More about the interim manager
The interim manager is an expert in managing complex projects in SMEs and corporations. As an experienced managing director and production manager, he contributes his skills in optimizing production processes. He impresses with his special skills in the agile transformation of companies and processes, with which he realizes complex projects in a target-oriented manner. The interim manager has repeatedly successfully supported his clients and employers in management roles in developing sustainable visions, implementing them in agile organizational units and thus making a significant contribution to economic success.
The graduate engineer in mechanical engineering (RWTH Aachen) has been self-employed full-time as an interim manager and freelance consultant since August 2023. In his most recent mandate as interim COO from January to July 2024, he drove the agile transformation of a German SME in the special machine construction sector, making a major contribution to the successful completion of the company's restructuring program. Prior to this, he managed a complex project for the agile transformation of order-to-cash processes
Knows the full spectrum of agile efficiency optimization in production
Before becoming a full-time self-employed interim manager, he held management roles in manufacturing SMEs and business units for many years. He began his last permanent position as Senior Director at a robotics company in the medical device industry (turnover of 17 million euros, 100 employees) as an interim manager. Prior to that, he was site manager and deputy managing director of a company for fire protection technology and intralogistics applications, which he successfully led operationally through insolvency.
The interim manager describes himself as a "child of production". As a Six Sigma Black Belt and with numerous other certifications (including Kaizen, CIP, Lean Management), he has mastered the entire spectrum of efficiency optimization in production. His special proximity to production is also reflected in his appreciative and motivating management style. With a pronounced empathy, he communicates at eye level with a wide variety of stakeholders: from the store floor to the boardroom to investors. The interim manager's skills profile is rounded off by his international experience. In his last permanent position, he managed his client's US plant for a year in addition to the German site in Bochum. Other projects have taken him to England and Japan, among other places.
