Julia Decker

Freelance Consultant for Digital Transformation and Process Management

Julia Decker
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Aug 2022 - Present
2 years 7 months

Freelance Consultant for Digital Transformation and Process Management

I help businesses improve and automate their processes with the use of data analytics and process mining.

Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year 7 months
Berlin, Germany

Senior Data Product Manager

Zalando

Data Product Manager responsible for the Customer Fulfilment Domain

  • Defining the strategy and roadmap for the customer fulfillment domain
  • Managing various stakeholder groups with often conflicting interests
  • Responsible for sprint planning and reviews: Creating and prioritizing the product backlog together with several engineering teams
  • Bringing products live and organizing the onboarding of users and analysts
  • Support stakeholders in identifying and analyzing process inefficiencies and suggest approaches to improve, automate and innovate business processes
  • Chairing steering committees to update senior management on the progress of the different products, align on strategy and next steps

Selection of delivered Data Products:

  • Order Fulfilment Process Analytics Product: Data model integrating various data sources and dashboards to visualize and analyze the end-to-end order fulfilment process. Providing full process transparency on over 20 million orders: from order placed through partner fulfilment, carrier delivery, and customer returns.
  • Partner Performance Analytics Product: Dashboard to measure the performance of over 6000 stores in 11 countries, measuring cancellations, returns and delivery on promise. Live monitor and automation of alerts to enable users to respond fast to unfolding situations.
  • Returns and Refurbishment Process Analytics Product: Dashboard to visualize and analyze the complete returns and refurbishment process in over 25 warehouses across Europe with the aim of monitoring warehouse performance, reducing cycle times, reducing errors and ensure compliance.
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
6 months
Berlin, Germany

Process Mining – Business Analyst

KWS

Business analysis for Procurement and Accounts Payable

  • Process visualization and analysis using PowerBI and PAFnow
  • Dashboard creation for AP on-time payment analysis
  • Automation of vendor master data creation with Power Automate
  • Data validation and project coordination with external consultants
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
3 months
Allendorf, Germany

Process Mining Master Thesis

Viessmann

Analysis of Purchase to Pay (P2P) process

  • Creating dashboards with PowerBI and PAFnow
  • Analysis and comparison of P2P process performance in over 100 locations
  • Identifying opportunities for working capital reduction
  • Data driven identification of root cause analysis & interview-based validation
  • Presenting main findings and recommendations to senior management
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
1 year 11 months

Project Manager

Project Manager for a furniture manufacturer

  • Project Planning from execution to delivery: defining milestones and timelines for production and fitting teams
  • Revising architectural plans and contracts
  • Communicating project progress to stakeholders
  • Training designers and drafters
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
1 year 1 month
London, United Kingdom

Manager Technical Design Team

Smallbone of Devizes

Managing a team of six technical designers in various locations

  • Responsible for the team's output and performance
  • Restructuring processes to increase productivity
  • Implementing a new bonus system to improve the balance between individual and team work
  • Motivating the team, conducting appraisals and development talks
  • Training new members of staff
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 6 months
London, United Kingdom

Project Manager

Creative Woodwork

Managing projects for a furniture manufacturer

  • Project management of multiple refurbishing projects
  • Planning the work for the workshop staff and fitting teams
  • Monitoring and managing all contractors and suppliers within each project
  • Writing project progress reports for stakeholders
  • Recruiting new members of staff
  • Documenting and optimizing order processing processes
  • Designing and developing the company's website and supervised the social media campaign

Summary

Leading Digital Transformation with Process Mining

Languages

English
Native
Spanish
Native
German
Intermediate

Education

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024

LeWagon

Data Science Bootcamp · Data Science

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Hochschule für Wirtschaft & Recht

International MBA · Business Administration · Berlin, Germany · 1.3

Oct 2010 - Dec 2010

University of Buenos Aires

Audiovisual Design · Argentina

Certifications & licenses

Professional Scrum Master PSMI

Scrum.org

Data Engineer

Celonis

Joining Data in SQL

Datacamp

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

Microsoft

Doing Business in Asia

Hong Kong Baptist University

Doing Business in the US

San Diego University