More about the interim manager
As an interim managing director, plant manager, production manager, ramp-up manager and task force leader with management experience across the entire value chain on four continents, he takes on challenging tasks with a focus on production, product development and general management. He was responsible for setting up complete vehicle assembly and aggregate factories overseas and assumes interim responsibility for employees, budgets, results, deadlines, output and quality.
Since 1980 in the global automotive industry, the manager has taken on management tasks with increasing responsibility, initially in commercial areas such as controlling, IT auditing, sales systems and data centers abroad, public relations, investment management and mergers & acquisitions. From the mid-nineties, new focal points in technology and production with the complete project management for the construction of a car assembly factory in Egypt and the construction and expansion of unit factories in the USA, Brazil and South Africa, plant management on three continents, program management for units and chassis for new vehicles from high-performance sports cars to trucks and development management for axle drives. Since 2009 also with over a handful of mandates in electromobility. Presentations in the field of production at the most important congresses for transmissions and electric drives in Germany, Detroit and Shanghai are proof of his global networking with innovation leaders.
The interim manager is very fact-based and communicative in several languages. He has demonstrated particular skill in intercultural management over more than two decades in the management of project organizations simultaneously on two continents with complex supply chains and the most demanding customers - from the strategy phase through planning, business plan, construction, commissioning and start-up to operational production management with direct supply to OEMs.
His clients are the innovation leaders as OEMs, Tier 1 system suppliers (including three of the six largest worldwide), Tier 2 hidden champions - both as corporations and as medium-sized family businesses.
