Lothar Höffges    Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing., PMP-PMI® 

Ingenieurbüro Automotive Interim Project-Management       

Welcome

Are you looking for a temporary Senior Program Manager for your vehicle project or for your production?

Core competencies:

* Project management across all five project phases, mostly: (Acquisition; Design; Design Verification; Production Validation/Industrialization; Launch)
    Managed a total of ten development projects
* Turnaround project management
* Product production relocations including all customer approvals and production ramp-up
* Change and claim management (deviations from the orig
inal project order), 10 years of product management experience
* Supplier management / Task Force Management (start-up supply security, also abroad)
Industrialization up to 3 after SOP
* Bottleneck management, escalation management
* Airbag development: holder's permit no. 20/2016 (State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf District Government) according to Section 7 of the Explosives Act for handling pyrotechnic safety devices (Cat. P) in motor vehicles
* Sales (Key Account Management) and Engineering


Degrees / academic titles

* Dipl.-Ing. mechanical engineering
* Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing., business administration 
* PMP (Project Management Professional/PMI/USA)       from 2005, certified until September 2027

* Language skills, German (native speaker)
    English (fluent)


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"Focus on performance and execution"

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Executive Summary, USPs


* plus 30 years of experience in the automotive supply industry, with a focus on Tier One supplier
* Interim project management, also internationally, in the area of ​​interior systems as well as car seating systems and in production
* Managed ten development programs as overall project manager
* 10 years of multi-project management, in the role of head of series support in a large corporation with 3 direct employees across Europe
* 22 years of experience in the interior and 10 years of experience in the seating system area
* A total of + 25 years in management positions, of which + 20 years in program management. In my last permanent position, I worked for 10 years as a senior program manager at a large Anglo-American company (Johnson Controls GmbH, European Headquarters)
* Interim manager since December 2015, after around 25 years as a permanent manager in the industrie


DDIM certificate:


https://manager.ddim.de/de/member/reference/135040100000029809.php.media/30678/Zertifikat_DDIM_2017.pdf
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