Wiebe Wilbers

Plant manager @ Mars

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Experience

  • Mars (15 yrs 9 mos)
    • Plant Manager
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • Technical Manager
      Jul 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Building engineering and maintenance teams, driving operational excellence and owning asset transformation in line with our supply chain reinvention.

    • Supply strategy associate director (China, Asia Pacific, India)
      Sep 2018 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Commercialization of new products and processes by working closely with the market clusters (Asia, India, Middle East & Africa, Australia) and by leading cross-functional teams (R&D, operations, supply chain, commercial) to develop supply solutions that meet the desired business model and value creation targets. Recommend capital investment strategy and oversee execution and post completion review. Act as the “voice of supply” in cluster sales and operations planning processes Consult on supply chain restructuring initiatives encompassing changes in organization, efficiency and capital investment encompassing all areas of the P&L Work with the market clusters and the global source units on end-to-end supply chain improvement and simplification programs to deliver supply continuity and improve corporate earnings Development of associates through knowledge transfer and formal training on functional and leadership capabilities

  • MSc-Graduate at Volkswagen Group (Germany)
    2009 - 2010 · 1 yr

    MSc thesis project at Volkswagen Group Research (Future Research). Keywords: Competitive Intelligence, Future Research, Data Mining, Systems Engineering.

  • Teaching and Research Assistant at TU Delft
    Jan 2008 - Sep 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Intern at Heinz India (Aligarh, India) at HJ Heinz
    Mar 2007 - Sep 2007 · 7 mos

    Design and implementation of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E.)