Michele Fabbri

Global Executive Operational Excellence | VP/General Manager | M.Eng. | MBA

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Dad, Husband, Engineer, passionate of leadership. * Unique of 20 years experience in implementing and designing effective and sustainable lean transformation with a General Manager perspective in complex organizations, in Europe, Middle East, Africa, USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Asia. End-to-End Supply Chain connectivity, Customers partnership integration and critical Suppliers management, in sectors such as energy, material handling equipment, high speed train, and FMCG. * VP General Management Turnaround in International environment usd 3+ billion. * Site Director in USA, 24/7 operations, turnaround environment. Full P&L ownership, building high performing teams, through persistent drive to achieve outstanding results in multi-cultural environments. * Procurement and Sourcing negotiations, critical suppliers management in complex environments. * International profile. Fluent in English and Italian. Global EMBA with honours at ESCP Business School, Paris, France (top 3rd Financial Times ranking), MSc in Industrial Engineering cum laude at University of Bologna, Italy, and Master in Lean Management / Toyota Business & Production System from CUOA Business School, Vicenza, Italy. * Since April 2016, member of the Scientific Technical Committee of LUISS Lean Lab, Rome Italy. * Fond of wellness, lifestyle, hiking, and sports in general.

Experience

  • Global Executive Operational Excellence, EMEA at Henkel
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    We innovate, we experiment, we implement. We develop human and sustainable Lean solutions cross Regions in Europe, Middle-East and Africa and through the global Henkel network, involving all our employees, helping our Customers and Consumers to grow healthier and together.

  • kdc/one (Full-time · 4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Vice President & General Manager
      Aug 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      24/7 operations. Plant Leadership of 400+ employees. Full P&L ownership. Complete Turnaround for Excellence and Growth in every area of the company (safety, production, supply chain, warehouse, financials, hr, engineering and projects, quality). Increased capacity through operational excellence, doubling revenue in one year, while increasing real profit and value creation. +20 pts of oee/process reliability, fulfillment rate from 80% to 99.9%, inventory accuracy +58 pts to 99.5%, safety + 300%, in one year. Excellence in NA for Innovation and Manufacturing, attracting additional new products and volumes.

    • Vice President Operational Excellence
      Mar 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Zobele and kdc/one Business System designed and implemented. To improve substantially business performance while developing people. A trusted, global provider of value-added solutions to many of the world’s leading brands in the beauty, personal care, and home care categories. Partner closely with customers as a critical enabler of their success through ideation, formulation, design, packaging and manufacturing of products. Every year, help to develop and manufacture products for brands sold in countries all over the world.

    • Group Operational Excellence Director at KDC/ONE Home Care
      May 2020 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Zobele and kdc/one Business System designed and implemented. To improve substantially business performance while developing people.

  • Zobele (Full-time · 8 yrs 3 mos)
    • Vice President & General Manager
      Aug 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      24/7 operations. Plant Leadership of 400+ employees. Full P&L ownership. Complete Turnaround for Excellence and Growth.

    • Vice President Operational Excellence
      Mar 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Zobele and kdc/one Business System designed and implemented. To improve substantially business performance while developing people.

    • Group Operational Excellence Director
      Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Zobele and kdc/one Business System designed and implemented. To improve substantially business performance while developing people.

  • Luiss Lean Lab Technical Committee Member at LUISS Business School
    Apr 2016 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • PRAMAC (3 yrs)
    • Corporate Lean Manager
      Sep 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3 yrs

      - Lean Transformation: implementation&designing positive change across 4 Plants & 14 Branches. - Entrepreneurial Spirit: start-up of change initiatives & Lean spirit in several countries. - Total Quality: Management Responsible for ISO processes. - Coaching Leaders & Development of best practices for sustainable process improvement. - Global Supply Chain transformations & foster effective cross-functional team leadership. - Scientific Technical Committee member of LUISS Lean Lab, Rome Italy.

    • Business Process & Quality Manager
      Sep 2013 - Mar 2014 · 7 mos