Based in McKinsey’s Frankfurt office, Anna designs and implements performance transformations in global energy and materials with a focus on chemicals, agriculture, and consumer goods. She particularly specializes in implementing sustainability and operations excellence transformations and coleads our proprietary value chain twin solution.
Examples of Anna’s recent work include the following:
- leading large performance transformations in the United States, Europe, and Middle East with a focus on the chemical and agricultural industry
- identifying business opportunities around sustainable products in the chemical, agricultural, and consumer goods industries
- running operational lean, digital, and advanced analytics diagnostics for performance improvements at multiple companies in the advanced, basic materials, chemical, and healthcare industries
- easing bottlenecking issues with manufacturing plants and scaling up production between 30 and 3,000 percent within a few months
- setting up control towers to optimize supply chain processes
- implementing several holistic transformation programs in both discrete and process industries with a focus on core process improvement, based on traditional lean and advanced analytics
- setting up and supporting the transformation offices of several chemical companies to oversee transformation efforts and help companies establish their transformation office teams
- leading several integrations of mergers that included identifying synergy opportunities and detailed implementation planning in the chemical and agricultural industry