Thomas Goebel Email Address

Director SAP Competence Center

Sonova is the leading manufacturer of innovative hearing care solutions, providing hearing aids, cochlear implants and wireless communication solutions.

Senior SAP Executive delivering topline and bottomline Business Value by leveraging IT/SAP Technology. Combining broad business acumen from over 200 ERP/IT projects with hands on experience of leading diverse, agile, distributed IT professionals in multinational companies. Area of Expertise: Orchestrating and Leading Information Technology & Business Teams (50-100 FTE) to deliver complex Change Projects in a multicultural, global, fast moving & regulated environment. Customer-, Delivery- and Service focused, international SAP Consulting, & Entrepreneurial Background in APAC, Americas and Europe. Restructuring, onshoring, professionalizing & Transforming IT Teams to new performance levels. Using Strong Business Acumen to align IT projects to Business Cases, influencing corporate Stakeholders on all levels to achieve Business- & IT Goals. Negotiating major commercial deals with 3rd party service- & technology providers. Core Competencies: − Project, Program, Portfolio Management (PMI, Scrum, SAFe, DSDM) − IT Service Management (ITIL, CSV, GRC, GAMP5) − Lean Management (Hoshin Kanri, Kaizen) − ERP Application Management: SAP, Ariba, Success Factors, Salesforce, Concur, BI, S/4Hana − Leading virtual Information Technology Teams & developing Individuals to defined development plans − IT Architecture, Process- & Requirements Management (BPMN2) − Web & Integration knowhow: Dell Boomi, Java, html, Hybris, etc. − Technology Evaluations, Management of on-premise, SaaS and Cloud Environments − Industries: medical, consumer, engineering, pharmaceutical, food