F&P EXPERTSBERND FISCHER
Born in Santiago de Chile, Dipl.-Kfm. Bernd Fischer, founder and partner of F&P Executive Solutions, is an expert in the consumer goods and process industry with extensive change management expertise as project manager and line manager of complex cross-national and cross-divisional post-merger integration projects.
He also has extensive expertise in sales, service, operations and supply chain management, with a focus on the analysis, restructuring and implementation of projects to optimize processes, systems and organizational structures.
After initial positions in controlling at a property development company in Saarbrücken, and later as a controller in the marketing, sales and financial controlling department of the German Wella retail business, Mr. Fischer took over responsibility for the supply chain in 2002 as Head of Sales Planning and ECR/Customer Logistics in Germany to ensure perfect delivery to major customers such as DM, Metro, Edeka, Müller, Budnikowski, Rewe, Rossmann, at the time Schlecker and other retail groups.
From January 2003 to April 2004, Mr. Fischer was Head of Sales Operations and a member of the management team of the Consumer Germany management at the Wella AG headquarters in Darmstadt until the complete takeover of the WELLA retail business by Procter & Gamble.
In addition to his Supply Chain & Customer Service Operations responsibility for all “Special Channels” of Procter & Gamble (e.g. WICK Pharma, Pampers Hospitals, Private Label with customers such as Aldi and Lidl), he was a member of numerous D/A/CH integration core teams at P&G from 2003 – 2007 for the integration of WELLA AG, later the GILLETTE Company as part of one of the largest takeovers in industry history in the consumer goods sector.
Bernd Fischer has been responsible for the Hamburg-based consulting and interim management firm F&P Executive Solutions since 2008. As an external consultant and project manager, he has also been involved in high-calibre mandates, e.g. as part of a foreign restructuring project on behalf of the Supply Chain Board of Beiersdorf AG, as initiator of a supply chain optimization project at an Austrian furniture retail giant near Vienna and as Senior Manager/Prokurist in the Advisory Transaction Services / Strategy & Operations division at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Further positions followed, e.g. in implementation-oriented consulting and interim management at Schott Solar, in operational vacancy bridging as interim manager at Danone in the supply chain area as part of a change project and currently at various medium-sized companies as project manager in long-term consulting mandates of the law firm F&P.
Dipl.-Kfm. Bernd Fischer studied business administration at the University of Saarbrücken, specializing in industry, investments, M&A and tax law.
He is passionate about sport and applying the principle of performance to his professional life. This philosophy has accompanied the dynamic manager throughout his career and has also significantly shaped the partnership’s corporate philosophy.