Marja Saarentaus

Senior Consultant / Change Execution, Capability Development, Portfolio Leadership & Measurement at CCEA Oy
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(386) 825-5501
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Finland, FI
Languages
  • German Professional working proficiency
  • Swedish Professional working proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Finnish Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French Elementary proficiency
  • Japanese Elementary proficiency

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Johan Merlevede

Marja is a very dedicated and hard working professional. She is very result oriented and will do everything possible to achieve her own milestones and the ones of the other people involved in any project. With being a technologist herself, she is very comfortable working in technology projects, taking care of the overall project management and business side of the project.

Kari Sundbäck

Marja is an execution oriented doer, efficient, good at structuring, analysing and synthesing complex topics - and good at bringing people into the topics and into decision making mode with good communication skills

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Experience

    • Finland
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Consultant / Change Execution, Capability Development, Portfolio Leadership & Measurement
      • Jan 2021 - Present

      The people-driven change is about:1. People centricity in defining and driving the change2. Portfolio view of the simultaneous changes and their impacts on people3. Practical, iterative approach when translating what the change means for various groups of peopleThis is why we roll up our sleeves and persistently work to turn change into practice. The people-driven change is about:1. People centricity in defining and driving the change2. Portfolio view of the simultaneous changes and their impacts on people3. Practical, iterative approach when translating what the change means for various groups of peopleThis is why we roll up our sleeves and persistently work to turn change into practice.

    • Finland
    • Machinery Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Manager, Organisational Change Management | Transformation | People Leadership
      • May 2016 - Jan 2021

      Accountable for the Change Management in Valmet's ERP Business Transformation program globally. Focus in people adoption and engagement, communication, training, operational model including job roles and organization structures.I am inspired by change, leading company/project through transformation and the feeling of getting things done. I have special interest in analyzing the change progress, increasing employee retention in the program and preparing counteractive activities in change management to ensure smoother implementation. We're hiring! http://www.valmet.com/about-us/careers/open-jobs/http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/158722/

    • Business Development | People Leadership | Change Management | Program Mngt | Digitalization
      • Feb 2016 - Apr 2016

      → Enthusiastic business professional with strong change management background, People Centered implementation by Changefirst®→ Transforming experience in digitalization & new business development→ Focus in transforming vision into roadmap, strategy execution and driving projects to reach the targets→ Team -spirited and people centered → Enthusiastic business professional with strong change management background, People Centered implementation by Changefirst®→ Transforming experience in digitalization & new business development→ Focus in transforming vision into roadmap, strategy execution and driving projects to reach the targets→ Team -spirited and people centered

    • E-learning
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Manager Business Development -B2C services | Program Mgnt | Transformation | Education | Leardership
      • Aug 2014 - Jan 2016

      Drive the transformation of educational ecosystem in all of Sanoma Learning companies to ensure the strong position in the ecosystem. Match vision with roadmap and business case to fulfill the business requirements within Sanoma Learning companies. Program examples: - Leading Analytics program across 6 SL –companies to: Serve customers based on their needs, guarantee high quality by continuous product & content improvements, speed-up content- and product development life cycle and target resources accordingly to increase the number of users and to improve user retention. - Research on technological and business development initiatives together with big technology giants to look for opportunities in commercial partnership concept creation.I have learned about transforming B2C products into digital, education research, -innovations and -commercial models.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Manager Business Development - B2B services | Outsourcing | Strategic Sales | Program&Change Mgnt
      • Nov 2010 - Jul 2014

      Business development for large enterprise customers in Finland. Customer business understanding, business case and demand generation, opportunity qualification, sales process, fit-to-customer need solutioning. B2B digital service experience.Work in a highly competitive, risky and time limited environment with the network of colleagues in a truly multi-cultural and international environment. Building customer business development strategy with account teams, extensive experience with company IT executive negotiations.Change Management: People Centered Implementation by Changefirst®. Change management as part of outsourcing.

