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Christian Krauß

Executive Operations, Transformation and Growth

€1,500/day
Münster, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Christian

With more than **25 years of leadership experience in industrial production environments**, I support companies in transformation situations that require operational excellence, organizational change, sustainable growth, or turnaround management.

My experience includes:
  • Turnaround processes for plants
  • Restructuring measures and organizational development
  • Setting up new production sites
  • Introduction of excellence systems such as TPM, Lean Management, and World Class Manufacturing (WCM).
  • organizational/technical management of large organizational units
  • Plant management.
Throughout my career, I have successfully:
Implemented transformation and change processes,
Established performance and efficiency improvement programs,
Managed organizational development projects,
Shaped leadership and cultural development processes,
As well as built new plants and stabilized production sites.

My leadership philosophy is based on the conviction that sustainable corporate success is always created by people. Change only becomes effective when employees understand its purpose, are actively involved, and leadership creates trust, clarity, and direction.
I combine strategic thinking with pragmatic implementation skills and quickly build strong relationships – from the shop floor to the executive board.

My Focus Areas:
  • Turnaround Management
  • Transformation & Change Management
  • Performance and Efficiency Improvement
  • Operational Excellence (TPM / Lean / WCM)
  • Plant and Production Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Leadership Development
  • Major Industrial Projects
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Greek

    Basic

Can work on-site
Münster (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Armacell
    Site Manager Muenster
    CHEMICAL
    August 2023 - May 2025 (1 year and 9 months)
    Münster, NW, Germany
    - Acquisition of the future production site
    - Construction work
    - Recruiting employees (worldwide, 70+)
    - Ensuring smooth startup
  • Armacell
    Plant Manager
    CHEMICAL
    August 2012 - September 2023 (11 years and 1 month)
    48 Münster, Germany
    • Development of the group's most important plant
    • Building and developing a strong team
    • Further development of processes and increasing efficiency through the use of WCM (World Class Manufacturing: within 3 years to Bronze Status)
    • parallel: interim management of a plant in Poland (3 months) and in England (1 year)
  • team babel AG
    Chairman of Supervisory Board
    May 2012 - January 2026 (13 years and 8 months)
    Herzogenrath, Germany
    As Chairman of the Supervisory Board, I guided the company from its establishment to a stock corporation (AG), through difficult times such as the Corona pandemic, until its dissolution (due to age).

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Education

  • Dipl. Wirt.-Ing.
    Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln
    1999
    Dipl. Wirt.-Ing.

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