BMW appoints new Head of IT
01 Dec 2023|508 views
The BMW Group has appointed Mr. Hans Coertze as its Head of IT Region Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa.
Mr. Coertze, who is now based in Singapore, served as the Head of Ordering, Program Planning and ItO delivery at the IT Hub in South Africa prior to this appointment. He began his career with the BMW Group in 1992 as a graduate in Mechanical Engineering with BMW Plant Rosslyn in South Africa where he spent six years. In 1998, Mr. Coertze embarked on his IT career with the BMW Group, which includes IT infrastructure support as well as applications operations and data centre-related fields before taking on the leading role at the South Africa IT Hub in 2014.
The BMW Group thanks the outgoing Head of IT, Mr. Julius Marcea, for his hard work and dedication these past three and a half years. Under his IT leadership, in close collaboration with business colleagues, the team set up the India IT Hub, made online sales and online stock locator functionalities available throughout the region, rolled out new CRM systems, automated a significant share of processes and replaced the dealership management systems as well as financial services IT systems in several countries with modern cloud-based applications. Mr. Marcea is joining his family in Munich and will return to the BMW headquarters to take on a new role as IT Head in Europe.
With more than 200 employees, BMW Group IT Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, supports 12 National Sales Companies and 10 BMW Financial Services markets that span from Australia and New Zealand to South Africa. These include business entities such as Rolls-Royce, MINI, BMW Manufacturing plants in Thailand and India and 32 BMW Group importer markets within the region.
The BMW Group has appointed Mr. Hans Coertze as its Head of IT Region Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa.
Mr. Coertze, who is now based in Singapore, served as the Head of Ordering, Program Planning and ItO delivery at the IT Hub in South Africa prior to this appointment. He began his career with the BMW Group in 1992 as a graduate in Mechanical Engineering with BMW Plant Rosslyn in South Africa where he spent six years. In 1998, Mr. Coertze embarked on his IT career with the BMW Group, which includes IT infrastructure support as well as applications operations and data centre-related fields before taking on the leading role at the South Africa IT Hub in 2014.
The BMW Group thanks the outgoing Head of IT, Mr. Julius Marcea, for his hard work and dedication these past three and a half years. Under his IT leadership, in close collaboration with business colleagues, the team set up the India IT Hub, made online sales and online stock locator functionalities available throughout the region, rolled out new CRM systems, automated a significant share of processes and replaced the dealership management systems as well as financial services IT systems in several countries with modern cloud-based applications. Mr. Marcea is joining his family in Munich and will return to the BMW headquarters to take on a new role as IT Head in Europe.
With more than 200 employees, BMW Group IT Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, supports 12 National Sales Companies and 10 BMW Financial Services markets that span from Australia and New Zealand to South Africa. These include business entities such as Rolls-Royce, MINI, BMW Manufacturing plants in Thailand and India and 32 BMW Group importer markets within the region.
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