Description

Altfried Nessel is a leading expert in Aerospace OEM/MRO business and commercial airline technical fleet management & procurement. He has been working in the MRO industry for more than 36 years.

His experience covers

•Leadership and project management experience

•Management and design of cost cutting and operational performance improvement programs

•Understanding of aviation law

•Experience in designing and working in a matrix organization

•In depth understanding of cost levers in negotiating Aircraft MRO service contracts (e.g.: Line/Base- Maintenance, Component/Engine)

•Various projects to develop customer/supplier interface and operational/commercial processes

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km)

anaviaco
Consultant/Owner
May 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)
• • Foundation of own consultancy company
• • Projects: RfP preparation and contract negotiation MRO services; Set up of airline's technical organization, working together in a group organization (MRO & procurement), cost saving on MRO expenses
Contract negotiation and mangement MRO industry know-how
Lufthansa Airline
Senior Project Manager Next Level Technical Fleet Management (TFM)
May 2022 - April 2023 (11 months)
• • Redesigned the commercial interface and negotiation of a new total support contract (volume app 600m€ p.a.) towards Lufthansa Technik
• • Enabled the TFM organization to manage the new operational and commercial interface
• • Built up additional procurement and material management capabilities and capacities (+ app 100 FTE) at TFM LHA
• • Leading a major tender for component services with total contract volume of app. 500m€
Contract negotiation and mangement Organisational design Cost Reduction
Lufthansa Airline
Senior Director Commercials & Development Technical Fleet Management (TFM)
December 2014 - April 2022 (7 years and 4 months)
• • Managed all strategic and commercial topics for TFM Lufthansa
• • Overall responsibility for all MRO contracts of Lufthansa Airline (tender, negotiation, procurement, fulfillment)
• • Continuous development of MRO commodity group strategies
• • Achieved significant savings in several cost cutting resp. efficiency programs
• • Part of the core team to design the new working together within all group airlines (Target "One CAMO") for all commercial topics. Budget responsibility: 1.5 billion € p.a. 12 direct reports, in total 60 employees In parallel to this job in 2019 as part of a major project, subproject-leader and steering board member for insourcing line maintenance and engineering (app. 2500 FTE) from Lufthansa Technik into Lufthansa Airline TFM, (subproject focused on commercials, contracts, and organization design) During Covid Crisis managed cost and cash saving programs and resizing of TFM organisation