Thomas G.
Subproject Manager “Inventory Reduction”
Experience
Apr 2025 - Present
9 monthsSaalfeld, Germany
HybridConsultant & Subproject Manager
Baxter Medical Systems
- Value stream analysis across three sites (USA, Germany, and China)
- Master data analysis
- Identifying process improvement potentials
- Project planning, control, and representation
- Developing a key performance indicator system for process monitoring
- Cross-site process alignment and data reconciliation
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
3 monthsSubproject Manager “Inventory Reduction”
SMA Solar Technology AG
- Developing measures to improve inventory and cash flow
- Managing and coordinating these measures
- Data preparation and presentation creation (Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Developing new operational metrics for cash flow development
- Creating C-level presentations as a decision-making basis
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
1 yearSubproject Manager “Material Availability”
SMA Solar Technology AG
- Master data analysis and order history analysis (SAP S/4HANA MM and Power BI)
- Analysis of the procurement process (SAP Signavio)
- Identifying improvement potentials & coordinating derived actions
- Investigating interface issues between strategic and operational purchasing
- Developing and implementing a KPI system for future data-driven process and department control
- Project planning, control, and stakeholder management (including C-level)
- Project representation in steering committees
- Defining and tracking project management guidelines
Feb 2020 - Jun 2023
3 years 5 monthsHead of Strategic Capacity Planning
Beiersdorf AG
- Responsibility for Beiersdorf’s global production capacities
- Expanding capacity monitoring and control up to suppliers
- Managing all global supply bottlenecks and coordinating COVID crisis measures
- Designing and implementing a supply chain resilience program to ensure robust supply chains and supplier relationships
- Creating a KPI dashboard for early detection of capacity bottlenecks (internal and at suppliers)
- Conducting analyses and reports for senior management
- Staff responsibility: 7 international strategic capacity managers
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
2 years 5 monthsOperation Manager
Beiersdorf AG
- Managing Beiersdorf’s only global production site for metal packaging (metal printing and coating, metal stamping, and other forming processes)
- Implementing a new production management system for focused control of shift, daily, and weekly performance
- Designing, planning, and executing machinery park renewal (>€20m investment; >70% of equipment renewed, 100% brownfield)
- Raising standards in autonomous and planned maintenance
- Leading the program to digitize and streamline support and control processes within production (shift planning, employee communication, knowledge transfer and documentation)
- Promoting talent and mentoring capable team leaders in their early leadership roles towards future department heads
- Staff responsibility: 4 employees + ~50 industrial workers
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
1 year 4 monthsPlanning Excellence Manager
Unilever Supply Chain Services GmbH
- Leading the project to centralize purchasing activities (centralizing procurement from 50 European plants into a Europe-wide planning hub)
- Project management (scheduling, resource planning)
- Standardizing procurement processes (including SAP R/3 system data)
- Improving and partially automating European material requirements planning (SAP R/3)
- Change management at the plants handing over responsibilities and in the newly built, responsible planning hub
- Stakeholder management (plant managers, regional VPs, purchasing managers, purchasing department heads, IT departments, local production units)
- Creating training materials and conducting employee training
- Staff responsibility: indirect leadership of a 5-person international project team
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
1 year 2 monthsManufacturing Manager (interim, acting as Plant Manager)
Unilever Produktions GmbH & Co.OHG
- Leading the plant management team (finance, HR, supply chain and logistics, engineering and innovation, production, quality, industrial engineering)
- Onboarding and mentoring new department heads (quality, logistics, planning, industrial engineering)
- Works council negotiations (focus on employee control rights, communication systems, site security)
- Coordinating the cross-departmental WCM program to improve plant performance
- Representing the plant in the European SC Leadership Team
- Scope of responsibility: ~500 employees, over 110,000 tons of personal care products and over 330 million product units for the global market, over €170 million in company revenue
Jun 2012 - Feb 2016
3 years 9 monthsManufacturing Manager
Unilever Produktions GmbH & Co.OHG
- Change management – introduction of a new organizational structure and new leadership
- Implementing and professionalizing the WCM production management system (advanced TPM methods, continuous improvement, cost-based activity prioritization, etc.)
- Efficiency improvements (equipment OEE, shift performance, setup time optimization)
- Works council negotiations (focus on employee control rights, employee terminations)
- Staff responsibility: 12 white-collar staff + ~230 blue-collar workers
Feb 2011 - Jan 2013
2 yearsPlanning & Logistics Manager
Unilever Produktions GmbH & Co.OHG
- Change management focusing on staff reduction, process simplification, automation
- Managing a supply chain department with 3 teams - procurement, production planning, customer service & transport planning
- Production planning in SAP APO
- Procurement and transport planning via SAP R/3 and SAP LE-TRA
- Establishing supplier partnerships and exchanges
- Process optimization in production campaign planning, procurement, and automated customer communication
- Developing talented team leaders in their first management roles towards future department heads (leadership development)
- Staff responsibility: 25 employees
Oct 2009 - Jan 2011
1 year 4 monthsThayngen, Switzerland
Assistant Supply Chain Manager
Unilever Produktions GmbH & Co. OHG
- Local lead of a European supply chain project (“Factory-Responsiveness”)
- Analyzing and optimizing production frequencies, production sequences, and product prioritization (total cost optimization)
- Operational procurement in SAP R/3 and master data management
- Rolling out the “Factory Responsiveness” project to the Swiss sister plant in Thayngen (4 months on site in Switzerland)
Summary
15 years of experience in production, procurement & crisis management (production and supply chain bottlenecks)
Solid expertise in SAP S/4HANA MM environment (including customizing, etc.)
Strong project and program management skills (time, budget, resource, and C-level management)
Leadership and personnel development skills (managed teams of up to 250 employees)
In-depth expertise in Excel VBA and Power BI-based data analytics
Special ability to identify and unlock optimization potentials
Leading and executing improvement projects in procurement (potential analysis, project planning and control, implementation, training and review)
SAP S/4HANA – development, migration, and optimization of material management and procurement
Crisis management in supply chains and factories
Designing and building supply chain resilience programs
Consulting and training in operational and strategic supply chain management areas
Development and implementation of production control systems
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
ElementaryEducation
TU Darmstadt
Diploma in Industrial Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany
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