Interim Manager: The picture showed a golden ceiling.
MANAGER PROFILE
Turnaround, realignment and aftersales optimization

Turnaround, realignment and aftersales optimization

  • Interim mandates as crisis manager (technical capital goods)
  • Market entries worldwide and aftersales optimization
  • Development of new business areas (foundation, M&A, mergers)

"As an interim manager, I specialize in turnarounds, realignment and aftersales optimization."

Qualifications

Diploma in Shipbuilding Engineering - European Welding Engineer (EWE) Technical Sales (MBM) - Management Studies (M.Sc.) - Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (Harvard Business School) - Mergers & Acquisition Program (London Business School) - Digitalization (MIT Sloan and Boston University)

Stations

Cargotec Oyj - (Finland) - TTS Group (Norway) - Samson Materials Handling Ltd (UK) - Schade Lagertechnik - Jacobs Douwe Egberts - H. Butting - Pfeifer Seil- und Hebetechnik - Goldschmidt Thermit Railservice

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is an expert in change projects such as the strategic realignment of companies and business units, turnarounds and restructuring in the field of technical capital goods. He is also very successful in developing aftersales services businesses.

In his most recent mandate, for example, he closed the main operation with three trades at a company in the railroad industry. In another mandate with a global market leader in the field of stainless steel processing, he built up the internationally operating plant construction division by merging existing organizational units. For a company in the rope application technology sector, he built up the Ropes & Services division with a particular focus on after-sales service. Prior to this, he successfully developed and implemented market entry strategies for specific market segments for two subsidiaries of a medium-sized group of companies in the conveyor technology sector.

Combines technical understanding with sales and management expertise

The interim manager brings more than 25 years of international management and profit responsibility in mechanical and plant engineering and the maritime industry to his mandates. The former managing director, division manager and group board member has repeatedly led companies through crises and put them on the road to success with sustainable sales and profit growth. The company sizes ranged from owner-managed, small and medium-sized enterprises to listed corporations.

The interim manager offers his clients a particularly broad range of skills. As a graduate engineer, he has a deep technical understanding. He has excellent management knowledge thanks to further studies in the fields of technical sales and international management. On the operational and commercial side, in addition to his practical experience, he also has an excellent background in further education (London Business School, Harvard Business School, MIT).

15 years in global assignments abroad for Scandinavian companies

His intercultural skills are also particularly well developed. The interim manager has worked for Scandinavian companies for more than 15 years, lived in Finland and worked all over the world. He is also available as an interim manager for assignments abroad.

Based on his experience from numerous crisis and change situations, the interim manager knows how to convey security and confidence to managers and staff. His calm and confident demeanor is just as convincing on the store floor as in the boardroom. His clear and targeted communication and his structured approach quickly build trust and get the team on board. In this way, he succeeds in finding and implementing sustainable solutions even under difficult conditions.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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