To sum up my experience…

Solving long-standing cross-border barriers for the largest last-mile parcel delivery company in the Nordics

Detect root causes of issues preventing achievement of required quality, transit time, competitiveness, and international growth. Cross functional involvement of 100+ subject matter experts.

Create and lead a “Cross-Border & International” transformation program addressing 20+ fundamentals, including product simplification, commercial- and operational drivers.

Create and lead import team securing more than 12 mill parcels during its first 9 months of existence, equivalent to more than SEK 500 mill in revenue.

Lead the SEK 700+ mill partnership with DPD and extended customer list to include leading players such as Temu, Shein, and Cainiao.

Building a technology marketplace- and collaboration platform.

Establish Minimum Viable Products for launch in new markets.  

Drive both demand generation and supplier engagement, developing needed, market specific digital, automated marketing for customer acquisition and adoption.

Part of senior leadership team growing the registered customer base from 3,500 users to 31,000+, hitting an ARR of more than $200m in 12 months.

Hands-on experience in U.S. high-pace, intense Tesla HQ environment, focused on problem solving, applying “First Principle” and other structured problem-solving techniques.

Start-up experience from scaling the global transport-, logistics- and service procurement and outbound logistics operations at Tesla (EV automotive industry).

Developed 21st century supply chain in-house, as we could not buy it.

Designed and implemented state-of-the-art outbound flow delivering finished vehicles in an average lead time less than 20 days from factory to customer, globally.

Visionary leadership for supply chain management and freight forwarding organisations in Asia and Europe with full accountability for strategy and P&L, during both growth and contraction, across diverse cultures, championing relations with key customers and developing strong leadership teams across the geography.

Connects well with customers; senior executive sponsor for several brands (e.g. adidas, Inditex, El Cortes Ingles, Macy’s, Arcadia, Auchan, Nike, Syngenta, BASF and Danish Defence). Understand the customers’ business, offering insightful challenges.

Business turnaround and -transformation with experience both in asset-light freight forwarding and supply chain management.

Supply chain optimisation – global involvement with leading brands in retail, life style, chemical, defence and industrial, focused on end-to-end optimisation.

Purpose-driven team development, creating deep emotional commitment and accountability to the team. Upright and transparent, with both low and high performers.

Personally, supports commercial teams in their pursuit of business.

Robust experience from asset light, people intensive, network organisation, functionally savvy within Operations, Commercial, Finance and Human Resources. Strong perspective on use of technology and digitalization as a value driver. Consistent, clear communicator.

Execution-focused strategy development, with relevant experience in addressing discontinuity, rethinking business models, with focus on top-line growth and technology deployment, linking it to building of core capabilities, addressing resources gaps, culture and organisational readiness.

Driving transformation, improving customer experience, service levels and company costs, leveraging own experiences in China, Europe, USA, and the Nordics.