Stuttgart, Germany · Jönköping, Sweden · Open to relocate (Sweden · Germany · Europe)

Florian A. Dick

I make technical change understandable — so organisations can act on it.

M.Sc. Global Management, Jönköping University — three years across the Bosch and Mercedes-Benz ecosystems in Germany, Sweden, and India, translating engineering output into strategic intent.

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Portrait of Florian A. Dick

01 · Profile

Communication & change practitioner at the interface of R&D and business strategy.

Three years across the Bosch and Mercedes-Benz ecosystems in Germany, Sweden, and India, translating engineering output into strategic intent. Completed an M.Sc. in Global Management at Jönköping University (June 2026) with an excellent thesis grade and very good to excellent marks across coursework — thesis research on how organisations absorb generative AI.

Top 0.5% of ~800 applicants — Swedish PhD cycle GPA 4.43 / 5.0 (≈3.43 / 4.0 US) Excellent thesis grade

02 · Experience

Three years, three companies, three countries.

07.2025 – 11.2025

Corporate Communications Intern (Trainee)

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India · Bangalore, India

Designed and delivered an internal communication campaign reaching the combined Bangalore and Pune workforce, coordinating with a cross-site team. Produced executive-facing content and reporting aligned to senior-leadership timelines. Operated daily across an Indian R&D environment and German management interfaces — practical cross-cultural communication at scale.

11.2023 – 04.2024

Pre-Master Program — Communication & Change Management

Robert Bosch GmbH · Stuttgart, Germany

Co-organized Bosch ConnectedWorld and Bosch ConnectedExperience, the company's flagship IoT events. Managed 80–100 speakers across the programme — scouting, briefing, scheduling, on-site execution. Held delivery responsibility for a 250-participant hackathon end-to-end. Acted as the connecting layer between business units, technical teams, and external partners.

05.2023 – 10.2023

Pre-Master Program — Solution Field E2E Communication

ETAS GmbH · Stuttgart, Germany

Cross-Functional People Lead within the Solution Field E2E communications programme. Supported change initiatives translating engineering roadmaps (System Defined Vehicle / OSS Innovations) into communication usable by non-engineering audiences. Drove alignment between technical leads and business stakeholders on shared messaging and timelines.

07.2022 – 03.2023

Working Student — Communication & Change Management

ETAS GmbH · Stuttgart, Germany

Cross-Functional People Lead and Competence People Lead in the OSS / Innovations stream (System Defined Vehicle). Event coordination and office support for the wider change programme — first hands-on exposure to communicating across engineering, product, and management layers.

09.2021 – 04.2022

Working Student — Retail

Levi Strauss Germany GmbH

Sales stylist on the shop floor and back-office support — early grounding in customer communication, service standards, and store operations.

11.2018 – 08.2019

Federal Volunteer Service

AWO Böblingen-Tübingen gGmbH

Supported children with disabilities in mainstream schools, including one-to-one accompaniment of a pupil on the autism spectrum. Assistance for elderly people in community settings — foundational experience in inclusive, person-centred communication.

03 · What Others Say

Don't take my word for it.

"His performance met with our highest recognition — at all times and in every respect."
Employment reference, Robert Bosch GmbH · 2024 BOSCH
"He has shown a sincere and dedicated attitude in carrying out his tasks."
Certificate of Internship, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India · 2025 Mercedes-Benz
"Enthusiastic to take up responsibilities and executing them with diligence … I have no hesitation in giving him my very best recommendation."
Sambit Lenka, Assistant Professor & thesis supervisor, Jönköping International Business School · 2026 JÖNKÖPING
UNIVERSITY

04 · Education

Business literacy, built on technical fluency.

08.2024 – 06.2026

M.Sc. Global Management

Jönköping University

Completed with very good to excellent marks. Programme focus: leading in globalized environments — change leadership, entrepreneurship, international management.

Thesis (excellent grade): "How do SMEs manage and navigate the multidimensional misfit in the Generative AI adoption process?"

10.2019 – 03.2023

B.Sc. Technically Oriented Business Administration

University of Stuttgart

Focus areas: international management, business administration, microeconomics, materials science, and mechanics — combining business literacy with technical fluency.

05 · Knowledge & Skills

Language, tools, and method.

Languages

  • German Native
  • English C1business-fluent
  • Swedish B1–B2actively improving

IT & Tools

MS OfficeSharePointAdobe Creative SuiteMiro MentimeterSwapcardEm.Ex.Emendo DocupediaSPSSCitavi

Methods

Change communicationSpeaker & content management Stakeholder coordinationQualitative research Cross-cultural project work

06 · Beyond Work

Rowing, photography, and a sense for pressure.

Vice President

Jönköping University Rowing Association (JURA)

Responsible for day-to-day operations in the President's absence; coordinate training schedules and club events alongside the board. WRICH-qualified rower.

Team Leader

Fotopoolen — student photography team

Plan and execute photography team events in close coordination with the management of the Akademien venue.

Florian rowing with a teammate on the water in Jönköping
On the water with JURA, Jönköping

During my bachelor studies I pursued a semi-professional track-and-field career with VfL Sindelfingen, maintaining a disciplined routine alongside academics. After relocating to Jönköping I transitioned to rowing, competed in multiple Swedish indoor regattas, and qualified for the World Rowing Indoor Championships (WRICH). Sport is where I learned to operate under pressure, recover quickly from setbacks, and stay focused when conditions are uncertain. I actively practice photography and image post-processing — an exercise in shifting perspective that carries into how I approach complex communication problems professionally.

07 · Why Me

The interface between what changes and who has to live with it.

Three years in, and the pattern is the same everywhere I've worked: something changes — a product, a process, a market — and someone has to make it make sense to the people it lands on. That's the role I keep finding myself good at.

I lead with the master's: an M.Sc. in Global Management from Jönköping University, built around change leadership and international management, with a thesis on how organisations actually absorb generative AI. Before that, three years of hands-on practice — Robert Bosch, ETAS, and Mercedes-Benz R&D India — sitting exactly at the point where engineering roadmaps have to become decisions non-engineers can act on.

What I'm looking for now is the same interface, at a bigger scale: an organisation navigating real change, where someone has to hold the technical and the human sides of that story together. I don't have twenty years of experience — I have three focused ones, a habit of learning fast, and a track record of being trusted with things that mattered before I'd officially arrived: a 250-participant hackathon delivered end-to-end, a cross-continental campaign run largely solo.

Outside work I row competitively, lead a university photography team, and generally don't do well with sitting still — which probably explains why change suits me better than steady-state anything. If any of this sounds like a fit for what you're building, I'd like to talk.

Your Call

So — is this a match?

Two buttons. No fine print.

08 · Contact

Let's talk.

Based between Stuttgart, Germany and Jönköping, Sweden — open to opportunities across Sweden, Germany, and wider Europe.

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