Simon Schmidt

Founder / Co-CEO / Independent Consultant

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Schwetzingen, Germany

Experience

Feb 2022 - Present
3 years 11 months
Schwetzingen, Germany

Founder / Co-CEO / Independent Consultant

Virtwo GmbH

  • Founded a boutique consultancy
  • Coached the CEO of a film agency startup on company transformation and scaling the business model
  • Interim Head of Controlling for a PE-backed telecommunications and fiber optic company
  • Built and led a company-wide transformation program for a PE-backed telecommunications and fiber optic company
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
4 months
Mannheim, Germany

Regional Chief Financial Officer

MBCC Group

  • Interim leadership of the European finance, controlling, and IT functions with over 200 employees
  • Stabilized the organization after a successful carve-out from BASF
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
1 year 2 months
Mannheim, Germany

Group Senior Vice President Commercial Excellence / Managing Director

MBCC Group

  • Led the concept phase of the transformation program
  • Planned, implemented, and headed the global Commercial Excellence unit
  • Global responsibility for: Sales Excellence/CRM (Salesforce), Pricing, Digitalization, and the In-house Academy
  • Managed M&A projects including due diligence
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 8 months
Mannheim, Germany

Carve-Out Program Lead

BASF Construction Solutions GmbH

  • Full responsibility for the operational carve-out of BASF's European construction chemicals business (including TSAs and IT separation)
  • Led the global standalone workstreams in the carve-out (including vision, mission, values; change management; functional TOMs; and new operating model)
  • Led and implemented a project to realign corporate management control (completely new KPIs, dashboards, and target-setting processes)
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
3 years 1 month
Mannheim, Germany

Head of Controlling and Projects Europe

BASF Construction Solutions GmbH

  • Reported to the Head of the European Business Unit (SVP) and was part of the European Executive Management Team
  • Led 20+ operational controllers in Continental Europe and a central analysis and project management team
  • Successfully transformed the controlling unit into an efficient business partner organization (including achieving significant cost savings)
  • Implemented multiple improvement initiatives
  • Improved EBITDA by over 50%
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years 6 months
Austria

Head of Controlling and Projects Central Europe

BASF Österreich GmbH

  • Implementation of the new regional strategy for Central and Eastern Europe
  • Leading the European strategy workstream for commercial excellence and market development
  • Leading the controlling department for Central and Eastern Europe (16 countries)
  • Transforming the controlling department into a business partner organization including automated BI dashboards
  • Restructuring the sub-regional customer service organization into an efficient shared-service unit including a new KPI set
Nov 2012 - Feb 2015
2 years 4 months
Warsaw, Poland

Head of Project Management and Controlling

BASF Polska Sp. z o.o.

  • Full commercial responsibility for a €150m greenfield investment project (automotive catalyst plant)
  • Leading all functional workstreams to build a 400 FTE site organization
  • Responsible for transforming existing local functions (including HR, finance, procurement, IT, etc.) to meet requirements after the new site's opening
  • Leading the local controlling unit
Oct 2008 - Oct 2012
4 years 1 month
Ludwigshafen, Germany

Various Marketing and Business Development Roles

BASF SE

  • Developing a global business unit strategy (Home Care Chemicals)
  • Leading projects to evaluate strategic options for divisions (invest/harvest/divest)
  • Managing cross-functional synergy projects
  • Scouting new business potentials
  • Planning and leading industry initiatives (e.g., booth at the furniture fair)
  • Organizing major customer projects (e.g., key account role for IKEA)
  • Mentoring a junior staff member
  • Supporting strategy projects

Summary

I am a highly versatile ex-top manager with hands-on experience from 15 years of career at German corporations and a variety of successfully executed projects.

My inner drive, passion for people and urge to optimize, combined with industry and private equity experience, make me a valuable asset to your project!

Skills

  • Project/program Management
  • Business Transformation
  • Strategy
  • Performance Steering / Kpi Development
  • Controlling

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
Polish
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2005 - Sep 2008

Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University

Diploma in Business Informatics (BA) · Mannheim, Germany

Oct 2005 - Sep 2008

The Open University

Bachelor of Arts · Business Administration · London, United Kingdom

Certifications & licenses

Professional SCRUM Master I

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