10/22/2026 updated
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Operational Transformation Delivery Lead | SAP & Data | Utilities, Industry, Logistics
Lelystad, Netherlands
Germany +4
info: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
About me
Operational transformation delivery lead for asset-intensive businesses — utilities, industry, logistics — NL/BE/DE. Twenty years inside SAP and data landscapes; programme and workstream leadership with line authority. B2B/Freiberuflich. Available from 1 Dec 2026.
DELIVERY AND PROGRAMME LEADERSHIP
Programme management, workstream leadership and PMO/governance on multi-year transformation programmes in utilities and manufacturing; cutover readiness, RAID and dependency management, steering-committee reporting, multi-vendor delivery; commercial and delivery accountability at workstream level; line authority over people and a P&L.
OPERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Flow and capacity constraints, quote-to-order, order-to-cash, inventory ageing, rework and warranty, purchasing and supplier terms, actual versus intended ERP use, shadow IT and manual workarounds. Two-week diagnostic: twelve to fifteen structured interviews from supervisor level up, triangulated against the SAP and BI extract; every finding with a number, a named owner and a committed date.
SAP AND DATA
Twenty years inside SAP and data landscapes: SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BW, SAP BI and analytics, S/4HANA programme delivery, data warehousing, data quality, report rationalisation, GIS-SAP integration; built an analytics capability on SAP data from nothing inside a global OEM, recruited and led the specialists, still in operation.
SECTORS
Grid operators and grid connections, energy and utilities, water, industry and manufacturing, logistics and transport, automotive, mining.
GOVERNANCE AND TURNAROUND
Chairman of a 30+ staff organisation: structural loss to surplus in one year, reserve built and sustained under successor boards, steered through COVID with salary renegotiation, layoffs and creditors at the table. Systems and process mapping across four mines exposing c. R200m of overspend.
CONTRACTING
Through my own company, Tietze Management B.V. (NL). B2B / Freiberuflich — keine Arbeitnehmerüberlassung. Professional and general liability insured (€2.5m per claim). Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg; on-site and remote. Languages: Dutch, English, German, Afrikaans. Available from 1 December 2026.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
GermanGoodEnglishNative speakerDutchFluent
Project history
Multi-year transformation delivery in the utilities sector, including a Dutch transmission system operator and a Belgian water utility, at workstream level with commercial and delivery accountability. Business development and solution architecture for a Dutch grid operator and a major London rail project. Also Deputy Chairman of the Works Council.
Leipzig / South Africa. Built BMW analytics and operations capability from zero on SAP data; carried the risk of setting it up; brought global proofs of concept to working functions; later formalised under a German manager and still running. Key role in the direct-to-consumer sales implementation (South Africa pilot market).
Full P&L turnaround of an organisation with 325 pupils and 30+ staff; restructuring, staff-cost reduction and COVID refinancing; from structural loss to surplus.