Marek Kochanczyk

Senior IT Manager

Katowice, Śląskie, Poland

About

Senior IT Manager with broad experience of managing Global IT Business Units/Program/Projects and outstanding ability to manage large and complex business endeavours as well as multicultural Teams. Focused on results, "can do" approach, with excellent verbal and written communication skills in multi-cultural environment. Specialties: - Portfolio/Program/Project/Demand Management (MSP®, PMP®, PRINCE2®) - SAFE, Agile and traditional metodologies - Line/Resource Management - Projects governance - Systems Strategy & Implementation - Managing of various domains and Projects/Teams: Infrastructure, Software Development, System Implementation. - Multi-industrial experience "The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy." Jeff Bezos

Experience

  • Senior IT Program Manager at Rockwell Automation
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Global IT Program Management (SAFE). - Track and report IT program financials, timelines, and key KPIs. - Coordinate with IT Finance on CAPEX funding. - Build and maintain IT Program models for equipment, licensing, depreciation, and related items. - Foster relationships with stakeholders, partners, and sponsors throughout the project cycle.

  • Senior IT Manager at Be | Shaping the Future Poland
    Oct 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - IT Solution Management in Banking/FinTech sector (UniCredit). - Cross-Functional collaboration between technical and product teams, facilitating overall portfolio objectives, smooth communication, process improvements, and issue resolution. - Managing project lifecycles, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, optimizing processes, and maintaining high service quality across deployed solutions.

  • Tenneco (15 yrs 5 mos)
    • IT Manager
      Jan 2017 - Oct 2023 · 6 yrs 10 mos

      - Demand Portfolio Management - Demand strategy, objectives, governance and budget management - Line/Resource Management

    • Program Manager
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs

      - Set the overall strategy and objectives for a group of projects - Projects governance - Line Management - Manage the program staff, projects manager and provide overall leadership - Monitor the progress of program components - Controls interdependencies in order to realize project benefits - Planning and resource allocation/rsolve resource constraints - Resolve issues and change management within a program structure

    • Global IT Project Manager
      Jun 2008 - Dec 2014 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      - Managing IT projects across multiple regions and domains. - Key responsibilities include project scope, budget, project board, resources, communication and proper turn-over to IOS Maintenance and Operations.

  • Senior MES Consultant at Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd.
    Jul 2006 - Jun 2008 · 2 yrs

    - Participation in business development as MES consultant, AspenTech InfoPlus.21, Batch.21, C#.NET, QA/QC - Project Management of MES work

  • Project Manager at Kamsoft
    Sep 1999 - Jun 2006 · 6 yrs 10 mos

    - Coordination and leadership tasks concerning programming and designing information systems according to ISO 9001:2000. - Team leadership, designing, programming, (Delphi, Java, Oracle, UML). - Internal quality auditor (QA/QC, ISO 9001:2000).