About Jens
- Senior Program Manager and Agile Coach with over 30 years of experience in planning, managing, and implementing complex SAP, digitalization, and transformation programs in finance, public administration, and industry, including leading hundreds of project staff.
- Primarily active in designing and scaling agile organizations (SAFe®, Scrum®, Kanban) as well as in change management, program governance, and strategic portfolio management.
- The professional focus is on promoting business agility, strengthening and coaching leaders and teams, and building sustainable delivery and management structures in large organizations.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Experience
- Globales GroßhandelsunternehmenPMO LeadMay 2025 - October 2025 (5 months)Management of the Program Management Office for planning and execution of activities for the migration from SAP FI/CO to S/4HANA. Achieved goals and successes:• Management of 6 agile teams and provision of specifications for the Scrum Masters• Establishment of a stable project management process with clarification of contractual ambiguities between the parties involved• Institutionalization of goal-oriented project governance adapted to customer needs• Successful structuring of the Program Management Office tasks. Activities within the assignment:• Project planning and resource management• Coordination of activities in the areas of development, databases, test management, cutover and rollout, change management and training, as well as hypercare• Management of processes for requirement engineering and coordination of dependencies• Monitoring compliance with contractual framework conditions for the use of the 40 million Euro investment costs• Management of committee reporting• Ensuring delivery of results for the successful completion of Quality Gates• Project risk management• Development and initiation of industrialization measures. Methods and tools used:• JIRA• Microsoft Office• Microsoft Project• Confluence
- IT-Dienstleistungszentrum eines BundeslandesProject Manager and Scrum MasterNovember 2023 - April 2025 (1 year and 5 months)Planning and execution of the data center relocation for the ordinary jurisdiction of the federal state:• Creation of the IT architecture for the new data center• Installation of hardware in the new data center• Provision of the virtualization environment for the implementation of 15 specialized applications
- Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Gesundheit, Pflege und GleichstellungProgram ManagerAugust 2022 - October 2023 (1 year and 2 months)Planning and management of the program portfolio for the digitalization of public health services. Goals and successes:• Digitalization and networking of public health services in the federal state• Establishment of agile teams and coordination of 10 Scrum Masters• Standardization of procedures and IT processes• Provision of uniform interfaces• Enabling better horizontal and vertical cooperation within public health services. Activities within the assignment:• Program remediation and introduction of an agile program structure• Identification and implementation of measures for establishing agile project management• Prioritization and management of measures from funding requests• Cross-agency stakeholder management, including health authorities, the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, the Planning and Coordination Office for Health, and departments of the SenWGPG• Coordination of all activities in the areas of digitalization, governance, processes/workflows, infrastructure/IT equipment, digital platform, interoperability, IT security and data protection, and innovation• Targeted use of the 16.5 million Euro in funding allocated to the state of Berlin. Methods and tools used:• Microsoft Office• Fachnetzwerk Berlin• ProMap
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Education
- Bachelor of Banking Services and Operations (CCI)Chamber of Industry and Commerce Kiel1994
- Business Administrator (VWA)COMCAVE.COLLEGE, Dortmund2020Geschäftsführung: Strategien und Methoden
Certifications
- Professional Negotiation Techniqueshr-horizonte GmbH, Hamburg2024
- Conflict Managementhr-horizonte GmbH, Hamburg2024