Julian, how would you describe yourself?
  • Strategic thinker 
  • Commander 
  • Sports enthusiast 
  • Foodie
What is special about working at Infineon?

To me, Infineon excels in its people-oriented culture. I really have the feeling that I can bring up ideas and drive topics further. We have low hierarchies and I have always been feeling the support needed. Also you have the chance to understand a lot from literally any other function if you just raise your interest and meet up for lunch.

What are your main tasks?

In a broader definition, many tasks can be summarized as somewhat related to project management. I think that comes naturally with the forward-looking view in my role. We are a great team from various locations and we really drive various topics forward. Together with my colleagues in the locations, we are owning several organizational processes that require on the one side the global as well as local coordination, and – on the other side – the regular evaluation and potential optimization.

What are the results of your work?

That‘s quite difficult to answer – as the results are not always quite easy to visualize. Someone once said in Shared Services you will never get rewarded for the 99 invoices paid on time but always challenged for the delayed one. I think the biggest result of us working as a team is the standing of our Shared Services organization these days – it surely is an effort that has already started various years before I joined and is a joint effort of many people. Yet, I am happy that I can contribute to this.

What are your job highlights?

The best part of my job is the social interaction that I have every day. We are located in various locations worldwide, bringing together an amazing diversity – in perspectives, ideas but also just in the type of personalities.

As Shared Services organization we are by default very customer-oriented, and it is always a moment to celebrate when seeing that a project pays-off in practice.

What are your biggest challenges?

One thing that makes my position exciting and which I normally enjoy a lot, yet, which also is a challenge from time to time is the broad variety of topics as well as new situations literally every day. Let‘s face it – there is always the moment where you just want to do some routine tasks that you are used to. Luckily, this is very seldom the case for me.

Hard or smart working? Why?

There is no either or. Working in a smart way is the choice to go for when there is a „better“ way of spending the released time. Yet, if you belief in something or you know the value add, then it is definitely worth to go the extra mile and work hard to achieve your goals. By the way, I think this mindset is applicable to both professional and private situations.