Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
Passionate Finance Leader with 20+ years experience in local, regional and global roles
- Business Partner to the EVP Industrial and the global leadership team covering >20 sales entities and production locations. - Monitoring of the financial performance of the Industrial business, identification of improvement potentials and initiation of countermeasures. - Leading the forecasting, planning and reporting processes for the global Industrial business. - In addition to the global controlling responsibilities further execution of the regional EMEA Controlling role ad interim
- Business Partner to the VP Industrial EMEA and the regional leadership team covering >10 sales entities and production plants. - Management of business results, identification of improvement potentials and initiation of countermeasures. - Leading the forecasting, planning and reporting processes for the Industrial EMEA business. - Implementation of the Segment P&L in SAP BI across all global Industrial entities. - Direct responsibility for the controlling in two high profile-sites including closing activities and management of the full P&L.
Startup in the sports nutrition market, providing clubs and athletes with top quality nutritional products at fair prices by working in a direct marketing manner and eliminating any middle men.
- Strategic setup of the Haco Innovation Lab - Identification of investment opportunities and startup collaborations in Food Tech - Management of innovation projects with a strong focus on plant-based foods
The Haco Innovation Lab is a newly formed business unit of Haco, driving change and innovation within the Haco group, investing in disruptive food technology as well as supporting early-stage food tech startups.
Project Lead for a business development project in a lean startup approach. Participation at a Company Accelerator of Innoleaps in Amsterdam and subsequently implementation of the project at Oswald in Switzerland. - Customer Discovery for the target customer group "Family Starters" - Design and setup of an MVP and optimisation based on pirate metrics - Development of a prototype and scaling-up in the home market
Leading the Finance, HR and IT function in the Direct Sales business Oswald Nahrungsmittel GmbH
Managing the Indirects cost base (>4000 FTE) and RDI budget of the European Supply Chain across more than 70 sites.
Audit Manager with a focus on Finance processes (AR, AP, GL). In 2009 review of financial crisis related basic financial and fraud controls.
- Business Partner to the National Sales Director and the Sales Leadership team - Leading the implementation of a new trade terms system across all customers and all Unilever categories - Responsible for the sub project pricing as part of a SAP implementation (Migration of sales conditions, customer master data, pricing procedure) - Head of the Customer Finance team (4 people)