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MANAGER PROFILE
Senior automotive expert for cost reduction and quality improvement

Senior automotive expert for cost reduction and quality improvement

  • Cost reduction and profitability (automotive OEM and large companies)
  • Optimization of quality performance in the value chain
  • Restructuring of organizations and processes in corporations and large companies
Senior automotive expert for cost reduction and quality

Qualifications

Long management experience at premium OEM (BMW) - Graduate industrial engineer (TU Munich) - Graduate mechanical engineer (TU Braunschweig) - Foreign language: English

Stations

No information on interim mandates for reasons of confidentiality
Consulting: DaimlerChrysler AG - Micro Compact Car - AUDI AG - BMW Group

More about the interim manager

The interim manager and management consultant is characterized by extensive expertise and many years of experience in cost reduction and quality improvement at premium automotive OEMs. He is primarily commissioned by large companies that want to improve their competitiveness. His mandates are therefore mostly related to restructuring, increasing profitability and cost optimization as well as strategic realignment.

Based on his broad expertise, the interim manager identifies weak points in the value chain in the shortest possible time and submits suitable suggestions for improvement in the form of process and structural optimizations. When implementing the portfolio of measures, he can draw on extensive experience in multi-project management. He has successfully managed more than 200 projects, 14 large corporate and departmental programs as well as process chain initiatives in large corporations in the premium automotive segment and has been responsible for their results. He has repeatedly succeeded in generating a confirmed cost-benefit ratio of one to eight.

In more than 23 years with premium automotive OEMs and in top management consulting for large automotive groups and large medium-sized companies, he has been able to build up his expertise in various roles as a management consultant, permanent manager and executive, as well as an interim manager, and has proven his success. His wide-ranging expertise enables him to work on an equal footing with technical experts, methodologists, controlling and quality functions as well as with business leaders, strategists and top decision-makers.

The interim manager is used to working with the top management of large companies as a reliable and trustworthy partner and is also consulted by supervisory and advisory boards as a neutral expert in difficult situations.

As an excellent analyst with strong communication skills and leadership qualities, he has managed networks with up to 2,500 employees. He has a serious and confident manner, even in top management, and always acts with absolute integrity and trust when dealing with politically critical situations.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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