Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

• Partner at BCG advising C-Level Executives & Executive Teams on the full range of digital transformation, innovation, new business models, restructuring and reorganization with focus on procurement, supply chain and operations globally.

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• In my role as Chief Innovation Officer at Celonis (www.celonis.com) I will focus on supporting go to market teams, customers and partners through their #DigitalTransformation journey. As a proponent of the power of #ProcessMining to create the superfluid enterprise and deliver extraordinary experiences
• Celonis is the New York- and Munich-based leader in Enterprise Performance Acceleration software. Built on the process mining technology it pioneered, its Intelligent Business Cloud helps organizations to rapidly remove operational friction to become a superfluid enterprise. Companies around the world including Siemens, L’Oreal, Uber, Citi, Airbus and Vodafone rely on Celonis to guide action and drive change to business processes, resulting in millions of dollars saved and extraordinary customer experiences.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP Concur (Intelligent Spend Management) are the market leaders for source-to-pay solutions in the cloud. SAP has the world’s largest marketplace, powering commerce between millions of buyers and sellers with the Ariba Network.
• As Chief Digital Officer and Senior Vice President, I develop, define and drive digitalization strategies for customers to help the world’s leading companies to digitalize their business, to run simple and to eliminate procurement & supply chain complexity.

Apr 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• SAP Ariba is the world’s largest marketplace, powering commerce between millions of buyers and sellers. As Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of SAP Ariba, I oversee global business operations to help the world’s leading companies eliminate procurement and supply chain complexity.

Feb 2011 – Mar 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• As Chief Procurement Officer, I led a team of 220 professionals who managed a global spend volume of almost 4bn EUR in 2014. My team implemented a global category management organization, procurement shared services and integrated a hybrid model for goods, services and travel. By optimizing procurement, SAP saved 3 million EUR on spend, automated 50% of manual invoices and increased productivity by 20% due to purchase order and invoice automation.

Mar 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Development of Strategies and Delivery of Strategic Programs and Projects: - Post-Merger-Integration: Process and Systems Integration for Sybase and Business Objects. - Globalization of Finance Processes and Shared Services Organization Showcasing of Global Finance Best Practices (Software Solutions, Processes, Organization, Transformation) Delivering professional, best-in-class cross-functional program management.

Jul 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for developing and leading Strategic and Cross-Board projects (with more than 30 employees):
• leading the Finance Shared Service Center Project EMEA to build up a centralized organization with more than 260 employees for more than 40 units/countries (18 different languages) for core financial and billing processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing and Travel & Expenses).
• heading the Project Management Office for two corporate cost saving projects in Sales and Development with the objective to optimize costs.
• standardization and harmonization of global processes for three Shared Service Centers in Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
• Showcasing of Shared Services for the implementation and for the software solutions implemented at SAP (like ERP, OCR, eBilling).

Jan 2005 – Jun 2005 · 5 mos

• Responsible for strategy and implementation projects within the Business Transformation Group of PA Consulting
• Development and implementation of a strategy project for an international retail subsidiary in Hamburg/Germany
• Conceptual design of German Shared Service Centre Programme

Jun 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Responsible for setting up an integration strategy for Human Resources, Telesales centralization, Customer Service and Operations.
• Responsible for developing and implementing a sales programme for European sales force integration (3,000 sales people).
• Set up a successful sales programme to identify new market opportunities and to coordinate new product introduction through and jointly with the European Sales Force (Telesales, Field sales and Key Account)
• Launched the first step of sales force integration in eight European countries
• Developed and established an incentive system for the sales programme
• Coaching of Sales Managers for revenue generation and sales force integration
• Examined legal restrictions on the integration

Oct 2002 – May 2003 · 7 mos

• Responsible for integration projects, performance improvement programmes, controlling and customer service.
• Developed a strategy for the integration of Payroll, Telesales and a central Supervisory Board for Customer Service (in-house and outsourced call centres)
• Implemented European performance improvement programmes for Sales, Operations and Customer Service and successfully negotiated the implementation with central works councils for Germany

Jun 2001 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for Controlling, Payroll Systems and Office Administration with 14 employees.
• Developed, established and implemented a central personnel controlling and reporting system (for 2,700 employees with more than 100 Mio. EUR personnel costs) which was later adopted by DHL Express Germany with 40,000 people
• Analysis and controlling of all personnel and cost activities
• Reorganization of the Office Administration Department through outsourcing and restructuring of processes
• Continuation of HR responsibility for Call Centre with more than 350 employees

Jul 2000 – May 2001 · 10 mos

• Responsible for finalizing the centralization of a newly established call centre with 250 people.
• Centralization of five decentralized units
• Finalized recruitment (170 people within 6 months) and established all HR processes in the Call Centre environment
• Implemented a central working-time model for Customer Service in front and back office