Johannes Schrey

Operations leader, process management, and organisational development

Johannes Schrey
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2021 - May 2022
7 months
Berlin, Germany

Head of Fulfillment

Hive

  • Prepared change in the company to drive business operations. This included definition of the frameworks needed to scale, implementing of measures to coordinate between departments, and connect plans and roadmaps to the overall business objectives.
  • Enabled fulfilment function to streamline and improve all warehouse related processes. Established operations as service centre with strong process compliance and feedback loops as well as manager training and focus on safety.
  • Supported 4x volume expansion in 3 months while improving direct work efficiency and contribution margins.
  • Hired and trained team of technical experts in process design, data analytics and finance to enable fulfilment to lead the company scale up.
  • Built tech roadmap up to 3 years into the future together with developers and product management. Integrating operational needs, capacity restrictions, and company strategy for customer offering expansion.
  • Developed and implemented standard processes across all operations functions, quality control mechanisms, returns management
  • Opened 3 warehouses in 3 EU countries, hiring experienced site leaders and developing future-proof layouts of warehouses to accommodate automation and process changes in the future.
  • Implemented strong measures to bring about cost reduction, accuracy increase and profitability of the fulfilment function.
  • Partnered with business development to build strong routines to assess complexity of new merchants and proactively build processes to serve needs for individualisation. Leading to smoother onboarding experience, faster ramp- up in warehouse and opportunity for upsell and collaborative growth of Hive and merchant.
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
1 year 2 months
Mansfield, United Kingdom

Operations Manager

Amazon

EMA2 - Amazon Robotics FC - Site Launch in November 2020

  • Responsible for outbound department performance. Running site-wide improvement projects and weekly performance update for regional review. Achieved improvement across all internal metrics and brought external customer impacting metrics into benchmark.
  • Operational planning for Prime Day '21 - achieved best on-time shipping performance of UK AR sites.
  • Covid testing - tested, improved, and rolled-out across 7 FC in the region. Highest EU testing performance with up to 90% of workforce tested per week.
  • Built a retention and absence management tool. Tracking and managing attendance on site level during probation period. This improved retention and reduced hiring churn and cost. Enabled 7 other FCs to test and roll out a self-developed tool before integrating into UK wide HR tool development.
  • Ran UK's largest offline stow area during launch, improving established processes and allowing site to ramp fullness ahead of peak.
  • Project support in launch across inbound and outbound. Supported all departments with standardized project templates to track effort and completion.
  • Implemented engagement focused tool to ensure positive launch experience for associates and structured performance tracking from day 1.
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 3 months
Bristol, United Kingdom

Pathways Operations Manager

Amazon

BRS1 - Amazon Robotics FC - Site Launch in July 2019

  • Launching inbound as STOW and Inbound SME
  • Redesigned and built pallet storage area to increase capacity by over 15% and improve inventory accuracy.
  • Tested and implemented new load carts with 33% more capacity which became launch standard for new FCs.
  • Led inbound project to upgrade 158 workstations to new automation standard with light activated guidance system and safer access to the work area. Developed and led the upskilling of trainers and technical experts to multiply training across all inbound associates.
  • Developed COVID safe teamwork and PPE distribution process for whole site in early stages of pandemic.
  • Developed team of new managers to exceed performance benchmarks and sharing best-practices into the UK network while maintaining highest team satisfaction scores in the site.
  • Took over team in outbound and improved manager satisfaction, increased training availability and usage, team performance and promotion readiness for 2 managers and team leads.
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
11 months
Luton, United Kingdom

Pathways Operations Manager

Amazon

LTN4 - First Amazon Robotics FC in UK

  • Built automated tool to show live view of product mix at stations. This improved distribution of work across FC, reduced stow performance variations, and led to better fullness management. On the engagement side, the visibility improved fairness for associates, eased directing of work, and allowed performance levels to be more comparable. Tool was adopted networkwide and principles of WIP distribution as a benchmark practice.

  • As Area Manager team, we implemented a measurement and management system for idle time in inbound. This led to increased productive uptime and overall performance. The implementation was done with an engagement focus to ensure fair and consistent management.

  • Worked in a team to measure and reduce idle time in inbound. Improving productive uptime across all shifts and reducing unexplained idle time.

Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
11 months
Berlin, Germany

Pathways Operations Manager

Amazon

Ber3 - Legacy FC with Unique Robotics Ready Layout

  • Implemented fullness driven stow method via new tool.
  • Trained key associates to act as expert trainers for peers and improve compliance organically.
  • Adapted stow process to account for deviating layout of site from standard Amazon layout.
  • Managed to get compliance into target range despite layout and process difference to what the tool was designed for.
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
7 months
Cologne, Germany

Account Technology Strategist

Microsoft

Advising financial institutions on:

  • Cloud implementation strategy with the adoption of Azure's open platform with the highest standard of data security and privacy.
  • How to leverage Microsoft's technologies to increase productivity, drive business, and decrease costs.
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
2 months

MBA Summer Associate

Credit Suisse

Private Banking & Wealth Management

Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
3 months

Senior Consultant

FAS AG

Accounting, IFRS, technical solutions for banking, process development.

  • Coordinated internal experts to implement new regulatory disclosure requirements with short lead time.
  • Owned reporting process for derivatives to comply with asset quality review of regulator. Coordinated internal teams to meet tight external AQR deadline.
  • Worked for department head in annual reporting improvement. Increased data quality of reports, allowed for deeper drill-down and reduced auditor inquiries.
  • Built completely new reporting process for repo assets due to incompliance. Managed to integrate new regulation after project start and successful roll-out during annual reporting process.
Aug 2012 - Mar 2014
1 year 8 months

Consultant

FAS AG

Accounting - Financial Instruments in local GAAP and IFRS

  • Finance operations in the regulatory world of IFRS with focus on derivatives, repo, and collateral reporting.
  • Built reporting solutions for clients, improving speed and quality in the monthly and annual reports.
  • Worked on new hedge accounting reporting process to make reporting and hedge-effectiveness tests more efficient.
  • Supported clients in implementing a new multi-currency accounting system to retain trading license.
Nov 2010 - Jul 2012
1 year 9 months

Business Consultant

BearingPoint

Financial Services, Performance Management and Controlling.

Summary

As a manager with over 8 years of experience in operations, finance and banking, and cloud technology, I am at my best when I navigate fast-paced environments where speed and accuracy matter. I believe success is based on solid groundwork and enjoying diverse teams and viewpoints to challenge assumptions. My dedication is leading high-performance teams and enabling others to succeed. Ambitious targets and information ambiguity are the stretch I am looking for in a role that allows me to balance data and experience.

Languages

English
Native
German
Native
French
Intermediate
Spanish
Intermediate
Swedish
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2014 - Jun 2016

IESE Business School - University of Navarra

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Oct 2006 - Jun 2010

Freie Universität Berlin

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) · Business Administration

Oct 2008 - Jun 2009

Lund University School of Economics and Management

Finance · Management

Certifications & licenses

Microsoft-INSEAD Online Challenging Customers through Business Model Innovation

ICA - International Certified Accountant