Thorsten Schulz

Founder

Lütjensee, Germany
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
7 months
Hamburg, Germany

Founder

TS Consulting GmbH

  • Implementing change
  • Effective project management, traditional & agile
Sep 2024 - Present
11 months
Germany

Project Manager

ORLEN Deutschland GmbH

  • S/4HANA vs. SAP ECC
  • SAP IS-Oil & OGSD rollout
  • Blueprint & rollout concept
  • Change initiation
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 1 month
Potsdam, Germany

Project Manager

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

  • S/4HANA rollout (MM, FI/CO)
  • eProcurement / SAP ARIBA rollout
  • Managing the integrators
  • Organizational Change Management (OCM)
  • Agile coaching for program management
  • Creating the House of Change
  • Purchase-to-Pay
  • 2NV scenario: Guided Buying
May 2023 - Sep 2023
5 months
Löningen, Germany

Change Manager

Remmers GmbH

  • SAP S/4HANA (EWM, MM, PP)
  • Organizational Change Management (OCM)
  • Change impact analysis (brownfield)
  • Communication & training concept
  • Ensuring go-live success
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Subproject Manager

Detlev Louis GmbH

  • Emergency deployment
  • Managing the cutover
  • Ensuring go-live (MM, EWM, SD modules)
  • Source-to-Contract, Procure-to-Pay
  • Designing organizational change management (OCM)
Aug 2022 - May 2023
10 months
Kiel, Germany

Program Management / Organizational Change

Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH

  • Brownfield approach
  • ECC conversion, EWM conversion, DB conversion
  • PS, EWM, FI/CO, MM, PP, QM modules
  • 6 roadmap items with cutover
  • Over 120 projects in the program: agile & waterfall
  • Managing the integrator
  • Strategic planning of change measures
  • Leading the PMO
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 5 months
Hanover, Germany

Project Management / Change Management

Perfect Drive Sports Group GmbH

  • Blueprint-to-Go-live including cutover
  • Greenfield approach
  • Managing the integrator
  • Designing, organizing & running change management
  • Agile management in JIRA/Confluence
  • Fit-gap analysis, requirement engineering, development, testing, cutover, hypercare
  • Sales-from-stock, Procure-to-Pay/Receipt, Invoice-to-Pay
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
5 months
Herzogenaurach, Germany

Project Lead

Puma SE

  • Global template & roll-out
  • SAP IS Retail, MM
  • Agile management in JIRA/Confluence
  • Fit-gap analysis, requirement engineering, development, testing, cutover, hypercare
  • Purchase-to-Pay
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Project Management / Change Management

Carlisle Construction Materials GmbH

  • SAP S/4HANA Bluefield approach: FI/CO, MM, SD, SCM, PP
  • European template & roll-out
  • Developing and validating transition activities in each sequence, coordinating planning activities and workshops
  • Ensuring alignment with all regions
  • Ensuring local project organization is in place and staffed
  • Enabling local teams and stakeholders to understand their roles and engage in the transition
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Lecturer: Project Management

Baumann Bildung & Qualifizierung

Sep 2017 - Present
7 years 11 months
Germany

Lecturer for Change Management and Business Administration

FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management

Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
2 years 10 months
Heilbronn, Germany

Program Management

Intersport Deutschland eG

  • Holistic change management
  • Portfolio management
  • Creating an efficient project structure
  • Effective coordination of project managers
  • Project planning and task tracking with MS Teams and MS Project Pro
  • Cross-tribe management
  • SAP ERP, SAP CRM, Informatica 360 MDM/PIM
  • Resource management: overseeing 6 subproject managers, over 40 project staff
  • Creating a communication concept & measure tracking with web analytics
  • Project communication with line managers, organizational units, and stakeholders
  • Moderating meetings & escalations
  • Ensuring operational retail/sales processes and events/trade shows
  • Ensuring SEM/SEO compatibility
Apr 2017 - Present
8 years 4 months
Germany

Lecturer in Project Management and IT

ifb – Institut zur Fortbildung von Betriebsräten

Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
5 months
Nairobi, Kenya

Project Support / PMO

Vivo Energy Kenya

  • Creating the business blueprint for an SAP S/4HANA & IS-Oil greenfield implementation (MM)
  • Facilitating and organizing project meetings
  • Transparent result documentation
  • Organizing the SAP S/4HANA rollout in 7 African countries
Nov 2016 - Dec 2024
8 years 2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Associate Partner

Faktor 3 Consulting GmbH

  • Implementing change
  • Delivery – market – sales, traditional & agile
  • Project management, Agile & SAFe
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
4 months
Lippstadt, Germany

Project Lead, Program Management

Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.

