Germany
Senior Executive with extensive experience in establishing winning business models across geographies. Strategic Business Developer and hands on Change Manager generating exceptional growth. Inspiring leader building high performing teams for outstanding results. Wide range of Executive Management positions across pharmaceutical, Medtec and consumer brand companies. - Proven track record in establishing business and turnaround management across geographies to drive profitable growth and market outperformance. (Focus: Europe, M. East, Asia, Africa) - True Entrepreneur designing and implementing market access strategies and experienced in acquisitions, divestures and integration of businesses and organisations. - Expert in brand building, driving digital and emerging sales channels in highly competitive markets and growth geographies. - Proven Change Manager for turnaround and cultural change including fundamental restructuring of businesses. - Energetic Leader with a highly performance driven, situational leadership style building strong winning cultures, teams and individuals.
Also, member of the global Personal Health Care Lead Team General Management accountability for Europe with exceptional acceleration of business performance while integrating and transforming the acquired portfolio and organisation into P&G. Delivering exceptional double-digit growth, upgrading profitability by establishing a growth mind set culture and implementing a superior, winning strategy. Thereby building the Consumer Health industry champion via driving market penetration and usage delivering market outperformance. Transforming P&G Personal Healthcare from a single category presence and 3rd party cooperation business into the leader across multiple categories with an end-to-end organisation covering all capabilities across the value chain and functions. Exceptional leadership approach building a winning team by driving inclusion and diversity, recognised by receiving the P&G Diversity&Inclusion Award 2020.
Regional Leader DACH, CEE, Middle East and Africa for Merck brand portfolio and organisation. Leading the transformation and integration of business, teams and culture creating one winning organisation at P&G. Acceleration of top and bottom line growth and strongly outperforming market while integrating.
Also: Managing Director of Merck Selbstmedikation GmbH, Global Head Office of Merck Consumer Health (10.2011-03.2019) General Management accountability for markets in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Change Manager of business strategies, operational approach and organization to drive growth. Exceptional double-digit growth of sales and profit via sharp brand-market strategies and by creating efficiencies in structure. Innovating new business fields and strategies to reach shopper. Preparing and proactive involvement of Consumer Health divesture including Management Presentations to interested parties.
Responsible for pioneering in core growth geographies of Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Carving out Pharma products and driving brand consumerisation incl. RX to OTC switch. Entrepreneurial set-up of start-ups with winning teams or forming strategic alliances along the value chain from production to brand commercialization. Upgrading of brand value via cutting-edge mix of consumer pull and health care professional push strategies.
Global Management and P&L responsibility for some 80 markets across continents with 3rd Party export co-operations. Transforming an opportunistic business by repatriating brands, establishing business units in core markets fuelling global growth of sales and profit. Strategic restructuring of brand-market portfolio including market rationalisation and implementation of global brand strategies.
Sole accountability of the German Consumer Health business and exports markets of the company. Comprehensive restructuring of the company strategy to drive competitiveness and to upgrade profitability. Creating a game changing organisation by splitting the company into a local market focused commercial team and into global functions to maximise operational excellence.