Your challenges:
- You are looking for an experienced interim executive for change processes, transformation, restructuring, and/or post-merger integration (PMI) including cultural change.
- You need guidance and consulting in challenging situations such as restructuring and turnaround – even in crisis-close insolvency scenarios – both nationally and internationally.
- You foresee a strategic and/or structural crisis approaching your company and want to prevent it.
- Do you urgently need solutions for liquidity?
- The product portfolio needs to be optimized, new products developed, and previously unprofitable variants removed from the program.
- Your goals include reducing complaint costs, implementing high-quality quality management, shortening delivery times, and increasing customer satisfaction.
- You need to strengthen your after-sales/service business.
- Sales need to be optimized, expanded, and/or internationalized.
- Supply chain management has become an overwhelming challenge due to external market crises. You want the necessary changes to be identified and implemented as quickly as possible, potentially utilizing blockchain technology.
- You consider the dynamic development and implementation of restructuring plans and comprehensive transformation/change concepts essential.
- You see intensive cost reduction efforts, across all or specific areas, as an urgent priority and seek an execution-driven senior executive to achieve this.
Here is your solution:
Senior Executive, Interim Managing Director/CEO/CRO with executive responsibility, either full-time or as an external advisory sparring partner/consultant
and coach.
An experienced, value-driven corporate manager and Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering with international expertise, specializing in the successful development of medium-sized mechanical and plant engineering companies. Offering extensive leadership and change management experience across the entire service and value chain, combined with creativity, a strong affinity for technology, curiosity, and a people-oriented approach—both appreciative and demanding—as a mentor and coach.
Your benefits
- Available on short notice for initial support and analysis.
- Short onboarding time due to extensive industry experience.
- Competent solution support in these areas of responsibility.
- Successful conflict resolution as a mediator in internal and external disputes through strong social competence.
- Fast, measurable results.
- Scalable service scope.
- Predictable costs and duration.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to procure wood, assign tasks and divide up the work, but teach the men the longing for the wide, endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
How does a corporate crisis start? Surgical signs:
- Investment backlog
- Savings are made in development, no innovations/further development of the products, instead it is made worse or old products are pimped up
- High complaint rate
- Sales become the development driver, products are "built only slightly changed" according to customer requirements, regardless of the consequences (drawings, documentation, parts lists, etc.)
- Shifting responsibilities
- Complicated processes despite restructuring efforts already made
- Lack of clear responsibilities
Target groups for my expertise - my range of services
- Shareholders/Ownerswho want to save a distressed company and/or see it (more) successfully led into the future, but recognize that the capacity of the operational management is overwhelmed – at least temporarily
- Investorswho are looking for the opinion of a technically adept and experienced restructurer during or after a due diligence before a company acquisition decision.
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Company Leader (GF, CEO, MD)who recognize that you need the support of an experienced change manager to
to restructure their company (before it hits a crisis)
Successfully tackle and implement change processes or changes in the corporate culture
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Management consultant, which after the development of a turnaround or restructuring concept
Would you like support in practical implementation
seek the suggestions of an experienced practitioner beyond their knowledge and experience, who will support them on how they can implement the concepts in practice better, faster, more effectively, with less resistance and more sustainably in the companies
- Managers, die externe Sanierungsberater „aufgedrückt“ bekommen z. B. von den Finanzpartnern/Banken und einen Sparringspartner an ihrer Seite haben möchten, der Anregungen und Unterstützung bietet, wie sie weiterhin die volle operative Kontrolle behalten und ihren Status in den Gesellschafterversammlungen und bei Bankengesprächen stärken können.
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Financing partners/banks, the
would like a "quick check" before initiating an elaborate restructuring report of your client company,
need a quick check "in between" as part of the regular reporting to confirm their rating for their client company.
