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Max Schiemenz

Managing Director / Industrial Engineer / Manager

€1,000/day
Cottbus, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Max

I am a highly qualified executive with extensive experience in corporate management, divisional leadership (personnel management), and process improvement.

Since graduating in 2009, I have been leading companies of various sizes to success at the management level. My thinking and behavior are 100 percent entrepreneurial. In addition to my responsibility for P&L, my leadership focus is on employee and customer satisfaction, ensuring high quality of service delivery, workplace safety, and creating a positive, motivating work environment.

My career began in 2006. While training as a mechanical engineer, I worked in the power plant construction industry for two years after completing my studies, where I took on the role of Quality Representative.

After moving to the rail vehicle industry, I worked as a manager in the corporate group for over 12 years at locations in Germany and Switzerland. My passion therefore lies primarily in the Mobility, Transport & Logistics industry.

Since 2023, I have been enabling companies in Lusatia as a freelance interim manager at the management level - based on a results-oriented, constructive leadership style - to achieve optimal business results:
- Divisional management in customer service in the "white goods" industry with personnel responsibility for approx. 130 employees + 40 service partners
- 30 percent increase in performance in the division while simultaneously reducing personnel costs through the introduction of AI-based route planning
- Restructuring of a customer service department with 20 employees in the steel manufacturing industry
- Establishment of a newly founded municipal company as managing director in public transport (accounting, quality management, personnel recruitment, etc.)
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Cottbus (up to 50km), Forst (Lausitz) (up to 50km), Königs Wusterhausen (up to 50km), Eisenhüttenstadt (up to 50km), Guben (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Verkehrsmanagement Spree-Neiße GmbH
    Managing Director
    April 2025 - September 2025 (5 months)
    Forst, BB, Germany
     Management and responsibility for results, taking company goals into account
     Fulfillment of contractually stipulated duties and tasks
     Economic, personnel, and investment planning, including preparation of required reports, e.g., management report for annual financial statements
     Review of billing for contractor services and own expenses
     Monitoring of contractor performance
     Acting as or deputizing for the Transport Manager
     Control, review, and initiation of revenue allocation
     Contact person for the responsible authority regarding the awarding of public transport services and public contracting authorities
     Contact person for shareholders and the supervisory board
    Corporate Management Quality Management Personnel Management Performance Optimization Accounting
  • ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH
    Head of Customer Service
    July 2024 - October 2024 (3 months)
    Eisenhüttenstadt, BB, Germany
     Disciplinary and professional leadership of the Customer Service department (20 employees)
     Support of strategically important customers + communication with sales agencies
     Control of order book, demand planning, production planning, and inventory levels
     Development and successful establishment of a new organizational structure and processes
    Quality Management Personnel Management Corporate Management
  • OPERATEC Service GmbH
    Head of Service Operations
    April 2023 - July 2024 (1 year and 3 months)
    Cottbus, BB, Germany
     Disciplinary and professional leadership of the Operations division (approx. 130 employees, including 10 direct reports and 40 external service partners)
     Successful implementation of the AI-based route planning software Sales Force, leading to an efficiency increase of approx. 30% and a reduction of personnel costs by three employees in the route planning team
     Execution of resource and capacity planning & recruitment, as well as onboarding of new employees
     Analysis of performance development & regular reporting to management and parent company
     Management of P&L for the operational business unit, including continuous improvement, strategy development + QHSE
    Quality Management Corporate Management Personnel Management Performance Optimization

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Education

  • Corporate Management
    European University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (Euro FH)
    2024
    Hochschul-Zertifikat
  • Quality Management
    Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt (Distance Learning University)
    2023
    Hochschul-Zeugnis

Certifications

  • Corporate Management
    European University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (Euro FH)
    2024
  • Quality Representative TÜV
    TÜV Rheinland
    2023

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