Stefan Bachmann

ESG compliance professional - Ex Amazon, Ex DHL

Dudelange, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

About

Experience

  • Senior Officer Corporate Social Responsibility at European Investment Bank (EIB)
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Amazon (7 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Product Management - ESG compliance
      Nov 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Lead Product Manager for ESG compliance - supporting Amazons path to net zero by assuring our experts have the right tools and processes in place to disclose Environmental, Social and Governance data when we need to.

    • Head of EU Speed Initiatives
      Nov 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Business owner for EU Same Day SuperFast deliveries including daily operations, business P+L as well as geographical and service expansions

    • Principal Programme Manager - Financial Systems
      Sep 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Started up programme management office for the EU finance community, with a scope of delivering large-scale initiatives that span across all teams in finance. (Tax, Accounting, Fintech, Transfer Pricing, Business Finance) Delivered a major tax restructuring project encompassing six functional (tech and non-tech) leaders and 150+ individual contributors as well as several key cornerstone projects to support Amazon's geographic expansion drive with world-class finance systems.

  • Amazon (7 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Finance Manager
      Jul 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading a team of four to assure high quality finance support for Amazon EU Business & Industrial category as well as Direct Imports, Private Brands, Exports and Pan-EU sourcing activities. Partnering with the business to assure timely and accurate reporting as well as financial advisory, supporting growth rates of 50%-100% p.a.

    • Manager - EU Retail Ops Excellence
      Jun 2013 - Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      EU responsible for Amazon's vendor compliance program - Delivered measurable reductions in vendor-driven cost as well as vendor lead times by enforcing supply chain standards and information communications / data flow between vendors and Amazon. The initiative comprised all five Amazon websites and the complete scope of Amazon vendors across a multitude of categories and sourcing markets.

    • Ops Programme Manager - Kindle EU
      May 2011 - May 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      I joined the Kindle team a few months after the product line had reached the UK as the first European markets. I contributed to setting up the product Supply Chain for Germany and France, managed the Supply Chain launch for Italy and Spain as well as served as the logistics PM for two generations of Kindle products. In addition also implemented the Kindle direct ship program, enabling fulfillment of orders direct from the manufacturer in Asia to customer across the globe.

  • DHL (Brussels Area, Belgium)
    • Development and Implementation Manager
      Apr 2006 - Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Within this role i was responsible for a series of post-merger projects aiming at harmonizing the EU operational and process reporting platform across 20 EU markets. The project delivered a harmonized data warehouse that fed from the existing heterogeneous back-end systems and for the first time provided a Pan-EU view on the metrics in focus.

    • Work Stream Leader metrics harmonization
      Jan 2004 - Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Following up on a consultancy project i decided to stay with the European Operations Performance team, taking the Pan-EU lead on metrics delivery and development. Starting from a set of 20+ different, locally produced reports gradually started centralizing report production, communication and distribution. Successfully migrated all cross-border reporting into the European team and promoted to a project manager role in order to drive standardization of the domestic reporting suite

  • Consultant at DPWN Business Consulting
    Apr 2003 - Dec 2003 · 9 mos

    After university i joined the Deutsche Post Inhouse Consulting team, working within the umbrella of Deutsche Post's post merger efforts. I personally focused on reviewing and re-defining the operational metrics framework across the Danzas, DHL and Deutsche Post Euro Express entities, which led to me being offered a permanent line-management role in this function.