Jiří Venera
Praha 10
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of SAP
HOPI HOLDING
01.2025 - Current
- Primary responsible for Internal SAP DevOps team
- SAP (ECC, R/3 & S/4, WMS, SD, MM, FI/CO ABAP/Fiori)
- In total 16 consultants and 5 ABAP/Fiori developers providing full SAP support on 2nd / 3rd level as my direct reports
- B1 position
- S/4 HANA Migration Project Manager
- SAP SPOC for entire HOPI Holding organization
- Crisis manager for high valuable and critical projects
Head of SAP
Košík.cz
11.2023 - 12.2024
- Primary responsible for SAP DevOps team
- SAP (ECC, S/4, WMS, ABAP)
- In total 23 administrators and ABAP/Fiori developers providing full SAP support on 2nd / 3rd level
- Budget owner
- SAP SPOC for entire Košík.cz organization (Czech and abroad)
- B1 position
Head of Application Delivery & Support
ASAHI Europe & International Czech Republic
06.2018 - 10.2023
- Primary responsible for SAP & Applications management support (Vendor management)
- SAP (ECC, MII, SFSF), MS (SharePoint, .NET), nonSAP applications.
- In total cca 700 applications in scope. Supported internally, or externally (responsible for several suppliers providing 2nd / 3rd level support)
- S/4 HANA Migration Board
- SAP SPOC for Asahi Europe
- Member of IS board
SAP Application Management Team Leader
ATOS Czech Republic
11.2017 - 05.2018
- Leading department of 6 SAP Basis professionals (2nd level) and helpdesk with 1st line support primary focus on Application/Modules within SAP such as MM, SD, FI/CO
- Project manager of SAP PCOE re-certification and transfer of helpdesk activities from branch to HQ in Prague
SAP & Security Operations Line Manager
NNIT Czech Republic
02.2015 - 10.2017
- Leading department of 12 SAP Basis professionals (2nd, 3rd level support), supporting 500+ sap systems including 6 Security professionals responsible for various of activities across Network and Identity management solutions
- Responsible for keeping service cost under control and assuring productivity improvement
SAP administrator / Technical Team Leader
IBM DC Czech Republic
11.2007 - 01.2015
- Leading of 25 SAP administrators, mentoring and development, participation on hiring process, resource planning, team member evaluation
- Project management (pull / push activity), transfer of SAP systems from customer datacenter to IBM datacenter and vice versa
IT Specialist - Windows server administrator
Manpower
03.2005 - 10.2007
- 2nd level Windows server administrator
Business manager
Power Products
01.2003 - 02.2005
Operator
Peněžní Expresní Servis (Czech branch of Western Union)
09.2000 - 12.2003
Education
Bachelor - Information and Library Studies
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
01.2007
Skills
- Responsibility
- Flexibility
- Leadership
- Decision Making
- Resistance to stress
- Positive attitude to work
- Microsoft Azure
- Empathy
- Quick Learner
- Ability to Work Under Pressure
- Time Management
- Reliability
- Social intelligence
- SAP Basis & SAP S/4 HANA
Certification
- GxP Life Cycle
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- SOX
- Lean Sig Sigma - green belt
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (Oracle DB) NetWeaver 7.0
- Microsoft Windows Server Administration
Languages & Others
English (full professional proficiency)
Driving License type A, B
Timeline
Head of SAP
HOPI HOLDING
01.2025 - Current
Head of SAP
Košík.cz
11.2023 - 12.2024
Head of Application Delivery & Support
ASAHI Europe & International Czech Republic
06.2018 - 10.2023
SAP Application Management Team Leader
ATOS Czech Republic
11.2017 - 05.2018
SAP & Security Operations Line Manager
NNIT Czech Republic
02.2015 - 10.2017
SAP administrator / Technical Team Leader
IBM DC Czech Republic
11.2007 - 01.2015
IT Specialist - Windows server administrator
Manpower
03.2005 - 10.2007
Business manager
Power Products
01.2003 - 02.2005
Operator
Peněžní Expresní Servis (Czech branch of Western Union)
09.2000 - 12.2003
Bachelor - Information and Library Studies
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University