Sören co-leads McKinsey’s battery acceleration team which aims to shape and develop the battery industry of the future (including battery energy stationary systems). Sören also leads next-generation operating model transformations, including large-scale capability building programs for clients in the advanced industries sector. He has a focus on agility in operations, digital, and lean transformations within the service operations and R&D functions.
Examples of his recent client experience include the following:
- Supporting a solid-state battery company, in the ramp-up of the new business, including target operating model, technology roadmap, industrialization concept and supply chain
- Supporting an international BESS company in the designing of a cell and module sourcing strategy
- Building and growing a new digital service business together with a leading tier-one supplier
- Developing a holistic transformation program for an automotive supplier, focused on improving indirect functions and R&D at several sites across EMEA and North America
- Designing and implementing a target operating model for a global automotive tier-one supplier for their COO function
- Leading a performance management transformation project in the OEM sector, focused on implementing a top-level performance-management system from CxO level to department heads
- Spearheading several lean transformation projects in the OEM and automotive supplier sector, and coaching client change agents, as well as senior managers as they adopted new ways of working
- Designing an operating-expenditures transformation project in the healthcare sector, focused on the reduction of material losses by implementing new strategies and machine set up processes