Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Affiliations
Certification
Timeline
Hi, I’m

Aleksandra Jovanovic

Küsnacht
Aleksandra Jovanovic

Summary

Experienced Senior IT Relationship, Communication and Change Manager, with 15+ years of experience in the Tier 1 insurance/reinsurance and banking companies. Well-versed in successfully fostering partnerships between IT and startegic business stakeholders. Effective collaborator and excellent communicator with dedication to reliability and open communication. Driven to manage projects, streamline processes and facilitate change

Overview

16
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Credit Suisse, Group Operations and IT
Zürich

Senior IT Relationship Manager
07.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Regional Deployment Co-Lead for M365 Services and Applications in Switzerland
  • Service Adoption Specialist for M365 Applications and Services /Switzerland (MS Teams)
  • WorkLab Project IT Manager: IT Support/Delivery Manager, testing MTR Rooms solutions, Cisco and Poly IT Solutions, collecting feedback and delivering training
  • IT Business Advisory Board- CH regional host for monthly meetings with business stakeholders across the board
  • IT Communication Manager and the Adoption Engagement partner for Microsoft
  • Modern Workplace/Digital Workplace Project – communication for roll-out
  • OCM Value Stream member, MS Teams User Experience - training content and delivery

Credit Suisse, Group Operations and IT
Zurich

PM/Business Analyst
11.2020 - 07.2021

Job overview

  • New Way of Working (NWOW): the global programme analyzing and setting a future IT technology paradigm triggered by COVID-19 crisis
  • PMO/Business Analyst for two Valuestreams (IT Technology and IT Risk Mitigation), responsible for defining governance and workstream set up, survey setup for identifying gaps in IT Technology
  • Stakeholder management: interviews with N-2 SMEs
  • Final report out with recommendations for improvement and implementation in IT Technology Strategy for 2021 based on an extensive surveys across all regions

Swiss Re, Group Risk Management
Zurich

Senior Change Manager
05.2019 - 10.2019

Job overview

  • Develop and execute Change Management and Training Plan for the main IT initiative (data governance, data consumption, application landscape)
  • Develop and execute communications strategy the main project in CRO office (digital strategy)
  • Deliver training assessment and training plan development
  • Develop and implement key stakeholder (CRO executive team) engagement strategy, team change impact and people transformation analysis, reporting internally & externally, project status update, general stakeholder management

Swiss Re, Corporate Solutions
Zurich

Senior Operations Manager
10.2012 - 05.2018

Job overview

  • Project and Process Manager of projects with internal and external focus e.g with the World Energy Council
  • ECM Office Team Lead (2014-2018), vocational trainer (4+ years)
  • HR/Training: training design and development, change management (Priority initiative on sales KPIs)
  • Innovation: innovation platform implementation and campaign management
  • Communication: develop communication plans, newsletters, Intranet

Projects:

• IT & Digital Marketing: Pilot project for implementing Pitcher (iOS app) for marketing collateral (20+ pilot users, stakeholders and sponsors: EB, MDs in sales)

• IT Innovation Manager: Employee Award for the Innovation Campaign for EMEA Sales (impacted 600+) on the external platform as an idea dropbox (Sponsors: 6 MDRs in sales and business strategy development)

• HR: designed global training for cross-selling regional sales strategy (50+ end users), acknowledged as one of the most successful sales trainings (stakeholders: N-3, sponsor: MDR)

• HR & Change Management: Talent Strategy Workstream Lead on business development Priority Initiative

Credit Suisse, Group IT
Zurich

PMO and UAT Analyst
05.2011 - 08.2012

Job overview

  • Responsible PMO within “Design & Development” workstream on a major IT programme (One PPM)
  • Developing and managing the UAT process and cases, definition of processes and procedures to support the design of new features on the new project portfolio platform
  • Prepare, coordinate various Steering Committees, identify and actively manage champion network, project planning, book of work management
  • Develop use cases and conduct UAT, stakeholder and communication management, up to date reporting to all stakeholders including project team, update project documents

SwissRe, Group Communications
Zurich

Corporate Communication Assistant
05.2007 - 02.2010

Job overview

  • Internal communications, newsletter, Intranet, events and conferences management
  • Launch of communication activity tracking tool, monthly publishing of events and speaking engagements for CEO/EB
  • Support to Global Head of Corporate Communications

Education

M.A. English Language and Literature (lic.phil)

Skills

  • M365 Adoption Specialist
  • Effective customer communication
  • Relationship Management
  • Training design and delivery (KPIs)
  • Customer Education and Consulting
  • Client Engagement
  • Process Development
  • Multi-language skills

Languages

Serbian
First Language
German
Proficient
C2
English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Upper Intermediate
B2
French
Intermediate
B1
Italian
Intermediate
B1

Affiliations

  • Vocational Trainer (+4 years), Swiss Re
  • Member of Credit Suisse IT Women Council
  • Member of D&I (Diversity&Inclusion) Mentorship Programme

Certification

  • SCRUM Foundation Training, Credit Suisse, 2022
  • CAS Organizational Developmenta and Change Management, IKF, 2019
  • PROSCI Certificate, Swiss Re 2011

Timeline

Senior IT Relationship Manager

Credit Suisse, Group Operations and IT
07.2021 - Current

PM/Business Analyst

Credit Suisse, Group Operations and IT
11.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Change Manager

Swiss Re, Group Risk Management
05.2019 - 10.2019

Senior Operations Manager

Swiss Re, Corporate Solutions
10.2012 - 05.2018

PMO and UAT Analyst

Credit Suisse, Group IT
05.2011 - 08.2012

Corporate Communication Assistant

SwissRe, Group Communications
05.2007 - 02.2010

M.A. English Language and Literature (lic.phil)
Aleksandra Jovanovic