Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience in specialty product businesses, specializing in food ingredients and consumer health. Successfully leading large businesses (€500M+), business unit, driving growth through innovative solutions, operational excellence, and market penetration. Known for transformational leadership, optimizing value chains, and fostering sustainable partnerships to deliver exceptional results. Key Accomplishments Leading a business transformation to deliver 40mCHF of value improvements that created significant sales price uplift Enhancing pricing processes to pass on all additional cost increases Simplifying the business and eliminating 25% of products with no impact in the marketplace Buying and integrating a $1billion acquisition Key Skills Business Transformation: Changing business operating models to adapt to changes in competitive situation to deliver step change improvement in performance. Business Management General Manager - Significant P&L responsibility in diverse industries. Improving profitability through increasing sales through redefining business models, improving sales team performance and driving improvement in value through pricing, product introductions and strong leadership. Business Development End to end knowledge and experience of the complete M&A process from finding deals to post acquisition integration Strategy Development Initiating new strategies for growth areas including pharmaceuticals, personal care and food ingredients describing the strategic intent of the business and planning how to achieve the vision Pricing and Commercial Excellence Implementing new pricing processes and ways of working to significantly enhance profitability through pricing. Successfully passing through cost inflation changes to the market. Innovation Management Implementing strong control over the innovation pipeline ensuring that innovation projects are in-line with agreed strategies. Specialties: Business Leadership, Transformation, Strategy Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, Due Diligence, Post Merger Intergration, Strategic Risk Management
Founder and CEO of a niche ingredients business. Sourcing and selling high value food and nutraceutical ingredients
Leading the largest business of GELITA AG - one of the largest gelatine and collagen protein producers in the world. Full P&L reponsibility for €600m+ business serving the food and health ingredients markets. Leading a world wide team of more than 100 people.
Seljel is a JV with GELITA. Nominated for the Supervisory Board to bring more commercial experience to the Seljel Board and drive the commercial integration with the broader GELITA team.
Leading the new Global Function comprising of Product Management, Global Marketing, Technical Marketing, Innovation, Pricing and Communications. A member of the business leadership team that transformed the business in preparation for the divestment - including changing the operating model, driving down costs through personnel reduction. Strategically setting the growth and strategic agenda for the Pigment business. Enhancing pricing processes to drive value capture and deliver improved "Cost Pass Through" in face of significant raw material cost inflation. In 2021 double digit increases in sales and profit following a significant transformation. Successful divestment of the business for 11.4X LTM EBITDA - significant valuation uplift created by the transformation process.
Heading the new function of Global Marketing and Innovation. Reporting to the BU Head. Responsible for segment marketing, technical marketing, innovation and pricing
Managing one of Novozymes most important Global Account for Householdcare - Henkel. Owning the global P&L and Innovation pipeline
Heading up the Global Food Marketing activities for Novozymes. Owning the P&L for the business. Responsible for New Product Launches, Product Management and classical marketing activities.