Xavier Reckers

Interim / Senior Project Manager / PMO

Xavier Reckers
Stuttgart, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 10 months
Hybrid

Interim / Senior Project Manager / PMO

Mann + Hummel

  • Portfolio, program, and project management using agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methods
Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
2 years 8 months

Senior Consultant / PMO / Product Owner

CARIAD (VW)

  • Strategy and implementation consulting
  • Organizational development and transformation
  • Senior consultant/PMO in the E3 2.0 PMO, responsible for APMO development and cross-brand top management committees
  • Senior consultant/PMO in cross-brand projects on PMT topics
  • Senior consultant in defect and test management, responsible for building project management structures within teams
  • Product Owner in the System Team as part of the organizational setup (including setting up JIRA and Confluence as part of SAFe scaling)
  • Senior consultant/PMO in building the CARIAD organization according to SAFe in the Processes, Methods, and Tools for CARIAD area
  • Agile software development
  • Stakeholder management
Mar 2018 - Present
7 years 11 months

Founder, Managing Director, and Project Manager

RPM Advisory GmbH

  • Consulting boutique focused on multi-project management, agile transformation, and performance improvement
  • Since founding, leading projects for various clients across different industries, including: Mann + Hummel, GEMA, BNP Paribas Cardif, Carl Zeiss, Bionexx, Mercedes Benz i.O., Mercedes Benz
Jan 2018 - Present
8 years 1 month

Senior Consultant / Senior Project Manager / PMO

GEMA

  • Active in project and portfolio management (including PMO setup and operation for project portfolios, M&A projects, joint ventures, receivables management, organizational restructuring…)
  • PMO setup, operation, and further development
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
2 years 1 month
Stuttgart, Germany

Senior Program PMO / Senior Consultant

Daimler AG

  • Rollout management (processes, methods, and structures), program PMO setup and operation for an international after-sales program, rolled out in more than 15 markets worldwide
  • Portfolio PMO: setup for a business unit portfolio management (>25 projects)
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
5 months
Munich, Germany

Senior Consultant

BMW Motorrad

  • Senior Consultant in an international strategy project
  • Supporting the project team by creating functional concepts to optimize global financial processes
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year
Munich, Germany

Senior PMO / Team Lead

BMW AG

  • PgrO operation and further development
  • Over more than ten years, the program handled over 100 projects
Jun 2014 - Nov 2014
6 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Interim Project Manager

Daimler AG

  • Interim management of a development team in After Sales (GSP – Global Service and Parts), responsible for delivering software for the control units of Mercedes-Benz vehicles
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
11 months
Stuttgart, Germany

PMO / Consultant

Daimler Mobility Services GmbH - Park2gether

  • Establishment and operation of the PMO (processes, methods, structures) for the startup Park2gether (parking space sharing platform; iOS app and website)
  • Rollout management: design, organization, and execution of the Park2gether rollout in Hamburg and Berlin
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
2 months
Stuttgart, Germany

PMO / Consultant

Daimler Mobility Services GmbH - Car2Go

  • Procurement consulting: international tender management for a software integration platform for global use
Oct 2011 - Feb 2013
1 year 5 months
Stuttgart, Germany

PMO / Consultant

Daimler Mobility Services GmbH – moovel

  • Contributed to product planning and product development for the startup moovel
  • Product Owner Support – agile software development according to Scrum

Summary

Result- and solution-oriented project, program, and portfolio management expert and manager. I offer you solutions for your project management challenges. We will discuss your issues and together decide on the best strategic and operational solutions for achieving your target. Agile, hybrid, or traditional approach. Pragmatic, not dogmatic. Your added value is always my focus.

I bring over 13 years of experience in project management, where I worked for multinational corporations in various roles and areas. I help as a sole consultant or with a team to set up PMOs, run them, optimize projects and project landscapes, drive necessary changes in organizations, and overcome challenges.

Skills

Core Competencies

  • Portfolio, Program, And Project Management Using Agile, Hybrid, And Traditional Project Management Methods
  • Pmo Setup, Operation, And Further Development
  • Strategy And Implementation Consulting
  • Organizational Development And Transformation
  • Scrum, Safe, Okrs
  • Top Management Consulting And Support
  • Committee And Workshop Management
  • Agile Software Development
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Rollout Management

Technical Skills

  • Microsoft Office: Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Sharepoint, Teams, Word
  • Jira, Confluence
  • Miro

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Intermediate

Education

University of Göttingen

Diploma in Economics, with distinction · Economics · Göttingen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

PMI – Talking To AI: Prompt Engineering For Project Managers

PMI

Agile Certified Practitioner

Managing Successful Programs

PMI – Data Landscape Of GenAI For Project Managers

PMI

PMI – Generative AI For PM

PMI

Professional Scrum Master I

Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Safe Agilist (5.0)

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