Julia Goering

Julia Goering is Partner at our location in Düsseldorf. She studied ‚Business Analytics‘ at  ‚Lancaster University‘, Uk with special focus on “Behaviour in Organisations”,  finished her MSG (Maitrise des Sciences de Gestion) in Marketing and Sociologie at ‚Universite Paris IX Dauphine‘, France and  her MBA with Focus on ‚Strategic Finance‘ at Nicholls State University in Louisiana, USA.

She started her career with ‘Mars Inc.’ and stayed there for almost ten years. She started as Graduate Trainee in the international Procurement department and was promoted to become the ‘European Procurement Manager’ for indirect materials. After five years in this role she changed internally and became ‚European Senior HR Manager and HR Business Partner’.

Julia then opened an own strategy consulting company with offices in Germany and Italy with a focus on Business-, Procurement- and Change Management for international clients. In addition she worked as Head of Procurement and Co-founder of the digital start-up “Geschenkjäger”.

In 2010 she decided to accept the offer from ‚Yum Restaurants International (KFC)‘  to become ‚Head of Procurement & Logistics Germany & The Netherlands’. During this time she built a future-proof delivery infrastructure, fine-tuned the procurement department and developed a new logistics concept.

Julia then received an offer from ‚Kerkhoff Indirect Procurement GmbH‘ to become Partner for the Procurement Practice Group to manage national und international customer projects in procurement, transformation and change management. She managed and led Due-Diligence and Post-Merger Integration projects and also implemented strategy processes to build sustainable procurement eco systems.

After three years Strategy Consulting Julia decided to start the Executive Search and Executive Coaching business before joining Board Partners.

Julia owns the C-Level Soccer Instructor Licence (of the German Football Association (DFB)) and also manages a Youth Soccer team. She studied Zen-Acting and Storytelling and is a certified Therapist and Coach. She recently obtained a Certificates in Innovation & Digital Disruption from Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) and a Certificate of Completion for ulab- Leading from the emerging future from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Julia speaks fluent German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and has a good command of Polish. With her expertise, her international industry experiences and the excellent language capabilities Julia accompanies clients out of the location in Düsseldorf.