Sarah's CV
Sarah P
TRANSFORMATION & CYBERSECURITY LEADER | DIRECTOR-LEVEL EXECUTIVE
Profile summary
Strategic transformation and cybersecurity leader with 16 years shaping enterprise outcomes across EMEA. Known for directing high-stakes digital programs, post-merger integrations, and infrastructure modernizations across multiple sectors. Committed to delivering operational excellence and aligning security frameworks with executive business objectives.
Career highlights
Cybersecurity Program Leadership: Directed high-stakes cybersecurity and digital transformation programs for enterprise logistics, public sector, and insurance clients across EMEA while reporting to executive leadership.
Cloud Migration And Cost Reduction: Directed the full data center exit cloud migration for an international sports NGO, restructuring network architecture and delivering an 80 percent reduction in infrastructure operating costs.
Branch Integration And Standards: Led feasibility assessments, gap analysis, and charter assignments to integrate 40 international operating branches into corporate technical standards across the Iberian Peninsula.
Mobility Platform Scale And Profitability: Steered the operational pilot, launch, and fleet relocation strategy for the joint venture, scaling the service to 10,000 active users and achieving EBIT profitability.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reported to executive leadership, directing cybersecurity and digital transformation programs for enterprise logistics, public sector, and insurance clients across EMEA while managing cross-functional teams of senior consultants.
- Directed the full data center exit cloud migration for an international sports NGO, restructuring network architecture and delivering an 80 percent reduction in infrastructure operating costs.
- Managed end-to-end design and deployment of dual high-security data center stacks, coordinating vendor product integration layers, low-level design refinements, and acceptance testing.
- Architected national security compliance programs and governance, risk, and compliance assessments, establishing secrecy classification standards that enabled service delivery to government entities.
- Coordinated technical response during an enterprise ransomware investigation, securing incident resolution, workplace transformation for locations, and business continuity.
Directed operations for Tier 1 retail sector clients across EMEA Central, overseeing full budget and turnover ownership alongside customer value realization.
- Led value development for an enterprise artificial intelligence driven forecast and replenishment platform, translating executive business objectives into operational execution.
- Controlled project budgets, resource allocations, and revenue tracking while conducting technical health checks to optimize software performance and customer retention.
Steered headquarter information technology and road logistics operations across multiple branches, shaping enterprise digital initiatives and directing post merger integrations.
- Led feasibility assessments, gap analysis, and charter assignments to integrate 40 international operating branches into corporate technical standards across the Iberian Peninsula.
- Designed a unified corporate portfolio and value stream management framework, consolidating enterprise tools and training 1,500 initial MVP users.
- Directed group-wide rollout of Celonis Process Mining across road logistics to eliminate operational bottlenecks and establish predictive forecasting models.
Shaped commercial strategies for food retail operations, governing regulatory compliance across regional locations. Steered workforce planning initiatives while directing profit and loss performance parameters for the store network.
- Managed 80 employees, directing workforce management and compliance with HACCP standards.
- Established sales controlling standards to monitor and regulate performance data across ten regional shop locations.
- Implemented hybrid workforce structures to manage administrative staffing needs between Hamburg and Sylt offices.
- Managed daily service center functions and aligned service hub activities across 2 locations.
- Steered the operational pilot, launch, and fleet relocation strategy for the Car2Go joint venture between Daimler and Europcar, scaling the service to 10,000+ active users.
- Achieved EBIT profitability for the Car2Go operation within 4 years from launch through disciplined market execution and fleet management.
- Executed service level agreement management across commercial vehicle leasing profit centers.
- Generated operational reporting to support business unit functions.
Education
Cyberpsychology of Online Communication
- Focus: Human-Machine Interaction, Cybercrime, AI Ethics & Risk
Industriekauffrau IHK
Industrial Management Degree (Industriekauffrau IHK)
Certifications
Languages
German · Native
English · Professional