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Michael W.

Project Manager

Hünxe, Germany

Experience

Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
8 months

Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: industry/production
  • Implementation of e-procurement solution ivalua P2P, sourcing, interface
  • Budget responsibility: €2 million
  • Conducting project planning including creating and continuously maintaining project plans
  • Tasks as subproject manager
  • Creating solution concepts
  • Creating FSD for ivalua
  • Building and developing the project team
  • Time, budget and quality tracking
  • Liaising with ivalua
  • Managing the project team
  • Preparing and leading workshops
  • Creating project plans
  • Single point of contact to ivalua
  • MS Project
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Management meetings
  • Creating blueprints
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project plan control and presentation in MS Project
  • Summarizing and distributing work packages
  • Tracking work packages
  • Creating change requests
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
4 months

Stream Lead Interface

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: industrial transport sector
  • Implementation of e-procurement solution ivalua SRM, platform, P2P sourcing, interface
  • Managing and directing developers
  • Creating an interface specification to S/4 HANA system
  • Sprint review
  • Sprint planning
  • Sprint management
  • Controlling and resolving escalations
  • Handling difficult client meetings
  • Stakeholder management
  • Conducting negotiations
  • Budget tracking
May 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year

Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: energy supply
  • Implementation of e-procurement solution ivalua SRM, sourcing, interface
  • Budget responsibility: €2 million
  • Conducting project planning including creating and continuously maintaining project plans
  • Tasks as subproject manager
  • Creating solution concepts
  • Creating FSD for ivalua
  • Building and developing the project team
  • Time, budget and quality tracking
  • Liaising with ivalua
  • Managing the project team
  • Preparing and leading workshops
  • Creating project plans
  • Single point of contact to ivalua
  • MS Project
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Management meetings
  • Creating blueprints
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project plan control and presentation in MS Project
  • Summarizing and distributing work packages
  • Tracking work packages
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
4 months

Test Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: medical sector
  • Implementation of e-procurement solution S/4 HANA
  • Test monitoring
  • UAT
  • Creating requirement list for UAT
  • Creating flowcharts to identify current processes
  • Creating target concepts
  • Executing UAT
  • Testing
  • System testing on DEV, QA, PROD
  • E2E walkthrough
  • Developing proposals for change support
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
1 year 1 month

Stream Lead Testing and Training

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: energy supply
  • Implementation of e-procurement solution ivalua SRM, platform, sourcing, interface
  • BPML structure
  • Aligning with business stakeholders
  • FDD/requirements specification creation
  • Process flow diagrams
  • Pain analysis
  • Business model review
  • Stakeholder management
  • Taking on training tasks
  • Creating training concepts
  • Conducting training for over 800 users
  • Creating training materials
  • Test monitoring
  • UAT
  • Creating requirement list for UAT
  • Creating flowcharts to identify current processes
  • Creating target concepts
  • Executing UAT
  • Testing
  • System testing on DEV, QA, PROD
  • E2E walkthrough
  • Developing proposals for change support
  • Key user training
  • Guided buying, e-catalog and sourcing
  • Tracking and measuring project progress
  • Overall supplier management support
  • Process optimization in terms of cost reduction
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
3 months

Process and Customizing Expert (Part-time)

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: industrial sector
  • SAP Ariba optimization
  • Reviewing system current state
  • Reviewing process current state
  • Providing recommendations for S2P, SLP, S2C and guided buying
  • Supporting supplier onboarding
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 2 months

Single Point of Contact Testing and Training

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: energy sector
  • Implementation of S/4 HANA S2P + Ariba
  • Reviewing current state
  • Requirements specification creation
  • BPML structure
  • Aligning with business stakeholders
  • FDD/requirements specification creation
  • Process flow diagrams
  • Pain analysis
  • Business model review
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project setups
  • Building and developing the project team
  • Taking on training tasks
  • Creating training concepts
  • Conducting training for over 800 users
  • Creating training materials
  • Test monitoring
  • UAT
  • Creating requirement list for UAT
  • Creating flowcharts to identify current processes
  • Creating target concepts
  • Executing UAT
  • Testing
  • System testing on DEV, QA, PROD
  • E2E walkthrough
  • Developing proposals for change support
  • Key user training
  • Guided buying, e-catalog and sourcing
  • Tracking and measuring project progress
  • Overall supplier management support
  • Process optimization in terms of cost reduction
  • Test planning
  • SOX
Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
3 years

