Interim Supply Chain Consultant for a multi-national Healthcare Products provider
Position Our client is a global multi-national provider of products to hospitals and non-acute customers (through distributors to general practitioners, dentists, etc). Their products were critical throughout the pandemic and the global crisis had put significant pressure on their supply chain. The business manufactures their products internationally in the Asia-Pacific region and they are distributed […]
Interim General Manager for a Global Manufacturing Firm
Who’s Watching the Local Shop at Global Companies? While there are many ways in which an organization can ensure they don’t get sunk by the competition, one major way to make an impact is to bring in an interim executive. From finding a whole new path to implementing rapid course corrections, an interim executive can […]
Interim COO achieves significant improvements in electrical engineering production plant
SITUATION The client is a subsidiary of an Austrian group with production in the Czech Republic with over 1.000 employees working in multiple shifts on site. There was a lack of transparency and trust in local management. The management of the parent company did not have a clear picture of the situation on site and […]
Interim Managing Director for a carve out and sales process
In the summer of 2019, Van de Groep & Olsthoorn in the Netherlands was called by the SMW partner in France, Stéphane Melinger of NIM Europe. One of their clients was looking for an Interim Managing Director in the Netherlands. What followed was a complex cooperation between the 3 parties and several Dutch candidates, which […]
Interim Purchasing Manager for Mechanical Engineering Company in Slovakia
The client was an Austrian mechanical engineering company with a several hundred employees and a number of foreign productions in Eastern Europe. The task was to bring the purchasing processes of the Slovak production company to an internationally standard level and to demonstrate which potential for improvement was available by using the example of a […]
Transition Manager Supply Chain & Production
Between August 2020 and December our Interim Manager was given the mission to Initiate the transformation Supply Chain & Production towards operational excellence of the main German factory of our client. Targets for his mission were defined in the area of Inventory reduction, production efficiency and industrial On Time Delivery (OTD). Furthermore, a strong focus […]
Interim CEO for retail & wholesale consumer electronics
The client is a well-known company in consumer electronics, with its own retail and a wholesale business. The retail business is all over Spain, but the wholesale business did not cover the whole country. The general manager of the wholesale business made a business plan to rollout quickly through Spain, which has not been a […]
Leadership challenges in South Africa
Situation The client is a world leading manufacturer of equipment to water- and wastewater industry with its headquarter in Sweden. They have a global network of several product factories and service centers. There are sales offices in more than 100 countries. The sales and service company in South Africa had low performance and poor operating […]
Successful restructuring with an experienced CFO
Situation The group is a traditional company in Switzerland with the business areas mineral oil trade, gasoline stations and garages (partly in Germany), real estate and a service center. Accelerating market changes opened immediate opportunities for structural change for the company. For strategic reasons, the Board of Directors decided to withdraw from the automobile trade. […]
Interim Site Director for a recycling plant in the Netherlands
Situation: Our client is a premier plastics manufacturer, supplying products like bin bags, cling film and aluminium foil to the supermarket chains and similar retail/consumer businesses. With operations in the UK, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, France, Germany and a recycling plant in the Netherlands. The recycling plant in the Netherlands has seen little change or investment […]