  • Cross-functional stakeholder management
  • Developing & communicating optimization measures
  • Lean process design, portfolio management
  • Presenting results
Mar 2016 - May 2016
3 months
Berlin, Germany

Project Lead “Transition”

Toll Collect

  • Creating the operations introduction concept
  • Transitioning the project into operations
  • Creating content marketing
  • Ensuring compliance and documentation for the public client
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Team Lead

Cassini GmbH

  • Product Owner / Scrum Master
  • Tracking with JIRA scrum boards
  • Creating business blueprints & documentation
  • Responsible for requirement management
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
6 months
Kiel, Germany

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems

  • Creating a project description and decision template
  • Planning and developing an agile methodology
  • Agile coaching for project managers
  • Scrum Master duties
  • Sprint planning with JIRA
  • Communicating to stakeholders & line managers
  • Presenting results
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
4 months
Bonn, Germany

Management Consulting / Project Lead

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit

  • Reviewing the existing IT framework concept
  • Analyzing current IT operations at BMZ
  • Gathering and aligning strategic requirements for updates
  • Proposing changes based on operations analysis and requirement workshops, process definition
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
5 months
Pforzheim, Germany

Project Lead

Klingel Mail Order

  • Developing and prioritizing e2e optimization of webshop data flows
  • Significantly reducing end-to-end update times despite growing data volumes
  • Developing measures for search indexing, data load, job scheduling, and architecture
  • Developing SEO and SEM measures
  • Managing external vendors
  • Planning concept, proof of concept, and rollout
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Team Manager | Management Consultant

Cassini Consulting GmbH

  • Disciplinary & technical leadership of consultants
  • Team organization, team development
  • Strategic direction
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Project Lead

Creatrade

  • Business analysis: defining third-market strategy for a webshop application
  • SEM/SEO analysis
  • Designing IT organization, IT architecture, and processes
  • Knowledge transfer and facilitation to the business side
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Manager

Sopra Steria Consulting GmbH

Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
1 year 1 month
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Lead

Vodafone

  • Transitioning marketing projects into operations and fulfillment
  • Developing and aligning processes
  • Post-merger integration of Kabel Deutschland
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
5 months
Germany

Team Lead, Engagement Management, Advisory

Deutsche Universalbank (Confidential)

  • Managing project teams and task tracking
  • Defining and aligning compliance processes
  • Knowledge transfer for launching new anti-money laundering software
  • Reducing the backlog
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
7 months
Germany

Project Support

Deutsche Universalbank (Confidential)

  • Handling money laundering suspicion cases according to the AML Act
  • Reducing the backlog
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
3 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Project Lead

Unity Media Kabel BW

  • Defining project management processes
  • Reorganizing structure and workflows
  • Conducting workshops
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
1 year 3 months
Bonn, Germany

Program Management

T-Mobile

  • Replacing the BFS inventory system and IPCom planning tool with the new R&SI (Comarch) / OSS layer
  • Introducing & coaching agile methodology
  • Driving effective decisions
  • Scrum Master: ensuring agreed agile processes and artifacts
  • Project volume > €5.0M, 10 project managers, ~80 members, external vendors
  • PRINCE2 Best Practice Award 2012
  • Responsible for operational planning and control of the overall project
  • Accountable for meeting scope, time, and cost targets during execution
  • Defining goals and resources needed for planning
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
3 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Lead

Vodafone

  • Responsible for operational planning, control, and communication of the project
  • Accountable for meeting scope, time, and cost targets during execution
  • Process analysis, definition, and documentation
Jul 2011 - Dec 2014
3 years 6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Principal Consultant

Steria Mummert Consulting AG

  • Winner of the PRINCE2 Best Practice Award 2012
Jul 2011 - Oct 2011
4 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Reporting in Workstream Data Management

Alcatel-Lucent

  • Organizing efficient project management including PMO
  • Creating and maintaining the master plan
  • Timely delivery of all required data and information
  • Documenting and coordinating activities of various workstreams
Aug 2010 - Jun 2011
11 months
Geneva, Switzerland

Independent Project Management

Tamoil S.A.

  • SAP ERP & IS-OIL implementation and rollout
  • Tools: MS Office, MindManager Pro, ProjectPlace, SAP Solution Manager
  • Project volume > €4.2M
  • 6 project managers, ~50 team members
  • Scrum Master: setting up project structures based on standard methodologies
  • Defining & managing project goals, deadlines & resources and ensuring their achievement
  • Leading and coordinating all parties involved
  • Monitoring both parties’ cooperation
  • Facilitating change request decisions
  • Reporting to the steering committee & CEOs
Mar 2010 - Aug 2010
6 months

Project Lead and Consultant

Leading European Retailer (Consumer Electronics)

  • 3 project managers, ~18 team members
  • Conducting and moderating cross-functional workshops
  • Defining functional and non-functional requirements for an eCommerce fulfillment solution
  • Creating the Business Requirement Document
  • Establishing a unified, agreed information base
Mar 2009 - Mar 2010
1 year 1 month

