Career

    • General Manager
      • Rubber processing industry
      • Reorganization and restructuring of the company in China
      • Strategic realignment – entry into the automotive OE business as Tier1
      • Implementation of the development in the region for the region – implementation of relevant investment in laboratory, test field and staff training
      • Optimization of ongoing development projects - completing the development of six new product families within 12 months
      • Cost reduction and efficiency improvement programs in all departments – reducing break-even – 20% after 12 months
      • Implementation of lean-management and KPIs
      • Developing of strategic supplier chains
      • Machine- and site investments
      • Turn-around – change in return on sales from -4,8 % to + 5,8%
      • Restructuration of the sales company
      • Development and implementation of sustainable growth strategy
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    • Director Operation
      • Development, production and sales in heavy engineering industry – project business
      • Restructuring and reorganization of a business unit that had almost come to a production down after the implementation of a social plan
      • Introduction of a project-management-system
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    • Managing Director (COO)
      • Plastic recycling and production of technical profiles
      • Multiple production sites (approx. 250 employees, turnover of about € 40 million/annum)
      • Europe-wide and Chinese marketing
      • Restructuring, reorganization, investments, building strategic customer-supplier relationships, association activities, collective bargaining
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    • GM International Projects
      • Worldwide manufacture and marketing of technical capital goods for the wind power and consumer non-food industries
      • Factory launches in China, Brazil, plant relocation in USA
      • International know-how transfer
      • Project start-up of an ERP implementation for international locations
      • Development of a global procurement system
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    • GM Supply Chain Management
      • Consumer goods non-food, (> 200 co-workers, purchasing budget > € 35 million/annum, Operations budget > € 15 million/annum)
      • Restructuring of a business unit associated with high investment activity
      • Lean implementation
      • Strategic supplier development
      • China and Hong Kong - procurement
      • framework negotiations Procurement and Logistics
      • Cash flow optimization by carrying out various projects to significantly reduce inventory (30% within 18 months)
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    • Operations Manager
      • Capital equipment for the semiconductor industry (about 60 co-workers, purchasing budget > 12 m€/annum, personal responsibility for turnover > 10 m€/annum)
      • International Key-Account and Account-Management (U.S., Europe, Israel, Japan)
      • Development and implementation of strategic supply chains
      • Turn-around - Reorganization of the operating range
      • ERP selection and implementation
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    • Production Manager
      • Non-food Consumer goods (approx. 220 co-workers, management of the operational area - not purchasing), assembly line production, seven-digits products variety
      • Continuous reorganization due to sustained reduction in personal (> 100 co-workers)
      • Projects to increase the availability of materials, quality and delivery performance
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    • Head of Profit Center
      • Development, production and marketing of granules as binders and additives for colors and building materials industry in three-shift operation, (approx. 20 co-workers, turnover > 10 million DM/annum)
      • Key-account-management of main customers
      • Annual framework negotiations in sales and procurement
      • Product development, machinery and equipment investment
      • Introduction of group work
      • ISO 9001 and 14001 implementations
      • Increase the return on sales to a high value
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    • Production Manager Metal Cutting
      • Consumer goods non-food (approx. 40 co-workers, 2 -shift operation), production control, metal and plastic machining on NC and CNC machines and machining centres
      • Quality and availability projects
      • Efficiency increasement projects
      • International machinery relocations
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