Dietmar Röttger

Quality SVP and Change Leader with unique mix of Quality and business expertise across different sectors. Key strengths include leading, coaching, and supporting intercultural, cross-functional teams across the value chain to develop and implement strategies and programs to meet business needs of complex global organizations with 35.000+ employees. Proven to succeed in new business environments and realize planned results during more than 20 years. Lived and worked in 3 continents, creating customer value and leading culture change by inspiring and developing people within cross-cultural organizations. Key Skills • Strategy development & implementation, institutionalized within business processes • R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Project Management • Management Systems for Quality & Environment, Health and Safety (QMS/IMS) • APQP – Reducing risks to improve Quality, lead time & cost • Simplifying complex matrix organizations • Utilizing “digital threads” to drive business improvements • Engaging talent to build next generation leaders in business and as lecturer at the ETH Zurich Career Highlights GE Gas Power Systems merged the gas businesses from GE and ALSTOM. Appointed as Executive Business Excellence to lead Quality integration and develop a common Quality strategy. • Developed & implemented Quality Strategy and organization • Developed & implemented digital KPI Dashboard to create transparency and manage progress • Simplified Quality Management System, reducing costs by 50% • Delivered 3-digit $M CI project benefits • Integrated 11 ISO QMS certificates into one • Realized 175 $k product cost-out, identified 1 $M ALSTOM Gas Business launched a Global Excellence Program with Quality as one of its key pillars. • Developed & implemented Quality vision and strategy • Developed & implemented Digital Cockpit to review biz performance and trigger action, reducing reporting efforts by 60% • Simplified Quality organization, op-rhythm, processes, reduced non-conformities, lead time and costs (NCR -80%) • Generated double-digit $M business improvement • Created & deployed Quality culture program & improved global employee engagement (Q-Focus +9%) What motivates me? Next to creating customer value it is learning every day. Especially in today’s digital industrial World, where we change from digitization to digitalization.