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MANAGER PROFILE
Lean expert for sustainable efficiency and operational excellence

Lean expert for sustainable efficiency and operational excellence

  • Lean and process management in production, supply chain and logistics
  • Cost reduction and productivity increase (mechanical engineering and automotive)
  • Interim foreign assignments in China

"As a lean expert, I create sustainable efficiency and operational excellence."

Qualifications

Many years of international industry experience in production, logistics, supply chain management - Degree in mechanical engineering - Further training: Controlling for non-controllers, labor law, export control, Best Practice Tour China, G.I.B. Dispo-Cockpit Operations, Six Sigma Champion - Foreign language: English

Stations

MiTeOrIT Consulting - Contexo - RAMPF Machine Systems - Gehring Technologies - EMAG Holding - Voith Turbo - SPX Corporation - Staufen.AG - Gustav Wahler - FESTO Didactic - PROTEMA Unternehmensberatung - Fraunhofer Institut IFF

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is an experienced expert in operational excellence and efficiency in production, supply chain and logistics. He sustainably improves the value creation of companies by comprehensively optimizing the use of resources and materials. With his deep understanding of lean management and lean leadership, the interim manager establishes excellent processes and management cultures that achieve measurable success beyond the end of the mandate.

The interim manager is available for special projects as well as for mandates as managing director, plant manager or division manager. He has particular experience in (special) mechanical and plant engineering as well as with automotive suppliers. As a graduate engineer with a high technical affinity, he is ideally placed to quickly familiarize himself with complex issues and make the implications understandable to everyone involved in the process. In his career and his mandates, the interim manager has repeatedly made significant contributions to turnarounds, for example by improving resource and material efficiency, achieving rapid cost and inventory reductions or reducing lead times.

In addition to these skills, the interim manager has gained extensive experience in Asian business life during many years spent abroad in China. This has given him a deep understanding of the requirements of multicultural management.

In addition, the interim manager has the ability to take managers and staff along with him in change processes. He encourages willingness, imparts the necessary knowledge, paves the way for ability and ensures that people are allowed to do so. With this excellent leadership, the interim manager establishes a performance-enhancing and appreciative corporate culture. His communication style is always authentic, straightforward, binding and transparent. He sees himself not only as a decision-maker, but also as an enabler.

His clear goal is to increase the value of your company. He pursues this goal in an analytical and fact-oriented manner - with initiative, courage and motivation. His actions are characterized by a will to succeed, decisiveness, cost awareness and assertiveness.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 04.06.2025

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