Thomas Paust

Passionate Senior Business Leader | Strategy Development | Resilient Supply Chains | Global Business Process Management | Lean Six Sigma | Digital Transformation Agent | Customer Advocate

Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

About

- Globally experienced leader and transformation agent with over 20 years of experience in highly regulated discrete manufacturing and process industry scenarios. - Solid experience in leading global supply chain and Business Process Management organizations to achieve ambitious business goals in a very dynamically growing environment. - Authentic and collaborative leadership style in leading departments and cross-functional teams. - Systematic, process-oriented approach and initiation of demonstrably positive changes. - Excellent change management ability and pragmatism in responding to changes. Making important decisions in time-critical situations, designing practical strategic visions, achieving goals.

Experience

  • Vice President Avnet Logistics EMEA at Avnet
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Head of Global 4PL Services at JAS Worldwide
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Evotec (Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany)
    • Senior Vice President, Head of Global Business Process Management
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs

      Leading digital transformation of core business processes in a highly regulated environment, Co-Site Head Evotec Goettingen w/ 350 employees

    • Senior Vice President, Strategy Development Biotherapeutics
      Nov 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Creating the global positioning strategy for a leading technology platform - JUST Evotec Biologics, Program Lead for the construction of the US J.POD Biologics facility in Redmond, WA

  • Sartorius (8 yrs 6 mos)
    • Vice President Supply Chain Management
      Oct 2013 - Sep 2019 · 6 yrs

      Reorganized the organization, build out and led the customer facing part of the Sartorius Supply Chain, Introduction S&OP process, Global SAP Template Roll-out, Order To Cash Process Owner, Implementation of global warehouse & distribution strategy in key markets, Represented Sartorius in Supply Relationship Management programs with leading Biotech companies

    • Vice President Supply Chain Management
      Apr 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Göttingen)
    • Director of Supply Chain Management
      Aug 2010 - Mar 2011 · 8 mos

    • Director Marketing Integrated Solutions
      Oct 2008 - Jul 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Senior Product Manager
      Sep 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo