“Soile has experience in leading both business transformations and IT development in a global manufacturing company, with an academic background in the energy and process industry.”
Special skills
Leadership and change management in a global environment.
Sales management, demand and supply planning.
Sales and pricing processes and tools incl. CRM, CPQ, spare parts.
BI and analytics tools, data literacy.
ICT management.
Project Portfolio Management.
Strengths
Knowledge of manufacturing and process industries.
Proven success in implementing new software tools and renewed processes to the business units in a global environment.
Driving change by forming the common big picture how functions contribute to, and gain by the change.
Leading cross-cultural teams, bridge-building between functions and experts and establishing champion networks.
Positive “can do attitude” that relies on people's strengths and organizational learning
Relevant experience
9 years of industrial demand and supply operations, safety and quality management experience.
CRM-CPQ-SAP end-to-end process and tooling roll-out between global factories and an external distributor network.
5 years global sales and pricing management model, organizational competence and BI & analytics tool development.
3 years ICT operating model, business self-service model and outsourcing management with offshore and inshore vendors.
Leading various company-wide ICT tool roll-outs including change management activities to internal and external local units.
Education
Master of Science (Energy Economics, Industrial Management), Helsinki University of Technology, 2003
University of Vaasa (Digital Management 20 ECTS), 2021
