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Description

Operational Due Diligence | Interim Operations Consulting

I support investors, buyers, and company successors in short-term operational due diligence projects to identify operational risks, assess organizational scalability, and quantify value creation potential.

Background:

Plant Director of a Tier 1 automotive supplier (>300 employees, >30% p.a. growth)
Director Global Account Management with over €400 million in revenue responsibility for international OEMs

My Approach:

Identify operational risks: Resilience of supply chains, purchasing organization, production sites, personnel, and key positions
Assess scalability: Capacities in production, warehousing, and logistics, personnel flexibility, organizational structure
Quantify value creation potential: Cost reduction, efficiency improvement, working capital optimization, automation, and process improvements
Deliverables: KPIs, dashboards, short reports with concrete, immediately actionable recommendations

Your Results:

Robust decision-making basis for investments, acquisitions, or optimizations
Quantified efficiency gains, cost reductions, and concrete action recommendations (typically 10-30%)
Identification of risks, bottlenecks, and operational red flags

Availability: Hourly or daily, remote or on-site, for industrial, manufacturing, and automotive companies as well as mid-sized targets.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Hamburg (up to 50km)

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Director Global Account Management Roof Volume
AUTOMOBILE
July 2024 - December 2025 (1 year and 5 months)
Key Account Management for four global automotive OEM customers in the volume segment with an annual revenue of > €400 million
Claim Management for the enforcement of price adjustments and additional payments
Leadership of an international team of sales managers in North America, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and Germany
Leadership sales-excellence
Webasto
Plant Director
AUTOMOBILE
January 2022 - June 2024 (2 years and 5 months)
Pune, MH, India
Management of a Tier 1 automotive supplier plant with > €34 million in annual revenue
Supply Chain Management, launch, and production of 10 products in series for six local automotive OEM customers
Transformation of organization and processes with >30% growth per year
Development of plant capacities and local suppliers & service partners
Overall responsibility for >300 employees across all plant areas
manufacturing Quality Management organisational-design Process Optimization Project Management
Webasto
Manager CEO Projects
AUTOMOBILE
July 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 5 months)
Munich, Germany
Project management in the CEO's office, including business unit strategy "Roof" for automotive OEMs and securing funding. Preparation & follow-up of board and supervisory board resolutions
Development of decision-making processes & performance management systems
Change Management agile-project-management project-management-office corporate-strategy