“Mika is an experienced international business and people leader, combining strong analytical and conceptual thinking with people leadership skills to foster collaboration across diverse teams and bring people together to get things done in real life.”
Special skills
Business process architecture and development
Organisational transformations
Change management and business leadership
Managing teams and leading people in complex multicultural organisations
Supply chain management and development
Product management and product portfolio roadmapping
Strengths
Analytical skills, strategic thinking, putting things in perspective and focusing on the essential
Ability to analyze and understand complex business situations, see the interdependencies, and create coherent and understandable vision of the whole
Ability to foster collaboration across diverse teams and achieve results through getting everyone to work towards common goals
Finding and implementing real-life, practical solutions to problems – focusing on real results, not impression management
Relevant experience
25+ years of experience in global multinational corporations
Defining and maintaining corporate-level operating model architecture and related governance and documentation practices
Leading and coaching process definition and development work on the corporate level
Program Management: leading and contributing to large organisational transformations
Operational accountability in areas of Sales and Operations Planning, Product Marketing and Roadmapping, and Supply Chain Strategy
20+ years of experience in people leadership of multinational line organisations and virtual teams
Education
Master of Science (Technology) in Industrial Management; Major: Industrial economics, Minor: Industrial Information Systems. Helsinki University of Technology, 1996.
Several nomination based senior management / leadership trainings. INSEAD & Nokia Training Centre, 1996-2011
Diploma in Operations Management (DOM). Aalto EE, 2013
