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Pierre-Olivier Estève

PartnerMontréal

Helps industrial companies through end-to-end transformations to reach operational excellence

Pierre-Olivier is a leader in McKinsey’s Operations and Life Sciences Practices. With over 15 years of experience, he specializes in guiding industrial companies through complex operational transformations, from initial strategy and diagnostics to full-scale implementation and value capture. He brings deep expertise in manufacturing excellence, helping organizations across North America and Western Europe enhance productivity, optimize asset utilization, and implement lasting cultural and managerial change.

Examples of Pierre-Olivier’s recent client work:

  • leading an end-to-end throughput transformation for a major biopharmaceutical client, delivering a 30 percent increase by revamping sales and operations planning and rolling out a full operational excellence program
  • conducting a worldwide debottlenecking diagnostic for a multi-site manufacturing company across several facilities, identifying opportunities to increase throughput by 20 to 30 percent
  • developing and implementing a new concurrent manufacturing model for a client’s specialized production lines, resulting in a 40 to 50 percent increase in throughput
  • leading multiple restructuring and transformation programs for large-scale industrial manufacturers to identify significant cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) opportunities, from technical improvements to operational and workforce enhancements
  • directing the buildout of McKinsey’s Innovation & Learning Center in North America, a hub for showcasing more than ten cutting-edge digital manufacturing practices, including robotics and paperless processes.

Past experience

BMW, Munich, Germany
Purchasing Department

Education

Collège des Ingénieurs, Paris, France
MBA

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
MA, industrial engineering

École Centrale de Lyon, France
MA, mechanical engineering