Benno Krohn
Director Sales and Marketing Boeing 787 at PFW Aerospace GmbH- Claim this Profile
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PFW Aerospace GmbH
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Germany
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Director Sales and Marketing Boeing 787
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Aug 2015 - Present
Key Account and Program Management- Leading the Key Account Management for PFW’s Boeing 787 Program incl. Tier 1 Partners- Manager Responsibility for 3 employees- Responsible for a yearly sales revenue volume of several Million USD- Escalation Focal for the Boeing Direct Account incl. Executive Management- Primary Contact for Rate Readiness and Lean Assessment reviews- Boeing Business Development Responsibility- Reporting to the Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
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Head of MCC and Customer Support
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Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Production Control and Customer Support- Operational responsibility for the Departments Sales, Customer Support, Planning and Billing- Manager responsibility for 4 employees- Additionally acting as Deputy Technical Director in the absence of the Technical Director including the responsibility for the shift planning and daily operation handling- Reorganization of the maintenance planning department and introduction of the customer orientated communication focus- Introduction and movement of the MRO billing method from Excel based to the existing ERP system- reporting to the Technical Director (DoM)
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Jet Aviation
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Switzerland
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Aviation & Aerospace
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700 & Above Employee
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Director Customer & Production Support
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Dec 2010 - Dec 2013
Production Control and Customer Support- Operational Responsible for the Departments Sales, Customer Support, Planning, Billing and Supply Chain- Manager Responsibility for 3 Managers and 15 employees- Active interlink to major OEM Gulfstream to streamline the General Dynamics work together and developed Jet Aviation Dubai LLC to the best performing Gulfstream Service Centre outside the USA- Holding responsibility for yearly strategic outlook of maintenance work as well as securing and meeting the budget of 52,000 man-hours- Implementing a self-developed standardized calculation tool for maintenance offers and improving substantially the quote reliability by using historic data and also with that significantly reducing the quote turnaround time- Reporting to the General Manager
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Project Lead of a Process Restructuring Project at Jet Aviation Singapore
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Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
- Reducing WIP from 5MUSD to 2MUSD within 2 weeks by reducing turnaround time for invoices- Introducing streamlined planning procedures to increase work pack quality- Cleaning out over 900 up to 5 year old dated PO’s in the ERP system- Introducing MIN-MAX system- Successfully hire and train new planning staff
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Manager Corporate Business Development, Sales & Marketing
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Apr 2009 - Nov 2010
Sales and Marketing- Development and successful implementation of an excel based standardized calculation model- Development and successful implementation standardized sales documentation including document control based on international aerospace quality standards- Successful definition and supervising the introduction of the Elite CI including website development and marketing campaign- Definition and implementation of several business processes within the company- Overseeing implementation and set up of an airline reservation system including definition and implementation of work procedures- Reporting to the CEO
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PFW Aerospace GmbH
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Germany
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Commodity Manager Subcontracting
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Feb 2008 - Mar 2009
Strategic Procurement- Program Lead of an in-house work transfer program to a low cost country with a cost saving potential volume of over 5M USD- Set up, manage and complete In-house supply of 787 machining parts with the result of a first green light for supply chain within the 787 Rate Readiness Review since 2 years- Identifying process problems within sub-contracting supply chain as well as tailoring and implementing improvements- Identifying single source problems with respect to rate ramp up, sourcing and setting up new alternatives- Continuous supplier process development- Reporting to the Vice President Procurement
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Deputy Head of Program Boeing 787
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Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
Program Management- Managing the 787 accounts Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Spirit AeroSystems and Triumph-Saab- Contract preparation and negotiation- Delivery performance monitoring and managing rate ramp up activities- Introduction of Exostar Ordering System and implementing a training concept for the PFW Order Administration staff- Facilitating and hosting program and rate readiness reviews- Reporting to the Head of Program B787
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Project Engineer Boeing 787
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Oct 2005 - Jan 2007
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Education
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University of Coventry
Master of Business Administration (MBA), General Management -
University of Applied Science of Mannheim
Dipl. Ing. (BA), Bachelor Mechanical Engineering