Alexander N.

Transition Manager

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Braunschweig, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present
2 years 4 months

Transition Manager

Volkswagen AG

  • Preparation, moderation and follow-up of project regular meetings and planning days
  • Documentation and tracking of planning and iteration goals, risks and decisions
  • Prequalification of issues and requirements
  • Creation and updating of stream-specific master plans
  • Setup, configuration and maintenance of project documentation in Confluence and Sharepoint
  • Maintenance, analysis and preparation of quantitative and qualitative project progress in Jira and Confluence dashboards
  • Creation of a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Preparation of recommendations for action and weekly project status reports for management and committees
  • Design of future-proof project structures in the context of concurrent SAFe transformation
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
1 year 9 months
Braunschweig, Germany

Rollout Manager

VW Financial Services

  • Creation and maintenance of introduction and training concepts
  • Development of a support concept for digital signature
  • Support in defining escalation processes
  • Design and implementation of communication and training materials
  • Planning of rollout waves
  • Creation of KPI-based reporting and dashboards
  • Onboarding of rollout team (trainers, sales etc.)
  • Documentation and archiving of agreements, business approvals and technical releases
  • Provision of user requirements and complaints to the project
  • Tailored preparation of legal clarifications
  • Regular meetings with stakeholders to optimize rollout process, validate challenges, transfer knowledge and manage
  • Maintenance, analysis and preparation of quantitative and qualitative rollout progress in management reporting
  • Prequalification of issues and requirements
  • Preparation of recommendations for management
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year 11 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Rollout Manager

Volkswagen AG

  • Development of a global train-the-trainer rollout concept
  • Coordination of escalation processes
  • Design and implementation of communication and training materials
  • Creation of test cases and UAT planning of rollout waves
  • Creation of user stories and acceptance for development of an interactive KPI-based reporting and dashboard web app
  • Onboarding of cross-vendor rollout team
  • Documentation and archiving of agreements, business approvals and technical releases
  • Provision of user requirements and complaints to the project
  • Coordination of legal clarifications
  • Regular stakeholder meetings to optimize rollout process, validate challenges, transfer knowledge and manage
  • Maintenance, analysis and preparation of quantitative and qualitative rollout progress in management reporting
  • Prequalification of issues and requirements
  • Preparation of recommendations for top management
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
4 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Rollout Coordinator

Volkswagen AG

  • Market-specific rollout kickoff and marketing pitch
  • Planning of market-specific rollout
  • Preparation and collection of market-specific participation declarations including timeline
  • Project management
  • Enablement of users at importer level
  • Enablement of local trainers for dealer rollout (train-the-trainer)
  • Early life support for first applications and dealer trainings
  • Prequalification and preparation of market complaints and requirements
  • Documentation and reporting of market-specific rollout progress
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
1 year 11 months
Hamburg, Germany

Communication & Business Coach

C12Kommunikation

  • Personal coaching for over 20 executives across different industries
  • Workshops for personal and team development
  • Strategy workshops with executives (brand and corporate strategy, employer branding)
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
6 months
Cologne, Germany

Project Manager Occupational Health Management

REWE Group

  • Conducting a comprehensive needs analysis
  • Budget planning and negotiations with corporate and trade
  • Conceptualization and planning of measures
  • Management of work packages via Monday
  • Research, acquisition and negotiations with external vendors
  • Coordination and communication with stakeholders from various markets and teams
  • Preparation of regular reports for management on project progress and status
  • Development of conflict resolution and problem-solving measures
  • Evaluation of project success
Dortmund, Germany

Digital Epic Owner

PRO Profil GmbH

  • Conceptualization, validation and implementation of communication and documentation processes
  • Provision of functional requirements for development of an AI-supported software for tracking contractual signing and accounting
  • Market research and preliminary negotiations with vendors for implementing a tailored CRM solution
  • Creation and maintenance of dashboards for tracking due incoming and outgoing payments
Braunschweig, Germany

Project Lead & Product Owner

Pro:Tec Solutions GmbH

  • Organizational and process management (planning, execution, controlling and optimization of functional and legal processes as well as internal structures)
  • Analysis of benefit approval processes at professional associations and accident insurance funds
  • Understanding customer needs and defining product requirements for inhouse cloud-based software development
  • Management and leadership of an interdisciplinary and multicultural team (20+ persons from 5 nations in 3 countries across business, IT and legal)
  • Introduction and rollout of software solutions with business-critical impact
  • Planning and execution of an investment round (proof of concept, six-figure)
  • Implementation of AWS and Google dashboards
Braunschweig, Germany

Restructuring Manager

Pro:Tec Solutions GmbH

  • Organizational and process management (planning, execution, controlling and optimization of functional and legal processes as well as internal structures)
  • Socially responsible reduction of personnel costs
  • Leadership and management of an interdisciplinary team (sales, support, legal)
  • Development and validation of business models
  • Budget and liquidity planning including implementation of automated dashboards in Commitly and Pipedrive
  • Reporting to shareholders including preparation of shareholder resolutions
  • Transition of the project into the line organization

Summary

Hi, I'm Alex.

For over 10 years as a project manager, my clients in IT project management especially valued my entrepreneurial thinking, my ability to identify critical success factors early and solve problems, as well as my skill in leading interdisciplinary, multicultural teams.

Based on my experience as a communication and business coach, I bring together the needs and expectations of all stakeholders involved in the project or product and enable sustainable success for your project through needs-based project management.

Skills

  • Automotive & Suppliers

  • Finance

  • Wholesale & Retail

  • Healthcare

  • Insurance

  • Sports

  • Legal

  • Atlassian Products (Confluence, Jira)

  • Project Management (Clickup, Monday, Notion, Airtable)

  • Microsoft 365 (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Planner, Sharepoint)

  • Idea Management (Miro, Lucidchart)

  • Requirements Engineering (Hp Alm)

  • Crm (Pipedrive, Starhunter, Enski)

  • Liquidity Planning (Commitly & Agicap)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Certifications & licenses

Communication Coach

Itil 4 Foundation

Prince2® Foundation

Professional Agile Leadership I (Pal I)

Professional Scrum Master (PsmI)

Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills (Pspbm)

Professional Scrum Product Owner Ii (Pspo Ii)

Strengths Compass Coach

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