Janik Weigel
"Curious about innovation and the people and technologies driving it"
Open innovation
Data analytics
Start-ups
Project management
Strategy & Consulting
30 years old
Driving License
Germany
Professional Status
Nearing graduation
Open to opportunities
About Me
✓ Proven driver of digital & open innovation in the strategy pillar of a DAX30 company
✓ Passionate to initiate novel processes, bridging the technical <> business stakeholders gap
✓ Ready to apply decision-driven data analytic skills in a fast-paced environment (start-up, consulting, tech)
✓ Passionate to initiate novel processes, bridging the technical <> business stakeholders gap
✓ Ready to apply decision-driven data analytic skills in a fast-paced environment (start-up, consulting, tech)
Experiences
Student Consultant
Google Asia-Pacific
January 2021
to May 2021
- Analysed evolving online advertising requirements of the APAC travel industry “post-COVID”
- Identified and proposed 3 strategic product & process improvement actions within Google’s ad offering to better suit client requirements; to be implemented in Q3 2021
Analytics & Insights
Procter & Gamble
June 2020
to August 2020
- Data analytics for the Consumer and Market Knowledge (CMK) pillar in the DACH region
- Built inferential and ML-enabled, predictive models in R, based on vast media data
Program Manager Accelerator and Hackathons | Strategy & Transformation
Merck Innovation Center
August 2017
to December 2019
Full-time
Darmstadt (DE)
- Group-wide responsible to execute Hackathons around the globe: organized 12 events on 4 continents, which created >15 internal project follow-ups or new external Start-ups
- Coordinated and led cross-industry project teams of IT professionals from partners like Microsoft, AWS, Deutsche Telekom, Accenture, or European Space Agency (ESA) for Hackathons
- Judged feasibility of developed solutions and followed up with early-stage teams and their concepts
- Acted as global Start-up scout for the Accelerator - representing the program at various conferences and organizing pitch events in Europe and Africa
- Collaboration builder for the Accelerator - facilitated partnerships with internal stakeholders
Corporate Student (dual study program)
Merck KGaA
September 2014
to July 2017
Cooperative Education Work
Darmstadt (DE) and Johannesburg (ZA)
- Innovation Center – Accelerator Program: Wrote Bachelor’s thesis while actively supporting the 4th intake of the Accelerator
- Supply Chain – Southern Africa: Analysed (ABC) move of local warehouse and supported a tender implementation
- Human Resources – Services: Preparation and execution of capability building trainings, e.g. for Lean Six Sigma
- Global Procurement – Medical Devices: Led a data integration project, calculating synergy savings from a M&A transaction
- Global Distribution – Transportation: Analysis of shipment data from ERP for cold chain process optimization to the UK
- Throughout: Various skill seminars, business cases and language tests
Student Internship
Deutsche Telekom AG
January 2013
to February 2013
Frankfurt a.M. (DE)
- Supported the set-up of new radio relay modules during the LTE/4G expansion period
Interests
Mentorship
- Mentoring at “Speed Up, Buddy!”, a newly created network for first-in-family university students (founding member)
Coffee Brewing & Cupping
- Trying out and experimenting with different methods to brew coffee from freshly ground coffee beans
CEMS MIM Term Abroad
National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School
January 2020
to May 2020
• Courses on leadership and venture capital
• Consulting business project with Google Asia
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• Consulting business project with Google Asia
• Courses in predictive analytics with R, data visualization in R, operations research (OR), applied programming etc. to develop a sound understanding of applied data science
• Current GPA: B+ (on A-F scale)
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• Current GPA: B+ (on A-F scale)
CEMS MIM double degree at NHH - Norwegian School of Economics (Fall 2020) and NUS - National University of Singapore (Spring 2021)
B.A. Industrial Business Administration
Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Mannheim
2014
to 2017
• Dual study program with partner company
• Bachelor’s thesis on Corporate-Startup-Collaboration (Grade: 1.4)
• ECTS Grading: A – graduated top 10% of department, GPA: 1.6
• Bachelor’s thesis on Corporate-Startup-Collaboration (Grade: 1.4)
• ECTS Grading: A – graduated top 10% of department, GPA: 1.6
Skills
Technology
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MS Office
Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharepointExpert
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Data analysis and visualization
R (Base & Tidyverse), KNIME + PowerBIAdvanced
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Team management tools
Trello, Slack, MS TeamsAdvanced
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CRM/dealflow management
Salesforce, HYPE, DealMatrixAdvanced
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ERP systems
SAP R/3, SAP HANAAdvanced
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Optimization tools
AMPL (+CPLEX/Gurobi), Excel VBAGood
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Version control systems (GitHub)
Good
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User-interaction and web apps
Python, R Shiny, HTML, CSSIntermediate
Languages
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German
Mother tongueExpert
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English
Full professional proficiency, C1-C2 (Cambridge BEC Higher: 199); worked 2+ years full-time in an English-speaking teamAdvanced
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Norwegian
Elementary proficiency, A2 (Completed and ongoing language courses)Intermediate
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Latin
LatinumIntermediate
