Ralf Esser

ist offen für Projekte. 🔎

Bis 2025, Head of CapEx Contract Management, Bayer AG
Düsseldorf, Germany

Skills

Vertragsmanagement
Infrastruktur
Change Management
Contract Management
Business Development
Project Management & Engineering
Plant Engineering & Site Development
Cross Functional
Motivation
Leadership
empathic
Enthusiasm

Timeline

Professional experience for Ralf Esser

  • Current 1 year, since Apr 2025

    Kaufmännischer Senior Projektleiter

    Drees & Sommer
  • 2 years, Apr 2023 - Mar 2025

    Head of CapEx Contract Management

    Bayer AG

    - Line manager of CAPEX Contracting professionals, allocated to multiple investment projects around the globe. - Responsible for the development and execution of Contract & Claim Management strategy across all global Bayer investment projects. - Lead the execution of EPC / EPCm engineering contracts for all investment projects - Develop and establish strategic partnerships with external engineering providers to run CAPEX project demand - Being a member of the global project procurement management team

  • 6 years and 3 months, Jan 2017 - Mar 2023

    Head of Utilities & Civil Infrastructure

    Bayer AG, Engineering & Technology

    Group Utilities, Civil Infrastructure and Demolishing Line manager of engineering & technology experts for global investment projects in the field of energy, media supply, infrastructure and decommissioning, taking into account Bayer's sustainability goals. Responsible as a discipline owner of Utilities & Infrastructure for standards, SOPs as well as best practices within engineering & project management. Project manager in Berlin-Wedding at Bayer/ Pharma.

  • 6 months, Jul 2016 - Dec 2016

    Head of OSS-Office Frankfurt

    Bayer AG, Engineering & Technology

    Head of OSS-Office Frankfurt within Bayer AG - Engineering & Technology (E&T) as legal successor of Bayer Technology Services GmbH Regional E&T Representative at the Frankfurt Hoechst site

  • 1 year and 3 months, Apr 2015 - Jun 2016

    Head of OSS-Office Frankfurt

    Bayer Technology Services GmbH

    Head of OSS-Office Frankfurt within Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS) Regional BTS Representative at Frankfurt Hoechst site - Supervision of the Bayer Technology Service activities, Operation Support & Safety, Technology Development and Project Management & Engineering at the Frankfurt-Hoechst site. - Business development and expansion of the external partner network in the Hoechst Industrial Park. - Project Manager for several early phase concepts at Bayer CropScience

  • 4 years and 6 months, Oct 2010 - Mar 2015

    Customer & Product Management for Environmental Protection Systems

    Bayer Technology Services GmbH

    Environmental Protection Systems, Waste Gas & Was Water Treatment Systems, PAT (Process Analyzer) Containers and sales support on BayQik H2SO4Technology. - Responsible for global customer support, building customer relationships and coordinating global sales partners. - Development of process engineering solution concepts, preparation of quotations, presentations, contract negotiations up to the conclusion of the contract and support during project execution. - Technology licenses sales and transfer.

  • 4 years and 6 months, Apr 2006 - Sep 2010

    Head of Sales - Dust Filtration Cement & Lime Industries

    Intensiv-Filter GmbH & Co. KG

    Head of Minerals Sales Department, Global Process & Sales Engineer on Dust Filtration Systems - Line manager of engineering & sales experts, Sales and EBIT responsibility, Feasibility studies, R&D projects, Marketing & Sales, cost calculation and design support, Contract Negotiation incl. Claim Management, Project Execution incl. partnering worldwide, trade shows, technical publications

  • 6 years and 3 months, Jan 2000 - Mar 2006

    Sales Engineer - Gas Cleaning Technologies

    Gea Bischoff GmbH

    Global Process & Sales Engineer - Gas cleaning systems in the Chemical, Petrochemical, Non-Ferrous, Cement and Steel Industry - Marketing & Sales, cost calculation and design support, Feasibility studies, R&D projects, Commissioning & trouble shooting, Contract Negotiation incl. Claim Management, Project Execution incl. partnering worldwide

  • 1 year and 11 months, Feb 1998 - Dec 1999

    Sales Engineer - Induction Systems Automotive

    SMS Elotherm GmbH Remscheid

    Sales Engineer – Induction Bonding System for the Automotive Industry Marketing & Sales, cost calculation and design support, Contract Negotiation Support of Company Merger between Robotron Corp. (Detroit, US) & Elotherm by taking over US customers in Europe

  • 2 years and 5 months, Sep 1995 - Jan 1998

    Process Engineer - Gas Cleaning Technologies

    KHD Humboldt Wedag AG

    Process Engineer - Gas cleaning systems in the Cement Industry - R&D projects, Process Design, Engineering Support , Lab- & Piloting, Commissioning & trouble shooting worldwide (Australia, China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia)

  • 2 years and 5 months, Sep 1986 - Jan 1989

    Ausbildung Verfahrensmechaniker (IHK)

    Böhler Edelstahl AG

    Industrial Training – Verfahrensmechaniker in der Hütten- & Halbzeug Fachrichtung Umformung - Industrie (IHK)

Educational background for Ralf Esser

  • 3 years and 7 months, Oct 1991 - Apr 1995

    Process Engineering

    University of Applied Sciences of Düsseldorf (Germany)

    Diploma Thesis "Preparation and presentation of theoretical mass and energy balances for selected process variants of the NOELL conversion proces" "Aufstellung und Darstellung von theoretischen Masse- und Energiebilanzen für ausgewählte Verfahrensvarianten des NOELL -Konversionsverfahren"

Languages

  • German

    First language

  • English

    Fluent

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