Dinu is a partner at McKinsey’s Zurich office. With a focus on elevating client aspirations in operational performance, he integrates lean principles with cutting-edge AI, digital, and automation technologies. Over the past decade, Dinu has advanced McKinsey’s digitally enabled production system for process industries. Leading the Swiss operations hub, coleading Orphoz delivery teams across Europe, and overseeing the Global Lighthouse Network’s activities in EMEA, he is at the forefront of driving impactful change.
Examples of recent work include:
- guiding the development and global deployment of a digitally enabled production system with a large consumer goods company
- helping establish a procurement center of excellence, crafting a capability-building roadmap, and leading procurement value capture efforts for a large basic materials company
- conducting a digital full potential assessment, designing the target state, and building capabilities for deployment with a consumer goods manufacturing lighthouse site
- executing an advanced analytics transformation of large petrochemical site, improving profit per hour from higher yield, energy efficiency and throughput
- leading product complexity reduction, designing a new operating model, rationalizing footprint, and enhancing plant-by-plant performance improvement in collaboration with a specialty chemicals company
- guiding the implementation of a supplier capability-building program for a large semiconductor player to accelerate capacity ramp-up while enhancing service levels
- assisting in the optimization of metal costs and driving decarbonization initiatives with an aluminum company
