Military Experience Meets Business

As an injured veteran, Christian worked in Amazon’s Global Military Affairs program before joining the FRICKE Group.

People from a wide range of professional backgrounds repeatedly find their way to the FRICKE Group. For example, Alexander, who previously completed a bachelor’s degree as a police commissioner candidate, or Carina, who had lived in Austria before joining the company.
Today, I would like to introduce Christian, who has been part of the FRICKE Group since July 2025. Since January 2026, he has been working as an Operational Excellence Manager in Logistics. In this role, he focuses on systematically developing processes further and delivering measurable results by supporting operational managers in process analysis, evaluating process data, and identifying waste and bottlenecks. As a result, a large part of his work revolves around achieving continuous improvement.

Military Background as a Door Opener

His experience in program and stakeholder management, which he has gained throughout his career, helps him significantly in this role. Before joining FRICKE, Christian worked at Amazon as a Process Lead and Manager. There, partly due to the combination of his own military background and his extensive operational experience, he had the opportunity to join the Global Military Affairs program. This is a strategic program aimed at successfully transitioning military professionals into civilian career paths.

It is an Amazon-owned team that works closely with other major corporations that have had or currently run their own military programs. The team operates globally. During that time, Christian first lived in London for six months and then in Seattle for a year, managing the program from there with responsibility for the regions of North America, Central Europe, and Oceania.

This international reach required a high level of cross-functional collaboration and cultural understanding across multiple time zones and markets.

The program covered the entire employee journey: from targeted recruiting of military talent, through a structured onboarding process, to mentoring and coaching initiatives for long-term career development. It was complemented by active community building, with events ranging from traditional recruitment activities to high-level governmental meetings, which sustainably strengthened knowledge transfer and cohesion within the veteran community.

Personal Highlights During the Global Military Affairs Program

A particular highlight for Christian was participating in the Invictus Games 2023 in Düsseldorf and the Invictus Games 2025 in Vancouver. The Invictus Games are an international sporting event for service members who were injured in the line of duty or have sustained lasting physical or mental injuries due to illness. They were founded in 2014 by Prince Harry. Although Christian was unfortunately not able to compete himself as a representative of the main sponsor, his disciplines would have been wheelchair basketball and rowing.

As an injured veteran with a history of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), participating in these games was for me far more than a professional engagement—it was a moment that deeply touched and empowered me in my own journey as a veteran.

During his military service, which included three overseas deployments, Christian was stationed in Seedorf (about 8 km from Heeslingen) and completed a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a practical component at Lisega in Zeven. The theoretical part of his studies took place at Ruhr University Bochum, with a focus on Business Informatics/Application Systems, particularly the integration of communication tools into ERP systems.

We find Christian’s career path both exciting and impressive, and we wish him all the best for his future with the FRICKE Group!
If you’d like to read more about unconventional career paths, you can check out the post about Gian Luca, whose journey took him from Italy, through Germany, and finally to Switzerland.