Tomasz Stala

Operations executive with over 20 years in manufacturing, as Plant Director, Managing Director and Interim Manager.

I lead operations through growth and change: launching and transferring production lines and entire plants, expanding capacity without adding headcount, and lowering conversion and raw-material costs. Since 2002 I have raised the operational efficiency of manufacturing companies by an average of 30% and delivered optimisation programmes worth PLN 2 million in annual profit. I work with owners and management boards to a defined mandate, translating strategy into S&OP, KPIs and accountable management teams.

Interim Manager at Interim Manager (2022-09 – Present)

Executive mandates in operational improvement, cost reduction and production start-ups

• Pharmaceutical manufacturer: +28% productivity on tablet presses, +73% packaging output, −51% machine changeover time.
• FMCG catering company (500+ employees): PLN 1.8M/year savings across purchasing, procurement, production planning and production management.
• Window manufacturer (2,000 employees): completed an operational improvement programme in crisis mode.
• International automotive company: launched a new plastic injection moulding line.

Managing Director at NEKS (2022-02 – 2022-08)

• Defined the company's development strategy.
• Mapped end-to-end operations and introduced S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning).
• Prepared the organisation for a necessary ERP system change.

Plant Director at MAPAL POLSKA (2019-05 – 2022-01)

• Increased plant capacity by 40% without additional headcount through machine park modernisation; ROI of 2 years.
• Reduced the manufacturing cost of a product group to reach price parity with the market leader in France.
• Secured a 5% reduction in raw-material costs every 6 months with strategic suppliers.
• Reshored sub-assembly production from China to Poland and insourced a line from a subcontractor.

Head of Production and Logistics → Project Manager, plant relocation → Operations Director, Spare Parts at COMPIN POLSKA (2007-06 – 2019-04)

• Led the transfer of an entire 10,000 m² plant with 250 employees within a 3-week summer shutdown, taking over the project 6 months before completion.
• Scaled operations through the company’s exponential growth: launched new production lines and departments and built the Quality, Logistics, HR and R&D functions.
• Raised production efficiency by 30% by redesigning individual workstations into autonomous production lines.
• Delivered €283,651/year profit in a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt optimisation programme and recovered PLN 600,000 in contractual compensation.

Department Manager at Indesit, Hutchinson, Jotes (2002 – 2007)

• Transferred production from Amiens (France) to Łódź and built a new independent production department; eliminated 3-month delivery delays to VOLVO and RENAULT.

MBA – PAM Center (2019 – 2021)

Management Concepts – Minot State University (2019 – 2020)

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt – EY (2018 – 2019)

Management and interpersonal communication – Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2001 – 2002)

Organisation and Management – Lodz University of Technology (1997 – 2002)