Project Manager, Department of Sales Planning & Control

• Jan 2006 - Nov 2008

Project management for IVP - International sales planning, LUP – Long term corporate planning.Responsibilities:• Management of the project team including internal and external employees. Overall profit responsibility for deadlines, costs, quality over all phases of the project up to the handover in operation / maintenance.• Project responsibility for all processes in accordance with the BMW phase model ITPM: business and IT design, implementation, test management, training and stabilisation. Responsibility for the project objectives in management steering committee (upper management).• Design and implementation of cross-divisional LUP IT system for detailed planning of the sales performance parameters for car and motorcycle focusing international vehicle volume planning (50 markets worldwide) Retail price planning, special equipment planning (price and take rates), transmission planning, pricing and leasing reporting in relation to competition investigations , price-quantity analysis and price trends.• Creation of an integrated, continuous and flexible planning through redefinition and optimisation of business processes (ITIL) for LUP-volume, scenario and product project planning incl. data migration from legacy systems. • Creation of the training concept and autonomous training implementation for more than 200 users at sites in Munich, New York and Tokyo.

Project Manager, Department of Sales Planning & Control

• Jan 2008 - May 2008

Price and Volume Planning, Department of Sales Planning & Control

• Apr 2004 - Dec 2005

Special equipment planning of the 6 and 7 series taking into consideration market attractiveness, efficiency and variant objectives.Responsibilities:• Definition of the central options program, “ End Initial phase” and the "G6-Options Planning for synchro point target agreement" with the content options tender price and take rates (volume).• Personal responsibility for coordination and consultation with the interface partner project management, logistics, purchasing and finance controlling.• Operational support for options prices over the life cycle and autonomous transfer to the billing systems.

Sales Planning & Control

• Apr 2001 - Dec 2005

Vehicle Price Planning for the G6 Markets (Germany, Italy, Great Britain, USA, Japan and China). Responsibilities:• Market observation and competition analysis (inter alia Audi, Jaguar, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, Volvo).• Creating vehicle price templates for synchro point ‘target agreement’ and ‘Roll-Out’ in the product development process incl. presentation to the decision-making committee (sales code, product strategy circuit, board meetings).• Price planning and positioning of new vehicle models in the competitive environment in the context of pricing strategy and segment leadership considering the sales performance parameters (retail volume, retail price, cost of retail).• Personal responsibility for coordinating the interface partner finance controlling, sales regions and subsidiaries (target agreement and tracking).• Redefinition, development and implementation of analytical methods and tools for optimal vehicle price-making (LUP price planning, price trends, price-quantity charts)• Price-volume segmentation of the 15 main markets with analysis of registration figures per calendar year for manufacturers, vehicle segments and concepts.

Product Planning, Department of Central Corporate Logistics

• Jan 1998 - Mar 2001

Strategy vehicle process, programming, job control.Responsibilities:• Control and conditioning of the product range in the BMW logistics systems TAIS and OKA. Responsibility of product master data supply in the network development, production, product marketing and sales, i.e in relation to car model, optional equipment, finishes, interior finishes and country specific versions.• Monthly preparation of the ‘status report’ incl. tracking the use of on-time delivery of model codes and equipment features in close cooperation with the work place ‘order planning'.• Contact person for the sales companies and production (plants) regarding capacity constraints on options level and responsibility for conflict management.• Project ‘Process Chain Product Data ': Cross process chain analysis (development / series, logistics, marketing, sales) with design, validation and optimisation of business processes.• Project ‘Start Planning new 7 Series': Technical project management within series, works, sales and market launch management with respect to quantity planning (allocation of volumes in the start-up phase), following up technical constructability of equipment and presentation of the start-up situation in the Market Launch Management District.• Youth development program ‘Drive’ with information sessions and training (inter alia communications training, facilitation, group dynamics, business use).