Holger Strieder

Expert in Sales, Project and Productmanagement

Cologne Bonn Region

About

highly motivated team player with huge experience in KAM, Business Development, Product and Project management as well as contract management on a global scale; coordinator and team worker with all important stakeholders, e.g. R&D, CS, SCM, Legal, Purchasing; interested in working in a challenging and international environment with appropriate responsibility

Experience

  • TENTE (9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Business Unit Polyurethan
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

      leading program, customer projects, processes in Polyurethan business; business lead for strategy, manufacturing and supplier policy; product management as matrix Head of PM in PU segment; additonally responsible for e-mobility products; E-Drive as ergonomical motorized intralogistic solution helping people to move high loads; e-lock as castor with electrical directional and total locking system; looking for synergy effects between developments in medical and industrial applications and transferring know how in both segments;

    • Global Key Account Manager
      Oct 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      responsible for Field of Applications (FoA) Automotive & Warehouse Logistics first point of contact for all FoA related questions, projects, strategies on a global scale; coordinating all related stakeholders, e.g. Design, Sales, Quality, Customer Service, Production, Marketing; challenging the organisation with needed requirements, e.g. product program, costs, prices, brochures, case studies; setting up a database for applications; knowledge carrier and linkage within all sister companies; in contact with sister companies and customers; Automotive segment in intralogistics with products E-Drive, castors & wheels; tugger train; customer base OEM as well as Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers Warehouse Logistics segment consists of customers offering Storage and Retrieval Systems (SRS), shuttles for automated warehouses and sorters, e.g. baggage handling in airports; customized products, e.g. drive and driven wheels

    • Global Business Development Manager
      Jun 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      global expert for TENTE e-mobility products; managing all projects concerning e-mobility (E-Drive) and TENTE Trolleys as well as sequence venture on a global scale; driving projects in- and externally (with customer and supplier); backing up also global projects for special castors and wheels; established Application Shop within TENTE as shop for realising customized e-mobility solutions; established processes, supply chain and products; hired and led ressources; transferred Application shop into the production organisation; performed the following tasks/jobs: Lead Management -disciplinary and professonal leadership of resources -estabishling of processes in Application Shop Project Management -development of customized e-mobility solutions -handling of projects technically and commercially -steering of prototype and serial orders in Application Shop -cost determination and controlling Program Management -establishing products sold in e-mobility solutions as standard range Supply Chain Management -strategic purchasing -inventory management

  • Principal Sales Engineer at The Timken Company
    Nov 1999 - Dec 2016 · 17 yrs 2 mos

    Timken is a world-leading manufacturer of bearings and mechanical power transmission products, continuously improving its portfolio and related services to make global industries stronger. Responsibilities within the years: - Responsible for VW Group and coordination of activities with Skoda, Seat and MAN - Global coordination of a german multicorporate enterprise - European coordination of a 1st Tier US axle manufacturer - Handling of wind turbine manufacturers in Denmark and Germany incl. global coordination including development of main bearings with all stakeholders, e.g. design, research, purchasing, supply chain and negotiating of contracts with purchasing as well as legal department - European coordination of two Key Accounts in Off Highway Segment - Handling of distributors, OEMs in Germany and The Netherlands - Handling of projects in distribution and OEM (LeanSixSigma included) - Training abroad (3 months in US, 2 months France)

  • Area Sales Representative at Wellkistenfabrik Fritz Peters GmbH & Co. KG
    Jan 1996 - Oct 1999 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Developing and selling products made from corrugated cardboard, e.g. transport packaging, trays and displays, in a new to be developed area.

  • Junior Sales Manager at Klöber Group
    Apr 1995 - Dec 1995 · 9 mos

  • International Customer Service Representative at IKS Klingelnberg GmbH
    Jul 1992 - Apr 1995 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Responsible for inside sales for Scandinavia and The Netherlands. Handling of inquiries, clarifying technically, offering, order administration as well as shipping and invoicing. Working in ISO 9001 Project Group.