Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Michael is a Senior Business Executive with P&L responsibility in the Chemical & Biotechnology Industry. His focus lies on Human & Animal Nutrition, Pharma Solutions, Enzymes, Natural Ingredients and New Food. He is a DeepTech Business Builder and Leader. His special competencies are: P&L Responsibility: Leading a company or business unit in Nutrition, Bioscience or Chemistry and translating science & technology into business Strategy: Owning the strategy, continuously improving it and leading its execution to enable profitable growth and success Innovation & Digitalization: Driving innovation & digitalization and develop a culture of curiosity, excitement for learning, ability to change and a desire for more sustainable solutions In addition, Michael is a Leadership Personality from R&D via Operations to the Customer. In this role he can be described as a Leader: Highly regarded people leader, capable in attracting, integrating, coaching, inspiring, and developing talented team members with track-record in assembling diverse and strong teams. Team Builder: Creating trustful environments where people experience recognition, appreciate collaboration, and experience that working as a team unleashes their full potential and leads to fun and success. Relationship Builder: Very strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of building trustful and productive relationships with people of diverse profiles and cultural backgrounds. Experienced and successful negotiator and deal maker.
Commercial leader of a multi-billion CHF business, P&L responsible for the Business Platform "Integrated Biologics" offering CDMO services in Mammalian Drug Substance and Biologics Drug Product services. Leading a diverse, international team (Switzerland, UK, US, Spain), reporting line to Business Platform Head (EC Member), Member of Executive Leadership Team
Business Unit Head of a several hundred million CHF business, P&L responsible for the Business Unit Microbial offering CDMO services in Microbial Drug Substance services. Leading a diverse, international team (Switzerland, UK), reporting line to Division Head Biologics (EC Member), Member of Executive Leadership Team
P&L responsible for the BASF enzymes business. Leading a diverse, international team (Germany, Austria, USA) incl. all business functions & operations for enzymes, reporting line to Divisional Board, Member of Executive Leadership Team
Responsible for strategy of division and related businesses (5 BU; sales division >€2.2bn), R&D budget and innovation steering, portfolio management, strategic projects, digitalization roadmap, M&A projects, and sustainability agenda for the division Nutrition & Health, reporting line to Divisional Board, Member of Executive Leadership Team
Responsible for international teams in product development, technical and scientific marketing. Leading the innovation board of both global segments with full budget responsibility
Responsible for product development lab with four people and technical support for and joint development projects with a key account