Interim-Manager
Taking responsibility. Providing guidance. Delivering results.
When organizations are in motion — through growth, change, or uncertainty — they need someone who quickly gets to the heart of the situation, sets clear priorities, and moves swiftly into execution. I work closely with people at all levels: I listen, understand the dynamics, and give leaders and teams clear direction.
At the intersection of business, operations, and technology, I translate complexity into clear priorities — and enable leadership teams to make faster, more reliable decisions. My goal isn’t activity — it’s impact: structured execution, measurable results, and structures that hold after my engagement ends.
Typical Mandates
Execution Isn’t Gaining Momentum
Unclear priorities, missing decision rights, or friction between functions and locations are slowing progress. I create clarity around accountabilities, establish a reliable execution rhythm, and remove blockers.
Organizational Effectiveness Is Missing
Roles are unclear, structures are missing, leadership capability has gaps. I develop governance, clarify accountabilities, and enable leadership teams — so the organization sustains itself.
Realignment and Decision-Readiness
The organization needs to reorient — but which direction? I create transparency on the current state, develop clear target scenarios with a business case, and bring the decision basis to readiness within 90 days.
Leadership Alignment in Turbulent Times
When leadership teams drift apart, accountability is unclear, and rhythm is lost, operational reliability suffers. I restore alignment and clear rules of engagement — and accelerate decision-making.
What I Deliver
My mandates don’t end with recommendations — they end with results. Typical deliverables: target picture and execution plan (priorities, accountabilities, milestones, KPIs), organizational structures and governance (roles, RACI, decision logic), leadership enablement and team development, and change and communication formats that stick.
Strategy-to-Decision in 90 Days
Complex programs often fail not because of the strategy, but because it never becomes a decision.
I create the conditions for that to happen: I assess the current state, develop clear target scenarios with business case logic, resource model, and roadmap — and enable leadership teams to decide and act on that basis.
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Assess the current situation
Develop target scenarios
Business Case &
Resource Model
Roadmap, governance,
Go/No-Go decision
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Assess the current situation
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Develop target scenarios
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Business Case &
Resource Model
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Roadmap, governance,
Go/No-Go decision
Reference example
Reports directly to the CEO – 90 days to a decision-ready proposal
In a global, highly complex program with a direct reporting line to the CEO, I delivered a decision-ready setup in 90 days: three target scenarios, KPIs, business case, resource model, and implementation roadmap. The result: a well-founded go/no-go decision and an immediate start to the implementation phase.
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Target scenarios
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well-informed go/no-go decision
Case Studies (Selection)
Global Integration — Global Corporate
Starting point: Integration of a previously separate Indian organization (~2,000 employees) into the global structure of Global Corporate.
Cross-Functional Customer IT Teams — Global Corporate
Starting point: Execution delays due to misaligned goals and unclear interfaces between business and tech teams.
Leadership Alignment & Decision-Readiness in 90 Days
Starting point: A global program lacked governance, alignment, and decision-readiness; the CEO needed rapid analysis and a decision-ready setup.
Further references available on request