ATREUS INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS

ACHIEVERS OF ALL COUNTRIES – NETWORK

International Tasks

Atreus has taken interim management to a new level. And we have internationalized it – with cross-border excellence. Nearly 30 percent of all Atreus client projects are international. Experience, cultural sensitivity and linguistic savoir faire are a matter of course for managers from our network. No matter where you do business, Atreus quickly finds the perfect fit when it comes to assertive experts for an international mission. Whether foreign markets or corporate subsidiaries, Atreus Achievers shape your success and deliver reliable results.

Top executives who are limiting their international travel time due to the Covid-19 pandemic or simply for efficiency reasons can rely on Atreus managers on the ground. It is reassuring to know that someone from arguably the most exclusive manager network in the world is reliably setting up and managing your projects.

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Case Study

Production ramp-up at an international industrial company for vacuum solutions

An Atreus manager was responsible for realising a production ramp-up in the face of increasing customer orders. He also initiated a change in the leadership culture towards team orientation.

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Case Study

Building a distribution and dealer network in China

As Head of Sales China, an Atreus Manager sets up sales and dealers in China for a mechanical engineering company and introduces a concept for direct sales. He sets up a training program for sales staff and a technical training program for dealers.

TYPICAL PROJECT EXAMPLES IN INTERNATIONAL INTERIM MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS

Initiation and staffing of projects in foreign markets
Solving supply chain issues locally in foreign markets as well as global supply chain management
Restructuring foreign subsidiaries
Realignment and professionalization of the finance function, in particular to create transparency
Integration of new subsidiaries into the global organization of the company
Management of a foreign subsidiary as Managing Director
Functional responsibility in a subsidiary, e.g. as CFO or COO

Project manager for relocations or for the establishment of production
Start-up management
Project manager for the development of an international S&OP system
International program management
Roll-out manager for IT systems
Roll-out of a business system used within the group

ATREUS IS A HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES COMPANY

Our global network connects over 100,000 high-performing experts, most of whom have held senior positions in corporate hierarchies or top project and program management roles.

ATREUS HELPS CUSHION CAPACITY AND SUPPLY SHORTFALLS CAUSED BY THE UKRAINE CRISIS

Global crisis as an opportunity for courageous transformation.

1. SITE CLOSURE AND RELOCATION

Your production site in RUS and/or UKR is no longer operable

Using an Atreus project manager on a temporary basis:

Analysis of the possibility of dismantling production facilities and their relocation; clarification of legal issues
Reception site analysis (greenfield or brownfield project)
Cost and benefit analysis
Establishment of a budget/time schedule; decision and implementation

2. OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION CAPACITIES

To meet your OEM delivery obligation, you need to upgrade replacement sites at short notice

Using an Atreus project manager on a temporary basis:

Analysis of the production capacities still available in other plants (e.g. Central and Eastern Europe)
Identify immediate and medium-term measures: change shift operation, set up weekend production, start a brownfield project;
Establishment of a budget/time schedule; decision and implementation

3. IMPLEMENTATION OF A BROWNFIELD PROJECT

To meet your OEM delivery commitment, a new short-term manufacturing setup is required

Using an Atreus project manager on a temporary basis:

Analysis of existing usable space/expansion space at existing locations (e.g., Central and Eastern Europe)
Preparation of a hall plan, production plan, personnel requirement plan and a budget and time plan
Ensuring knowledge transfers
Decision & implementation

4. SUPPLY CHAIN ASSURANCE

The loss of RUS and/or UKR suppliers puts your supply chain at risk

Using an Atreus project manager on a temporary basis:

Identification of suppliers, products and quantities to be eliminated in the short to medium term
Identifying new sources
Supplier qualification
Conducting price negotiations and concluding contracts

Interim managers filling critical operational line functions along the value chain

Your Challenge

You lack a suitable resource in the short term in a first or second level line function whose rapid deployment is critical to the continued success of the business.

Our Mission

We quickly strengthen your team with a qualified+ interim manager, a genuine personality with leadership skills, and deliver the adequate resource for your company situation. Atreus’ hand-picked interim managers are perfectly suited to your challenge and ready for immediate deployment – nationally and internationally, on-site or remotely, if required.

Your Solution

A suitable Atreus approved Interim Manager takes on full operational responsibility for successfully securing and developing your business as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief Operation Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Security Officer or as Head of Controlling, Finance, Purchasing, Logistics, Production, IT, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Logistics, Production or Human Resources. As “Storm Proof Achievers”, Atreus Interim Managers are up to the special challenge. They act professionally, thoughtfully and with a hands-on approach.

Restructuring expert as Chief Restructuring Officer

Your Challenge

You need a proven restructuring expert quickly because you are facing a fundamental transformation in a financially challenging situation. The future of the company or a group division is at stake. You need exactly the right interim manager who can realign the company. Because right now every step must be the right one and all important stakeholders must be reached and taken along in the transformation process.

Our Mission

We immediately put exactly the one restructuring expert at your side who is exactly the right choice for your challenging situation. He – or she – stays on course for success and achieves the targets, even if it’s not easy. Why? Atreus’ hand-picked interim managers have successfully implemented similar or even more complex restructurings in your industry many times before. We know exactly which “Strom Proof Achiever” will put your company on the road to success. Atreus+: If necessary, in addition to the one Chief Restructuring Officer, well-coordinated teams of restructuring experts are also available for extensive transformations.

