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

Q: Where is Tobias based?

Tobias is based in Weikersheim, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

Q: What languages does Tobias speak?

Tobias speaks the following languages: German (Native), Spanish (Advanced), English (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Tobias have?

Tobias has at least 29 years of experience. During this time, Tobias has worked in at least 16 different roles and for 14 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 9 months . Note that Tobias may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Tobias's latest experience?

Tobias's most recent position is M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager at Sandoz AG .

Q: What companies has Tobias worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Tobias has worked for Sandoz AG , TÜV Rheinland , Novartis AG , Arxada , and Daimler AG .

Q: Which industries is Tobias most experienced in?

Tobias is most experienced in industries like Pharmaceutical , Professional Services , and Information Technology (IT) . Tobias also has some experience in Insurance , Manufacturing , and Automotive .

Q: Which business areas is Tobias most experienced in?

Tobias is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Operations , and Project Management . Tobias also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA) .

Q: Which industries has Tobias worked in recently?

Tobias has recently worked in industries like Professional Services , Information Technology (IT) , and Pharmaceutical .

Q: Which business areas has Tobias worked in recently?

Tobias has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Project Management , and Quality Assurance (QA) .

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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

Profile

Created

February 2025

Last Update

August 2025

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Tobias based?

Tobias is based in Weikersheim, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

What languages does Tobias speak?

Tobias speaks the following languages: German (Native), Spanish (Advanced), English (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Tobias have?

Tobias has at least 29 years of experience. During this time, Tobias has worked in at least 16 different roles and for 14 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 9 months. Note that Tobias may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Tobias be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Tobias would be well-suited for roles such as: M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager, M&A IT Project Manager, Project Management Office.

What is Tobias's latest experience?

Tobias's most recent position is M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager at Sandoz AG.

What companies has Tobias worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Tobias has worked for Sandoz AG, TÜV Rheinland, Novartis AG, Arxada, and Daimler AG.

Which industries is Tobias most experienced in?

Tobias is most experienced in industries like Pharmaceutical, Professional Services, and Information Technology (IT). Tobias also has some experience in Insurance, Manufacturing, and Automotive.

Which business areas is Tobias most experienced in?

Tobias is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Operations, and Project Management. Tobias also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA).

Which industries has Tobias worked in recently?

Tobias has recently worked in industries like Professional Services, Information Technology (IT), and Pharmaceutical.

Which business areas has Tobias worked in recently?

Tobias has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Quality Assurance (QA).

What is Tobias's education?

Tobias attended Vocational School for Data Processing Clerks.

Does Tobias have any certificates?

Tobias has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: AWS Cloud Practitioner, PRINCE2 Agile Foundation, and PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner.

What is the availability of Tobias?

Tobias is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Tobias?

Tobias's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.