Jan Grothe | Intro | Deutsche Bahn
Jan Grothe | Intro | Deutsche Bahn
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2021 will mark Grothe ’ s 20th year at Deutsche Bahn , where he has steadily risen through the ranks to scale new heights – both on a personal and company level – and overseen Deutsche Bahn ’ s digital transformation in procurement .
He had previous experience setting up platforms as a procurement consultant and was drafted into Deutsche Bahn to develop their own procurement platform .
“ I originally thought that this would be a two-year project , and then I obviously stayed ,” says Grothe . “ That was because the people were great and they loved to have someone with them with an entrepreneurial approach – bringing things to an end , making decisions and leading the way . I had 50 people at that time for this project and we were very successful . So Deutsche Bahn actually was one of the first companies in Germany which had the full set of e-procurement systems , e-tender systems , and auction tools . And this was at the very beginning of my time there , so this really was state-of-the-art at that time .”
Always keen to take on a new challenge and push himself higher , it was not long before Grothe was moving beyond
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