Interim Management · CTO / COO
Interim Technical Managing Director
As an experienced entrepreneur and consultant, I support companies with:
- Stabilisation and performance improvement
- Strategic growth
- Site relocations and industrialisation
- Technology and digitalisation
- Lean management and process quality
- Securing and expanding customer relationships
Services
Plant Management
- Taking on plant manager, CTO or COO roles
- Leading production and development
- Responsibility for quality, cost and delivery capability
Restructuring
- Stabilising and developing the organisation
- Plant relocations and consolidations
- Clear organisational structures
Delivery Performance and Quality
- Stabilising production processes
- Transparent production with clear KPIs
- Reducing customer complaints
Innovation Strategy
- Introducing new technologies
- Digitalisation and process optimisation
- Building intellectual property
Managing and Mediating Customer Escalations
- Steering critical customer projects
- Improving customer collaboration
- Winning new business
Approach
I work in a structured, goal-oriented manner with a clear focus on results.
Typical Engagements
- Bridging vacancies (CTO / COO / Technical Director)
- Restructuring and stabilisation
- Growth and scaling
- Transformation and digitalisation
My Approach
- Short familiarisation period with existing structures
- Clear communication at all levels
- Consistent & rapid implementation
- Measurable results
Track Record
CTO – Private Equity Portfolio Company
Responsible for 450 employees and €50 million turnover
- Reorganisation towards KPI-based, self-directed management of departments
- Merging the companies into one integrated corporate structure
- Realising synergies in project management and toolmaking
Results
- 30% savings at departmental level through synergies
- Execution of a company acquisition
- New technology added to the service portfolio
Technical Managing Director – Mid-Sized Industrial Company
- Developing new customers and business areas with new technologies
- Project management with a clear sales focus, introducing and monitoring budgets and milestones (quality and deadlines)
- Improving customer collaboration
Results
- Significant improvement in results
- On-time, on-budget handover to series production
- New customers won through innovation – more than 20 patents and utility models
Advising Start-ups
- Supporting the transition from development to series production
- Introducing a process structure based on the ISO 9001 quality management system
- Coaching the leadership team
Results
- Achieving the delivery performance agreed with customers
- Substantial reduction in customer complaints
- Defined and documented processes
Technical Director at an Automotive Supplier
- Stabilising production processes
- Recovering the backlog in a critical customer project
- Consolidating injection moulding production from three halls to two
Results
- Transparent production with clear KPIs
- Backlog cleared within two months
- Relocation of injection moulding production completed
Further references available on request.
About
As an engineer with a doctorate, an entrepreneur and an interim manager, I combine a passion for technology and innovation with entrepreneurial thinking and clear accountability for results.
In demanding business situations I take on responsibility as an interim technical manager – to bridge a vacancy, during a phase of transformation or in a period of strong growth.
My experience ranges from managing director roles with full P&L responsibility to leading production and organisations. It covers industrial manufacturing in particular, with a focus on plastics processing, surface coating and the machinery and plant engineering environment.
My work with shareholders, senior management, managers, teams and customers is characterised by clear structures, open communication and an appreciative, performance-driven leadership culture.
What defines my work:
Contact
Get in touch for a no-obligation conversation:
Location
Landsberg am Lech, Germany