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, Innovation & Learning Centers, 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