Alexander Ditzel

MBA in General Management, part-time

Ennepetal, Germany
Experience
Sep 2023 - Sep 2025
2 years 1 month
Germany

MBA in General Management, part-time

Hochschule Fresenius, Idstein

Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
7 months

Manager Customer Service & Dispatch

Interim-Manager (Freelancer)

  • Organizing transports in the automotive sector
  • Troubleshooting
  • Process optimization
  • Consolidation of departments
  • Managing picking
  • Reporting meetings with stakeholders
  • Customer dispatch for various Tier1 & OEMs

SAP-specific:

  • Stock transfers
  • Batch management
  • Basic training of employees in the EWM/SD/TM modules
  • Resolving process issues in customer orders, picking, and goods issue
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
11 months

Head of Warehouse & Logistics

Erzet Handelsgesellschaft mbH für Rohr und Rohrzubehör

  • HSEQ management
  • Leadership and organization of 20 employees at the Essen and Freiberg/Saxony sites
  • Restructuring the shipping department
  • Negotiation of service provider contracts
  • Tender management
  • Development of logistics KPIs
  • Regular reporting to senior management
  • Interaction with leaders from purchasing, sales, and controlling
  • Fleet management for material handling equipment and trucks
  • Leading inventory counts
  • Project management for the construction of a new warehouse in Essen
  • Implementation of shop floor management
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
3 years 1 month

Head of Production, nationwide

TREX Transport & Express GmbH

  • Disciplinary and technical responsibility for 160 employees in 17 depots
  • Development of decentralized teams
  • Selection of site managers
  • Conducting performance reviews
  • Establishing a mobile task force to handle peak order volumes
  • Leading a cross-depot team to develop best-practice training for operations
  • Optimizing all operational processes
  • Advancing logistics and HR KPIs
  • Onboarding of key accounts

Projects:

  • Sub-project lead 'Route optimization in local and regional transport'
  • Project lead 'Standardized compensation models'
  • Establishing same-day deliveries in the metropolitan areas of Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt
  • Developing a concept to retain short-haul and long-haul service providers
  • Transport optimization regarding capacity utilization and delivery quality
  • Negotiation of subcontractor contracts (120 transport companies with 600 fleet units)

Fleet management:

  • Own fleet with 20 Sprinters and 7.5-ton trucks

Other:

  • Monthly results and forecast meetings with site managers
  • Budget planning and corresponding strategic/operational alignment
  • Budget responsibility:
  • External service providers: €19.5M p.a.
  • Personnel: €10M p.a.
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
9 months

Regional Manager North

Winner Spedition GmbH & Co. KG

  • Central contact for sales and operations in northern Germany for all Winner branches
  • Technical leadership of 40 employees in the 4 northern German branches
  • Weakness analysis of order intake, dispatch, and handling
  • Ensuring operational processes
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
10 months

Field Sales/ Support of decentralized organization

Winner Spedition GmbH & Co. KG

  • Central contact for sales and operations in northern Germany for all Winner branches
  • Setting up branches in Bremen and Kessin
  • Channeling sales activities
  • Analysis of shipment structures to build new scheduled services
  • Product development for B2C
  • Structure and process visualization along the transport chain
  • Tender Management
  • Feasibility analysis of specifications
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
1 year 4 months

Field Sales

Winner Spedition GmbH & Co. KG

  • Identification, acquisition, and onboarding of target customers
  • Preparation of daily quotes and annual contracts
  • Collaboration with operational units across Germany
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
1 year 5 months
Germany

Bachelor Professional of Goods, Traffic and Logistics

Deutsche Außenhandels- und Verkehrsakademie, Bremen

Oct 2010 - Aug 2015
4 years 11 months

Assistant to Branch Management and Field Sales

Herbert Flesche GmbH & Co. KG

  • Identification, acquisition, and onboarding of target customers
  • Preparation of daily quotes and annual contracts
  • Quality management inspection of own fleet
  • Monitoring drivers according to EC 561
  • Procurement and selection of subcontractors for local and long-distance transport

Additionally:

  • Developing a distribution concept for a large drugstore chain in postal code area 20-28
Apr 2009 - Oct 2010
1 year 7 months

Billing and Field Sales

Herbert Flesche GmbH & Co. KG

  • Central contact for customer service
  • Restructuring the department
  • Generation and analysis of statistics
  • Preparation of daily quotes
Sep 2008 - Mar 2009
7 months

Dispatch local and long-distance transport

Herbert Flesche GmbH & Co. KG

  • Early and late dispatch
  • Customer Service
Jul 2008 - Aug 2008
2 months

Dispatch

BLS Budde GmbH

  • Dispatching of 20 trucks nationally
  • Preparation of daily quotes
  • Billing
Oct 2005 - Jun 2008
2 years 9 months
Germany

Freight forwarding and logistics services clerk

BLS Budde GmbH

Summary

Generalist in logistics and purchasing

Focus areas:

  • Transport logistics/ warehousing/ B2C logistics/ dispatch/ SAP
  • Human resources management/ national branch responsibility/ controlling
  • Material and goods flow management/ sales and tender management
Languages
German
Advanced
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
Education
Sep 2023 - Sep 2025

Hochschule Fresenius

MBA, part-time · General Management · Idstein, Germany

Nov 2013 - Mar 2015

Deutsche Außenhandels- und Verkehrsakademie

Bachelor Professional of Goods, Traffic and Logistics · Goods, Traffic and Logistics · Bremen, Germany

Oct 2005 - Jun 2008

BLS Budde GmbH

Freight forwarding and logistics services clerk · Germany

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