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Manfred Böttcher

Interim Manager as CIO and Managing Director

Manfred Böttcher
Ahrensburg, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Dec 2025
2 years 5 months

Interim Managing Director

  • Optimizing business performance and expanding sales activities
  • Responsible for HR organization
  • Implementing a document management system (DMS)
  • Implementing and optimizing the ERP, CMS and CRM landscape
  • Introducing digital signatures
  • Increasing sales, reducing costs and boosting EBIT
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
6 months

Interim Manager, Project Manager

  • Creating the concept for print-on-demand labels
  • Process optimization
  • Master data optimization
  • Supplier selection and implementation support
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
3 months

Interim Manager, Head of Purchasing and Production Planning

  • Optimizing personnel management, purchasing and planning
  • Optimizing procurement processes
  • Supplier support and regular Teams meetings
  • Ensuring agreed delivery dates (delivery on time)
  • Optimizing lead times, finding and assessing new suppliers
  • Creating supplier statistics (on-time delivery, quality)
  • Maintaining master data, optimizing production planning and capacities
  • Avoiding overlap and downtime
  • Creating production planning statistics
  • Increasing customer satisfaction
Aug 2022 - Jan 2026
3 years 6 months
United Kingdom

Interim Manager, Digitalization Project Manager

  • Digitalizing production for a special purpose machinery manufacturer
  • Concept approved by the board
  • Increasing efficiency and transparency of production
  • Equipping all workstations, work centers and machines with scanners, tablets/AIOs and signal lights
  • Displaying drawings and setup instructions on screens with zoom function
  • Detailed scheduling of production orders to optimize run and setup times
  • Optimizing shop floor data collection to improve data quality for costing
  • Tracking start, interruption and end of each operation
  • Easy plan changes, adding, removing and rescheduling orders and priorities
  • Control station function for a current overview by production management
May 2022 - Jul 2022
3 months
United Kingdom

Interim Manager, Production Manager

  • Leading 25 people, including 5 direct reports
  • Optimizing process flows in production, warehousing and quality
  • Optimizing order planning and minimizing rework orders
  • Improving workflows between production areas and reducing backlogs
  • Improving leadership skills of department heads and communication between production and management
  • Raising employee awareness for quality and cleanliness
  • Eliminating non-value-adding activities
Mar 2007 - Apr 2022
15 years 2 months

Group Chief Information Officer

Pharma corporation

  • Authorized signatory, member of management and Executive Board
  • Responsibility for IT and corporate organization
  • Led all IT-related topics and company organization
Mar 2006 - Feb 2007
1 year

Interim and crisis manager

  • Business management and company organization
  • Restructuring and integration
  • IT management, IT organization and IT outsourcing
  • Project and IT project management
Jan 2000 - Nov 2005
5 years 11 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Managing Director and Director Information Technology for Europe

H.B.Fuller GmbH Zurich

  • Authorized signatory and member of the global IT steering committee
  • Responsibility for all IT areas in Europe
Apr 1995 - Dec 1999
4 years 9 months
Wuppertal, Germany

Head of IT and organization

Grote & Hartmann GmbH & Co KG

  • Authorized signatory and member of management with participation in supervisory board meetings
  • Commercial managing director (acting) for 2000 employees
  • Responsibility for HR, IT, organization, purchasing, financial accounting and controlling
  • Responsibility for all IT requirements worldwide
Sep 1986 - Mar 1995
8 years 7 months
Elmshorn, Germany

Manager IT and organization

Autoliv Elektrolux GmbH

  • With proxy authority, reporting to head of finance
  • Responsibility for all IT requirements in Germany, including organization

Summary

As a graduate computer scientist (business informatics) I have over 30 years of experience as CIO and IT managing director and in this context extensive experience with business processes, structuring and restructuring companies, as well as with ERP systems and many other large projects, such as implementing the safety code for pharmaceuticals and print-on-demand for package inserts and labels for the pharmaceutical industry, including Braille.

In addition, I have also gained experience as interim production manager, interim head of purchasing and production planner, and as interim manager for production digitalization.

Skills

25 Years Of Experience In Top Management

  • International Core Applications, Development And Support
  • Development And Support Of International Infrastructure Including Data Centers
  • Services On All It And Organizational Topics
  • Management Of External Service Providers, Licenses, Etc.
  • Decisions (Make Or Buy)
  • Decisions; Continuing Existing Applications (New Releases) Or Implementing New Ones
  • Company Restructuring And New It Organizations
  • Point Of Contact For The Executive Board And All Other Areas For It/organization
  • Project Responsibility (It, Organization And Business Projects)
  • Etc.

Main Responsibilities In Previous Positions

  • International Core Applications, Development And Support
  • Development And Support Of International Infrastructure Including Data Centers
  • Services On All It And Organizational Topics
  • Management Of External Service Providers, Licenses, Etc.
  • Decisions (Make Or Buy)
  • Decisions; Continuing Existing Applications (New Releases) Or Implementing New Ones
  • Company Restructuring And New It Organizations
  • Point Of Contact For The Executive Board And All Other Areas For It/organization
  • Project Responsibility (It, Organization And Business Projects)

29 Years Of Personnel And Budget Responsibility

  • 80 Employees And At Times 30 External Staff
  • 12 Million Euro Budget (6 Million Cost Budget; 6 Million Investment Budget)
  • High Social Skills And Integrity
  • Leading Internal And External Staff

