Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Christian is a passionate, highly dynamic Chief Procurement Officer, Senior Executive & Industrial Leader in Strategic Procurement & Global Supply Chain Management. He is a front-runner in substantially changing the value contribution of procurement to become a key success factor for business strategies. Christian spent over twenty years of experience in leadership and change management in global organizations, providing clear direction through times of turmoil and challenging environments. He has extensive experience in transforming fragmented and culturally diverse cross-functional teams into world-class organizations. His strong track record of delivering sustainable business results from driving a step up in procurement professionalism, overall supply chain elasticity, resilience and sustainability. He has a strong focus on implementing company’s Sustainability / ESG targets (e.g. decarbonization, human rights, diversity, zero harm) in the entire Supply Chain (scope 3 upstream). Amongst others, Christian offers the following core skills • Transformational leadership • Strategy development and alignment • Implementation power • Team motivation, people development • Change management • Crisis management • Building supply chain resilience • Driving supply chain sustainability
Dedicated to supporting Clients in maximizing the value contribution of procurement to the Client business and competitive positioning. Collaborating closely with the Client teams, CHC enables a significant step up in procurement and supply chain professionalism to help realize the Client’s overall market strategy and business targets. This may include an analysis of current functional set-up, strategy and approaches as well as cross-functional processes to develop a clear target picture and focus the organization on effective actions going forward. Support can be provided in individual action areas and projects such as procurement strategy development, state-of-the-art category mgt., advancing negotiation excellence, optimizing NWC, or performance management. If required, the Client Team can be aided in developing and executing a comprehensive transformation program to reach the agreed target picture. CHC provides fresh impetus and guidance to Client organizations seeking to build or advance resilient, high-performing supplier portfolios capable of fulfilling changing, even volatile market challenges and requirements. Smart supply strategies and supplier management concepts are key to securing business targets in terms of savings, cash and and supply security … and beyond. Today it’s increasingly about creating new competitive advantages, ranging from technological transformation and time to market, automation and digitalization to translating sustainability and decarbonization into tangible reality. CHC can act as industry and functional expert and / or deliver hands-on support as needed, bringing in extensive management and transformation expertise as well as broad experience across a wide range of industries. The CHC mission is “to turn spend into value”, turning procurement and SCM professionals into true business partners for top management and cross-functions, leveraging the full potential of the relevant supply markets for their business and customers.
In charge of leading the procurement organization through a spin-off phase from Siemens AG in times of pandemics and global supply chain disruptions, responsible for ~ € 19 billion external purchasing volume (direct and indirect materials) and ~2,900 employees across all divisions and corporate. Together with procurement leadership team, development and implementation of a world-class procurement strategy and change program to create competitive advantages for the diverse Siemens Energy businesses. Building of a strong performance and collaboration culture
In charge of leading the procurement organization through a comprehensive professionalization and transformation process in line with the overall Group strategy with its diversified industries and business models. Globally responsible for the complete thyssenkrupp procurement organization with ~ 3,000 employees and € 28 billion external purchasing volume, including direct / indirect material, project business, shared services and a global corporate footprint; supporting M&A activities, the integration of new companies and carve-out activities.