnings into resilience and business continuity programs. Highly trusted at all executive levels for end to end responsibility from strategy to seamless cross functional implementation and daily operations with full budget responsibility. A relaxed Australian ability to lead, inspire, collaborate or just have a laugh with all levels and cultures. On LinkedIn to keep in touch with my contacts spread across the globe, to Share, Learn, be inspired and inspire.
Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH Leading and inspiring high performance IT and cross functional teams in everything from global SAP transformation and implementation programs, digital innovation and automation of business processes (AI to RPA), consumer interaction platforms, global internal and external data strategy, due diligences & acquisition integrations and organizational transformation to high performance agile dev-ops teams. Leading the IT application strategy, architecture, implementation and daily support operations for more than 10 years for all areas from Sales, Marketing, R&D, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Data & Analytics, Digital workplace and Integration. Covering major ERP and non-ERP, on-premises and cloud platform strategy from: SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens as well as many specialized and start up platforms. Major strategic transformational and innovation success, examples • Defining and implementing the group strategy for the transition to SAP S4Hana. • Lead the IT and business process integration of the Coppertone business acquisition in 2019/ 20 from due diligence to integrated daily operations over delivering the defined synergies. • Global SAP ERP one global template strategy and implementation (lead programs with > 100 company implementations). • Defining and implementing the group strategy for the transition to SAP S4Hana. • IT sponsor/ owner from initial strategy across 3 lifecycles of the Global Nivea website, consumer interaction and ecommerce platform (see www.Nivea.de). • Global internal and external data analytics, insights and visualization strategy. • leading the business recovery taskforce following a major cyber-attack and implementing crisis learnings into resilience and business continuity programs.
Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH • Lead and prepared the global IT response to COVID and acceleration of the transformation to a digital workplace and global collaboration strategy enabling highly successful remote / home office working. • Defining the strategy for the SAP S4Hana transition and starting the implementation for Tesa SE.
Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH • European and then Global SAP ERP one template strategy and implementation. Achieving for the first time a truly global enterprise with standardized sales, supply chain and finance processes enabling a global supply network, finance shared services and global customer transparency. • Global data strategy – architected and lead implementation of near real time global complete end to end business data models. Inspired and lead the external data strategy, very early leader on SAP Hana, e.g. market share data. • Implemented Global financial planning and forecasting systems.
Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH • Defined a global financial shared services strategy • Defined and implemented a European Financial Shared Services process template and scaled an inhouse operational center. • Prepared global process template and defined the strategy for global hybrid operating model and implementation plan.
Country General Manager – Beiersdorf Canada Inc. • Realigned brand strategy and go to market strategy. • Refocus sales organization.
PWC offices: Australia: Adelaide, Sydney, Germany: Hamburg Mergers & aquisitions, Intergration, special audits, IRFS implementations, international audits, transfer pricing. Industries: Pharma, Consumer products, Manufacturing, Private Equity. Senior Manager - Corporate taxation consulting International transfer pricing, inbound & outbound investiment, domestic taxation consulting Industries: Consumer & Medical products, Pharma, Real Estate, Media, Mining, Entertainment, Corporate finance & property funds.