Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Leading SKF‘s Lubrication Lifetime Solutions, Lubrication Systems, Power Transmission & Maintenance Product businesses moving towards a more sustainable world of industrial assets and mobile equipment in over 100 countries. Large scale turnaround experience. Proven business, board and leadership accumen in Industrial and Automotive value-chains. Unconventional and approachable by all means.
Leading SKFs Global Lubrication Systems, Maintenance Products and Power Transmission Division. The business unit entails all of SKFs acquisitions as Willy Vogel AG, Lincoln Industrial, Safematic, Alemite, RecondOil, JSG Industrial, Cirval et. Al. with full end-to-end business and legal responsibility. End-to-end responsibility with OEM, End-User, Aftermarket and Service business with 9 global manufacturing plants and 18 service, reman and application centers. Leading a team of >3.000 people worldwide. P&L >700MUSD. Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung / CEO SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GmbH
Led SKFs Automotive Aftermarket division with global P&L responsibility. Growing the business from 650 to 900Mio$ Net Sales over 3 years. Full-value-chain responsibility incl. sourcing, supply and demand chain, Manufacturing, Kitting factories, business & product lines, sales, marketing, PIM, staff and support functions. Direct leadership of a team of ~750 people worldwide. Successful launch and scale of new product lines from 0 to >50 MUSD. Implemented digital go to market and multiple VC investments.
Leading SKFs Finance, controlling, CX, Digital and partnership organization in Automotive with global responsibility for: -eCommerce -Data Management & Digitalization -Partnerships/Ventures/M&A -Customer Experience & Marketing -Training and technical content -PIM Building and leading a global team of >50 with full P&L responsibility. Scaled digital sales 5x YoY, implemented successful go-to-market transformation: D2C, marketplaces and digital B2B. Leading Controlling and finance for Automotive division. Interim division CFO 11/2021-03/2022.
Start-up of eCommerce B2C and B2B company for essentials.