Wilhelm Sander

Transformation Director

Greater Hamburg Area

About

Experience

  • ABL Group (Hybrid)
    • Transformation Director
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Reporting directly to the Chief Transformation Officer (CTrO) of ABL Group, the Transformation Director plays a key role in the future development of ABL Group and the operational and functional transformation as ABL Group starts its journey on material growth and consolidation, primarily through M&A. The role consists of due diligence and transaction negotiations for the M&A targets, and leading the business integration of M&A targets, ensuring ABL Group’s strategic direction, culture and shareholder value. Furthermore, the Transformation Director actively manages across ABL Group restructuring & legal entity rationalisation, and major business change projects.

    • Group Shared Services Director
      Apr 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Reporting to ABL Group's COO, the Group Shared Service Director is responsible for driving the centralisation, standardisation, and professionalisation of ABL Group’s global HR, IT, Marketing, and ESG services across ABL, OWC, AGR, and Longitude, as well as within those business segments.

  • OWC (10 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director
      Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

      As a director of the legal entities for OWC Germany and OWC Poland, executing duties as part of the board of directors.

    • QHSE Director
      Mar 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Leading OWC as QHSE Director and forming part of the global management team. Delivering consultancy assignments including technical due diligence, risk management and other strategic consultancy studies as well as leading those fields of expertise within OWC.

    • Country Manager Germany & Due Diligence Service Line Lead
      Dec 2017 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Managing Director for the Hamburg office of OWC, including full P&L responsibility, team recruitment and retention, business development, and establishing and running a sustainable business. Acting as a principal consultant on WTG package management, risk management and technical due diligence assignment, as well as leading those fields of expertise within OWC.

  • Vollzeit-Elternschaft at Career Break
    May 2023 - Sep 2023 · 5 mos

    Parental Leave

  • Senior Project Engineer at DNV GL - Renewables (formerly GL Garrad Hassan)
    Sep 2008 - Jul 2015 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    - Package Manager for the turbine contract package of the Borkum West 2 offshore wind farm project. (Aug 2014 - Nov 2014) - Deputy Package Manager within the turbine contract package of the Borkum West 2 offshore wind farm project (Germany), including contract management, technical and commercial preparation of variation order requests, technical interface management between contractors. (April 2012 - Aug 2014) - Project Engineer for the simulation of weather downtimes for construction operation sequences with the GL Garrad Hassans’ O2C Tool (Monte Carlo based simulation). - Project manager for the logistics of the research project ‘Research at Alpha Ventus’ (RAVE), including coordination and execution of the installation work and maintenance of the measurement equipment (logistic coordination of helicopter, tender boats and hotel vessels, management and client rep of diving works). (Jan 2009 - Apr 2012) - Project Manager for on- and offshore TDD on various projects (several assignments between 2009 and 2015); - Project Manager for a continuous CapEx risk assessment and execution of the contingency calculation for an offshore wind farm in the German Bright. - Project Manager for a inital CapEx risk assessment process via the project packages and execution of the contingency calculation for an offshore wind farm in the German Bright (not disclosed) as owners engineer; - Project Engineer for DNV GL CapEx, OpEx and decommissioning cost calculation for several German offshore wind projects; - Project Engineer for the execution of the platform management services on the FINO1 and FINO2 research platforms in the German North and Baltic Sea. - Trainer for an ‘Offshore Wind Training Course for a Chinese Utility’ in Beijing.

  • Diploma Student at Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GmbH
    Mar 2008 - Aug 2008 · 6 mos

    Final thesis on ‘Analysis of Capital Expenditures for Offshore Wind Farms - Focusing on how Weather Influences Installation Costs’