Switzerland
Executive leader with 15+ years of experience managing complex, large-scale programs and operations in industrial and infrastructure-related environments. Strong background in procurement, with a proven ability to steer extensive project portfolios across all phases under high governance and reliability requirements. Recognized for leading large organizations through change, aligning technical, commercial, and stakeholder interests, and ensuring disciplined program execution in regulated, safety- and quality-critical environments.
End-to-end responsibility for Operations including Supply Chain, Material Logistics, Warehouse & Reconditioning, Commercial Order Management, and Field Service. - More than doubled the share of revenue-generating assets on construction sites within 24 months – without increasing the total inventory base, directly improving capital efficiency and rental revenue potential. - Executed a full lean warehouse transformation within one week, reducing average truck turnaround time by 43% and cutting mis-deliveries by 90% through AI-powered article counting and pallet scale integration. - Digitised end-to-end yard and logistics operations: introduced capacity planning and a customer appointment system, eliminating operational overload situations and ensuring reliable, fast customer service. - Built operational controlling from scratch, establishing monthly reporting across all functions and enabling data-driven management decisions at board level. - Restructured and rebuilt two core teams – establishing clear accountability and measurably improved performance. - Led operational setup for the Swiss market entry of AT-PAC (Umdasch Group acquisition): selected and procured opening inventory, developed warehousing and commercial processes, and trained teams across operations and order management.
- In charge of the global project purchasing organization for all BUs of the company with overall 5300 employees, 33 production sites, 6 tech centers - Leading the team in a global matrix organization - Responsible for cost engineering for purchased components and tools - Responsible for purchasing controlling for direct and indirect spend - Digitalization of spend analysis and purchasing processes - Initiator of lean supplier workshops - Purchasing task force leader Covid outbreak 2020
- In charge of the entire purchasing function of a business segment with 4.000 employees, 13 production sites - Responsible for project-, strategic and operating purchasing - Initiated hotel room negotiation events/ improved sourcing for new projects by closer integration into project organization/ operational improvement of the supply base and supplier relationships - Contributed to the turnaround of the segment with major material cost reduction for the key products
- Consolidation of the Category teams Plastics and Rubber into one team - Responsible for category strategy, sourcing decisions, contracting, negotiations - Responsibility >25 factories in China, Japan, India, Europe, USA, Brazil
- Leading the strategic and operating purchasing team for direct and indirect material - Integration of the acquisition of Bosch Transmission Systems Japan into the Knorr-Bremse organization - Implementation of global sourcing process, reporting structures and purchasing tools (Cost Analysis, VA/VE, LPP)
- Building up a global purchasing team for the sourcing of rubber components (50 mio EUR) - Transformation of a regional into a global purchasing organization - Responsibility >25 factories in China, Japan, India, Europe, USA, Brazil
- Development of business model and strategy - Responsible for sales, marketing and partnerships - Finance & Accounting - Achieving several 1000 paying customers, DVD sales via television commercial, videos generating millions of clicks on youtube
- Interim Corporate Process Executive for a global industry group - Implementation of a tracing system for components in the wind turbine industry - Implementation of compliance controls with a global industry group - Improvement and documentation of purchasing processes in various companies - Freelance consultant for Pleyma from 2009 to 2011