E-Catalog Specialist

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: across all sectors
  • Implementation of e-catalogs, punchouts & EDI
  • Creating e-catalogs in BMEcat 1.2 & 2005 formats
  • Price updates
  • Enriching catalog data
  • Uploading to major platforms such as Ariba, Coupa, ivalua, Mercateo, Unite, PSG, Newtron, Meplato, etc.
  • Creating, managing and linking punchouts in OCI 4.0, OCI 5.0 and cXML
  • Process support in EDI integration using EDIFACT, XML and Tradacoms
Oct 2021 - Present
4 years 3 months

Implementer

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: tool manufacturing
  • E-catalog creation
  • Creating digital catalogs for providers like Jaggaer, Coupa, Ariba and uploading them
  • Task tracking via Microsoft Project
  • Training employees
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
1 year 4 months

International Subproject Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: public sector
  • Building IT infrastructure in overseas offices
  • Budget responsibility: €500 million
  • Conducting project planning including creating and continuously maintaining project plans
  • Tasks as subproject manager
  • Creating infrastructure solution concepts
  • Building and developing the project team
  • Implementing rescue measures including VDI solution introduction
  • Managing Jira and Confluence within the project instance
  • MS Project
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Management meetings
  • Creating blueprints
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project plan control and presentation in MS Project
  • Creating IT requirements specifications and concepts for developing IT process maps
  • Summarizing and distributing work packages
  • Tracking work packages
  • Creating training measures
  • Tracking training measures
  • Creating knowledge transfer concepts from super admin to end user
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
4 months

Executive Consultant

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: consulting service provider
  • Implementation of Atlassian Confluence Cloud
  • Building a structure
  • Organizing content topics
  • Configuring settings
  • Editing themes
  • Building templates
  • Managing plugins
  • Updating Confluence version
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Dividing into 3 stages (DEV, QA, Prod)
  • Training
  • Status reporting via MS Project
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
3 months

Subproject Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: public sector
  • Implementation of a unified HR system
  • Supporting the project manager
  • Managing tasks with Jira
  • Creating slides
  • Taking meeting notes
  • Managing project plan in MS Project, etc.
Jun 2021 - Apr 2023
1 year 11 months

Stream Lead Testing, Training and E-Catalogs, Subproject Management

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: medical/pharma sector
  • Implementation of S/4 + Coupa P2P, PTP, P2O, S2O
  • Project setups
  • Building and developing the project team
  • Taking on training tasks
  • Creating training concepts
  • Conducting training for over 4000 users
  • Creating training materials
  • UAT
  • Creating requirement list for UAT
  • Creating flowcharts to identify current processes
  • Creating target concepts
  • Integration with SAP CIG (Cloud Integration Gateway)
  • Executing UAT
  • Testing
  • System testing on DEV, QA, PROD
  • E2E walkthrough
  • Developing proposals for change support
  • Key user training
  • Guided buying, e-catalog and sourcing
  • Overall supplier management support
  • Process optimization in terms of cost reduction
  • GxP
  • SOX
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
6 months

Procurement Consultant

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client: Ratioform GmbH
  • Procurement consulting
  • Advising on various S2P platforms like SAP MM, Ariba, BeNeering, Unite, Jaggaer, Coupa
  • Requirements specification creation
  • Creating functional concepts
  • Supporting implementation from quality assurance perspective
  • PTP
  • S/4 HANA consulting
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
6 months

IT Project Manager/Product Owner in an International Environment (Developers from Cyprus and India)

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: app development
  • DEUS cryptocurrency app development
  • Action point list with automated overview display
  • Verifying currency conversion via API integration
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Creating interface for all stakeholders
  • Time & resource control
  • Facilitating workshops and sprints
  • Monitoring time, budget and risk using MS Project
  • Taking on the role of product owner for the app
  • Creating training measure concepts
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
7 months

Project Management

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: service sector
  • E-procurement consulting
  • Leading project management activities for marketing strategy
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Expanding Shopware shop
  • Implementing Magnalister
  • Setting up Amazon and eBay online shops
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year

IT Project Manager and Product Owner

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: software service provider
  • Implementation of ivalua platform
  • Supplier onboarding
  • Implementing procurement solution ivalua
  • Creating change requests
  • Managing Jira
  • Project tracking using Microsoft Project
  • Problem solving
  • Project management
  • Rollout
  • E-procurement
  • Implementation
May 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 8 months

Marketing Consultant

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: automotive, consumer goods, industrial and building technology
  • Marketing consulting
  • Supplier onboarding
  • Implementing procurement solution
  • Creating change requests
  • Managing Jira
  • Project tracking using Microsoft Project
  • Problem solving
  • Project management
  • Rollout
  • E-procurement
  • Implementation
Feb 2020 - May 2021
1 year 4 months

