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Tobias Rudolph

M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager

Tobias Rudolph
Weikersheim, Germany

Experience

Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
1 year 9 months
Germany

M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager

Sandoz AG

  • Worked on several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine C, Coral) as IT project manager and cross-functional technical/integration manager.
  • Prepared and maintained project charters, project change requests and project plans.
  • Weekly project status reporting.
  • Prepared decision papers and steering committee slide decks.
  • Risk & issue management.
  • Tracked and managed activities, dependencies and deliverables across all functional IT domains.
  • Data migration planning and execution.
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 months
Germany

M&A IT Project Manager

TÜV Rheinland

  • Worked as IT project manager to plan and coordinate the post-merger integration (PMI) for acquired small and midsize companies.
  • Planned and coordinated post-merger integration M&A projects across multiple IT teams including infrastructure, SAP, HR and business applications.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Risk & issue management.
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
2 years 1 month
Switzerland

Project Management Office

Novartis AG

  • Supported the project manager in the M&A program "Orbit" for carving out the generics division Sandoz, specifically in the workstream for ERP separation.
  • Coordinated strategic concept paper for separation and migration.
  • Prepared and submitted project charters.
  • Managed project milestones and tollgates.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Risk & issue management.
  • Prepared and supported RFP process for selecting execution vendor.
  • Prepared and tracked decision papers.
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
1 year 5 months
Switzerland

IT Process Integration Lead

Arxada

  • Coordinated the separation and migration of the SAP PO landscape and all interfaces from Lonza to Arxada in the M&A carve-out project "PoP".
  • Planned and coordinated activities to build new SAP PO landscape in Azure / SAP RISE cloud data center.
  • Migrated all interfaces to new SAP PO landscape.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Cutover planning.
  • Governed execution vendor.
  • Quality gateway including reviewing quality of deliverables, checking compliance, and ensuring documentation.
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
7 months
Rastatt, Germany

Service Transition Manager / Service Manager

Daimler AG

  • Worked as service transition manager and service manager for plant Rastatt in the "TAF" program for transitioning data center operations (assets, contracts, services, and FTE) from Daimler to Infosys.
  • Service transition of IT services from Daimler to Infosys for plant Rastatt.
  • Service management representing Infosys at plant Rastatt for all IT services.
  • Service portfolio management.
  • Escalation management.
  • Demand management.
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
4 months
Switzerland

Project Management Office

Novartis AG

  • Coordinated multiple separate projects within the M&A "Helix IT" program.
  • Risk & issue management.
  • Escalation management.
  • Status reporting.
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
1 year 10 months
Switzerland

Tollgate Manager / Team Lead Data Extraction

Novartis AG

  • Responsible for tollgate management for the separation of key enterprise asset ERP applications and leading the data extraction team ("Books & Records") in the M&A "JEDI" program to carve out Alcon from Novartis.
  • Coordination, preparation and execution of project tollgates.
  • Deliverables management regarding time and quality.
  • Leading activities to select the right amount of business data for extraction.
  • Alignment with legal and ISEC departments.
Jan 2018 - Jul 2025
7 years 7 months

Owner, Project Manager

Tobias Rudolph – Coaching & Consulting

  • Provision of coaching and consulting services specializing in IT project management and integration management.
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
3 years 8 months
Germany

Domain Lead Service Management / IT Project Manager / Project Workstream Lead

Novartis Business Services GmbH

  • Evaluation and implementation of NextLab's "Dynamic Authorization Management" for M&A use-cases.
  • Managed services for the "Technical Services & Architecture" team within the Novartis ERP organization.
  • IT service management for infrastructure, basis and integration (ITIL-based).
  • Service portfolio management.
  • Offshore vendor management.
  • Escalation management.
  • Definition and monitoring of KPIs and SLAs.
  • Costs and budget management.
  • People management for two direct reports based in USA and Malaysia.
Mar 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 10 months
Germany

Team Lead Technical Integration Management

Hexal AG

  • Responsible for the technical integrity and stability of the global SAP landscape in the ERP Competence Center of Sandoz.
  • Transport management.
  • Incident management.
  • Downtime planning.
  • Upgrade planning.
  • Disaster recovery, failover, and regression test planning.
  • Application and interface monitoring.
  • People management for one direct report based in Germany.
Feb 2010 - Feb 2012
2 years 1 month
United States
On-site

Lead Technical Services / Development Team Lead

Sandoz Inc.

