Joseph Largen

I am responsible for leading product management team to create a sale & post-sale shopping experience that maximise value for the consumers, the license owners, and brands. Major Achievements: • Set the strategy to reach a new business model based on platform as a service to increase monetization of omnichannel & eCommerce services • Monitor and steer strategy execution based on business circumstances • Lead the creation & adoption of a Design System • Lead the implementation of #1 most downloaded eCommerce mobile app in Austria. • Lead the implementation of a Loyalty System • Responsible for staff management & development (performance review, mentoring)

Mandated to embark on a complex digital transformation program for an international retailer, I was responsible for the management and successful execution of concurrent IT projects using the Agile methodology from design to implementation. Major Achievements: • Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for B2B commerce • Designed and implemented a store and warehouse picking service • Manage budget and cost • Led a team of internal and external developers • Create and implement engaging people-focused change management strategy to ensure high levels of adoption and minimise resistance • Led the integration of an application designed to manage product offering • Led the integration of a multi support cloud-based application designed to manage the department manager day to day work • Led the integration of a cloud-based smartphone application designed to calculate real time stock level.

Recruited to apply my technology experience to advise large corporate and public organisations on a range of assignments covering system integration, system architecture and product management. Key Responsibilities: • Defined the product vision for the promotion & pricing products • Managed the product roadmap & backlog • Designed the functional specifications toward the implementation of e-Passport gates at the Luxembourg airport and border security systems checks.

Parachuted by Willis Towers Watson HQ (UK) to integrate the Belgium consulting team of a Europe-wide operational excellence program with the objective of saving $58 million via the implementation Key Responsibilities: • Analyzed balance sheet and PNL to Identify cost saving opportunities • Identified business problems and opportunities using lean six sigma statistical analysis • Identified cost saving on 1 FTE and recommendations to improve the management of the client segmentation • Delivered a business case detailing the costs and benefits of implementing the changes.

I embarked on a large transformation program to improve customer satisfaction by reducing network downtime. I set up the PMO practice and managed projects across Ghana, Tanzania, Republic Democratic of the Congo & Congo Brazzaville Key Responsibilities: • Set the PMO-practice with the creation of governance, business processes, policies, systems compliance, and templates • Set up governance process to overseas portfolio from new demand prioritization through to delivery. • assess and prioritize new demand according to their alignment with company vision and strategy as well as deliverability and absorbability. • Managed the portfolio resource allocation process. • Deliver clear and concise portfolio communications up to Executive Commitee level • Identify risks and issues report them and ensure a resolution is supported. • Re-designed fuel collection, inventory management processes to standardise them across 4 countries (Ghana, Tanzania, Republic Democratic of Congo and Congo Brazzaville)

Appointed to lead merger and acquisition projects. Key Responsibilities: Led the requirement elicitation, testing and implementation of the merger of all Children’s edition company into a new entity Led the requirement elicitation, testing and implementation of company acquisitions Led the requirement elicitation of the CRM software Adobe Campaign

My role was to lead the implementation of a Business Intelligence software from specifications to system development. Key Responsibilities: Led the full system implementation for major international retailers (PRIMARK, BURBERRY, NEW LOOK & MONOPRIX) Led 3rd party delivery partners offshore in India (Pune) Led 4 concurrent projects.

Integrated the sales & marketing team to gather insight on customer engagement patterns and commercial strategy performance. Key Responsibilities: Standardised the use of EPOS data as a KPI across the organisation, which provided a more accurate picture of sales performance, remaining stock at customer site and customer engagement on products/brands. Extended the standardisation of this KPI to the French and Spanish offices Centralised French, UK and Spanish EPOS data on an EPOS database

My role was to partner with internal business functions and European business units to provide financial analysis to support key decision making. Key Responsibilities: Used my advanced excel knowledge to create various reporting Took major part in the month end accounting process

My role was to provide insight on the performance of the Kraft Heinz proximity business Key Responsibilities: Used my advanced excel knowledge to introduce improvements on existing reports Suppressed all errors made on the retro-commission calculation reports and divided by 4 the time needed to create retro-commission reports Retrieved €12,000 for Kraft while identifying variances during billing reconciliation on old archived invoices Managed internal and external stakeholders to recover that money