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Thomas Baumgartner

Senior Partner, Global Practice Co-ConvenerVienna

Coleads our work in Advanced Industries on a global basis, leads our Advanced Industries work in Europe, and heads up our work in the Industrials & Electronics Practice in Europe. Supports global companies in large-scale transformations with a focus on growth and marketing & sales.

Thomas has served leading global companies across a vast area of industries including Automotive, Tech, Telecommunications, Basic Materials and Energy.

He helps them outline and drive large-scale performance transformations and top-line growth programs. These involve a mix of operational and strategic topics. In addition to co-leading our Advanced Industries sector on a global basis, he currently leads the Industrials & Electronics Practice in Europe.

Thomas is an expert on global performance transformations cutting across the world’s main geographies, with a focus on top-line growth and organizational change.

Recent projects have involved:

  • helping a global Asian automotive OEM drive step-change improvement in performance across the whole value chain
  • supporting a global industrial player in radically improving their cost base (both direct and indirect cost)
  • helping drive step-change performance improvement in new business build-up for global industrial company with a focus on their software business
  • helping a global multinational OEM drive profitable growth by streamlining variable marketing expense and fix marketing investment
  • helping a global automotive supplier in radical performance improvement in margin and growth over a multi-year transformation program

Thomas spearheaded knowledge and insights development for the Marketing & Sales Practice related to profitable growth. Thomas coauthored Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders, endorsed by the Economist. This book distills the insights from hundreds of McKinsey engagements and interviews with successful global sales leaders into a set of levers and practical ideas to drive growth.

Published work

Reimagining industrial supply chains,” McKinsey & Company, August 2020

Coronavirus: A response framework for advanced industries companies,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020

The new world of sales growth,” McKinsey & Company, May 2016

Why salespeople need to develop ‘machine intelligence’,” Harvard Business Review, June 2016

Sales Growth: Five Proven Strategies from the World’s Sales Leaders, McKinsey & Company, 2nd edition, May 2016

3 ways leaders can grow sales,” Fast Company, July 2012

Education

Vienna University of Economics and Business
PhD

Vienna University of Economics and Business
MBA