  • Onsite responsibility for building the support organization for technical services in the ERP Competence Center of Sandoz.
  • Build and ramp-up of the ERP support organization in the USA.
  • Operations of all SAP developments and interfaces for the Americas region.
  • People management for two direct reports based in the USA.
  • Onsite team lead for developments in the global SAP rollout program "SHAPE" for the USA.
  • Planning and coordination of all development activities in SAP ECC and SAP XI.
  • Milestone tracking.
  • Quality gateway involving review of deliverables, compliance checks, and documentation.
  • Managing a team of 30 developers.
  • Reporting to project management.
Jun 2007 - Jan 2010
2 years 8 months
Germany

SAP XI Architect

Hexal AG

  • Supervised and consulted on projects focusing on interfaces in SAP XI (compliant with GxP, SOX, CSV) within the central Global Layer organization for the global SAP rollout program "SHAPE".
  • Defining global interface strategy for Sandoz.
  • Defining SAP XI development guidelines.
  • Consulting on all projects in the area of interfaces.
  • Quality gateway including quality review of deliverables, compliance checks, and documentation.
  • Operations of productive interfaces in SAP XI.
  • Define and establish technical connectivity with external business partners using EDI, Seeburger, AS2, SFTP, and SOAP.
Jul 2005 - May 2007
1 year 11 months
Germany

Senior Consultant SAP Netweaver

Hugo Boss

  • Responsible for the area of interfaces and B2B integration while employed at Plecto AG / sd&m AG.
  • Operations of productive interfaces in SAP XI.
  • Design and implementation of new interfaces.
  • Problem management.
  • Escalation management.
  • Coordination with SAP support.
  • Planning of SAP XI upgrade rollouts.
Jul 2001 - Jun 2005
4 years
Germany

IT Consultant

Infineon

  • Responsible for the area of interfaces and B2B integration while employed at USU AG.
  • Operations of EAI platforms IBM WebSphere MQ, webMethods, openFT and Tibco Rendezvous.
  • Management and coordination of 24x7 global operations team and processes.
  • Establishing connectivity to external business partners.
  • Implementation of new interfaces.
  • Design and development of support tools in Perl.
  • Plan and conduct training for global team members.
Jan 1999 - Dec 2001
3 years
Stuttgart, Germany

Senior Software Developer

Landwirtschaftliche Sozialversicherung

  • Senior Software Developer.
Jan 1997 - Dec 1999
3 years
Würzburg, Germany

Software Developer / System Administrator

Agricultural Social Insurance

  • Software Developer and System Administrator.
Jan 1996 - Dec 1997
2 years
Germany

Software Developer

Berner Ltd.

  • Software Developer.

Summary

  • IT Project Management experience 7+ years, PRINCE2 Agile, SCRUM, ITIL V3 certification

  • Pharma / Life Science experience 17+ years in IT Projects and IT Operations (GxP, CSV, iSec)

  • Very good soft skills (integrity, empathy, discreet, well-balanced, trustful, diplomatic)

  • Structured, well-organized working style, excellent team player

  • Expert in Enterprise Application Integration, M&A IT projects, IT operations processes

  • Potential roles: IT Project Manager, Team- / Workstream Lead, Integration Manager

Skills

  • Pharma / Life Science

  • Semiconductor

  • Apparel

  • Automotive

  • Enterprise Application Integration (B2b Edi, Edifact, Ansi X12, As2, Sftp, Pki, Certificates)

  • General It It Operations (Itsm, Itil V3, Kpi, Sla, Service Portfolio)

  • It Project Management (Waterfall, Agile)

  • Cloud Architecture (Aws)

  • Os Windows, Linux, Aix, Sinix, Ibm Z/os

  • Applications Microsoft Office, Virtualization, Ibm Mq, Openft, Arcis, Informix

  • Programming Perl, Java, C, Cobol, Assembler (Intel 64 And Ia-32), Python

Languages

German
Native
Spanish
Advanced
English
Elementary

Education

Oct 1993 - Jun 1996

Vocational School for Data Processing Clerks

Certified Data Processing Clerk (IHK) · Würzburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

AWS Cloud Practitioner

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation

PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

ITIL V3 Foundation

SAP Certified Development & Technology Consultant – SAP XI

Sun Certified Programmer for Java

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