Christoph Quick-timmerhaus
Self-employed contractor + consultant
Experience
Apr 2019 - Present
6 years 4 months Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Self-employed contractor + consultant
Self-Employed
- Focus: Strategic procurement of professional services and other indirect categories including negotiation, category strategy development, and stakeholder management.
- Focus: Bandwidth: Team Lead – CPO.
- Focus: Design and execution of large spend programs.
- Focus: Negotiation (preparation and execution).
- Focus: Assessment of organizational maturity level and development.
- Focus: Process optimization and KPI development.
- Focus: Change management.
- Focus: Collaboration with other procurement consultants (e.g., temporary support, project lead): GMVK Procurement, Efficio, McKinsey, BCG.
- Focus: Liquidations: dissolving contracts, monetizing assets, social compensation plan.
- Industries: Automotive.
- Industries: Energy/Utilities.
- Industries: Health Care.
- Company size: Corporates (DAX, MDAX).
- Company size: SMEs (50–1,000+ FTE).
- Company size: Start-ups.
- Selected projects (see separate project list):
- Liquidated companies that once provided simulator services to German nuclear power plants.
- Optimized procurement of professional services at a global logistics company.
- Optimized professional services procurement in the EMEA region at a global automotive group (MDAX).
- Consulted on a sales concept for selling medical devices to hospitals/GPOs.
- Head of Procurement for medical consumables at a Group Procurement Organization (procurement for hospitals).
- Managing Director of a truck service provider.
Jan 2008 - Mar 2013
5 years 3 months Lingen, Germany
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH and Kernkraftwerke Lippe-Ems GmbH
- Responsible for 100 staff in Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Logistics, and IT.
- Joint responsibility for more than 1,000 staff and €700m revenue.
Oct 2000 - Mar 2019
18 years 6 monthsMultiple project and leadership positions
RWE Group
- Experience by function: Procurement, Finance, Strategy, Change, M&A Management.
- Overseas experience: UK (2002–2004, 2013–2016).
- Overseas experience: USA (2005–2007).
- Overseas experience: Project and line responsibility in the Netherlands and Hungary.
- Scope: Line responsibility for up to 70 staff at 12 sites.
- Scope: Managed spend: €300–1,000m.
- Scope: Responsible for M&A transactions over €1bn.
- Scope: Matrix organization: reporting line to local CFO and global CPO.
- Success stories (Procurement): Restructured Dutch power station procurement and merged partly with German organization → approx. 10% savings.
- Success stories (Procurement): Successfully transformed the UK procurement team despite 40% layoffs and growing spend → highest savings (7–9%) and highest productivity in the RWE Group in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
- Success stories (Procurement): The introduction of a central requisition pool led to a substantial increase in process speed, significantly higher data quality, and better sourcing decisions (e.g., reducing expensive purchase card spend), while also improving user experience.
- Success stories (Finance): Lead negotiator for a gain-share model that allowed the German government to participate in operators' profits from a lifetime extension of the nuclear power plants.
- Success stories (Strategy): Developed the exit strategy for RWE’s water business, including an investment strategy for increased post-exit financial headroom.
- Success stories (Strategy): Project lead for the American Water IPO.
Jul 1995 - Sep 2000
5 years 3 months Dortmund, Germany
Financial Analyst
Harpen AG
Feb 1994 - May 1995
1 year 4 months Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Compulsory community service
St. Josef-Hospital
Oct 1993 - Dec 1993
3 months Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Assistant Internal Auditor
Veba Oel AG
Summary
- Seasoned procurement executive with focus on indirect spend and liquidations
- A strong leader with the proven capability to shape and execute strategy, forge successful teams, and lead change
- Solution-oriented, hands-on leadership style
- Highly effective through focus on the most strategically relevant product groups
- Harvard-trained negotiator
- Efficiency-driven through rigorous process management, standardization, and digitization
- Strong commitment to people and organizational development
- Effective communicator with the ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders
- Strong intercultural skills with in-country experience in Germany, UK, and US
- Cross-functional experience in Finance, Strategy, M&A, and Corporate Transformation
- Mindful, curious, and funny
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Dutch
Elementary
Italian
Elementary
...and 1 more
Education
Aug 1990 - Oct 1993
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Business Administrator (VWA) · Business Administration
Aug 1990 - Jan 1992
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Industrial Clerk · Commercial Apprenticeship
Certifications & licenses
Harvard Program on Negotiation
Harvard
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