Klink GötzManaging Director

Götz Klink is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Transformation Services in Munich and co-leads the firm’s Industrial Practice. He specializes in large scale transformations, design and implementation of new business’ and target operating models. His primary areas of concentration are improving operational and financial performance.

Mr. Klink has worked with clients across a range of industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense, machine building, chemicals and high-tech.

Additionally, Mr. Klink’s notable assignments include a strategic business review for a large automotive supplier with strong legacy in systems for internal combustion engine and growing meaningful business in electric vehicles. He also defined a simplified and cost-efficient target operating model for a top 10 automotive supplier as a first step in improving productivity substantially (30%) by layer reduction, merger of business units, focusing of business and research and development portfolio and reduction of selling, general and administrative expenses.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Klink spent five years as Partner and Managing Director in the Industrial Goods Practice of the Boston Consulting Group in Stuttgart. Before that, he spent 20 years with A.T. Kearney as Partner and Managing Director in Stuttgart in various roles, specifically as Head of the Global Automotive Practice. He founded and led A.T. Kearney’s Industrial Practice in EMEA.

Furthermore, Mr. Klink has been involved in merging two divisions of a major automotive supplier, reducing complexity and improving performance; reducing SG&A and R&D costs for system and component suppliers in discrete manufacturing, introducing best practices in respective entities/functions/processes (average cost reduction of 20-30%); and building new electric vehicle players with the first vehicles hitting the road after only four years. He has also defined a business model for a medium-sized player in the automotive industry, transforming key processes, specifically sales and product creation process at the interface of R&D, purchasing and sales.

Mr. Klink earned an MBA from the University Erlangen-Nuremberg and a PhD (thesis on corporate transformation) from the University of Berlin. He is active in advisory boards of medium-sized companies; a member of the supervisory board of JOBLINGE Südwest; and fluent in German and English.