Spires, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
I am a Global Business Transformation and Process Excellence Leader with 20+ years of experience shaping and delivering enterprise-scale change across Europe, Asia and North America. My focus is to translate complexity into clear, actionable strategies by aligning processes, data and systems to enable scalable and reliable operations. I work closely with senior leadership to define and execute transformation agendas, combining strategic direction with hands-on delivery. This includes leading SAP S/4HANA and ERP programmes, harmonising end-to-end supply chain processes, and establishing global standards across regions and plants. I lead teams of up to 10 direct reports and cross-functional structures of up to 60 people, ensuring alignment and consistent execution. With a foundation in finance, I connect transformation initiatives to cost, cash flow and value creation, supporting informed decision-making at Director and C-level. Typical impact: Definition and execution of global transformation strategies Standardisation of key value streams (Order-to-Cash, Plan-to-Produce) Strategic process innovation with measurable impact Improved process stability, data quality and service reliability Successful SAP S/4HANA deployments with high adoption
Member of the Global Process Excellence team, acting as the SAP S/4HANA Implementation Lead for the Anaheim plant. Responsible for guiding a 40+ person cross-functional project team, safeguarding the global process template, and ensuring alignment between plant operations, global process owners and IT. Regularly brief Director and C-level stakeholders. Key Responsibilities & Achievements: - Lead S/4HANA implementation for Anaheim, coordinating design, testing, data readiness, cutover and stabilisation. - Manage a 40+ cross-functional project team across operations, supply chain, finance, quality and IT. - Ensure adherence to the global process and data template, balancing standards with plant-specific requirements. - Interface between GPOs, IT leadership and plant teams to resolve design issues and ensure alignment. - Provide structured updates to Director/C-level stakeholders, covering risk, decisions and readiness. - Strengthen collaboration between global and local teams through communication and alignment. - Drive user readiness, communication, and role clarity to secure high adoption.
European Tower Lead ERP working in a global capacity across regions, shaping SAP S/4HANA deployments, master data standards, MES alignment and system upgrades. Led mixed teams of up to 20 consultants and business experts, ensuring globally consistent processes and scalable execution across plants in the US, Europe and Asia. Key Responsibilities & Achievements: - Shaped and validated end-to-end master data and production models, ensuring alignment with global standards. - Led S/4HANA site readiness and setup, ensuring global–regional alignment with US, Europe and Asia tower leads. - Contributed to multi-site implementations (Hamilton, New Britain, Feasterville, Venray, Johor). - Supported MES integration to strengthen shopfloor execution and digital manufacturing. - Played a key role in the global SAP upgrade from 1809 to 2023. - Delivered strategic process innovation projects with strong operational and financial impact: • Co-printing (USA) – setup cost reductions • Bag & Tag (EU/USA) – logistics & traceability improvements • Plant-to-Plant Manufacturing (USA) – capacity & efficiency gains • Multi-Site Production – global production capability • E-Invoicing (Malaysia) – compliance & invoicing efficiency Acted as connector between GPOs, IT, and plant operations, ensuring scalable solutions. Collaborated with SAP and Delaware on the early development of AI-supported process and data improvement concepts, exploring use cases to enhance standardisation, decision-making and operational efficiency.
Co-operation with two SAP consultancy companies in the area of sales and business consultancy activities. Consulting services for Oliver Healthcare Packaging, Grand Rapids: - Self-driven training of the supply chain within SAP (Quote, sales order, MRP, scheduling, production, distribution and invoicing - Self-driven training of the master data creation process (configuration management) - SAP go-live readiness evaluation and identification of show stoppers - Solutioning of the issues and show stoppers with consultancy partner to secure go-live - Successful go-live in Grand Rapids
With the following activities and accountabilities: Accountable for Supply Chain modernisation and shop floor integration with MII, the product master data model as well as master data migration and governance during implementation of SAP with successful go-live in three plants and 15 market units Alignment on to-be Supply Chain processes; Selection of the future ERP solution and the consultancy partners In the role of integration hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA, the finance as well as the controlling module incl. order and standard cost calculation Process enhancement and competence build up of the Supply Chain and Financeteams in Ukraine, Germany and Denmark during introduction of our new product "Roll Fed" Process and Team build up (Supply Chain and Finance) for our new plant in St. Petersburg (Russia)
With the following activities and accountabilities: - Key role in the financial evaluation of the plant build up in Russia - Accountable for the European Production controller team - Developing and guiding Reporting and KPI structures - Heading the area budget and forecast process - Suggesting cost improvement projects - Developing wall-to-wall cost understanding
With the following activities and accountabilities: - Heading our area controllers for blanks manufacturing, closures and machine building - Developing and follow up reporting and KPI's - Heading the area budget and forecast process - Financial cost benefit analyse of plant restructuring and process improvement activities - Financial evaluation of innovation activities
With the following activities and accountabilities: - Building up of the book keeping department in Germany - Building up reporting - Employ and manage finance team - Budget, Forecast and Yearend reporting - Communication with auditors and tax advisors