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Co-Founder and Partner of DirAction's Spanish office.Design and Delivery of Operational Performance Improvement Projects and Interim Management.Selected project examples:Pharmaceutical (Europe): - For a leading pharmaceutical company, worked directly for the SVP International Manufacturing to set up the European organization and manufacturing activity in Europe. Managing projects related to CMO contracting and onboarding, QC and Technology Transfer, Manufacturing Start/up, Product Launches, Capacity Expansion, CMO governance - Streamlining of R&D processes with a focus on lead time reduction - Footprint strategy and optimization. Analysis of footprint consolidation scenarios (NVP business cases) for product transfers, site divestments and site closures for an 8-plant network across 4 continents. Deliverables included economic valuations of options, validation of engineering, technical feasibility, and preparation of recommendations for exec. committee. Pharmaceutical (LATAM):- Improvement of plant maintenance and engineering functions: introduction of planning and scheduling Power generation and natural gas (Europe): - Multiple transformation programs in ten power plants across technologies: coal, gas, nuclear, heavy fuel oil. Production and maintenance improvements, e.g. optimized maintenance strategies, improved contractor management - Back-office process improvement, including integration of a new subsidiary’s back-office processesInfrastructure (Europe): - End-to-end process redesign and transformation of back office functions. Definition of new operating model for both countries in the footprint (previously, a different model in each country) for support functions (Finance, HR, Procurement, Maintenance)

Design and implementation of performance transformations in service and industrial companies. Application of Lean Manufacturing methods.Core member of McKinsey's Asset Productivity group. Industries covered: Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Mining, Automotive, FMCG, Pharma, Insurance, Retail.Geographies: Europe, Latin America, Middle East, AsiaSelected project examples:Automotive and assembly (Worldwide): - Footprint strategy: mid-term footprint strategy review for Tier-1 automotive and rolling stock companies - Quality improvement for critical projects in a Tier-1 supplier - Operational diagnostics: multiple Lean diagnostics in manufacturing plants, including definition and launch of improvement initiatives - Multi-plant (6 plants in 4 continents) LEAN benchmarking exercise for a German automotive supplier, aimed at identifying and rolling out manufacturing best practices across the footprint - Operational transformations in multiple factories and countries. Implementation of Lean tools, process redesign, layout changes, front-line and middle management training Chemicals (Europe, Middle East): - Operational diagnostics for cost reduction, debottlenecking, and throughput improvement - Operational transformation in batch & continuous processes. Process improvement and redesign in Production and Maintenance Fast-moving consumer goods (Europe, LATAM): - Diagnostics and transformation projects in production plants. Improving throughput, aligning supply with demand, improving technician and operator productivity in various processes Infrastructure (Africa): - Throughput improvement project for the biggest maritime container terminal in Africa Insurance (Europe): -Process improvement of claims processing. Redefinition of team tasks specialist/generalist optimization, introduction of performance management Mining (Europe, LATAM): - Ramp-up optimization of a new copper mine - Throughput improvement projects in world's largest open pit copper mine

Lean transformations in industrial and service companies in Europe, Africa, Asia

Analysis and optimization of production systems and production control methods. Training in TPS (Toyota Production Systems) in Denso factories in Japan

Supply chain analysis.

Responsible for 60 - 100 workers. Reporting to CEO. Coordination with Production, Quality, Human Resources and Export.