Irene Schmid

Commercial lead of ongoing business for a multinational insurance company in IT Services and Project/Consulting business (contractual negotiation support, monthly volume consumption, Growth planning, customer and supplier relationship for escalation handling),

Commercial lead of ongoing business in IT Services for the Automotive and Manufacturing industry.

Business Operations Lead responsible to analyze processes in critical businesses, identifying improvement potential, and recommendations to implement proposed changes in line with the contract and standard processes. Project Lead establishing best-shore service team in Bulgaria to support EMEA based local account teams.

Functional interfact between the internal account teams and GBS organizations in various Europe and Asia based Business Centers, headcount and financial planning; process improvement projects; global Key Performance Indicator development and harmonization.

Finance and Employee Services to a Swiss based multinational clietn, negotiations of Implentation Agreements, contract interpretation, Contract Change Management, commercial analysis of business and pricing, and negotiation strategies; Gainshare Management; Vendor Manager for payslip printing service

Customer Consulting setting up a local German FP&A Shared Services Center (development and implementation of the Service Agreements, performance measurement criteria and the Governance model). Project Lead for development and harmonization of global Key Performance Indicators for all Global Business Centers.

Definition of the pricing strategy for Commercial and Consumer products, competitive analysis, product announcements and price changes, special and promotion pricing. Representation of Compaq EMEA in the Integration team before and after the merge with Hewlett Packard for pricing, special pricing and costing.

Responsible for financial budgeting, forecasting and presentation to local management; new products pricing, contractual negotiation support (suppliers and customers).

Consolidation of financial Forecast, Month-end/Year-end close for the German Holding, Project lead for programming, implementation, and training of a new software system for investment approval, controlling and automatic accounting entry.

Banking, Human Resources, Commercial Geographie