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Operations & Strategy Consulting | Food | Impact

Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Weltweit
M.Sc. Mineral Resources Engineering – Process Technologies
Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Weltweit
M.Sc. Mineral Resources Engineering – Process Technologies

Profilanlagen

CV Niklas Hermes-Böhlefeld_2025-01-02.pdf
Optimize your daily operations.pdf
Build a sustainable food start-up.pdf
Find your purpose and effective levers.pdf

Skills

InnovationKosten-Nutzen-AnalyseBusiness DevelopmentFinanzprognoseUnternehmensberatungGeschäftsplanUnternehmensreportingE-CommerceExcel-FormelnFinanzanalyseBestandsführungssystemProjektmanagementOperational ExcellencePortfolio-OptimierungSupply Chain ManagementNachhaltigkeitNahrungsmittelbrancheBeschaffungProjektlieferungMaterialeinkauf
Management Consulting
Experience in management consulting with a focus on operations optimization and sustainability strategies.

Project Management
Strong project management skills for implementing ecological and sustainable measures in various industries.

Sustainability and Social Impact
Expertise in evaluating and implementing impact levers for sustainable development of companies and societies.

Operations Optimization
Evaluation and implementation of operations optimizations for sustainable companies and innovative projects.

Strategy Development
Scenario evaluation and modeling to recommend the most effective levers for business growth and sustainability.

Supply Chain Management
Experience in managing and optimizing supply chains, particularly in the food industry.

Financial Analysis
Proficiency in financial forecasting, business planning, and result-oriented analyses for decision preparation.
 

Sprachen

DeutschMutterspracheEnglischverhandlungssicherFranzösischgutNorwegischverhandlungssicherSpanischverhandlungssicher

Projekthistorie

Food Start-Up Consulting

Jonas Karioui / Karioui Feinkost

Konsumgüter und Handel

< 10 Mitarbeiter

Operations, SCM, business and impact strategy consulting to build up a food delicatessen trade company from scratch

Freelance Consultant

Effective Impact Consulting

Konsumgüter und Handel

< 10 Mitarbeiter

Operations and strategy consulting for start-ups: impact analyses, business building and operations optimizations.

Operations systems & business plan with focus on supply chain management & liquidity

Konsumgüter und Handel

Executed an overall operations & finance health check to give recommendations for more efficient operations systems, process improvements, cost savings, delivery reliability improvements, and created a profitable & executable business plan for daily business orientation:
• Evaluated and recommended suitable operations systems landscapes for a fast-growing B2C food start-up based on their current situation and outlook
• Developed a business plan (financial model) with focus on supply chain management & liquidity to recommend a manageable growth plan based on the possibilities of supplier capacities & lead times, available liquidity and performance marketing potential
• Identified several levers for cost savings, revenue potentials & process optimizations, among others:
• Delivery reliability improved with an adequate safety stock
• False margin / profit assumptions identified and mitigating strategic measures recommended

Scenario modelling for growth strategy | Food production | retail & B2B

Konsumgüter und Handel

Created an easily adjustable scenario model in Excel:
• For the growth & portfolio strategy of a holding with a buy & build strategy for sustainable food start-ups
• Bottom-up calculation of the expected retail & food service sales based on market data and experience from similar companies
• Synergy effects only calculated based on the relevant scenario depending on the companies that are planned to be bought
• Easily adjustable to compare all expected scenarios by investing in different companies
Positive effects for the client:
• Business plan with defendable sales forecast for the pitch deck and investor / bank talks
• Quantitative arguments in favor of the investment-intensive business model with several acquisitions

Freelance Strategy Consultant

Internet und Informationstechnologie

Strategy consulting support in a different strategy consulting company to analyze and improve the scaling opportunities of a climate-tech start-up

Inventory management optimization | Food e-commerce & retail

KoRo Handels GmbH

Konsumgüter und Handel

250-500 Mitarbeiter

Created the base for an ongoing inventory management optimization via:
• Analysis of the current product portfolio, delivery performance and process errors;
• A new product categorization to suit the current situation incl. safety stocks and order cycle;
• Implementation of a new, listing-based retail forecast to increase accuracy despite large fluctuations when starting retail deliveries;
• Suggestions for product portfolio optimization incl. renegotiations of delivery lead-time and minimum shelf life;
• Identification and prioritization of other levers to reach more forecasting and supply chain reliability quickly by addressing the most pressing challenges first.

Chocolate Operations Officer

JOKOLADE (Schoko Winterscheidt GmbH)

Konsumgüter und Handel

< 10 Mitarbeiter

  • Building up the company as first full-time employee (doing almost everything required to build up a Food-Start-Up)
  • Responsible for supply chain, reporting and operational processes
  • Creation and control of pricing, the conditions model for retail clients, finance forecasting & business plan
  • Negotiation and set up of all important contracts
  • Set up of the social impact journey incl. measurability and further sustainability objectives, processes and public reports
  • Set up and hand over of the webshop, quality management, customer service, retail and B2B sales, recruiting & HR
  • Crisis management while keeping the team motivation up in a mix of a sales plunge, cost increase and following liquidity shortage
  • Leveraging the crisis as an opportunity to change the producers for cost savings, improvement of the delivery reliability and improving the product itself in all facets
  • Crisis management to limit the negative impacts of a 2-month closure of the most important ingredient supplier to a minimum

Associate

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH
• Planning and implementation of Tracking & Reporting processes for the worldwide cultural change of a global Automotive player
• PMO for the execution of externally imposed remediation measures for the whistleblowing-system of a global Automotive player
• Management of target group journeys for the development of insurance products and additional values

Student research assistant

RWTH Aachen University: Unit of Mineral Processing

Industrie und Maschinenbau

  • Scientific research and projects incl. operation of various machines
  • Organization of an academic excursion to Central Asia 2016

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