27 Years Of Experience In Leading Large Projects

  • Dms Systems As Well As For It Infrastructures, Etc.
  • Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Usa, Denmark
  • Business Process Analysis And Definition Internally For All Company Areas And Externally From Supplier To Customer (Supply Chain)
  • Conducting It Due Diligence As Preparation For Company Acquisitions (Denmark And Portugal)
  • Integration Manager In Portugal And Denmark (It, Organization And Business Processes)
  • Digitalization Of All Business Areas In An International Environment
  • Development Of An Erp System For The Automotive Supplier Industry
  • Restructuring In An International Environment (New Workplaces, New Culture)
  • Integration Manager (It & Business)
  • License Management
  • Project Responsibility For Implementing Drug Falsification Safety (Eu Project)
  • Cloud Projects (O365, Sharepoint, Crm System, Etc.)
  • Building/developing Global It Structures / It Organization
  • Leading And Managing Development Teams (Erp Systems, E-business, Intranet, Sql Solutions, Dms Solutions, It Admin Solutions, Digitalization Projects)

Foreign Experience

  • 5 Years In Switzerland
  • 2 Years In Portugal (Integration Manager)
  • 1 Year In Denmark (Integration Manager)
  • 1 Year In Spain (Closure Of Production Site)
  • 1 Year In France (Closure Of Production Site)

Work Experience/project Successes As Main Responsible/concept Development – Implementations And Installations

  • Ibm Iseries / As/400 Models (I520, Power6, Power7, Power8, Power9)
  • Call Centers (Customer Care)
  • Vmware (Server Virtualization)
  • Terminal Emulation Via Citrix
  • High Availability Of Systems / Mirroring Via Itera / San Volume Controlling
  • Telephone Systems
  • Home Offices
  • Backup Data Center
  • Staff Time Recording Systems
  • Inventory Management
  • Network Monitoring Tools
  • Backup Power Supply For The Entire Company
  • Consolidation Software For Monthly And Annual Financial Statements
  • Email Archiving
  • Document Management Systems Including Workflows For Digitalizing All Business Processes
  • Computer System Validation (Csv) According To Gmp Including Audit Trail
  • Gdpr
  • It Compliance
  • Crm System (Cloud Solution) / Hybrid Environment
  • Bi Systems
  • Personnel Management Systems
  • Ms Office (Teams, Sharepoint) Cloud Solutions
  • Slas (Service Level Agreements) With All Business Units
  • Voip (Voice Over Ip) And Ipcc (Call Center Functionalities)
  • User Help Desk System / Ticket System (Remedy First-, Second- And Third-level Support)
  • Erp System In 10 European Countries Including A Financial Accounting System
  • Cad, Caq And Cam Systems (Worldwide)
  • Financial Accounting Systems (Worldwide)
  • Personnel Management Systems Including Payroll
  • Worldwide Network (Lan/wan) Including Entire Infrastructure And Pc Networks (Novell)
  • Operational Data Collection System (Topic Of My Diploma Thesis)

Work Experience/project Successes As Main Responsible/concept Development – Development/implementations

  • Erp System (For The Automotive Supplier Industry)
  • Erp System (For A Pharma Group)
  • Erp System (For A Medical Device Trading Company)
  • Modifications/extensions Of Erp Standard Solutions
  • Business Intelligence (Bi Reporting And Data Mining)
  • Management Tools
  • Customer Relationship Management Systems
  • Print On Demand For Package Inserts And Folding
  • Print On Demand For Labels Including Braille
  • Web Presence / Home Pages For All Business Units And Locations / Branches
  • Intranet For All Business Units
  • Research Software (Re-imports)
  • Online Ordering System For Pharmacies
  • Outsourcing Concepts

Work Experience/project Successes As Main Responsible/concept Development – Company Organization

  • Building/developing Global It Structures / It Organization
  • Building A Central Data Center
  • Business Process Analysis And Definition Including Guidelines Internally For All Company Areas And Externally From Supplier To Customer (Supply Chain)
  • Continuous Inventory Including Empty Slot Control Per Storage Bin
  • Definition And Implementation Of Global And Regional Standards
  • Training Employees In All Applications Including Ms Office
  • Restructuring The Entire Company Organization (Line Organization To Matrix Organization)
  • Creating Guidelines (Company Organization / It)
  • Creating Company Manuals
  • License Management
  • Facility Management (Water, Gas, Electricity, Security – Intrusion, Fire Alarms)
  • Construction Manager; New Buildings (Main Building / Executive Floor / Canteen)
  • Project Responsibility For Implementing Drug Falsification Safety (Eu Project)
  • Closure Of Factories And Sales Offices
  • Change Management Process
  • Disaster & Recovery Plan
  • High Level Project Manager Of An Sap Implementation

Work Experience/project Successes As Main Responsible/concept Development – Integration Manager

  • Integration Of A Danish Company (Approx. 150 Million € Turnover)
  • Integration Of A Portuguese Company
  • Integration Of Two German Companies

Work Experience/project Successes As Main Responsible/concept Development – Due Diligence

  • Company Assessments / Acquisitions
  • Outsourcing Studies

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1981 - Mar 1987

University of Applied Sciences PTL-Wedel

Diploma in Computer Science, Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Wedel, Germany

Aug 1980 - Jun 1981

State Vocational School in Hamburg

University of Applied Sciences Entrance Qualification · Hamburg, Germany

Feb 1978 - Jan 1979

Vocational College in Hamburg

Technical College Entrance Qualification · Hamburg, Germany

...and 2 more

Certifications & licenses

Just In Time Production

Continuous Improvement Process (CIP)

Lean Production, Kaizen

Lean Six Sigma

Modern Project Management

New Work

TQM (Total Quality Management)

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