Ebru Gadiş - Managing Partner, Operations & Strategy

İstanbul, Turkey

Experience

Jan 2016 - Present

8 years 6 months

Turkey

Managing Partner, Operations & Strategy

Verumec Teknoloji Ltd. Şti.

Management consulting, mentoring, coaching and focused workshops on processes, technology, innovation.
Project and Change management consulting and training.
Solution architecture and digital strategy roadmaps.
Sprints for solutions & strategy.
Consulting for culture & organizational transformations.
Technology Consulting (2023-Present): ERP stabilization project of Wittmann, marketing process changes of Agora, IFAT.
Project Management training and solution customization (2023-Present): CCL Industries, Vibracoustic, İTÜ Excellence Center.
Solution architecture (2021-2022): Community management, experiential learning management, marketing stack.
Technology Consulting (2021-2022): ERP & IT harmonization projects of Wittmann.
Solution Sprints (2021-2022): Employee experience development.
Mentoring and coaching (2021-2022): Entrepreneurs, startups.
Project Management training and solution customization (2021-2022): Brown Forman.
Change Management training (2021-2022): AREL University, Gedik University.
Consulting entrepreneurs for lean business model and business development (2017-2020).
Workshops and trainings for Creative Confidence, 100 Days of a CIO (2017-2020).
Mentoring Program Design and Delivery for European Chapters Collaboration of PMI (Project Management Institute) (2017-2020).
Mentoring Programs Design and Operation: PMI European Chapter Collaboration, İstanbul Technical University Alumni, PMI Turkey Chapter (2017-2020).
Mentoring trainings and workshops to PMI Turkey Chapter (2017-2020).
Member of Business Process & Innovation Jury for SAP Quality Awards, SAP TR (2017-2020).
Digital strategy consulting for marketing and operational systems: MMI Eurasia and partners (2017-2020).
Change Management, Project Management and Communication trainings: Elif Plastic, İstanbul Technical University, Sabahattin Zaim University Technology Transfer Office, Bilgi University, B/S/H, CADEM, EAE, HB Fuller, an Istanbul Municipality subsidiary company, Nar Consultancy, Rengo Consultancy, Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters' Association, Bahçeşehir University (2017-2020).

Jan 1998 - Dec 2016

18 years

İstanbul, Turkey

Information Systems Manager, Eurasia Region

Wittur Group

Trusted advisor to CEO and board members.
IT Steering committee member for Governance of IT Strategy and Projects globally.
Head of Business Intelligence (BI) Center of Excellence global.
WSI project (Post merger integration of Wittur Group & Sematic) (2016): Shared services design for IT/IS and Finance. Skills audit of global IT/IS staff, BI assessment of both companies. Stakeholder communication with local boards and Shared Services global leadership.
Advanced Scheduling (2016): New process integration in production and industrial engineering, ensured new processes, systems and tools were developed and introduced; coached and mentored impacted employees to adopt the change.
ERP Upgrade Austria (2015): Assessment of global and site-specific impacts of ERP upgrade pilot. Advisory to local boards and CXOs.
Logistics Department development (2015): Advisory to country manager about target organization design for logistics to support supply chain, mentored impacted employees for a smooth transition from current to future state.
Strategy changes after acquisition by Bain Capital (2014): Facilitated as member of local board certain operation options to meet the CEO cost challenge. Evaluate progress and performance execution against goals that drive capacity and excellence.
Spendvisibility (Procurement visibility and data collection at global scale) project (2013): Advisory to COO and CIO about technology, capabilities and impact (people, entity, function, budget), trained local team members (Process Owners) on business change tools and techniques.
Developed change capabilities in local IT team and mentor them to support rapid transformation programs (2013).
Coordinate global IT/IS balanced score card and budget structure (2013).
Singapore ERP (2012): Conducted assessment of ERP selection in Singapore with the impact of global harmonization and existing processes in other sales entities and plants in Europe and China.
New Horizons (Strategy changes after acquisition by Triton Group), a three-years transformation program focusing on operations management (2011): Advisory to local and global process owners on impacts, to keep business going while making progress, coaching individuals, leaders and impacted teams through the transition period.
PDM Rollout (2010): Design and implementation of server and storage infrastructure consolidation to generate more capacity to support business; project planning, execution, monitor and control by managing resource and prioritizing workload.
Global BI Project (2007-2009): Evaluation and selection of possible tools to be used globally, project planning for Global IT team, subcontractors, and business board. Developed and led BI team to support the implementation of Business Intelligence centre of excellence globally. Cost allocation schema design for intercompany costs. Coordination of subcontractors and BI team. Review and provide timely feedback to issues and change requests. Managed relationships at Vice President level (global board). Supported the CXO level leadership to develop its transition plan. Developed data management organisation, policies, and processes. Overall responsibility for business readiness (users, customer, and vendors).
IT Service Desk (2007-2009): Developed KPIs to track and report on progress against the expected return on investment, to ensure the benefits were realized.
Local BI Project (2006-2007): Managed a team of IT/IS, business and subcontractors. Extensive communication to ensure new processes, systems and tools adopted. Guided coalition between business managers, resolving issues and facilitating approval scope changes.
Post Merger Integration – Selcom Asfen & Wittur Group (Goldman Sachs & Credit Suisse & Cerberus) (2006).
ERP Rollout as ERP Project Manager (2003-2005): Roll-out turns out to be a standalone implementation. Created an operating model that transformed the organization into a benchmark for whole group companies. Managed a team of resources (16 people from all functions) to ensure the successful adoption and anchoring of new processes and globalization. Engaged with internal stakeholders to support change and ensure compliance to quality and legal systems by building key capabilities, super user coordination, communication plan, training plan. General responsible for business readiness and risk mitigation. Developed guidelines, procedures, and training modules to manage data locally (de-centralised) in a compliant manner.
Post-Merger Integration – Selcom Asfen & Prometal (2002): Ensured new processes, systems and tools were introduced within IT, R&D and Sales through communication and training.
IT Global Harmonization Project (2001-2002): Assessment of local impact, local board coordination.
Migration from Macintosh to Windows platform (2001): Delivery of standard desktop, applications, supporting infrastructure, policies and procedures including user trainings, project plan and execution.

Jan 1996 - Dec 1999

4 years

Turkey

Senior Project Engineer, Project Development

Philips Factory Automation TR

Developed automation software by advanced C programming on real-time OS (QNX).
Lead automation projects both at development and at customer site installation as project leader (Bayer, Cargill, Lafarge, Unilever).
Supported customers as subject matter expert on IEEE & GMP standards.
Supervisory Systems Presales: Introduction of new technologies (including Internet TV) to executive committees of major manufacturers (including Vestel, Beko).
Development and implementation of supervisory systems: Development and on-site activities including user trainings and resistance management.

Jan 1993 - Dec 1997

3 years

İstanbul, Turkey

Research Assistant, Engineering Sciences

Istanbul Technical University

Introduction of Linux systems to faculty laboratories as faculty network administrator including trainings to telecommunication companies.
Introduction graphical user interface capabilities to mainframes and providing them to academic personnel for their research and created documentation for them for utilization, coordinated VIP support when necessary.