STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION
Advisory and interim leadership
when accountability matters.
Experienced partner for growth, integration and turnaround situations.
FOCUS
My focus is on situations in which organisations need to establish or realign their operational structures under pressure: during rapid growth, following acquisitions, or when the current course has to be reset – often where boards and investors require greater steering capability, transparency and clear accountability. I combine strategic analysis with operational leadership and take direct ownership where required.
I work with established corporates and scale-ups, investment firms and their portfolio companies as well as public institutions in the following areas:
Growth & Scaling
Building the structures the next stage of growth needs.
Growth strategy and value creation plans, organisational design and commercial operations build-up, investor readiness and financing processes
Recent mandate: Led Interim Business & Investment Operations for a PE-backed green energy scale-up
Integration & Consolidation
Turning separately grown or acquired units into one business.
Post-merger integration and carve-outs, target operating model design and integration governance, process and system consolidation, synergy tracking
Recent mandate: Integrated three sales entities and built target operating model for a mid-market TelCo
Turnaround & Restructuring
Resetting the course when the current one no longer works.
Situation assessment and strategic reset, performance improvement and cost structure reset, restructuring programme management, financing, M&A and stakeholder alignment
Recent mandate: Designed a multi-year financial restructuring programme for a publicly funded institution
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Two ways to bring me in
Advisory
Analysis, concepts and decision basis, working with the leadership team. Project-based, with a defined scope, typically 2 to 4 months.
Interim leadership
Line responsibility and decision-making authority, as part of the leadership team. Role-based, with a defined mandate, typically 4 to 9+ months.
ABOUT
Julian Freiheit
I have spent more than 13 years at the intersection of strategy and operational leadership, working both as a management consultant and through multi-year leadership mandates in high-growth and investor-backed companies, such as Chief Operating Officer and VP Business Operations with full P&L responsibility. I have worked across a broad range of sectors, from energy, technology and telecommunications to healthcare, public sector and defence.
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6+ years in strategy consulting at a global management consultancy
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COO and board member at an SDAX-listed group's portfolio company
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2+ years interim leadership mandate at a PE-backed energy scale-up
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30+ projects delivered across strategy and transformation
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Operating models built and run in organisations from 10 to 500+ FTE