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Fredericia Municipality, Region Of Southern Denmark, Denmark

(14+ employees)Leading functional managers and specialists in key areas including plant simulation, operations portfolio management & reporting, sustainability & automation, factory design & layout, training, and business process engineering.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Managed Project Team (100+ members) and directed global technology platform development. Delivered a critical project, shaping a pivotal technology platform and presented a compelling recommendation to senior leadership. Also, recognized for impactful team-building initiatives.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Successfully managed critical development project, involving over 100+ internal/ external team members, delivering a new Technology Platform. - Successfully engaging and persuading product groups led to the integration of 8 products into launches. - Showcased compelling Platform recommendation through a Business Model Canvas, to Steering Committee, SVP, and COO for decision, demonstrating value and potential business impact. - Received very positive team building feedback, fostering collaboration and morale, creating mutual team assistance and support.

Billund

Led multifaceted tasks in innovation strategy, business model design, platform marketing, Portfolio Prioritization & decision and team development for R&D projects focused on Moulds & Moulding.RESPONSIBLE FOR:- Capability Building, Systematic Innovation in R&D, Innovation strategy and business model design, Platform and concepts marketing incl. promotion movies, Governance structure and project process development, R&D Strategy SeminarKEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Developed and implemented platform marketing strategies to promote new technologies, securing funding and buy-in for a new platform concept, scaling portfolio to 23 products and saving 20 million DKK in the first year. (FMCG) - Implemented a Stage-gate model design and governance structure in R&D, improving project management efficiency, by clear prioritization and resource allocation. - Implemented portfolio management in R&D, enhancing project selection and resource allocation, boosting satisfaction among leaders and participants. - Facilitated team development and motivation activities within the R&D department and leadership team, driving satisfaction and motivation score up by 10+ points.

Billund

(12+ employees)Led team development efforts to enhance skills and capabilities within qualification departments and facilitated global knowledge sharing to improve processes and behaviors related to mould qualification. RESPONSIBLE FOR:- Team development, Knowledge sharing across global qualification departments, Global training program, Continuous Improvement of Leads area, Final qualification of novelty and re-order Moulds to production and ramp-up.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Implemented changes in processes and coaching team behavior to prioritize novelty and portfolio. - Aligning Mould Qualification targets with business priorities – improving efficiency in product launches, resulting in no missed product launches. (FMCG)

Århus Area, Denmark

(12+ employees)Directed operations in Mould Tooling and Die Casting departments, focusing on driving improvements in production engineering processes using Visual Management & Kaizen.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Coaching LEAN behavior elevating LEAN behavior score from 42% to 63% (target 60%) correct behavior in less than 1 year. - Increased SAT level fulfillment from 12% to 80% within one year across 35+ projects. - Reduced cost on projects by risk mitigations and improvements achieving 95% of projects within budget.

Århus Area, Denmark

(5+ employees)Streamlined and optimized Production Engineering business processes by implementing a robust Business Process Management system (BPM)and establishing effective global networking strategies.RESPONSIBLE FOR: - Production Engineering Business Processes, Business Process Management BPM, Visual management in PE, New Equipment Introduction Process, Process documents, Process improvement support, User Education, Business unit Capacity and resource balancing.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Implemented a robust BPM system including training of global users, benefiting 130+ users and improving process documentation and efficiency, including capacity- and resource planning and balancing. - Drove global New Equipment Introduction Network across 15 sites. - Monthly, quarterly, yearly - employee resource plans.

Coordinated circulator product transitions in response to EU changes in energy legislation, ensuring seamless compliance and minimizing inventory value across EU before, during, and after the transition.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Achieved a remarkable reduction in transition safety stocks from 60 mio. DKK to 3 mio. DKK - 6 months following the implementation deadline of EU legislation encompassing a wide range of 300 product variants.

Hungary

(3+ employees)Full project responsibility of relocation of major product lines and equipment’s to Hungarian facility and overseeing cross-site production transfer projects.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Successfully completed the full production transfer of 2 main product lines from Denmark to Hungary, overseeing all project phases until full ramp-up in production. - Provided a recommendation to the Hungarian Board of Directors, on strategies for becoming a more globally oriented company and lead factory, who decided the activities. - Facilitated the transfer of production equipment from 4 European production companies to the Hungarian facility, enhancing operational efficiency and capacity.

Led Greenfield project focused on improving production technology and facility operations, including budgeting, supplier negotiations, and resource planning.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Built business cases and budgets for Steering Committee. - Specified technology requirements and negotiated agreements with sub-suppliers. - Delivered comprehensive infrastructure and project plans for greenfield project execution.

Led strategic initiatives and Group management recommendations for greenfield investments, outsourcing strategies, and production optimization. This involved leading planning and execution efforts across multiple production companies to enhance global production capacity.PROJECTS: - Green field site and Factory establishment in Central Eastern Europe (Hungary)- Outsourcing – Make or Buy strategy- Production Transfer feasibility study CEE- Strategic Production setup and roadmaps on - circulator-pumps- Production Best Practice & Benchmark facilitation - circulator-production- Integration of Production for acquired company (M&A)KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS: - Successfully delivered a feasibility study for Group Management - deciding a new 26,000 sqm. facility in Hungary, overseeing tender and first initial building phases. - Responsible driver of a global production network, process, and operational benchmark group, comparing global sites productions efficiency and KPIs, to share learnings across sites. - Developed a global production capacity plan across 5 production companies. - Group management recommendation on production integration of acquired company (M&A)

Supported technological advancements in automated manufacturing processes, warehouse control systems, SAP implementation, and responsible for New Product Introductions (NPI)RESPONSIBLE FOR:- Projecting Technical and system solutions for automatic manufacturing, Warehouse control and management, Equipment specifications and purchase, New Product Introductions.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS:- Integration, optimization and ramp up of full automatic production line- Implementation and integration of Warehouse Managements System - SAP R3- Introduction of all new products (NPI) on automatic production line.

Odense Area, Denmark

During my time as a Board Member at Markvart A/S - Flower Nursery, I was deeply involved in guiding daily decisions, shaping strategic directions, leading the company through a turnaround, and preparing it for sale, ultimately concluding in 2007.

Hd-O Courses, Business Administration - Kolding

Activities and Societies: Courses: International Management and Organization, Strategical Management

People Leadership

Activities and Societies: Leading people through change, Building high performance teams, Leadership styles, Leading across cultures.

Pmp, International Project Management

B.Sc, Manufacturing Engineering & System Management

Lifeachiever - Leadership With Positive Psychology

Change Management - Embracing Change

Activities and Societies: Helicopter View, resistance to change, personal adaptation, environment of change Embracing Change deals.

High Performing Teams

Lead and facilitate teams in a global or complex context Create direction through communicated purpose and goals Developing team.