Josef Art

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ABOUT JOSEF ART

Hands-on manager with 23+ years of industrial experience, most executive leadership roles as C-Level Manager, Business Unit Manager, Vice President or leader of a corporate-startup- Track record in dynamic growth as well as turnaround and restructuring: Build-up of a corporate-startup at KraussMaffei with more than of requests within first year - focus on circular economy (plastics materials, recyclates, regrinds, regernates, compounds) Profitable outperforming of sales targets by 40 - 120% globally in plastics machinery business of polyurethane foaming within shrinking automotive market- focus on reaction processing technology, PUR, seat foaming lines, instrument panel foaming lines incl. molds and tools for cutting and machines for milling Reduction of throughput time for new contracts from 16 to 10 weeks for several product lines by stock management, order management, modularization, lean management processes Margin and sales increase by customer centric product portfolio management and sales organization. Cost cutting of double digit % in injection mold costs and single digit % per year in direct materials Turnaround in production plant for automotive interior parts (door panels, arm rests, IPs, injection molding, LFI) including site relocation in running series Build up of a new business stream for LCC injection mold trading and service - circular economy, sustainability, recycling, CO2 footprint, machining, machinery, plastics processing, materials, packaging, packaging machinery, automation, robots, injection molding, extrusion, coating, painting, assembly, chemical industry, molds, mold shop CEO, COO, CSO, Managing Director, Business Unit Manager, BU Manager, VP, head of, leader family business, family corporation, family owned, private equity, PE Strategy, consultant, organizational development, experienced leadership, integrity, change management, international sales, technical products, product development, variant management, modularization, B2B platform, new business models, design thinking, venture capital acquisition, M&A, due diligence, digitization, digitalization, process development, KPIs, relocation, production management, process optimization, lean management, kaizen, 5S, value based management, target costing, purchasing, cost engineering, negotiation, innovation management, partner management, turnaround management, bankrupcy situations, digital marketing, digital sales, branding, social media, linkedin, google ads, retargeting, remarketing, tracking, business development, full stack