Senior Change and Project Manager

Leveraged large volumes of post-harvest loss to build a long life, low cost, healthy and ready-to-eat vegetable-based food product to address nutrition challenges for low income consumers in Kenya

• Responsible for successful series A and B equity financing which secured USD 11 Mil
• Established governance, HR, finance and operations structures and policies
• Expanded, trained and led team from 2 to 10 full-time staff members
• Managed set up of first of its kind test kitchen in Africa
• Managed development of 3 new recipes to be launched in East Africa

Developed an innovative, cloud-based financial solution to enable the poorest of the poor to become bankable in cooperation with a for-profit bottle recycling company

• Used Human-Centred Design approach to develop an innovative cash-free, branch-free, paper-free micro-finance model to promote financial inclusion of waste collectors
• Set up loyalty program that Increased plastic waste collections from pilot group by 35%
• Conducted extensive research of bottle collectors which became basis for the creation of collection app
• Conducted interviews with bottle collectors and leadership team of recycling company to understand pain points and user experience of new collection app
• Assessed E2E customer and user journey and mapped key pain points for bottle collectors

Supported internal campaigns to increase employee engagement and raise emotional commitment of 8,000 colleagues as well as external campaigns to strengthen and improve employer branding

• Initiated and published an Employee Business Blog that, within a few months, became the most read blog across all 3 countries with the most followers within its category
• Participated in campaign "Be Yourself - Make a Difference" to inspire current and future colleagues to follow their passion and dreams
• Published articles on my experience as working mum to encourage women in leadership roles, among others, in "Edition F" and "Business Ladies"

Supported project leadership and client-c-level in global transformation program, shifting a vertical organization structure to a matrix organization, focusing on change facilitation for 6,000 employees in 30 facilities across Europe

• Analyzed as-is and to-be operating model and identified and validated key opportunities and challenges for different stakeholder groups
• Recommended change road map for reduction from 32 to 7 business leaders in Europe
• Developed innovative change management toolbox for client that was show-cased within Accenture as a best practice example
• Developed internal communication strategy for all stakeholders up to c-level
• Designed, organized, moderated townhalls, kick off & vision workshops for up to 300 employees in various countries including follow-up Q&A sessions and lessons learned
• Defined new roles, responsibilities and reporting lines for leadership teams

Change lead responsible for change and training for pilot region Nordics for a global IT-System SAP S/4 HANA implementation.

• Conducted stakeholder and change impact assessments
• Developed engagement- and communication plans
• Conducted training needs analysis and developed training plans and materials
• Developed and revised necessary generic role descriptions

Defined strategy for roll-out of Project Management Office (PMO) as shared services across bank to enforce consistent PMO approach for 3,600 employees across Switzerland

• Designed and implemented communication strategy for specific target groups
• Developed training program including stakeholder engagement, change impact analysis, training need analysis and business readiness assessment
• Developed KPI's and conducted 360 interviews to measure change readiness of employees
• Launched internal monthly magazine "PMO Zoom" featuring leadership support and success stories which increased employee's buy-in from initial 8% to 72%

Evaluated cost structure of HR department and defined strategic options for cost reduction

• Designed and implemented project plan to achieve 20% cost savings within one year
• Identified organizational efficiency potentials of 20 FTE and restructured HR organization
• Calculated business case to assess strategic options and evaluated impact on client
• Defined new reporting lines for around 50 employees

Implemented global learning and development strategy for go-live support of SAP HR which introduced new agile ways of working for 1,000 super users in defined pilot markets

• Developed and coordinated training schedule of 100 training sessions held within 2 weeks in 10 global locations for 1,000 staff members
• Designed and moderated SAP training sessions in defined pilot markets for ongoing involvement and commitment for strategic decision makers and top management level, including "train the trainer" sessions
• Designed, implemented, managed and handed-over knowledge academy and learning network for 6,000 end users at operating level

Moderator & trainer for several workshops and training sessions

• Developed, facilitated and conducted leadership trainings on management topics
• Moderated team-building workshops on optimal inter-cultural and character-based team composition for C-Level

Created online communication and marketing strategy for US travel market

• Developed market and industry trends analysis by conducting expert interviews
• Performed quantitative modelling of market size, market growth and top-line potential