Nicole Her Danegger

• Designed and built the Global Transformational PMO from scratch in less than 3 months. • Led a geographically distributed team of 15 direct reports, including senior program, project managers, change managers and business analysts, providing Strategic leadership and tactical direction, coaching and talent development to >50 offshore development teams and third-party vendors. • Created the North Star inspiring the Global PMO future evolution, extending over a portfolio of financial transformation, business intelligence and operations, data analytics, AI and machine learning programs • Established and cascaded OKRs for the PMO in line with the firm’s strategic objectives. Leading routines to evaluate and calibrate OKRs as needed and process for evaluating the team’s performance. • Owner of the global PMO financial budget incl. annual budget planning and resource allocation process, managing cross portfolio prioritization, and financial planning to help inform day to day decisions. • Enabled one of the largest, WMG #1 largest and most complex enterprise-wide finance transformation program to SAP S/4 HANA cloud for media & entertainment specific solutions across 24+ countries, 140 business stakeholders and >$450M budget. • Spearheaded the development of a new and scalable launch concept, igniting a paradigm shift, leveraging the power of data and metrics, i.e. creation of dashboards to measure global performance and operations. This led to the global launch of 24 affiliates and three Shared Service Centers supporting WMG's Finance transformation, > 8000 users. • Designed and established a new program delivery governance and transformation framework from a waterfall delivery approach to an Agile Model according to SAFe principles.