I joined Hilti as a Martin Hilti Foundation student 15 years ago. I was at university in Madrid when I applied for the scholarship in Tulsa, USA. Little did I know it was the beginning of a great personal and professional adventure!

My first job at Hilti saw me with a scanner and forklift, scanning bar codes for our product portfolio in HNA. There I collaborated with Hilti’s SAP implementation team, and I later took my experience to help implement SAP in Spain. After that, I became logistics process expert, and then enjoyed a short but intense and invaluable experience in sales.

Spain and Portugal soon merged operations and I became warehouse manager for this newly-created sub-region. Next, I joined the IMPACT+ program, which brought me a range of new perspectives, as well as new colleagues and friends for life.

From there, another role and another part of Europe – plus a wife along the way! After three years of living in Switzerland, we moved as a couple to Mexico, where we still are today, now with a growing family in tow.

As an emerging marketing, Mexico is a great professional experience for me - yet another way of seeing the business. It’s also very exciting as a cultural family experience.

The common theme in all my years at Hilti – including tough times like the economic crisis in Spain or our warehouse fire in Magny – has been the enduring Hilti spirit. Working together with great people and a great company culture.
 

I joined Hilti’s global logistics team as a senior project manager, and quickly took over leadership of our global distribution network.
 
What I’ve noticed is the way Hilti steer the end-to-end value chain, from manufacturing to last mile delivery, and continuously develop it with state-of-the-art lean, digital and ecommerce services. It’s a unique and exciting area in our industry!
 
Logistics at Hilti is a truly global community. We’re always sharing experiences and ideas across regions and organizations. It’s how we ensure we’re the high-performing, multinational company that we are.
 
After six years at Hilti, I’m still amazed by the company’s culture and very proud to be part of this success story.
 

I first made contact with Hilti in Liechtenstein while doing a consultancy project at university. I was inspired by their strong team spirit and drive to innovate, and applied to do an internship with them in production technology research.
 
I stayed on to do another internship, this time in China, working on lean processes in one of our Shanghai production plants. While this was a very different culture to the one I’d experienced in Schaan, I found the same Hilti spirit in China as in Europe!
 
I joined Hilti ‘officially’ after graduating from university, and moved into a global role in lean manufacturing. During this time, Hilti supported me in completing my PhD alongside work. It was a big personal challenge for me, which wouldn’t have been possible without the great support of my team and team lead.
 
My next role involved a move to Germany, where I worked in our Kaufering plant near Munich. I was leading the logistics department while also working on a global project to shape our future supply chain. It was a great learning experience, which has been an essential part of my personal development plan, as agreed between me and my team lead. After three years I took over leading Hilti’s chemical anchor and firestop production unit. A specially exciting topic was here was carving the way to digitilization. 2 years later my next careers step came: as plant Manager I am now responsible for theI whole plant in Kaufering. I’m the youngest member of the plant’s management team and this makes me particularly proud.
 
After almost than ten years at Hilti – that’s six jobs in nine sites on three continents – I’m still inspired by our highly-motivated team. Everyone is given the chance to learn and grow every day. And in many cases – like mine – we’re given huge responsibility very early in our career.