Professional Career

2020	Owner SCHIRRA interim & consulting, Germany Consulting - Interim Management - Intercultural Coaching Fields of Activity: # Sales, Project Management & Product Management # Intercultural Coaching Asia/ China
05/2017-06/2019	Head of Sales - Sales & Project Management globally Walter Söhner GmbH & Co. KG / Soehnergroup, Schwaigern / Germany Number of member responsibility: 30 Global responsibility for the areas Sales and Project Management; Products: mechanical and electro-mechanical parts made of plastic and plastic-metal composites; Plastic-metal hybrid components
08/2012-03/2017	Director Strategic Planning - Global Product Management & Strategy of Product Line Seat Recliners Adient Components Ltd. & Co. KG, Kaiserslautern / Germany • Responsible for global product management, strategy & Center of Competence of the Product Line Seat Recliners (Global No.1, 25% market share, ca. 90 Mio. Pcs/a) • Subsidiary of Adient Inc. (Johnson Controls Spin-off); Automotive Seating, Global No.1 • Products: seat metal structures & mechanisms
07/2006-07/2012	Sales Director Asia Pacific Keiper Shanghai Automotive Seating Technology Co. Ltd, Shanghai / China Number of member responsibility: 12 • Responsibility for Sales, Project & Product Management in the region Asia-Pacific, • Successful establishment & development of the business to the most profitable Keiper location worldwide • Deputy of the President Asia Pacific • Products: seat metal structures & seat mechanisms
09/2005-06/2006	Project Director China KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG, KEIPER RECARO Group, Kaiserslautern / Germany • Medium-sized family-owned company (acquired by Johnson Controls in 2010) • successful management of the project and the team to support the establishment of the first plant in China. • Products: seat metal structures & seat mechanisms; largest independent engineering service provider for complete car seat development
01/2001-08/2005	Key Account Manager KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG, KEIPER RECARO Group, Kaiserslautern / Germany Number of member responsibility: 5 • Sales & project responsibility for various key accounts & markets # Future Markets # General Motors # Asia-Pacific & Licenses • Company type & Products: same as above
02/1996-12/2000	Technical Product Manager KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG, KEIPER RECARO Group, Kaiserslautern / Germany • operational processing of sales tasks according to the range of tasks of the Key Account Manager Asia-Pacific & Licenses as well as project management for own customer projects • Company type & Products: same as above
12/1990-01/1996	Sales Engineer in Technical Sales Robert Bosch GmbH, Schwieberdingen / Germany • Overseas Sales Department • Sale of electronic fuel injection and ignition systems (mainly China/ India)