HR Strategic Program Lead

Nokia, Munich

03/21 – Present

Responsible for strategic transformation projects in the areas of HR strategy and global restructuring towards a service-led organization.

• Successfully managed multiple local and global restructuring programs optimizing organizational efficiency and driving substantial cost savings.
• Created a holistic companywide People Performance Growth concept ready for implementation.
• Steered the development of the first Nokia People Strategy to ensure optimal blend of Nokia values and business-oriented strategy.

Member of the Supervisory board for NSN GmbH

Nokia, Munich

05/13 – 08/23

• Represented all Senior leaders in Germany in the NSN GmbH supervisory board

Internal Consultant / Transformation Lead

Nokia, Munich

01/17 – 02/21

Led programs and provided decision support as well as quality assurance on a wide variety of project proposals and ad-hoc requests for C-suite.

• Established Nokia’s first companywide Service center (Finance & Logistic), enabling Nokia to transform into a process driven organization.
• Advised on various proposals on set-up and optimization of Nokia’s service organizations under legal, financial, workforce and strategic aspects impacting 5k+ employees in 100+ countries.

IT for CFO and ERP CoE

Nokia, Munich

04/13 – 12/16

In charge of the financial and logistic processes including relevant system landscape outlining the Nokia value flow with a team of 250+ employees across 80+ countries.

• Designed and implemented all financial and logistic processes and required changes in SAP P20 in addition to leading the support team for the global user community.
• Upgraded the Nokia global single instance SAP system with less than 48 hours down-time.
• Established the EBB (Enterprise Back Bone) which included the implementation of a release management and streamlining of all technical and business requirement changes to the global SAP system resulting in an optimized development roadmap with clear prioritization based on business needs and a quarterly go-live increase from 4 to 60 features.
• Designed a global system landscape based on SAP 4/HANA which required the implementation of a completely new logic resulting in a more agile, standardized, and fit-for-purpose ERP system for Nokia’s changing business.

  CFO Business Excellence

  Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich

  05/07 – 03/13

  Designed and implemented Nokia accounting processes and financial value flow in systems and processes during the Nokia Siemens Networks B.V. joint venture.

  • Consolidated and implemented Nokia Siemens Networks global and fully compliant accounting rules, processes and systems.
  • Merged the financial and logistic SAP ERP of Nokia and Siemens by leading up to 8000 employees to migrate 120 individual systems and processes into one single structure which increased operational efficiency and transparency.
  • Integrated the IT set-up of the acquired Motorola Solutions‘ Networks into NSN’s SAP P20 system, enabling a smooth incorporation of the additional customers, vendors, and countries into the global single-instance system in 68 countries over the course of 9 months while ensuring zero down-time for the existing 120 countries.