ROSEN Group appoints Dr. Thomas Berden as Chief Global Supply Officer
Dr. Thomas Berden previously served as COO and an executive board member of VAT Vakuumventile AG, overseeing global operations and supply chain. Earlier leadership roles included SKF, Hilti, BSH, Siemens and Fraunhofer ILT. His background encompasses building global manufacturing and supply networks, advancing sales and operations planning (S&OP), and leading automation and digitalization programs. Announcement date: November 2, 2026; effective date: November 1, 2026.
The Chief Global Supply Officer mandate combines manufacturing, S&OP and digitalization at executive level: this signals a deliberate end-to-end operating model rather than separate industrial and supply-chain silos. Concentrating decision rights can accelerate cross-functional trade-offs only if the role owns clear escalation and capacity-allocation mechanisms. Otherwise a single executive title can mask unchanged local decision boundaries.