Project Lead and Consultant

Leading European Retailer (Consumer Electronics)

  • Conducting business analysis
  • Creating the business design
  • Validating functional and technical designs
  • Aligning with enterprise architecture, process integration and documentation, interfaces to parallel projects in an IBM WebSphere Commercial Suite eCommerce platform rollout
  • Managing service integrators SA2 Worldsync, Novomind
  • Sourcing and managing content providers (X-Place, C-Net)
  • Ensuring timely rollout
  • Coaching and developing the project team for agile work
Feb 2009 - May 2009
4 months
Bautzen, Germany

Interim Management

Sphairon Access Systems GmbH

  • Temporary CEO
  • Analyzing the value chain
  • Identifying and documenting optimization potentials
  • Validating an Iraqi government contract
  • Facilitating discussions with investors
Oct 2008 - Nov 2008
2 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Lead

Vodafone D2 GmbH

  • Selecting an appropriate content management system
  • Ensuring compliance with the Vodafone Group
  • Selecting and managing vendors
  • Designing ongoing operations and editorial conferences
Oct 2008 - Oct 2008
1 month
Lichtenfels, Germany

Facilitation and Consulting

Software Partner Obermain GmbH

  • Identifying options according to ITIL
  • Integrating benchmarks
May 2008 - Jul 2008
3 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Lead and Consulting

Vodafone D2 GmbH

  • Outsourcing the hotline for retail and branches
  • Transferring calls to dedicated units
  • Analyzing current call volumes by volume and content
  • Gap analysis
  • Gradual outsourcing of calls to external vendor Arvato
  • Facilitating the transition with service levels, specs, and training
  • Designing ongoing operations
Mar 2006 - Jun 2008
2 years 4 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Lead

Vodafone D2 GmbH

  • Business case ~ €15M
  • Project sponsor at C-level
  • Optimizing business consumer and business support processes
  • Centralizing inside sales services
  • Establishing effective service management
  • Business analysis
  • Design and implementation
  • Tracking all measures
  • Change management of measures
  • Moderating with the works council
  • Process analysis, service definition, gap analysis of existing services (ARIS, ITIL)
  • Creating ExCo-relevant business cases
  • Achieving balance of interests with the works council
Mar 2006 - Mar 2006
1 month
Hamburg, Germany

Consultant

BPE Private Equity

  • Conducting integrated financial and commercial due diligence for a mid-sized machinery manufacturer
  • Transaction volume: ~ €60M
Oct 2005 - Jun 2011
5 years 9 months
Hamburg, Germany

Partner

Putz & Partner Unternehmensberatung AG

Oct 2004 - Mar 2005
6 months
Richmond, United States

Project Lead

Jungheinrich Lift Trucks & MIC Corp.

  • Improved first-pick rate from ~60% to over 80%
  • Lean warehouse optimization
  • Integrated warehouse software into ERP
Feb 2004 - Oct 2004
9 months
Hamburg, Germany

Product Launch Manager

Jungheinrich

  • Conducting market and business analysis
  • Developing market entry strategy including pricing and positioning
  • Executing product launch
Mar 2003 - Mar 2004
1 year 1 month
Hamburg, Germany

ISO 9001 Certification Lead

Jungheinrich

  • Implementing group-wide best practices and process harmonization for certification
  • Implementing lean methodology
Sep 2002 - Jul 2005
2 years 11 months
Hamburg, Germany

Manager in International Product Marketing

Jungheinrich AG

  • Business units in 25 country organizations (> €100M)
Apr 1999 - Feb 2001
1 year 11 months
Hanover, Germany

Sales Department Head

Sport-Scheck GmbH

Feb 1997 - Mar 1999
2 years 2 months
Dortmund, Germany

Sales Department Head

Decathlon GmbH & Co. KG

Jun 1989 - Aug 1990
1 year 3 months
Wentorf bei Hamburg, Germany

Corporal

1. Panzergrenadierbataillon 163, Maintenance Group

Summary
  • Since 1997, Thorsten has worked in various roles and line functions (retail and mechanical engineering) as a project manager, program manager, and coach.
  • He has successfully taken on end-to-end leadership of complex, international (ERP) projects and programs (including SAP S/4HANA) and implemented (agile) mindsets.
  • He specializes in project management, change management, agile transformations and coaching, as well as effective PMO. He won the PRINCE2 Best Practice Award.
  • He is a lecturer in project management, IT, and change management at FOM and ifb.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Education
Nov 1990 - Dec 1996

Universität zu Kiel

Diplom-Kaufmann · Germany

University of Cape Town

MBA · South Africa

ESC Brest

France

Certifications & licenses

SAFe Agilist

Scrum Master

Sr. Agile Project Manager

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