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Professional Experience
  • 20+ years in ICT/Telecommunications industry, 10+ years in global Leadership roles
  • Senior Global Sourcing executive with comprehensive experience of leading major global, regional and local sourcing operations and controlling significant spends in complex multi-cultural, international environment
    • Vice President ICT Sourcing, Ericsson Sweden 
    • Senior Director IT Sourcing and Partnering Western and Central Europe, Ericsson Germany
    • Sourcing Business Partner Global Customer Team Deutsche Telekom
    • Director Sourcing Germany and Switzerland, Ericsson Germany
    • Global Category Manager Software Solution Sourcing, Nokia Mobile Phones & Nokia Siemens Networks Germany
    • various other Management positions in Project management and Business Development
  Project Experience (selection of key-projects)
  • Global IT Procurement and Organization Strategy Design and Implementation 
  • Global Program IT Procurement transformation and transitioning
  • Senior Consultancy (Internal)  – Definition and Implementation of Regional and Global Category management (IT and other) 
  • Design and Implementation of IT Solution Sourcing (Category Management 2.0) in direct and indirect environments
  • Global Sourcing Business Partnering (Sales Interface), Supplier Innovation and Supplier Ecosystem Creation in Vertical Business
  • Regional Integration and Re-Design of Supplier relationship management (SRM) and Partnering
  • Global and Regional Lead Cost-Out programs and Cross-Functional Cost-Modelling 
  • Regional Sourcing Strategy Development and Implementation – Off-shoring/Near-shoring and Outsourcing
  • Turn-Around Management – Business Case Recovery Programs – Managed Services, Network Roll-out and Logistics
  • Mergers &Acquisitions – Due Diligence and Post merger integration
  Functional Expertise
  • Change Management – Global and Regional Transition/Transformation 
  • Organisational Development, Innovation Management
  • Turn-Around Management – Cost/Spend Savings, Cost Modeling, Cost-Out Programs
  • Global Leadership 
  • Direct and Indirect Procurement
  • Business Partnering – Eco-System Creation
  • IT Solution Sourcing (HW+SW+Service) – Procurement beyond Savings
  • Software Sourcing (incl. FOSS)
  • Category Management, Vendor, Demand and Process Management
  • Restructuring and M&A (Pre- and Post-Merger-Activities)
  Industry know-how
  • Telecommunications & IT/ICT
  • IT Hardware, Software and Services
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Logistics & Transportation (i.e. Automotive)
  Education & formal training
  • Degree in Business Informatics, Martin-Luther-University, Germany
  • Global Executive Leadership Trainings
  • Prince2 – Foundation and Practitioner
  Languages
  • German – Mother Tongue
  • English – Business Fluent
  • Spanish – Conversational


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