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Discover Sopra Steria Next in Germany

Discover Sopra Steria Next with Anna – Consultant Organisation & Change – Germany

Hi, I'm Anna and I'm with Sopra Steria Next in the strategy and management consultancy in the team organization development and change management. But I've been with Sopra Steria since 2019 and I originally joined the corporate team. I decided to switch internally because I'm really happy with Sopra Steria as an employer and I've met great colleagues here in the time I’ve been here.  
I just needed a change of scenery without necessarily wanting to switch employers. And that was just a great opportunity. 

Your tips for change 
My tips for everyone who want to change or who notices that they need a change of scenery to listen to your gut feeling! And for me it was super helpful to look for people in my environment, be it at work or in the circle of friends and acquaintances, who work in the area I wanted or that I found exciting and then simply looking for a conversation, sometimes unexpected doors open up. 

How do we lead ? with Moritz – Manager Digital Strategy – Germany
Moin Moin, I am Moritz. I have just become a manager in the team Digital Strategy at NextPublic and have taken over the disciplinary leadership of two team members, Johanna and Keno. And we work together on answers in the transformation, in the digital transformation of customers to achieve the best possible results for the customer together and to accompany him in doing so. 
As a manager, I see myself more in a service role and I try to ask specific questions, what do you need to develop your job, your ideas, what needs do you have in the team, to give me a sort of restraining framework. At one point or another if there is a need, I am happy to provide information with templates and the experience that I may have gained in other projects. But apart from that, we also have focus on interdisciplinarity when it comes to ideas, composition and skill sets to put together the best possible methods and thoughts for the customer into the scales and to answer the questions that the customer may not have asked yet.  
Sometimes customer come and they think they have recognized their problem, but they are not yet asking the right question and we try to answer them together. 
And when are you starting with Moritz? 
How do we lead ? with Jennifer – Director Banking – Germany

Hello, my name is Jennifer Brasnic. I am the director of banking and I am responsible for the ServiceLane Custom Excellence with about 35 employees. Why did I become a leader? I love working with people. For me, it's a matter of the heart to encourage my employees to leave the comfort zones to try themselves out and possibly make mistakes, for which I as a leader, of course, stand up for.  
I had extreme luck on my career path. I had great leaders that I could learn a lot from and that I can now really pass on. My greatest wish would be to sit in the management team at some point and have two or three of my employees with me in the ranks as I have developed and brought them there myself.  
As a leader, I would be extremely happy and appreciate that. What is really important in my job is that I live an open culture. When I say my doors are open, I mean it. That means I offer everyone the opportunity not to try out the space but if mistakes happens etc., or if you have questions , just come to me. What I am really proud of is that my team is really colorful. We now have employees who start at 18, so we have dual students to employees who have been in our company for 20 years. 
In addition, we have 50% women in leader positions and that’s a really great number. 
And when are you starting with Jennifer? 

How do we lead ? with Janina – Unit Lead Change & Innovation Public Sector – Germany
Hello, my name is Janina Lux and I am part of Sopra Steria Next Public. Here, I lead the team Change Innovation. In my everyday life, there are three main areas of work. On the one hand, I work as a change manager in projects of the German administration. These are team management tasks. And thirdly, I work on our portfolio and the layout of offers, so that we can win new projects. 

As a leader, it’s especially important to me that everyone in the team has a role, so they know where they can work independently, what their responsibility is. This includes individual leadership and empathy for the respective person, and this creates a diverse team that can complement each other and sometimes work independently. 

And, um, you can avoid micromanagement. In our team there are people with professional experience, new employees, but also managers. Everyone has their own individual focus, but what connects us is the desire to help the German public sector to work more efficiently, to become partly more digital in some ways, and to become more resilient. 

And when are you starting with Janina? 
How do we lead ? with Viktoria – Associate Manager – Germany
Hello everyone, my name is Victoria and I have been working at Sopra Steria in banking for three years. Currently, I accompany our customers a lot in the context of project management, in the agile context, i. e. as a scrum master or scrum master, but also in the field of change management, to really accompany our customers from end to end, and to implement solutions. 

What did your career look like? 
Yes, I did a dual degree in the textile industry, so I am a beginner. I then stayed in the company and worked in project management. Then I switched to simply learn even more and simply because I had the desire to think even more outside of the box. And I was recruited by a colleague via our program New Faces to Sopra Steria and I have been very happy to be here since then.