Description

Extensive experience creating actionable strategies and driving performance improvement initiatives in rapid growth, turnaround, transformation, and M&A-led situations ● Held leadership, client-facing roles at the world’s largest management consulting firm, a startup, a global leader in hands-on, operator-led turnaround and performance improvement, and global fortune 500 ● Served private equity and corporate clients across industries including consumer, clean-tech, and pharma ● Adept in building high-performing teams, leveraging data to drive decisions, collaborating cross-functionally, and delivering tangible value

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 10km)

Roche
Strategy & Solutions (6 months role)
June 2025 - December 2025 (6 months)
Over a course of 6 months, I led the turnaround of a critical external workforce transformation project impacting +700M CHF in global spend:
- Direct line management responsibility of a highly experienced team of 7 with project team mgmt. responsibility of over 40 during project implementation
- Re-established structured governance, team morale, and ways of working through hands-on leadership, eliminating forecasted cost overruns and milestones slippage
- Transitioned program to business-as-usual - defined new operating model in collaboration with HR
- Rapidly hired for critical roles and stabilised the team, post restructuring
- Developed value proposition and financial business cases for net new talent channels such as direct sourcing and freelancer management platforms
Alvarez & Marsal (Europe)
Director, Corporate Transformation Services
February 2023 - November 2024 (1 year and 9 months)
I led strategy and value creation initiatives with an emphasis on cost reduction across private equity and corporate clients. Working hands-on with the client C-suite, I delivered rapid, bottom-line impact. Internally, I also led business development with specific client accounts. A few examples:
- Led a joint client and A&M team of 10 through a directs spend and operating model diagnostic, followed by value capture for an apparel trims asset owned by one of the largest PE funds - achieved 15% in run-rate savings in trims categories across Hong Kong, China, Turkey, and Bangladesh
- Led a senior client team of 4 through data-driven incumbent negotiations for highly regulated secondary packaging (labels, cartons, leaflets) - achieved 16% unit price reductions leveraging should costing, pricing reformulation, and value engineering levers
- Led sell-on business development for the above two client accounts
- Led an ODD for an investor looking to acquire a juvenile products leader – sized margin expansion potential whilst evaluating the Asset's ability to scale and achieve its product sustainability goals
- Co-authored articles and unlocked business development opportunities at the intersection of the consumer / luxury industry and COGS
Britishvolt
Head of Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
January 2022 - January 2023 (1 year)
As a member of the Operations Leadership Team reporting directly to the COO, I:
- Designed Britishvolt's upstream, sustainability-first sourcing strategy for critical, at-risk battery metals including lithium and nickel
- Developed strategic partnerships with established and greenfield projects across battery metals worldwide; spoke on behalf of Britishvolt at major battery supply chain events (e.g., Fastmarkets)
- Managed strategic business plans within the operations functions for investor relations