Sören JautelatGlobal leader of McKinsey’s (Gen)AI Accelerator. Leads large-scale transformation, shaping and scaling new digital businesses.
About Sören
Sören leads McKinsey’s (Gen)AI Accelerator team globally, which helps clients capture business value by implementing business-backed (gen) AI solutions. Within this role, Sören leads next-generation operating model transformations, including large-scale capability-building programs for clients in the advanced industries sector. He focuses on digital and tech-enabled transformations within the service operations and R&D functions.
Examples of his recent client experience include:
- designing and implementing a large-scale AI transformation for an OEM; implementing 15+ (cross-)functional (gen) AI initiatives and establishing a tech-enabled powerhouse to further drive the rollout of AI adoption across the entire company
- building and growing a new digital/AI service business together with a leading tier-one supplier
- developing a holistic tech-enabled transformation program for an automotive supplier, focused on improving indirect functions and R&D at several sites across EMEA and North America
- supporting a solid-state battery company in the ramp-up of the new business, including target operating model, technology roadmap, industrialization concept, and supply chain
- supporting an international BESS company in designing a cell and module sourcing strategy
- designing and implementing a target operating model for a global automotive tier-one supplier for their COO function
- leading a performance management transformation project in the OEM sector, focused on implementing a top-level performance-management system from CxO level to department heads
- spearheading several lean transformation projects in the OEM and automotive supplier sector; coaching client change agents, as well as senior managers, as they adopted new ways of working
- designing an operating-expenditures transformation project in the healthcare sector focused on the reduction of material losses by implementing new strategies and machine setup processes
Expertise
- Operations
- Service Operations
- Advanced Industries
- Customer Care
Published Work
“How Europe’s residential BESS industry can navigate global competition,” McKinsey & Company, November 2024
“Enabling renewable energy with battery energy storage systems,” McKinsey & Company, August 2023
“Built for purpose: EV adoption in light commercial vehicles,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“Battery 2030: Resilient, sustainable, and circular,” McKinsey & Company, January 2023
“Lean management or agile? The right answer may be both,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“The missing lever in service operations: Agility,” McKinsey & Company, May 2019
“Bringing agile to customer care,” McKinsey & Company, February 2019
Education
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
MA, industrial engineering