Interim Manager: The picture showed a golden ceiling.
MANAGER PROFILE
Troubleshooter and buyer for cars and machines

Troubleshooter and buyer for cars and machines

  • Purchasing, PEP (product development process), value analysis, design-to-cost
  • Production and purchasing-oriented design of purchased parts
  • Troubleshooting, supply chain development, make-or-buy decision-makers

"I'm a troubleshooter and buyer for cars and machines."

Qualifications

Many years of professional experience in purchasing - development and program management of new projects - Graduate industrial engineer (TU): business administration, economics, electrical engineering, electronics, mechanical engineering - Electronics technician for industrial electronics - Solid Edge (own license)

Stations

Hella - Lear - Bosch - JCI - Grammer - Continental - others not named due to confidentiality

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is not only an experienced project buyer, negotiator and project manager for acquisition and new projects. He has also repeatedly acted as an emergency rescuer for ongoing series productions. Since 2006, he has been working successfully as an interim supply chain development manager for international corporations and medium-sized companies, preferably in Germany.

With his excellent technical and academic training, he is not only convincing in the office and meeting room, but also on the shop floor and in production. Whether it's capacity bottlenecks, manual rework, open PPAP approvals, production downtimes, delivery backlogs, defective series tools or a sorting company forced by the OEM customer to pay for them: he gets to the bottom of the causes, studies contracts, standards, drawings and CAD data, visits customers and suppliers, forms and moderates teams of experts, draws up action plans and ensures their implementation.

His personal motivation? He loves creating new things and improving existing ones. His heart beats for Germany and the EU.

How does he motivate others? Being a role model himself, giving confidence, transferring responsibility, creating a sense of achievement, admitting his own mistakes, making coffee, remaining human at all times and sometimes driving colleagues home or to the workshop in his own car if necessary.

His motto: "Create, don't talk. Only those who work themselves can really advise and make a lasting change."

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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Cost reduction and purchasing optimization at automotive supplier

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Reorganization of strategic purchasing at automotive supplier

At a globally operating automotive supplier with well over 50,000 employees worldwide, the position of Purchasing Manager of a local business unit with approx. 1,000 employees was vacant for months...
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Quality assurance: Troubleshooting at an automotive supplier (SME)

The interim manager was hired by an owner-managed automotive supplier as a troubleshooter. The TIER 1 and TIER 2 supplier with headquarters in Germany and 2 plants in Europe supplies...
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Organization of project purchasing at an automotive supplier

A global automotive supplier for interior components with more than 10,000 employees was dissatisfied with the performance of its project purchasing department. The coordination of purchasing for new projects was too slow...
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Purchasing: Optimization in new customer management

A medium-sized production subcontractor with around 300 employees that has been very well established for decades was unable to process requests from existing and new customers in a timely manner for weeks...

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