Based in Beijing, Mr. Ralf Huebenthal is holding the position of CIO (Head of Information Technology) for the Greater China Region at Nestlé. He is a strong believer that today's CIO role goes beyond optimizing back office operations and plays a major role in business growth. Providing consumer and value chain insight combined with enabling new business models based on analytics is a key objective of being a CIO.
Currently he is overseeing and transforming the IT organisation in China to enable the business vision of an end-to-end digitalised data driven organisation. This entails completing a previously failed SAP implementation as the system of reference for optimised back office operations. Building a digital enablement platform to allow the capturing of all data opportunities; from eCommerce platforms, retailers or IoT devices serving consumers. This includes the creation of a try-fast-fail-fast environment to test and establish new consumer facing business models.
He constantly accepted new challenges to drive change, grow business insights and experienced personal growth. An international career, in various global and local IT roles, has included working in Germany, Switzerland, Ghana, Israel, Australia and now China. Working across these diverse environments he had the opportunity to gain business insights across all areas, from the direct to consumer model (Nespresso) to the traditional distributor model. Furthermore, he is passionate about and am successful in creating independent and high performing teams as a cornerstone for successful change.