    • Finland
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Manager, Strategy Deployment - Leadership | Program Mgnt | Change Mgnt | Strategy
      • Jun 2009 - Dec 2010

      Establish and lead programs to execute the strategy into line organization. Responsible for the creation of future operations model including decisions about structural changes, renewing the management model and related processes and supporting solutions. Program example:- Emerging Solutions Operational model: Non-traditional products with bigger displays, more performance, and synergies with Nokia service platforms with new operational mode. Big challenge was to link small, growing business to large scale processes and supporting functions like marketing, procurement and logistics.Change Management: People Centered Implementation by Changefirst®. Change management as part program/project management.Achievements:- Inclusion to equity program 2010

    • Senior Manager, Operational Excellence - Change Mgnt | Program Mgnt | Strategy | Leaderhsip
      • Feb 2008 - May 2009

      Plan and drive the implementation of strategic, business and operational development projects to lead the change in the organization. Gained experience in international business environment form large scale strategic cross-company change programs ensuring the changes are deployed successfully. I learned how to build new ways of working into an organization and therefore business focused execution is close to my heart. I learned also how to work with people on executive level. Change Management: People Centered Implementation by Changefirst®. Change management as part of program/project management.Project examples:- Building favourable business environment for emerging markets- Demand Supply Network optimization for enhancements based on business case comparison. Physical routes from partners/suppliers through hubs to the B2B customers. - Packaging Graphics Design- Consumer Insights - Devices Operational Model definition: Developing and promoting Nokia Devices Management System, Operational Mode and Governance Model.AchievementsInclusion to equity program 2008

    • Nokia Process Owner - Program Mgnt | Leadership | Change Mgnt | Consumer Electronics |Transformation
      • Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

      As Nokia –level Process Owner I was responsible for process and solution development and smooth operational process with related responsibility of business KPIs. I created ERP implementation roadmaps together with multiple business divisions leaders. I learned how to drive solution development and international implementation across dozens of countries, program initiation, project scoping, process harmonization across multiple business divisions, creating operational efficiency improvement based on business cases and ensuring the quality of the project deliverables. I learned the mobile phone business with related mass production and customization requirements. In this position I learned to continuously seek new innovative ways of working and foreseeing potential problems on the way.Achievements:Inclusion to equity program 2007

    • Finland
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Consultant - B2B Service | Change Mgnt | Transformation | Strategic Sales
      • Sep 2005 - Jul 2006

      Our team of business consultants launched new consulting operations at Basware. We developed service concepts, related delivery methodology, processes and change management capabilities to move from product business to solution business arena. I worked in presales and customer offer creation, customer business case analysis and consulting and as a customer project manager in solution implementation projects. In this position I learned the challenges how to build up new business concepts and sell them both internally to the organization and to the clients.

    • Finland
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Global Process Owner - Leadership | Change Mgnt | Program Mgnt | Telecom | DSN | Buz process trans.
      • Aug 2004 - Aug 2005

      Nokia Networks solutions & service business. This was business with big telecommunications operators (~130 at the time), with multiple year contracts.Focus in process transformation and global ERP implementation.

    • Head of Development Team - Leadership | Demand Supply chain Network (DSN) | Mobile phones
      • Oct 2002 - Jul 2004

      As head of Order- and delivery management development team I was responsible for program and project creation, project pre-study work, project scoping, resourcing and ensuring project quality deliverables. I was leading a team of 11 Development Managers.

    • Manager Process Development - Program Mgnt | DSN | ERP | Telecom | Business process transformation
      • May 1998 - Sep 2002

      Project manager in eBusiness development for Nokia Networks customers on-line. Operator customer processes and metrics deployment in Italy, Milan in 1999.Nokia Networks business modelling projects in 1998 – 1999.Delivery Fulfillment process development in product creation (subcontracting, purchasing, production and delivery channels) projects in 1998.Largest global SAP implementation at the time with over 60countries included. On-line salesProcess developmentDesign for DSN (Demand Supply Network)

    • Partner Manager - Project Mgnt | Partner Mgnt | Contract negotiation | DSN | ERP | Telecom
      • Feb 1997 - May 1998

      Responsible for OEM partners’ logistics contracts, partner cooperation and design for Demand Supply Network. Partners is UK, USA and Scandinavia.

Education

  • Aalto University
    Elements of Artificial Intelligence / MOOC
    2019 - 2019
  • Aalto University
    Introduction to Social Statistics I, Excellent (5)
    2015 - 2015
  • Aalto University
    Introduction to Social Statistics II, Very Good (4)
    2015 - 2015
  • Aalto University
    Intermediate studies in Psychology (aineopinnot), Psychology
    2014 - 2015
  • Aalto University
    Basic studies, Psychology (perusopinnot), Psychology
    2013 - 2013
  • Tampereen teknillinen korkeakoulu
    MSc, Industrial Engineering and Management
    1991 - 1997
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Academic year 1995 - 1996, Erasmus Exchange
    1995 - 1996

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