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Interim Management, hands-on

Tim Oehme

Phone +49 156 7840 2884

Crisis Management Release Management Business Development
Europe South-East Asia

Expertise

  • Release Management for global eCommerce Platform
  • Product Owner (Start-up)
  • several SAP BI & Analytics Projects
  • Sales & Pre-Sales, Business Development

Good at & Outstanding for

  • jumping in when it gets critical
  • building bridges
  • bringing clarity & transparency

Driven by

  • working with people
  • passion for technology
  • deep desire to understand

Solutions, Tools & Methods

  • SAP: BW, SAC, Datasphere, Databricks, BTP, BDC, HANA, Commerce Cloud / hybris, S/4
  • Jira, Confluence, HP ALM
  • Issue Tracking, Test Coordination
  • Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Remote Team Setups

Company Sizes

  • Global Corporations
  • SMEs
  • Start-ups

Fields

  • IT Projects
  • Sales
  • Business Processes

Industries

  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics

Cultural & Work Experiences

  • Europe (Germany, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland)
  • SEA / South-East Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia)
  • India

Languages

  • German: mother tongue
  • English: business-fluent

My Service Offering & My Approach

join

my work:
  • ready within 48 hours
  • fast onboarding
  • quick introduction
results in:
  • visibility
  • immediate change

get traction & turn-around

my work:
  • dive in, understand
  • take ownership
  • steer & drive topics
  • hands-on
  • align & decide
  • clear communication
results in:
  • delivery
  • transparency
  • reliable commitments
  • trust

optimization

my work:
  • review & rework
  • prepare hand-over
results in:
  • independence
  • future-readiness
  • sustainable trust

My Skills

Structured & analytical thinking, troubleshooting, team coordination, escalation handling, stakeholder management, short-term impacting, ownership mentality, cross-functional communication, planning & prioritization – and delivery!

How I Work

I jump in when it gets tricky. I structure chaos, connect people, and push towards delivery. I act calmly, listen carefully, communicate clearly – and get things done. I'm highly committed, pragmatic, reliable, and team-oriented – even under pressure.

Engagement & Success Stories

Re-establish Business Unit

Producer & dealer for corporate fashion, guest supplies & marketing textiles

Initial situation:

  • neglected and down business
  • business unit about to terminate

Scope & responsibilities:

  • rebuilding customer relationship and trust
  • marketing activities
  • product quality improvements and assurance
  • review and rework of pricing strategy, cost-optimization, mitigation of currency exchange effects, production in China
  • team development & growth
  • development and implementation of a custom CRM system

Final status:

  • profitable business unit within 5 months
  • winning the biggest single PO for that company (over 1M €) so far from a 5-star hotel chain
  • business unit prepared for potential carve-out
  • well-established team and processes

Takeover project from other SI

Long-term supplier contract prediction for automotive OEM

Initial situation:

  • existing implementation partner crossed several deadlines and project was behind schedule
  • board attention

Scope & responsibilities:

  • review & redesign of BW data model
  • testing
  • addressing foreseeable risks and failures
  • walking extra miles
  • re-defining business requirements (agreements on little scope changes to heavily reduce implementation effort)

Final status:

  • transparent project outlook and committed delivery
  • reliable and fast-running big data reports
  • reduction of implementation effort, faster delivery / deployment

Start-up ramp-up

A SaaS start-up has missed clear focus and customer needs

Initial situation:

  • neglected and down business
  • company about to terminate business unit

Scope & responsibilities:

  • defining presentable and competitive product features and creating the best-possible solution out of it
  • setting a go-live date and
  • inviting 15,000 users to go-live date
  • running global go-live webinars
  • presenting the solution at Web Summit, Lisbon

Final status:

  • the start-up failed to have any potential after seed round
  • starting liquidation of the company, laying off the remaining team

Release Management for eCommerce

Implementation of global eCommerce platform for cars and non-cars services and products with country-specific requirements, demands and regulations for an automotive OEM

Initial situation:

  • no RLM role in SAFe setup considered
  • unclear responsibilities
  • delayed market & assortment go-lives

Scope & responsibilities:

  • process design, establishing communication guidelines (sweet spot of MS Teams, Confluence, Jira)
  • alignment with other streams / projects and depending parties
  • issues & bugs: breaking down, tracking and driving their resolution
  • coordination frequent releases, CI/CD

Final status:

  • satisfying stakeholder management
  • project deliveries back on track or aligned to the adjusted scope
  • setup shop operations team in India
  • alignment with service management

Education

  • 2005 BWA St. Gallen, Business Mediator Master Degree
  • 2002 IHK Potsdam, Business Management Degree

Vita

  • 2020 – today Ginkgo / Eraneos: Senior Project Manager, DE & Singapore
  • 2018 – 2020 MHP Management & IT Consulting: SAP BW & Analytics FE, DE
  • 2017 – 2018 Datavard / SNP: SAP SLO & Migration Pre-Sales, Singapore
  • 2015 – 2017 Five1: Project Manager & Account Manager, DE
  • 2013 – 2015 Five1: SAP BW Solution Consultant, DE
  • 2009 – 2012 DressCue (Corporate Fashion): Sales Director, DE
  • 2004 – 2009 Herlitz / eCom: Customer Care & Sales, IT Project Manager, DE

Languages

  • German: mother tongue
  • English: business fluent

Certifications

  • 2020: PRINCE2
  • 2018: Certified BI Expert
  • 2018: Prof. Scrum Master, SAFe
  • 2018: SAP Transformation LT
  • 2016: SAP Analytics Cloud
  • 2015: Intercultural Leadership

Customer Feedback

"Tim has an incredible talent to connect the dots and involve the right people at the right time."

Automotive, 10/2022

"With his passion for finding solutions, he often made decisions in order to support the main goal, while balancing different interests at the same time."

Manufacturing, 11/2020

"I always felt confident with topics you have signed responsible for; I knew you were committed and you will independently take care – we simply could rely on you. Thank you so much!"

Automotive, 06/2022

"He has wide (IT) understanding and also easily catches up with new field and technologies."

Banking & Finance, 07/2016

"Tim Oehme was simply a key factor between project teams, developers, markets and business stakeholder. The management was always well-informed and information was transparent and easy accessible."

Automotive, 07/2023

"Tim gained traction pretty fast in the running project and additionally covered areas beyond his role."

Food & Beverage, 06/2019

"With my engagement, your project will gain transparency and get back on track."

Tim Oehme

Interim Manager | Consultant

Berlin & Singapore

Phone

Telephone

+49 156 7840 2884