Saarland
Executive Managing Director – Plant Director – COO – Head of Operations & Operational Excellence Interim- / Transition-Manager 15 years of executive management in six countries and in different professional environments, paired with analytical and strategic thinking skills enable a keen perception and a rightful finding of efficient measures as well as their implementations, up to Change Management. My high level of commitment combined with my authenticity in team management generate trust and form strong teams, basis for successful achievements in operational assignment as well as for implementation of demanding tasks. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Management in broad industrial and intercultural environments • Steel industry – Building materials & reinforced plastics – Carbide industry – Mechanical Engineering • Heavy industry, family-owned Companies, SMEs, Multi-sites organizations • From the commodities market to project activities with the customer, from job-lot to mass products • Experiences in Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, China, Czech Republic Operational and strategic management Objectives and Activities • Fulfilling customer and market requirements such as delivery on time, leadtime, time to market, … • Fulfilling Business goals with focus on restoring the profitability, organisations efficiency and strategic positioning up to restructuring • Sustainable reduction of manufacturing costs as well as overhead expenses • Increase in productivity and product quality by developing process controls, by reengineering workflows, with a strong avail of various continuous improvement methods such as LEAN, Kaizen (PDCA, 5S system, …) as well as by reengineering production lines • Achievement of a sustainable operational excellence in technical and commercial tasks or workflows Technical skills • Production – Supply Chain, Planning and Steering – Manufacturing processes – Investments • Controlling, manufacturing costs and price modelling – Finance budget, P&L – Purchasing – Sales
Co-Managing Director of plant Mamer (LU): T/O € 230 MM, 1.200 EE Responsability: Production, Maintenance, Logistic – 700 EE Reorganization of the entire production area with strong customer orientation, throughout implementation of a consistent management till floor management, establishment of an organisation and of workflows for a quality management. Elaboration of the „Strategy plan 2021“, conception of production aera’s reengineering with first realizations, establishment of costs and prices Modells. Productivity +12 %, scrap rate -12 %, on time delivery from 60 % to 85 %.
Management of Production and Supply Chain Scope of Mission: increasing and stabilizing the performances in manufacturing and logistics after a plant’s relocation in 2014 from NL to CZ. Productivity +30%, availability +30%, Quality +20%, Working Capital -30%.
Management of the mechanical engineering business Scope of Mission: reorganization of workflows and production workshop, Build-up a new clientele, Coaching of the future Manager (Partner’s son).
Technical Executive Manager of BU „Water Management“ (T/O € 32 MM) Managing Director of plants in NL and CHN Head of Industrial, Technical and Supply Chain Management
General Manager strategical purchasing of raw materials Deputy industrial Director, General Manager Investments (Plant in FR) General Manager production processes and technologies (Plants in DE, FR)