Passion about helping industry leaders accelerate operational performance improvement.
Specialties:
• Operations / OpEx
• End-to-end Supply Chain
• Project Management (NPI, Product Development, Ramp-up)
• Lean & Continuous improvement (automotive background)
• Business Analytics & Strategic Advisory
• S&OP (Control Tower, Relocation, Phase-in/Phase-out)
• Cost saving ("zero waste")
• Productivity (scrap reduction, OEE, planning, layout, setup, lead time...)
• Sourcing and Procurement
• Change Management (leadership, strategy & organization)
• Management systems (business visibility, KPIs & strategy alignment)
• Private Equity: Operational Due Diligence & Value Creation (12+ years "hands-on" experience)
• Operations and Supply Chain Assessment / Diagnostic (VSM, lean maturity, change readiness, opportunity for improvement, "Plan of actions"...) and "hands-on"execution
• Post-acquisition & merger integration and consolidation (playbook and deployment).

Global management consulting firm. OpEx experts with lean & continuous improvement DNA.
● Senior Director / Head of BD, Europe: Project leader, customer relationship, consultative partner for manufacturing executives with operational and supply chain challenges. Value creation for PE.
● Key Accomplishments:
• Supply Chain area: Sourcing, Procurement, Supplier Collaboration & Development, Control Tower, Logistics, S2C, Inventory, S&OP, Warehousing, 3PL, Transport, Network footprint optimization.
• OpEx area: Productivity, OEE, Throughput, Capacity, Cost Savings, Quality/Scrap, Hoshin Kanri, Setups, Kanban, Planning, TPM, Scheduling, Lead times, Working Capital, Layout, Lean, Waste…
• 3 to 5x ROI to Clients by successful Execution of Operational performance improvement actions.

Global management consulting firm renowned for Supply Chain expertise. Transforming Industrial manufacturing and distribution corporation.
● Principal, Europe: Leading CGN Teams execution on-site and remotely, around Europe.
● Key Accomplishments:
• Successfully developed and Implemented business transformation solutions mainly within Supply Chain, Operations, Digital Transformation, Change Management and Management Systems.
• Led/Executed 55+ projects in end-to-end supply chain (visibility, cost, agility, speed, risk, resilience)
External Senior Management Consultant at Caterpillar during 6+ years (not full time):
- Supply Chain VP, part of the strict Control Tower Team of Experts responsible for transfer, ramp-up and run of products and operations, from Gosselies (shutdown, 5k people) to 7+ worldwide locations.
● Key Accomplishments:
• Successfully led on-site 3+ months duration projects in 13 European countries (OEM and Tier 1).
• Led 25+ end-to-end supply chain management

DST GROUP (PT), Braga, Portugal
Group of +50 companies, also in energy and engineering. ~€400M turnover and 1k employees.
Provided mission-critical business analysis for CSO and Board, delivering advice and data to facilitate Group sound decision-making. Created business plans and led benchmarking studies. Drove strategic innovative projects, leading & coaching skilled teams.
● Key Accomplishments:
• Hired to

● TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT (DK), Copenhagen, Denmark
Global public consortium with +1k industry experts working in PPPs projects, on energy, wind, solar, oil & gas and industrial solutions development.

Within major Nordic Project, oversaw team of 5 R&D professionals and 10 customer production staff, transitioning new products from R&D to production.

Key Accomplishments:
• Achieved 2 of the 3 steps needed to create a new PV TF solar panel, enabling industrial production. Developed and implemented efficient processes for coordinated activities across remote plants.
• Identified opportunity and created a parallel business, decreasing project cost by 8%.

Automotive leading global casting company with annual sales of $731m USD and +6k employees.

● Programme Manager: Part of product engineering, launching new critical safety parts for automotive.

● Key Accomplishments:
• Managed 20+ NPI projects simultaneously, using project management skills to exceed expectations of top customers, including VW, Porsche, ContiTeves, Chrysler, Renault, PSA, TRW, Bosch.
• Cut production costs 3% and reduced internal launch time ≈20% by reengineering and optimising manufacturing operations and product development process, using sector best practices and methodologies (Kaizen-Lean & 6σ; Hoshin, JIT, Mapping, PDCA, SMED, Ishikawa, 5S, Kanban...).
• Successfully led 60+ of the ≈200 projects of the Company, according time, cost and HQSE targets.