Nikola Nikolic

Head of Presales DACH @Softwareone

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

I’m a highly motivated professional with more than 15 years of experience in IT Services and Outsourcing. Extensive knowledge in IT technologies - strategic planning of IT solutions including - coaching professionals; enhance, adapt and change processes; and integrate technologies - considering business value, investments, costs and risks.- Extensive Experience in Delivery Excellence - ITIL aligned service management - agile and lean methodologies - extensive experience in managing international large IT Projects - budgetary planing and control - International leadership experience in personnel management (up to 50 direct; hundreds in a matrix) - working with multi-country and multi-disciple teams, demonstrated leadership and teaming skills. - Versatile experience in dealing with C-level and senior decision makers. Specialties: IT Outsourcing, sourcing strategies, IT Optimisation, Governance, Benchmarking, IT business value, near-shoring, off-shoring, service level management, cultural integration, HR transfer concepts, international leadership experience , Methodologies (IBM Design Thinking, Lean Six Sigma), ITIL, cost and control, digitisation, hybrid cloud,

Experience

  • Head of Presales DACH at SoftwareOne
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Global Delivery Executive at Kyndryl Germany
    May 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Kyndryl ()
    • Solutions Leader at Kyndryl Germany
      Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Technical Solution Executive
      Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • IBM (14 yrs 3 mos)
    • DACH Solutions Leader - Technical Solitions Executive
      Jul 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Technical Solutions Executive
      Jun 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Leader Engagement Services Europe
      Feb 2013 - Jun 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Responsible for releasing Technical Solutions greater 10M$ up 250M$ TCV, for Europe, LATAM, Canada and Middle-East. Coaching, command and control of engagement teams. Executing and releasing technical solutions considering technology strategy, costs, risks and business value. Responsible for process improvements and implementation. Driving standardisation and global integration. Executing on Solutions strategy coaching workshops for deals beyond 100M$ TCV, applying IBM Design Thinking methodology.