MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
INTERIM MANAGEMENT
From practice – for practice

Position yourself in the market with intelligence and flexibility
Swiftly develop new products and markets
Push revenue

Reliable management consulting works!

The internal change process can run more smoothly if everyone is involved to an equal extent. Your consultant works together with you to develop suggested changes, listening to your input and assuming the role of a coach and independent project manager during the implementation phase.

The success of a company is directly proportional to its flexibility and ability to innovate.

The challenges that companies face today are greater and more diverse than ever before.

The ability to adapt quickly and flexibly to changing conditions is essential for companies to survive in critical situations.

Act customer focused!
Act result oriented!
Change situationally!
Solve pragmatically!

What you can expect from me:

Developing a customer-focused, reliable sales strategy with innovations

Targeted increase in sales and profit
Straight forward approach

Reacting quickly to market changes with repositioning and process optimization

Key skills

Sales + Strategy
Marketing + Strategy
Customer / market focused R&D
Market development
Business development
Internationalization sales
Diversify (or focus on) product portfolio
Product management
Optimize sales processes
Develop and improve sales teams
Account management

Additional areas of expertise from 20 years of hands-on leadership experience

Change management & process optimization
(e.g. operational excellence, QM system and process control)
Organizational development
Promot interdisciplinary, cross-departmental collaboration; nurturing solution-oriented thinking, as well as team leadership, support, employee development and empowerment
Interim management (reorganization / recapitalization )
Experience with generational change and supporting successors
Additional services for international customers: Representation, contract negotiations, customers onsite calls and support visits can be organized upon request.

Successes

Global repositioning (mechanical engineering, plant engineering, specialty paper)
Global sales experience (in over 40 countries, activ own sales, cold calling, setting up agencies and cooperations)
Successful renovation (Swiss paper factory)
Production setup, reorganization and market development in Asia (lived and worked in South Korea and China for 5 years)

Professional experience

Mechanical engineering, plastics industry, industrial process and control engineering, engineering industry, plant engineering (chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical)
Specialty paper
Service

Professional career

R&D and sales project management for an Austrian company in the field of solar-powered, mobile systems, mechanical engineering (2024)
Foundation of Pleiger-Consulting e.U. (2024)
Temporary consultant activities since 2013
Strategy development, project management (plant construction / sales), setting up a supplier (2022)
Reorganization and digitalization of sales / R&D / repositioning on the market with new types of paper with a focus on China / Taiwan / USA and Europe
Head of Sales & Marketing, R&D, QS, Co-Managing Director, specialty paper, Switzerland 2017–2020
Repositioning on the market with a focus on Asia and USA with new technology / reorganization and digitalization of sales
Head of Sales & Marketing, authorized officer, plant engineering (Linde Engineering AG Group), Switzerland 2014–2016
Repositioning on the market with a focus on Asia and India / reorganization and digitalization of sales
Business Manager, authorized officer, plant engineering and construction, Switzerland 2007–2013
Market development / set up of local production and supply chain / reorganization / establishment of QM/QA structures and ISO certifications Mechanical engineering, plastics, electronics & control technology
Senior employee of a medium-sized group of companies, Germany 1999–2005
Liaison Officer, Pusan, South Korea & Shanghai, China 2002–2005
Engineer QM and Sales, USA 2001
Engineer in quality management and certification, plastics, Germany 1999–2000

Continuous professional development

Agile project management
Process optimization
Change management
Digitalization
Leadership seminars
Contract law

NLP sales training
Project management training (ABB)
Various business training courses
Training as a quality manager at TÜV-Nord in Hamburg

Why management consulting?

When and how does management consulting have a lasting effect?

When your consultant works together with you to develop changes, listens to you and implements suggested changes by acting as coach and independent project manager.

Only if all areas in the company are involved equally and openly when assessing the status quo will the change process also be accepted internally.

What are the advantages of an external consultant?

As an objective and impartial third party, an external consultant can highlight deficits and potentials more directly and address necessary changes. Committed exclusively to the cause, independent, not entangled in the company's internal politics, they can both initiate change processes and see them through.

External advice helps!
More flexibility and action!
More agility!
More profitability!

Important steps in business consulting are:

Define overall corporate goals and measures

Get the team on board, and motivate and encourage them to make changes and communicate openly with all stakeholders

Quantify capacity shortfalls and develop suggestions

Assess existing know-how and work together to develop new potentials for your products

Help you develop new markets and further internationalize your company

Increase profitability and sales

Let's talk about it. I look forward to a successful collaboration.

«If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up men [and women] to gather wood, assign tasks and divide the work. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.»

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-44), French aviator and writer