Jonathan Töpfer

About

With over 9 years of consulting and industry experience in Europe, Asia, and North America, and a passion for strategy and operations, I focus on the manufacturing b2b industries, enabling clients to address current and future trends and improve their production set-up.

Experience

• Kearney (7 yrs 5 mos)
  • Principal
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Part of the Sustainable Materials Team (focus on Chemicals and Process Industry)

  • Manager (Project Lead)
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs

    Projects included: - Operations transformation, including i4.0 - Site and cost transformation - Corporate strategy - Ops Due Dilligence - Commercial Due Dilligence - Supply chain transformation - Target search for PE Industries covered include - Chemicals - Process Industries - Pharma - Food & Beverage - Industrials - Chem Parks (Infrastructure)

  • Senior Management Consultant
    Feb 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Process and Production Engineer at Almatis
  Jul 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Spearheaded a lean transformation project that significantly enhanced EBITDA, driving operational efficiency. • Optimized maintenance costs and improved asset reliability, resulting in reduced downtime. • Enhanced process performance through innovative engineering solutions, contributing to overall production performance .

• Project Engineer at J. Rettenmaier & Söhne
  Nov 2016 - Jun 2017 · 8 mos

• Praktikant at Worlée-Chemie GmbH
  Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 · 3 mos

• Research Assistant at Institute for Separation and Process Technology; TU Clausthal
  Apr 2013 - Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  Upstream & Downstream process developement and optimisation with a focus on (bio-)pharmaceutical products