Michael Erhard

CEO

Munich, Bavaria, Germany13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built teams from 0 to 50 individuals
Scaled project portfolios from $10M to $3.3B
Trained 127 in leadership & personal growth

Stackforce AI infers this person is a logistics and operations leader with extensive experience in team building and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementEngineering

Other Skills

AutomationTalent DevelopmentIntralogisticsMaterial Handling EquipmentLogisticsPeople DevelopmentProcurementSupply Chain ManagementLogistic Network DesignProcess ImprovementSupply ManagementVendor ManagementLean ManagementOperations ManagementAnalysis

About

Over the last decade, I’ve built 12 teams and delivered $3.3B in tech projects without losing my mind. My mission is to help leaders escape the 60-hour grind by building high-performing teams that run without them. Because real leadership isn’t about doing more. It’s about having the freedom to do what really matters. (at work and in life) My results: - built teams from 0 to 50 individuals - scaled project portfolios from $10M to $3.3B - grew from regional to global (EU,NA,MENA,CIS) - trained 127 online in leadership & personal growth - welcomed our daughter (2), trying to be a good dad But here’s the deal. I’m no certified leadership guru. I’m a leader in the trenches. Doing work like you are. Growing real teams (and myself). Overcoming real struggles at work (and in life). Looking for progress, purpose (and joy) in what I do. And sharing my real-life experience and systems here. Ready to lead more, work less and enjoy the journey? Follow along. For everything else, I’m one DM away. The opinions I state on LinkedIn are my own, not those of any past or present company.

Experience

Amazon

Head of Operations Engineering, Global Engineering Services

Mar 2017 – Present · 9 yrs · Munich, Germany

Time to scale - Go Big or Go Home!
Back in 2017, returning to Amazon felt like the start of something huge!
An opportunity to apply everything I had learned, elevate my leadership skills and make a lasting impact.
Things got wild!
A 1000% increase in scope over just 7 years.
Let me explain:
→ I began with a small team of 5 and now lead an organization of 50+ diverse and talented individuals (Sr Managers, Technical Program Managers, Engineering Project Managers).
→ Scaled from managing $100MM annual project volume to $1B per year for material handling equipment and warehouse automation.
→ Expanded my responsibilities from overseeing individual projects to owning the design, planning and execution of all Greenfield Fulfillment Centers and Inbound Cross Docks across Europe.
→ Created the Technology Innovation Engineering Team that now develops next-gen solutions for robotics, packaging, sortation, conveyance, and labeling.
→ Established a Design & Planning Team that influences long-term network strategies, develops templates of future Fulfillment Centers and drives cost optimization through value engineering.
I remain curious, looking for the next challenge.
Going where we haven't been before.
Despite all, it still feels like Day 1.

EngineeringAutomationLeadershipProject Management

Lamoda group

Head of Logistics Development, Fulfillment Center

Aug 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Moscow, Russia

Once upon a time in Russia.
It all started in a hotel room in Moscow with a small group of people setting up the website for what would become the #1 online fashion and lifestyle destination in CIS.
By the time I joined, we were already a few hundred people - but that’s when things got interesting.
It was time to build our own logistics network.
No more relying on external fulfillment partners.
We were going to create everything from scratch: Fulfillment Centers, Sortation Centers, Delivery Stations and even an Express Delivery Service.
Our target: next day delivery for all customers across Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine.
How did we do it? Well...
→ Partnered with leading intralogistics integrators to launch highly automated Fulfillment Centers
→ Developed our own Warehouse Management System (the picking algorithm was fun...)
→ Designed warehouse layouts, material flow diagrams and workstations
→ Built and scaled a team of talented engineers and projects managers
→ And yes... there were late nights sleeping on pallets
We started from scratch, but we built something that worked and had fun along the way.
Until today, lamoda is the leading online retailer in Russia and CIS.