Senior Project Manager
MunichRe
(Insurance, 1000-5000 employees)
Keywords
Project Management
Management and Business Consulting
Derivatives
Change Management
Regulatory Compliance
Project Planning
Sales
Foreign Exchange Markets
Investment Banking
Pricing Strategies
Skills
Project management
- Management consulting
- Strategy consulting
- Steering Committee and Board Member meetings preparation and moderation
- Project planning
- Project controlling and -reporting
- Project management and PMO
- Workshop organization and moderation
- Stakeholder management (incl. Senior Executives and C-Suite)
- Change management
- Ownership of project content results
- Scrum, SAFE
- Team management
- OKR (Objective and Key Results)
- OTC derivatives pricing and sales
- FX (foreign exchange) and interest rates derivatives
- Plain vanilla and exotic options
- M&A
- Middle- /Back-office, Compliance, Credit
- Climate change, Sustainability, ESG
- Cyber
Project history
01/2021
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Present
* Suggested opportunities to augment the Cyber underwriting process of MR, working with internal cyber
experts and underwriters as well as external experts from InsurTechs and Cyber security scoring companies
* Adapted MunichRe's Cyber Insurance Strategy based on performance and marketing analyses, leading 4
workstream leaders and a team of 25 people, and obtained Management Board's approval
* Uncovered business potential of >$100m revenue in the context of climate change
experts and underwriters as well as external experts from InsurTechs and Cyber security scoring companies
* Adapted MunichRe's Cyber Insurance Strategy based on performance and marketing analyses, leading 4
workstream leaders and a team of 25 people, and obtained Management Board's approval
* Uncovered business potential of >$100m revenue in the context of climate change
09/2016
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03/2021
Project Manager
McKinsey & Company
(Banks and financial services, 1000-5000 employees)
* Increased mortgage and cash loan sales for a retail bank in Eastern Europe and upskilled the client team
leading an international team of 3 McKinsey consultants and 1 communication expert
* Developed a launch plan and a growth strategy of a new bank in Eastern Europe incl. value proposition,
target segments, operating model together with a team of 4 McKinsey consultants and 1 Research Analyst
* Managed a team of 2 McKinsey consultants in a cost reduction and financial planning exercise to break down
the top-down planning by cost category and cost center and to identify and implement cost-saving initiatives
* Conducted a front-to-back process optimization pilot working alongside of cross-functional teams to identify
and realize optimization potential and streamline the process in scope
* Led a team of 2 McKinsey consultants and one client integrated in the McKinsey team in the development of
the client's change story, performance management system and workforce optimization in the context of a
larger transformation
* Accompanied multiple organization units in a bottom-up strategic planning process under capacity constraints
and interacted regularly with senior management in various workshops to support their transformational
journey
leading an international team of 3 McKinsey consultants and 1 communication expert
* Developed a launch plan and a growth strategy of a new bank in Eastern Europe incl. value proposition,
target segments, operating model together with a team of 4 McKinsey consultants and 1 Research Analyst
* Managed a team of 2 McKinsey consultants in a cost reduction and financial planning exercise to break down
the top-down planning by cost category and cost center and to identify and implement cost-saving initiatives
* Conducted a front-to-back process optimization pilot working alongside of cross-functional teams to identify
and realize optimization potential and streamline the process in scope
* Led a team of 2 McKinsey consultants and one client integrated in the McKinsey team in the development of
the client's change story, performance management system and workforce optimization in the context of a
larger transformation
* Accompanied multiple organization units in a bottom-up strategic planning process under capacity constraints
and interacted regularly with senior management in various workshops to support their transformational
journey
01/2011
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12/2014
Associate in Corporate FX Sales
Commerzbank AG
(Banks and financial services, >10.000 employees)
* Managed a portfolio of 8 mid-caps and their subsidiaries in Germany, Austria and Denmark (€2m profit) and
co-covered multinational corporates in the DACH region (€25m profit) in a team of 8 senior salespeople
* Consulted clients on global and country-specific economic trends and presented scenario analyses to evaluate
the impact of FX rates on their international operations
* Structured, priced, and executed exotic options and plain vanilla derivatives up to €200m per trade across
G10 and emerging market currencies over phone, Bloomberg and 360T
* Collaborated with Trading, Legal, Credit, Relationship Management, Compliance, Middle and Back Office to
ensure high quality service for the team's client portfolio
co-covered multinational corporates in the DACH region (€25m profit) in a team of 8 senior salespeople
* Consulted clients on global and country-specific economic trends and presented scenario analyses to evaluate
the impact of FX rates on their international operations
* Structured, priced, and executed exotic options and plain vanilla derivatives up to €200m per trade across
G10 and emerging market currencies over phone, Bloomberg and 360T
* Collaborated with Trading, Legal, Credit, Relationship Management, Compliance, Middle and Back Office to
ensure high quality service for the team's client portfolio
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master
scrum.org
2019
Local Availability
Open to travel worldwide
Remote with minimum travel, if possible to Frankfurt am Main
