Daniel co-leads McKinsey’s Sustainability practice in Germany, the Green Business Building service line in DACH and our consumer operations benchmarking work globally. He primarily serves food and nonfood retailers, wholesalers, packaged-goods manufacturers and logistics players across the globe, focusing on strategy and transformation and operations optimization. Daniel has a special interest in helping clients to understand the opportunities and challenges from the latest developments in sustainability and ESG.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

• Sustainability strategy and operating model for a globally leading grocery retailer

• Development of ESG solution portfolio and commercialization strategy for a globally leading logistics company

• Green business building strategy and investment planning in alternative foods (incl. M&A) for an established foods company

• Climate action plan to reach net carbon neutrality for a European city

• End-to-end supply-chain optimization for a leading grocery retailer in the United Kingdom

• End-to-end performance transformation for a European wholesaler, including sales, logistics, purchasing, and overheads

• End-to-end operating-model transformation for a leading international branded-foods producer

• Footprint optimization, design-to-value, and procurement for a leading global beverages company

• Category-management transformation for a European healthcare wholesaler

• Strategy review and performance transformation for a medical-supplies wholesaler

• Digital transformation roadmap for a leading global logistics player, including a detailed review of use cases and vendor landscape

• Business-plan review and development of a restructuring plan for a European postal operator