Your Solution

An Atreus approved restructuring expert joins your team and takes responsibility as Chief Restructuring Officer in all phases of the transformation. The Atreus Manager delivers professional results in a strategic as well as in an earnings or liquidity crisis. As CRO or in a team of restructuring experts, he quickly identifies weaknesses and immediately implements essential measures. During the restructuring phase, the Atreus Directors always remain your accompanying sparring partners.

Program Management Officer (PMO)

Your Challenge

In the context of multi-project management for all projects in the company or a highly relevant project in one division, you are looking for a temporary expert for the PMO available at short notice. Internally, you lack a suitable and experienced resource who can safely manage the project and lead it to success.

Our Mission

Our qualified+ program managers are the most experienced interim managers in the market. They distinguish themselves through leadership and bring vision and experience in the implementation of highly relevant, even global projects. It is our passion to provide you with a suitable interim manager on short notice who has successfully managed similar projects – and even more complex ones – several times before. He or she has outstanding skills, including communication and implementation strengths, the ability to persuade people and bring them along, a high level of industry understanding, intercultural competence – combined with IT and digitalisation know-how.

Your Solution

A proven Atreus Program Manager on a temporary basis takes responsibility for the PMO and supports you in successfully managing programs in transformation situations. Whether it is a global ERP implementation, a restructuring program, efficiency improvement program, IT transformation or digital transformation of the organisation, as well as the implementation of service excellence programs or production relocations: Your project is safe.

Project or Program Manager Digitalization

Your Challenge

You need to drive digital transformation forward, adapt your existing business processes and design new business models. Your goal is to make the company more productive, secure and future-proof, and you need to implement everything simultaneously along the value chain throughout the entire organization.

Our Mission

We immediately put the right project or program manager at your side, who will help you develop a digital strategy as well as quickly optimize existing processes or develop new products or platforms. With his industry expertise, innovative strength and digital know-how, he takes a considered, confident and focused approach. If required, we can also support your digital transformation project with additional Atreus Managers, all of them “Storm Proof Digital Achievers” who, as a well-coordinated team, pursue only one goal: Getting your company on the road to digital success.

Your Solution

The Atreus approved Digital Expert manages your strategically important project and strengthens your teams. He takes responsibility in all phases of the Digital Transformation. He looks at the entire spectrum of your company, from the digitization and optimization of production, the digitalization of processes, product strategy, product-as-a-service, and innovative business models – he leads your company on the digital journey to success.

Sustainability Expert

Your Challenge

You want to make your company more ESG-focused and integrate your environmental, social and governance goals across all business units.

Our Mission

We will strengthen your team with an expert for whom sustainability is no new territory and who has implemented complex projects many times before. The Atreus Manager will take your entire organization along with him, so that sustainability becomes an integral part of your organization as a matter of course.

Your Solution

With extensive expertise and industry experience, the Atreus approved manager helps you define and implement strategies, business models, processes, and technologies to achieve your sustainability goals.

Head of Supply Chain

Your Challenge

You need to take immediate action because your business is affected by the explosion in raw material prices, international freight costs, shortages of materials, or supply chain disruption. You need to resolve supply chain disruptions and improve delivery speed. To do so, you need an experienced temporary supply chain expert immediately.

Our Mission

We can provide you with an energetic Head of Supply Chain at short notice to support your teams at headquarters or across locations in Europe and abroad. The interim manager selected by Atreus is up to the difficult task and knows how to pull the right levers in this highly critical phase. Thanks to his extensive experience, he brings calm to the organization and delivers quick solutions. If required, Atreus can also help set up and manage a task force.

Your Solution

The Atreus approved Supply Chain Manager is immediately at your side to improve the responsiveness and resilience of your company’s supply chains. Performance improvement, cost reduction, risk mitigation, or sustainability improvement, the Atreus Expert on demand supports you in reorganizing and transforming your supply chains to make them more crisis-proof and socially responsible. The focus is equally on digitalized processes to create more transparency for all stakeholders in this way. It minimizes the risk of delivery bottlenecks and failures. Customer satisfaction is increased through on-time delivery and thus also the satisfaction of your employees through clearly defined and transparent processes.

Project manager for the introduction of ERP & CRM systems

Your Challenge

Your ERP or CRM project has stalled. The time frame is threatening to go off the rails or the budget is being blown. The complexity of the project is extremely high and eats up too many important internal resources. The success of this one, immensely important project is at stake! Or the project is just starting, but: The know-how of a proven IT expert for ERP or CRM projects is missing! It is obvious: An IT project of this scope is tantamount to an IT transformation that must be professionally managed. After all, the IT project makes a very significant contribution to the future success of the company.

Our Mission

We know who has brought similarly challenging situations like yours – and even more complex ones – to success several times as an experienced project manager for the implementation of ERP & CRM systems. Atreus qualified+ IT managers bring a sense of calm to your project, even in the face of high complexity. They know the challenges of your industry and business processes and realign your IT and digitalization project along your goals. Atreus approved IT experts and IT project and program managers know the challenges of your industry and accompany an IT transformation with a view to future business success.

Your Solution

Atreus IT experts successfully and confidently manage your project and ensure successful ERP and CRM implementation. This will immediately relieve your workload and allow you to continue focusing on your core business and future operations. Atreus Interim IT Managers guarantee transparency in the course of the project and involve your management and teams in a goal-oriented manner. All external service providers and implementation partners are managed from a single source.

Contact Partner in International Tasks

All the members of our team advise you on the interim filling of top management positions. Depending on their expertise and experience, the individual members focus on different industries.