Günter Kiefer

Master of Business Administration
Saarland University

Personal

  • Interim expert with over 25 years of experience at C-level
  • Strong commercial background and excellent technical expertise
  • Eye for innovation and strategic opportunities
  • Appreciative and solution-orientated management style
  • Sustainable implementation of measures in all business areas

Expertise

  • Expert for automotive and mechanical engineering
  • Realisation of increased earnings in all areas
  • Special requirements in challenging business situations
    such as relocation of production, plant closures or insolvency
  • Negotiations with banks, works council committees, trade unions, customers, suppliers and investors
  • M&A transactions with lead in sales strategy
  • Toolmaking, pressing, welding, injection moulding, casting, machining, assembly, painting
  • Steel, aluminium, plastic, hybrid materials

Professional Experience

CEO / CFO voestalpine Polynorm Grau GmbH & Co KG

Subsidiary of voestalpine AG, Linz/Austria
(today: voestalpine Automotive Components Schwäbisch Gmünd GmbH & Co. KG)

100 million € turnover, 500 employees, automotive tier 1
prototypes, pressing tools, pressed parts, components, parts made of press hardening steel

  • Construction of a press shop for car body parts in 9 months (greenfield)
  • Integration of two tool shops
  • Restructuring and strategic realignment
  • Development of processing method and market launch of the innovation
    press parts made of press hardening steel with phs-ultraform®
  • Business re-engineering and launch of lean management
  • Awarded Supplier of the Year by VW North America
  • Audi, Bentley, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Porsche, Saab, VW

 

 

CFO der Haden Drysys, Frankfurt

Subsidiary of Haden MacLellan Holdings plc, Egham/UK
32 million € turnover, 35 employees, automotive Tier 1
Sales and project management for automotive painting systems

Projects:

  • BMW Rosslyn, South Africa (paint shop and building)
  • Opel Azambuja, Portugal (paint shop and building)
  • Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen (paint shop)

CFO der Michels GmbH Schweißanlagenbau, Saarbrücken

45 million € turnover, 300 employees, automotive tier 1
  • Welding lines for car bodies (BIW) and cells for doors, flaps and structural assemblies
    Series production of welded components for cars and buses
  • Establishing cost transparency
  • Establishing controlling and liquidity management for multi-year projects
  • Establishing claim management
  • Implementation of CAD system CATIA and offline programming RobCad
  • Implementation of CNC machine networking with centralized programming
  • Business plan and realisation for a series production for structural assemblies
    in the supplier park of an OEM with direct delivery
  • Audi, BMW, EvoBus, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Saab, VW