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MANAGER PROFILE
Managing director and engineer with a focus on realignment, Industry 4.0 and CRM

Managing director and engineer with a focus on realignment, Industry 4.0 and CRM

  • Strategic & technical realignment, relocation and restructuring
  • Sales Excellence: Sales optimization and digitization (CRM)
  • Technology Management: Automation and Industry 4.0 (IIoT)

"As Managing Director and engineer, I focus on realignment, Industry 4.0 and CRM"

Qualifications

Diplomas: General Management, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering - Further training: Strategic Sales & Sales Management, Senior Leadership Development, Strategic Management for Executives, Corporate Leadership Development - Stays abroad: Sweden - Foreign language: English

Stations

Schuler Group/Andritz Viessmann - SAMSON - ABB - GE Electric Adtranz (now Alstom) - Inovan (Prym Group)

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is an internationally experienced managing director who successfully realigns companies strategically and technologically. The experienced corporate sales executive and engineer has broad expertise in the relocation of business units and the modernization of sales and after-sales service. As an experienced technology manager, he also offers his clients special expertise in the areas of Industry 4.0 (Industrial Internet of Things) and CRM systems.

In his most recent mandates, the interim manager has relocated the product development and production of companies in the automotive supply industry to Brazil, China and the Czech Republic. Prior to that, he drove forward the restructuring of a medium-sized mechanical engineering company and was able to reduce costs by 30 percent. In a family-run company, he modernized sales processes and organization and successfully introduced a customer relationship management (CRM) system.

The double-qualified engineer (electrical engineering, communications engineering) and graduate of the Business School St. Gallen offers his clients excellent leadership experience in the management of global companies. He has repeatedly built up companies abroad and led them to success for large corporations such as ABB, GE and Schuler/Andritz as well as for medium-sized family businesses such as Viessmann and Prym: for example in China, India, Singapore and the Czech Republic. In Germany, the USA, Sweden and Switzerland, he has successfully restructured companies and designed them for sustainable growth.

These foreign assignments have given the interim manager strong intercultural skills - a success factor that has often been decisive for his successful mandates.

Employers and clients alike attest to the interim manager's exceptional ability to develop strategies, create structures and develop organizations. With entrepreneurial foresight and a sure instinct for the development of industries, he has successfully adapted his clients' companies to the requirements of global markets.

His management style is based on trust. He has achieved cultural change in many companies through change management, a cooperative leadership style and a hands-on mentality, which has led to sustainable results.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 20.05.2025

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