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MANAGER PROFILE
Expert for products and innovations in the FMCG sector

Expert for products and innovations in the FMCG sector

  • FMCG: Global product and variant management
  • Strategic product lifecycle planning
  • Product and innovation management for consumer goods

"I am an expert for products and innovations in the FMCG sector"

Qualifications

Diploma in communications - advertising specialist - industrial clerk IHK - state-certified foreign language correspondent (business English and French)

Stations

Electrolux Group (AEG - Frigidaire - White Westinghouse - Zanker - Zanussi - Progress - Somela etc.) - CWS Hygiene & Floorcare - Severin - Diehl Group

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is a proven expert in product and innovation management in the FMCG sector - with a focus on electronic consumer goods, floor care and hygiene. She has mastered the entire range of innovation and product lifecycle planning for profitable growth.

In more than 30 years, the communications and advertising specialist has successfully set up and optimized product portfolios for global and European market leaders. Her mandates and projects range from classic management consulting to the temporary management of international product and innovation management to digital business development. She has extensive management experience, including as an authorized signatory, member of the management board and product line director.

In her most recent mandates, the interim manager harmonized the bloated and cost-intensive product portfolios of a global market leader in electronic consumer goods and a European market leader in the hygiene industry as a result of numerous company acquisitions. In addition, she developed and implemented tools to successfully manage innovation and product lifecycle processes for faster and more efficient market launches. In doing so, she contributed to the strong, profitable growth of her clients.

The interim manager's clients benefit from greater innovative strength, shorter time-to-market, higher customer satisfaction, more committed employee motivation, significantly improved overall competitiveness and the resulting higher profitability. To this end, she contributes her more than 30 years of expertise with market leaders in the electrical and hygiene industry, including her own patents.

With her initiatives for innovative, customer-oriented concepts with the best possible customer benefits and appealing, user-friendly design, the interim manager has made a significant contribution to her clients and employers achieving more than 25 test wins on international consumer and design boards.

As global product and innovation manager at one of the world market leaders for electronic consumer goods, she was responsible for product strategy and variant management across the entire life cycle of numerous product categories in 150 markets worldwide.

As a speaker at nationally and internationally renowned conferences on the topics of variant and complexity management, product range streamlining and profitable growth, she has also made a name for herself in other industries.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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