Piotr Burzynski

Telephone:  +48 668 532 769

Email: piotr@burzynski.eu


Member of the Board of the Polish Interim Management Associationn – SIM


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As an Interim Manager I deal with:


  • Change Management,
  • Integration of companies after aqusitions and mergers,
  • Restructuring and tournaround
  • Cross-cutting programmes  and projects such as relocation, entry into new markets, process change and optimization, deep organisational changes,
  • General management, strategy development and implementation, business development, sales and marketing,
  • Purchasing processes, material management,
  • Special situations for small and medium-sized enterprises,
  • Providing replacements for key employees,
  • Expert support in working out the strategy

Career fields in which I have extensive experience:


Manufacturing industry (mass production),

  • Medical devices (hearing aids)
  • Packaging: cardboard, glass, plastic, aluminium,
  • Chemistry: plastic products (household appliances, Automotive), cosmetics, industrial gases,
  • Wholesale trade: building and finish materials, industrial products,
  • Mass services: financial services, logistics, MaaS (bike sharing)

Education:


  • Executive MBA – Nottingham Trent University
  • Prince2® Practitioner (Axelos)
  • Group Facilitation Methods (ICA UK)
  • Theory of Constraints (TOC+)
  • Orange Digital Academy (Orange)
  • Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner


  • Fluency in languages: Polish, German, English

As Interim Manager - Change management, companies merges, restructuring for the below customers: 


  • P3 Group for BMW - Consultant, Supplier Management
  • VGL S.A-  support by  working out the preliminary plan of integration after merge
  • Manner Poland Sp. z o.o. transfer of operations to the parent company in Finland and liquidation of the company
  • Nextbike Polska SA –CEO - restructuring and integration after aquisition
  • Veni SA - CEO – restructuring and preparing the company to be sold
  • Rosti Poland - Fusion Director – integration after acquisition of the competitive firm
  • PaySquare - Office Manager – short-term replacement
  • MPS International - Head of Sales - reorganisation of company sales functions 
  • AluFlexPack - Business Development Manager – strategy development after acquisition of the company
  • Montrada GmbH - Managing Director – integration after acquisition of the competitive firm


Positions held as part of full-time work:


  • CEO - Siemens Audiologia
  • CEO - Hammer                                         
  • Regional Director- Raab Karcher
  • Purchasing and Material Management Manager - Linde Gaz Polska

Selected projects

Post-Merger Integration

Nextbike Polska SA

Business: Mobility as a Service – Bike Sharing

Position: CEO ad Interim

Project: 4 months, Jan - Apr 2020

Implemented rapid reform post Nextbike GmbH takeover, reducing employment and ensuring preparation of an integration action plan.


Rosti - Białystok, Malmö

Business: global precision injection moulding company (Rosti Group).
Position: Fusion Programme Director ad Interim
Project: 8 months (2016 / 2017)

Post-Merger Integration after the acquisition of a competitive company. Conducting a Fusion Programme for ca. 1400 employees. Expansion of one of the production plants and moving the second plant (ca. 450 employees, 70 injection moulding machines, 28 assembly lines, production equipment und office) for new production facilities. Go Live of new VNA warehouse (for 17 000 pallets). Move of stock.


montrada GmbH - Warsaw, Frankfurt aM (now Worldline)

Business: card-based payment transactions

Position: Managing Director ad Interim

Project: 9 months (2012 / 2013)

Post-Merger Integration after the acquisition of a competitor in Poland; managing the polish Team (10 Employees and 50 Freelancers); moving the company from Lodz to Warsaw; take over the assets of the purchased company; supervision of the technical connection to HQ (IT); creating workflows complying with the requirements of external authorities (e.g. revision, financial supervision, tax office).


Post-Merger Integration Jobs before Interim Management



2005 AudioSAT Poznań /Erlangen

As CEO, I have merged Audio Service Polska with Siemens Audiology (SAT) to AudioSAT.



1998 Raab Karcher Building Materials, Kraków, Frankfurt/M

As Regional Director, I have integrated the acquired company KCMB as a Sales Region to Raab Karcher.



1994 Linde Gaz Polska Sp. z o.o. Kraków / Munich

As Head of Purchasing and Materials Management, I was responsible for the integration of purchasing and materials management in the five production plants already acquired by Linde.

Change Management

MPS International Sp. z o.o.

Business: cosmetics, product manufacturing / packaging
Position: Head of Sales ad Interim
Project: 12 months (2015 / 2016)

Product manufacturer of cosmetics for well-known cosmetic brands in the UK, Scandinavia and Poland. Manufacturer of packaging (PET, PE, PP)
Restructuring of the sales functions in the company, focus on customer, introduction of project management (Prince2), developing market strategies and Value Proposition, production optimization.



AluFlexPack novi, Poznań / Zadar HR

Business: Aluminium packaging
Position: Business Development Manager ad Interim
Project: 6 months (2013)
A polish subsidiary of Croatian manufacturer of aluminium packaging after take over by Swiss company. Preparing of a new Sales Strategy for Polish Market, development of several variants of the company’s presence on the Polish market.

Temporary Replacement

PaySquare SE (earlier montrada GmbH, today Worldline)

Business: card-based payment transactions
Position: Customer Care Manager ad Interim
Project: 3 months (2016)

Temporary management office in Warsaw and the implementation of the new manager. Fast support for an old client after 3 years.