Matthias Rücker
Senior Consultant Organizational Development / Change and Transformation Management / Agility
Experience
Senior Consultant Organizational Development / Change and Transformation Management / Agility
sternkopf-consulting GmbH
- sternkopf-consulting GmbH addresses the challenges of digitalization and the needs of a holistic agile transformation.
- The core focus is guiding change and transformation programs.
- It also works with clients to develop implementation strategies and carry out resulting organizational development measures.
- Additionally, sternkopf-consulting GmbH offers leadership development up to board level and provides training for leadership, Agile Leadership, and Agile Transformation Coach courses.
- The company currently has 7 employees.
- Change and transformation (strategy and execution)
- Organizational & employee/leadership development
- Digitalization (business processes, customer communication)
- Portfolio management - corporate strategy
- IT & Business
- Agile Leadership / Supportive Leadership trainings
- STELLLA® (Life-Long-Learning) Agile Leadership trainings
- Lean-agile portfolio management
- Initiator, design, implementation of “Agile Transformation Coach” for the IHK Dortmund
- C-level consulting and stakeholder management
- Hands-on interim management
Change Program Manager / Agile Product Owner & Coach
Scheidt und Bachmann GmbH
- The goal was to realign Scheidt & Bachmann into a modern, high-performing company. To achieve this, the operational collaboration model had to be restructured from the ground up.
- Introduced agile ways of working across the Fuel Retail Solution division (500 employees) as the spearhead to embed an agile mindset up to management level.
- Set up the organization to operate customer-centric, boosting customer and employee satisfaction (key role in organizational development and strategy execution).
- As the main contact/key player for Shell Germany GmbH, the company’s most important customer in its 150-year history, the task was to define, design, and roll out a modern, cloud-based POS and inventory management system for 2,000 gas stations (Europe’s largest market).
- Advised Shell management, ensuring transparency in designing new solutions along the implementation and change roadmap and removing obstacles together.
- Collaborated with internal management and key-account management to define new opportunities and deliver high-quality products as a market leader for the next system generation.
- Embedding customer-specific processes in a company-wide context required introducing a lean-agile portfolio management process, defining processes and collaboration between departments, and optimizing overall customer and portfolio management (efficiency, profitability, customer focus) in a coordinated way.
- Moderated strategy workshops at executive and staff levels.
- Coached team members, other Product Owners, and project stakeholders daily.
- Adhered to high internal quality standards to efficiently deliver customer-specific solutions in short iteration cycles.
Real Estate Agent
Immobilienbüro Feldt GmbH
- Built and co-developed a new branch office
- Property management
- Planning and managing operational activities
- Market and price analysis
- Property viewings
- Customer service
- Developing, planning, and executing marketing activities
- Preparing for court appointments
Trainee Real Estate Agent
Kaiser Real Estate GmbH
Summary
Matthias Rücker is a highly motivated interim manager who has proven his ability to deliver top results in a fast-changing and demanding environment, appreciated by both clients and internal management. As an interim manager for complex transformation and organizational change challenges, he partners closely with clients and CEOs, developing the necessary measures and strategies together. With empathy, methodological expertise, and determination, he drives, moderates, and implements change processes and major strategic initiatives. Matthias has experience designing and executing complex programs in IT and business settings and can segment a company’s portfolio based on value-added criteria. He effortlessly leads strategy workshops at board, executive, and employee levels and aligns leaders along the change management roadmap. Regularly reviewing transformation goals and needed adjustments ensures benefits and strategic alignment. Matthias’s strength lies in honoring the past, tackling the new pragmatically, and communicating his actions transparently. He believes you can’t force a company into a blueprint but must guide planned changes toward results. He always stays authentic and solution-focused, fostering potential with people from all backgrounds (Leading by Example).
Languages
Education
Plymouth University
Master of Science in Business and Management · Business and Management · Plymouth, United Kingdom
Universidad Huelva
Economics · Huelva, Spain
Fontys International Business School
International Business and Management Studies, Focus: Finance, Controlling, Business Management, Sustainability · International Business and Management Studies · Venlo, Netherlands
Certifications & licenses
SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE® 5.1)
Agile Master Class
Leading SAFe (SAFe® SA 5.1)
Lean Agile Portfolio Management
sternkopf-consulting
Certified Product Owner, PSPO I
scrum.org
Certified Scrum Master, PSM I
scrum.org
Driver’s License Class B1E (formerly Class 3)
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