Christiane Schmidt

Global Supply Chain Excellence Director at schülke, where she drives the company’s global supply chain and operations strategy while overseeing systems transformation and process excellence across the enterprise. She brings more than two decades of international leadership experience gained through senior roles at Kellogg, Colgate-Palmolive, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Reckitt, and British American Tobacco. Her expertise spans global demand planning, S&OP design and implementation, operational optimization, and large-scale organizational transformation. Throughout her career, she has led complex supply chain networks across more than 30 markets, delivering significant improvements in operational performance, digital planning capabilities, and enterprise-wide execution.