Axel Kramer

VP Controlling Industrial

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area

About

Passionate Finance Leader with 20+ years experience in local, regional and global roles

Experience

  • Freudenberg Filtration Technologies (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Vice President Controlling Industrial
      Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

      - 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

    • Division Controller Industrial EMEA
      Sep 2022 - Jun 2023 · 10 mos

      - 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.

  • Founder at BAAM Sports Nutrition
    Feb 2017 - Sep 2022 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    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.

  • Haco Innovation Lab (2 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Haco Innovation Lab
      Apr 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs

      - 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

    • Innovation Manager
      Sep 2018 - Mar 2019 · 7 mos

      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.

  • Oswald Nahrungsmittel GmbH (Unilever) (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Business Leader Oswald Accelerator
      Feb 2017 - Dec 2017 · 11 mos

      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

    • Director Finance, HR & IT, Member of the Executive Board
      Feb 2014 - Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

      Leading the Finance, HR and IT function in the Direct Sales business Oswald Nahrungsmittel GmbH

  • Unilever (11 yrs 2 mos)
    • Indirects & Restructuring Controller European Supply Chain
      Sep 2010 - Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Managing the Indirects cost base (>4000 FTE) and RDI budget of the European Supply Chain across more than 70 sites.

    • Corporate Audit Manager
      Jun 2008 - Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Audit Manager with a focus on Finance processes (AR, AP, GL). In 2009 review of financial crisis related basic financial and fraud controls.

    • Senior Customer Finance Manager Switzerland and SAP SD Implementation Lead
      Sep 2007 - May 2008 · 9 mos

      - 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)