Henning Bruns

Executive Leader of 50+ associates fully accountable for the governance of all customer-facing Projects and Programs across Sabre's Travel Solutions business globally, as well as the Services sales of Professional Services to our global Airline IT customer base.

Executive leader for all professional services, consulting and support activities of Sabre’s Travel Solutions business across the EMEA region. Formed newly restructured team of 50+ Service Executives and Product Technology Consultants providing high-touch engagements to Sabre's agency and airline customers and prospect.

Accountable and point of escalation for all professional services of Sabre’s Airline Solution business within the EMEA region overseeing implementation, consulting, custom development and product support activities.

Accountable for the planning, budgeting, scheduling, and staff development for the strategic Airline Solutions implementation programs, which are typically very large, span across multiple locations and are highly complex, while ensuring that client requirements are met. Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key clients as well as collaborating and coordinating across internal functional teams including Product, Technology and Sales.

Responsible to develop and drive JDA’s strategy for project mgmt, to oversee the global PM community, to ensure consistency in JDAs approach globally, to increase & maintain quality in JDA’s PMs and overall project delivery, to develop and manage initiatives which enhance and monitor JDA's PM capability, to ensure the usage of JDA’s project delivery methodology, to facilitate the management of documentation and tools used in Consulting pursuits, to facilitate the management of reporting on project delivery.

Responsible for all JDA Services and Sales across Asia Pacific in the combined JDA/ RedPrairie organization wrt all financial and operational KPIs (including utilization, Revenue, EBITDA, CoE hours, budgets, bookings, compensation), for project management excellence (e.g. PM training, mentorship, methodology, QA, project reviews, knowledge management), as well as bid & risk management (deal reviews, approvals, contract and proposal reviews, RevRec, VSOE, etc.) and special projects (mergers & acquisitions).

Accountable for selling Consulting, Cloud and Education Services, ownership of all end-to-end delivery services and management of personnel across SEA & India related to JDA’s entire suite of products, and the management of partner driven implementations, as well as responsible for the initial setup, management and ongoing development of a sustainable and scalable Operations team, which supports in its function all Services associates in APAC as well as coordinates with the global operations teams.

Responsible and accountable for all delivery services and personnel across Asia Pacific related to JDA’s Supply Chain application suite of products, and the management of partner driven implementations.

Fully responsible as Program/ Project Manager managing the Business Transformation with Core Process Review, Go to Market Strategy, IS Architecture Strategy, Supply Chain Diagnostics and Core Realisation projects. Responsible for managing and implementing the program with a budget in excess of AUD18m. Managed the overall program delivered using 150+ FTEs from client and various service organizations.

Implementing and managing Integrated Supply Chain Planning (ISCP) process and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems projects.

European Project Manager for larger supply chain management process and system implementations. Implementing demand and supply planning processes and systems.

Consultant for implementing and supporting the forecasting system Forsys

Additionally, achieved Vordiplom (Bachelor) in Economics in 1993