Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Profound business experience with Nestlé S.A. Switzerland, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Germany & USA and BAT/Rothmans Tobacco Germany, in the area of Data Management & Data Quality Management, Information Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Process re-engineering, Sales Force Organization and Trade Marketing. This includes change skills management proven in various projects as well as the capability to manage cross cultural teams with various objectives in different global locations Member or leader of several industry associations, national and international project teams for Data Management, Data Standardization, Data Quality Management, Information Management, Data Conversion, Migration and Transformation, Supply Chain Management, Business Process re-engineering, development and implementation of Business Rules for on-line data value validation and data maintenance simplification projects. Representative for Nestlé, Johnson & Johnson and BAT/Rothmans in various international associations, such as EAN International, AIM, GCI, ECR, GS1, CCG (Germany) and cross industry Data Quality Initiatives, Member of the Corporate Data Quality Competence Center University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and link to several international initiatives for Data Quality, Data Maintenance Automation projects with SAP HQ participation. Motto: “Capture Data right 1st Time at Source and apply direct to target system”.
Develop and implement strategies to leverage the benefits of Nestlé’s Globe Solution (ONE SAP Template implementation) in the areas of Data Management, Data Pollution Prevention, Data Entry/Maintenance Process Automation, Data Conversion, to enable and support Data Quality levels required for Business Process Performance, Global, regional and local reporting. This includes the evolution of Master Data Management Strategy @ Nestle including Reference Data Management, Business Rules development and implementation for data validation at source and creation and maintenance of Business Vocabulary Repository, Data Management & Dat Quality KPI´s as well as future monitoring approaches to manage external Data sources such as Social Media Data (Twitter, Facebook etc.), on-boarding of business required external data (BIG Data) and new data related technologies such as Data Virtualization, Linked Data etc.
Leading the European GLOBE implementation projects for Data Management to ensure seemless data conversion from lagacy system to ONE GLOBE SAP Template
Consumer Division, located in Düsseldorf, moved 2000 to Hamburg, Germany and New Brunswick/NJ, USA Team Member for WW Data Standardization to develop and implement a Global Data Warehouse for Customer and Product reporting. Also in Scope: to create and implement global data standards for Products, Customers, Vendors, and Materials etc. to support global SAP template creation for J&J Consumer
Team Member for WW Data Standardization to develop and implement a Global Data Warehouse for Customer and Product reporting. Also in Scope: to create and implement global data standards for Products, Customers, Vendors, and Materials etc. to support global SAP template creation for J&J Consumer
Key Responsibilities: customer-service, order-processing, pricing and master data maintenance (customer, materials), inventory management,domestic distribution and warehousing, sales demand forecast, sales planning, data services, sales budget controlling. Special tasks such as: Functional Leader Supply Chain/ Sales forimplementation of new transaction software BPCS, Business Process re-engineering,Driver for inventory reduction by 50% (rewarded by Johnson & Johnson HQ) with higher service level at the same time Leader of design team and member of the implementation team for new European supply chain processes, team leader for implementation of new demand processes in Southern European countries Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain.
During the course of my time with Rothmans/Martin Brinkmann AG (since 1999 BAT) I did held serveral position such as - Trade Marketing Manager Cigarette (Hamburg 1988/1991) - Information Center Manager IM/IS (Bremen 1986/1988) - Manager Sales Planning/Co-Ordination (Bremen 1981/1985) - Manager Customer Service (Hamburg 1977/1981) - Customer Service clerk (Hamburg 1976/1977) - Education as Industrie Kaufmann (Industrie Kaufmann Lehre (Bremen1974/1976)