Owner, Self-Employed

Global TSA Manager (Transition Services Agreement) in a carve-out project, responsible for the IT workstream. Engaged by an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany.

Leadership and development of an international and intercultural PM team (>25 internal and external project managers from AT, DE, HU, SK and RO).

• Program and project delivery & governance – responsible for project execution, coaching PMs through the entire project lifecycle, risk and issue management, escalation management, project budget, KPIs controlling.
• Corporate portfolio management – managing the international, corporate & technical (lifecycle management/security) project portfolio (>40 active projects). Coaching PMs at steering committees, quality assurance, reporting to the Global Project Office.
• Operational portfolio delivery & reporting – project portfolio (SAP, ECM, IFRS17, IAM/security, cloud enablement, lifecycle management (IT infra, technical upgrade, IT service management)) monitoring.
• Project budget planning & financial control: interface with business (requirements management), finance department, IT-BUILD (enterprise & solution architecture, IT security, business analysis, business development, …) and IT-RUN (transition management, change management operations, test management,…), annual budget planning, project forecasts, project cost (staff, materials) management.
• IT service management & delivery: IT infrastructure & services vendors (R-IT, TSA) management for project service delivery, IT PM and participation/reporting in regular service delivery boards. Environment: ITIL v4, ITSM ServiceNow.
• Team management – leading and developing the project management team, capacity planning & resource allocation, task assignment, employee onboarding, coaching, goal setting & performance evaluations.
• Support processes: providing & enhancing the work environment and technical infrastructure management, PM methodology introduction and rollout, PM tool selection, internal PM communication, PM knowledge base.
• Process integration and rollout – PMO process owner, process & system integration, operational process implementation, test management, deployment and rollout processes.
• SAFe: introduction and rollout of the SAFe framework in a hybrid (Waterfall/Scrum) PM environment.
• PMO process setup, rollout and continuous optimization, rollout of the new PM delivery model.
• Operationalization of PMO processes and the new delivery model processes (Web2.0, JIRA/Confluence).
• Interface with IT department leadership (within BUILD/RUN), business units and demand management.
• JIRA/Confluence (Web 2.0) and PPM tool – integration lead / senior PM, continuous process improvements.

• Member of the PM team, collaboration with finance & controlling, logistics, sales & marketing on key initiatives.
• Supplier management (software vendors and external consulting firms).
• Invoice processing, supply chain management, logistics processes.
• SAP modules (FI, CO, MM, SD) integration, B2B website, merging customer databases.