Dr. Marcel Souren

Securing productivity increases at a large global manufacturing site to increase long-term competitiveness by driving the organizational transition. Providing direct leadership coaching, orchestrating workshops and communication streams to ensure comprehensive change and operational alignment. Developing and steering an AI Champion Community to achieve tangible cost reductions and productivity gains through AI-driven process optimization and plant automation.

Delivering the divestiture of the Food and Health Performance Ingredients business, while achieving full process compliance and deal value protection. Empowering a diverse project team through a rigorous delivery framework, balancing technical quality with people-centric leadership. Securing an exceptionally attractive sales price and definitive divestiture closure, within complex organizational structure and a volatile M&A environment.

Realizing a holistic leadership transformation within major production plant, replacing an underdeveloped management culture with a high-performance, accountability-driven framework. Architecting a full leadership ecosystem featuring organizationally aligned targets, customized workshop formats, and a hand-picked coaching network. Building resilient, decisive leaders empowering managers to navigate high-stakes site transformations with confidence, and interpersonal skill.

Management of global R&D portfolio of Health and Nutrition division of BASF, accountable of innovation pipeline and quality of portfolio, strategic IP management

Successfully reshaping a complex legacy global portfolio to improved return on invest, and significantly increase probability of success. Creating a robust Innovation Management framework, while providing validated guidance to senior executives through systematic, data-driven portfolio reviews. Securing total innovation budget despite strong internal competition by prioritizing high EBIT-impact projects and significantly reducing portfolio risk profile

Focusing regional business development units into a customer-centric consultancy model, ensuring value contribution and paid-service implementation. Remodelling competency profiles toward business-minded expertise to be able to deliver on critical senior executive-level mandates. Achieving significant CM1 improvements exceeding €20m and securing substantial cost reductions of more than €10m through rigorous project excellence.

Application of transriptome-wide screening technology in biomedical research (muscle development in zebrafish)

Development of transriptome-wide gene regulation screening technology