Jean-Christophe FISCHER

* Drive innovations & change management to empower KUKA's digital transformation * Ownership for Demand Management, Project Portfolio and Project Management Pool

* IT Strategy Plan formulation, annual IT Project Portfolio formulation & execution governance * Program definition & execution governance for larger, business transformation initiatives * IT PMO team management, covering capability building & services delivery for Project & Program Mgmt., Organizational Change Mgmt., Test Mgmt., SAP Application Development, Business Process Modeling & Documentation * Owns the Project Mgmt. competency, developed PM talents & increased PM capabilities of IT

* Managed the PMO for the global, SAP-enabled business transformation program of Bacardi with multiple deployment waves & implementation partners * Managed the program set-up & definition, the program & deployment organization and governance, roadmap & implementation strategy, processes, approaches, tools * Managed & coached the operational project & deployment managers * Designed the application maintenance framework & support processes, managed the transition to the SAP Center of Excellence

* Managed portfolio of localization projects for Russia/CIS countries from initial business case evaluation & planning until final country roll-out (ERP-HR/FIN, IS-U, Banking, etc.), supervised & coached the project managers * Managed country roadmap scope definition & requirements roll-in for new ESA-based SAP solution (Business by Design)

* Conducted IT-strategy projects, defining application architectures & implementation strategies for SAP business applications at global SAP customers * Advised Global Account Mgmt. on the organization & management of a pan-European SAP engagement, managed the engagement for Russia/Ukraine * Developed new IT-Strategy services for Enterprise Service Architectures

* Definition & set up of a global SAP Program, management of the program core teams (customizing & development, integration, landscape administration and production support) * Definition & implementation of program standards, methods and tools for a global SAP program * Project Manager & Finance Team Lead on multiple global SAP implementations

* Project Manager, Team Lead and Finance Consultant on multiple SAP implementations, in particular on some early global template projects * Competency & Community of Practice Lead for Finance area (SAP FI, CO, TR, Euro conversion)

* Designed & developed areas of the SAP Real Estate Management solution in cooperation with SAP AG teams * Delivered several SAP Real Estate Management solution implementation projects

Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Controlling, Project Management