Procurement Consultant

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: IT sector
  • Procurement consulting
  • Advising on online marketplaces like Amazon Business, Jaggaer, MyCatalogCloud, Unite, Coupa
  • Requirements specification creation
  • Creating functional concepts
  • Supporting implementation from quality assurance perspective
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 9 months

International Senior Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: consumer goods
  • Implementation of Ariba + SAP S/4 (indirect + direct)
  • Stakeholder management
  • Creating functional concepts
  • Selecting suppliers and project partners
  • Leading the project as project manager
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Managing tasks in Jira
  • Preparing and leading the steering committee
  • Contact person for management board and steering committee/stakeholder management
  • KPI reporting on project status and progress
  • Managing time, risk and budget
  • Tracking tasks using MS Project
  • Escalation management
  • S2P, Ariba, SAP ECC, SAP CIG (Cloud Integration Gateway), guided buying and sourcing, PTP
  • Co-managing communication and training work package
  • Process support for EDI integration using EDIFACT, XML and Tradacoms
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years

Project Management

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: banking
  • SAP SRM UI5 implementation + additional providers
  • As-is analysis
  • Functional concept creation
  • Reviewing business as-is analysis
  • Reviewing number range intervals
  • Fine-tuning the overall project on the provider side
  • Company code setup
  • Cost center review
  • Procurement process
  • Facilitation
  • Defining work packages
  • As-is/to-be
  • Reviewing training for key users, super admins
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years

Product Owner

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: IT sector
  • Atlassian Jira implementation and product ownership
  • Installing Confluence Server edition
  • Building a structure
  • Organizing content topics
  • Configuring settings
  • Editing themes
  • Managing plugins
  • Updating Confluence version
  • Training key users and super admins
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years

SAP Consultant

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: telecommunications sector
  • SAP SRM UI5 CSE implementation
  • Supplier onboarding
  • Implementing a CSE interface for existing SRM UI5 scenario
  • Creating change requests
  • Managing Jira
  • Project tracking using Microsoft Project
  • Project management
  • PTP customizing
  • Rollout
  • E-procurement
  • Implementation
  • Training key users and super admins
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
5 years 4 months

Project Manager, Senior E-Catalog Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: e-catalog platform
  • Implementing catalog platform on client side, co-developing platform and supporting suppliers
  • 8x catalog platform implementations on client side
  • Reviewing e-catalogs
  • Third level support
  • Acting as liaison between developers and suppliers
  • P2P
  • Jira admin
  • Representing in BME committee (contributing to new BMEcat format)
  • Representing in EClass committee
  • Project manager in various implementation projects
  • Ariba guided buying
  • Process support for EDI integration using EDIFACT, XML and Tradacoms
Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
4 years

IT Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: consumer goods production
  • Implementing procurement solution
  • Creating change requests
  • Managing Jira
  • Project tracking using Microsoft Project
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Problem solving
  • Project management
  • Rollout
  • Supplier onboarding e-procurement
  • Implementation
  • PTP process improvement
  • MM customizing
  • Training key users and super admins
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
3 years

IT Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: logistics sector
  • Implementing procurement solution
  • Creating change requests
  • Managing Jira
  • Project tracking using Microsoft Project
  • Problem solving
  • Project management
  • Rollout
  • Fine-tuning the overall project
  • Supplier onboarding e-procurement
  • Implementation
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
3 years

IT Project Manager

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: utilities provider
  • Leading a team to implement digital cloud in SAP SRM
Jan 2015 - Dec 2021
7 years

Product Owner for Atlassian Jira

Pro3Con GmbH

  • Client industry: IT sector
  • Implementation
  • Creating user stories
  • Maintenance
  • Plugin management
  • Creating templates
  • Creating workflows
Jun 2014 - Present
11 years 7 months

Founder

Pro3Con GmbH

  • SAP transformation
  • Procurement (SRM, MM, S/4)
  • E-catalogs
Apr 2012 - Aug 2016
4 years 5 months

Employment

Duisburger Hafen AG

May 2011 - Mar 2012
11 months

Employment

PV Ansperger GmbH

Summary

  • Strong communicator

  • Ambitious

  • Disciplined

  • Long-term player

  • Hands-on mentality

  • Impatient

  • Direct

  • Perfectionist

Languages

German
Native
English
Native
Polish
Native
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2015 - Sep 2019

University of Duisburg-Essen

Master of Science · Business Informatics · Germany

Sep 2010 - Jan 2015

TFH AgriCola

Bachelor of Engineering · Geodesy and Land Management · Bochum, Germany

Aug 2007 - Jul 2010
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State-certified Surveying Technician and University of Applied Sciences entrance qualification · Surveying Technician

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Certifications & licenses

ITIL v4

Prince Foundation

Prince Practioner

ivalua L1-L2 S2P

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