KI | Kohler Interim Interim CPO & Transformation Executive
→ UPLIFT PERFORMANCE
→ DRIVE TRANSFORMATION
→ DELIVER MEASURABLE IMPACT
Executive Profile at a Glance
30+ years
Large-Scale Transformation
30+ years
International Experience
Global transformation experience across industries and business models.
20+ years
Large-Scale Transformation
30+ years
Executive Leadership
Multiple C-level and senior leadership roles with direct transformation accountability.
Large-Scale Transformation
Large-Scale Transformation
Large-Scale Transformation
Transformation at Scale
Global programs with €bn-scale spend scope and measurable performance impact.
Image: global transformation control tower / connected factories / transformation roadmap
Procurement · Supply Chain
Large-Scale Transformation
Large-Scale Transformation
Procurement & Supply Chain Excellence
End-to-end leadership across sourcing, supplier management, planning and value-chain performance.
Indirect Spend · SG&A · MSP
Indirect Spend Excellence
Global indirect Procurement, demand and cost management, Guided Buying and Managed Procurement Services.
Low-Volume / High-Mix · ETO · Turn-Key Project Business
Complex Industrial Value Chains
Deep experience in engineered products, project business and complex supplier ecosystems from bid through execution.
Digital · Data · AI
Sustainability · Scope 3 · Resilience
Digital & AI-Enabled Transformation
Digitalization, analytics and AI as business-performance enablers — built on the right processes, data and operating model.
Sustainability · Scope 3 · Resilience
Sustainability · Scope 3 · Resilience
Sustainable Value Chains
Integrating CO₂ transparency, supplier sustainability and resilience into sourcing, supplier management and value-chain decisions.
Where I Have Led Transformation
Siemens
Procurement · SCM · Project Procurement
Global and regional leadership across technology and project businesses.
Philips
Procurement Excellence · Integrated Supply Chain
Global Procurement and value-chain transformation in a regulated environment.
Coperion / Hillenbrand
Coperion / Hillenbrand
CPO · Executive Board · Industrial Transformation
ETO transformation, productivity, supplier excellence and M&A integration.
KI | Kohler Interim
Coperion / Hillenbrand
Interim CPO · Transformation Executive
Ownership to stabilize performance, accelerate transformation and deliver measurable impact.
About Falk Kohler
Executive leadership shaped by more than 30 years of international Procurement, Supply Chain and transformation experience.
From global leadership roles at Siemens and Philips to CPO and Executive Board responsibility at Coperion, I have led organizations and transformations across multinational, industrial, family-owned and private-equity environments.
My experience combines strategic transformation with hands-on execution — from operating-model redesign, Procurement and Supply Chain Excellence and large-scale productivity programs to M&A integration, carve-outs, supplier performance and complex Engineer-to-Order / project businesses.
My leadership approach is built around a simple principle: understand the business, create clarity, align people around the priorities that matter — and translate transformation into measurable impact.
Business-focused.
Transformation must improve competitiveness and P&L performance.
Integrated.
Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations and the business need to work as one value chain.
Hands-on.
Strategy matters — but transformation only creates value when it is owned, implemented and sustained.