Markus Schmitt

Head of IT and Digital Transformation at medi

Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Global IT Executive with years of experience in IT Strategy - always with a close link to business initiatives, strategy and visions. Big experiences several Leadership roles in a Global IT Team - always diving deep in new and exciting technology to bring it into the organization and make it feasible to the people. From Data Science to Process Mining, from EAM to AI initiatives, from business partner empowerment (Citizen Developer, Citizen Data Scientists, Citizen Data Engineer) to Project Portfolio Management - driving digitization and innovation is always essential and a central part. Great intercultural expertise with years of experience in Europe, North America and Asia. Always making the best out of the organization with Talent and Performance Management.

Experience

  • Head of IT and Digital Transformation at medi GmbH & Co. KG
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Wieland Group (11 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Director Global IT - Strategy and Development
      Mar 2021 - Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Global responsibility for IT Strategy and Digitalization, Business-IT alignment, project portfolio management, enterprise architecture management (EAM), Enablement, Training and change management, New Work, Low Code/No Code approach, business intelligence / data science / process mining, User Experience/User Interface, M&A, post merger IT integration, global IT budget and budget planning, Talent Management, Performance Management.

    • Director Global IT, Applications and Systems
      May 2020 - Mar 2021 · 11 mos

      Responsibility for the US IT Team, including the local US application and infrastructure landscape - and global responsibility for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Together with a powerful team, we drove forward our global standardization, harmonization and consolidation initiative - together with local needs/challenges; post merger IT integration (organizational, technical and application based); responsibility for local US IT Strategy, business/IT alignment and digitization.

    • Executive Vice President - Wieland Digital Solutions, Inc.
      Apr 2018 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Responsibility to building and leading (technical/financial) an US IT Hub for our global application and infrastructure landscape. Responsibility of the Hub in terms of Network/Infrastructure, Service Desk, Software Development, Product Management and Account Management for a US location footprint (> 1500 employees); responsibility for M&A (> 1200 employees) and post merger integration.

  • Internship Trainee at Wieland Metals Inc.
    Apr 2011 - Jul 2011 · 4 mos