More about the interim manager
The interim manager has been a passionate buyer for around three decades. In her experience, purchasing has undergone one of the greatest developments in corporate functions in the last ten years. Thanks to ever-improving tools, most of the technically manageable problem areas are known. People and processes, on the other hand, can sometimes no longer keep pace. This is why the interim manager demonstrates her expertise and passion for procurement in her empathetic and committed approach to the people who work and act in procurement.
The interim manager learned procurement from the ground up. She also completed further studies (business administration) and increased her purchasing expertise through buyer qualifications. Before becoming self-employed, she worked for 20 years in a production connection trade and the defense industry. Her industry experience in interim projects is broad-based: They range from the coal and steel industry to shipbuilding, medical technology and the electrical industry.
As an experienced procurement expert, the interim manager has the necessary intuition to turn the right adjusting screws. This could be employees who are no longer able to keep up with the rapid pace of development or processes that are not being tackled. The interim manager acts actively and without airs and graces at the interfaces to the specialist departments. In this way, she opens new doors in the cooperation between purchasing and the respective specialist departments. In addition, she openly and transparently questions established paths with suppliers and consistently approaches alternatives. for the interim manager, "sacred cows" and self-made monopolists are particularly important starting points in change management.
As a highly sought-after trainer and lecturer, she offers her knowledge and expertise to employees virtually on the side. At the end of a project, teams grow together. The result is new purchasing motivation and open and transparent supplier communication.
