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.

Katharina Hopp, an executive and interim manager, looks professional in a white blazer and jeans, ready for strategic consulting and transformation projects.

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.

01

02

03

04

Assess the current situation

Develop target scenarios

Business Case &
Resource Model

Roadmap, governance,
Go/No-Go decision

01

Assess the current situation

02

Develop target scenarios

03

Business Case &
Resource Model

04

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.

3

Target scenarios

90 Days

through to the final setup

Result

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