--- title: 'Head of Operational Integration at Andercore' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-operational-integration-andercore-berlin-csz2q3n7bvjn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Head of Operational Integration at Andercore - **Company:** Andercore - **Location:** Berlin, Germany - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-10-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/andercore/b12a81ff-d37f-447e-9ce6-8bd8abb75ac7 ## Job description ## About Andercore Andercore is the AI-native supplier of industrial materials and goods for energy and infrastructure. We execute trade and distribution end-to-end, on our own account, at the speed of compute - and we are becoming the supplier of record for the entire industry. Industrial procurement is a €900B market in Europe alone and the largest manual market on earth. 95% of customers have no direct access to global supply chains. Materials pass through four or five intermediaries before they reach a site, and 40% of the margin evaporates on the way. For decades, the operating system of this industry was people: people to source, negotiate, finance, ship, and sell. We built the alternative from scratch. We are the supplier. We buy from global sources and sell to European customers on our own account. Our AI runs the full trade: sourcing, quality, pricing, sales, logistics, credit, and financing. One request. A firm quote in minutes. Delivered on time. For the customer, it feels like buying from their preferred local supplier. No warehouses. No fleet. No inventory risk. Every trade is pre-sold before it is bought. We are also the credit counterparty. Customers are scored and insured in minutes and get up to 60 days of payment terms priced into the quote itself. The working capital behind every trade is bank-funded, not equity-funded. Where we are today: - Strong triple-digit-million euro turnover run rate, the majority of it from repeat customers - Seven European markets live, sourced from suppliers across Asia and beyond - 80+ people across Berlin (HQ), London, and Shanghai - $90M raised in equity and debt, including our $40M Series B, from Atomico, Project A, Target Global, and Inven Capital - with working capital facilities from UniCredit and KfW The margin is in the bits. The moat is in the atoms. We are building the supplier of record for industrial materials - and redefining how global trade works in one of the largest and most essential industries on earth. Acquisitions are our second growth path. We buy established industrial distribution businesses in the EUR 20-40M revenue range, owners and management stay on board, and we connect them to our platform, our procurement, our financing lines and our AI stack. Three deals are live, two are close to signature, and at run rate we intend to close around five per year out of a mapped universe of roughly 200 targets. ## Role Overview You own what happens after signing. Origination, valuation and deal execution sit with the CEO and our senior M&A advisor. Your mandate starts the day a company becomes part of Andercore and it ends when that company runs better than it did before. These are analog businesses. Fifteen years old, owner-led, hemdsärmelig, a well-run P&L and almost no technology underneath it. They are profitable, they are growing, and they are at their operational limit. Our hypothesis is that our platform, our purchasing power, our credit facilities and our automation take them past that limit. Your job is to find out on the ground whether that hypothesis holds, in which order, and at what pace - and then to make it happen with the management team, not to them. We do not arrive as the saviour with the AI magic box. We say so explicitly to every seller, and you will hold that line. ## What You Will Own Holding Management from Day 1 - Access to accounting and financials from day one, monthly numbers on a fixed close, one reporting framework across all acquired entities. - Set the baseline: revenue, margin, working capital, cash, customer and supplier concentration. No opinion without the number behind it. - Pick up the commitments made during due diligence and turn them into the operating rhythm of the first 100 days. - Run the portfolio as a financial participation first. Both companies are growing. Do not put anything into a skid. On-the-Ground Diagnosis - Spend real time inside the acquired businesses and find out where they actually stand, which is never where they say they stand. - Map the connection points: procurement, pricing, inventory, sales productivity, logistics, financing, ERP, reporting. - Test our integration theses against reality, quantify the ones that hold, kill the ones that do not, and bring the correction back to the CEO fast. Value Creation - Sequence and land the levers with the management team: central procurement, our credit and working-capital facilities, pricing, sales productivity, customer intelligence, automation of manual back office. - Decide with the CEO what gets centralized, what stays entrepreneurial, and what we take from them - the flow runs in both directions, several of these companies do things better than we do. - Track every lever against the original investment case in euros. Owner and Management Relationship - Be the peer of a Geschäftsführer who built a EUR 30M business himself. Credibility comes from having done operating work, not from a framework. - Be the one who checks whether things are as good as they are described, and who says it out loud when they are not. The CEO stays the partner; you bring the uncomfortable version. - Manage expectations in the other direction too: we are not a service provider that solves the acquired company's problems for it. Playbook and Team - Codify integration into a repeatable capability: Day-1 checklist, reporting standard, diagnostic framework, lever library, 100-day plan. - Make the fourth acquisition faster than the first, then build and lead the team that runs them in parallel. Scope Boundaries / What This Role Is Not - Not M&A. No origination, no valuation, no LOI, no SPA. That sits with the CEO and our senior M&A advisor. - Not a PMO. Nobody here sends a 400-line integration plan with traffic lights to an owner-manager. That gets you thrown out of the room, correctly. - Not a consulting engagement. You are measured on the numbers of the acquired companies, not on the quality of the analysis. - Not a corporate integration role. These are not hierarchical organizations that execute what the centre decides. - Not a process you inherit. There is none yet. You build it. ## What We Are Looking For You are an operator out of a private equity value-creation or portfolio operations team, or a generalist from strategy and transformation with real time spent inside operating companies. Roughly eight to twelve years in. You bring: - At least one integration or post-close situation you personally carried, where you can name the specific knotty problem you solved and why it worked. We will ask for that story in the first interview. - Operating substance: you have sat in procurement, pricing, supply chain, finance or sales of a real company, not only next to it. - Geländegängigkeit. You are comfortable with an entrepreneur who is highly intelligent, rough around the edges, and holds two cars and a boat inside the company. Nothing about that scenario throws you. - People work as roughly half the job. Influence without formal authority, because these managing directors did not sign up to be managed. - A strong observer. You read a business and a person quickly and accurately. - Fluent German and English. German is not optional; these conversations happen in German. - Fluency with modern AI tooling and the instinct to automate your own work. You do not need to be an engineer. You do not need five PMI programmes on your CV. We would rather you had none than that you learned to fill in lists instead of thinking. What Success Looks Like Within your first 12 months: - Every acquired entity reports monthly on one framework, on a fixed close, with us having access to accounting. - Each acquisition has its integration thesis validated or killed with numbers within 90 days of closing. - The acquired businesses keep growing. No customer, supplier or key person lost to the transaction. - The first value-creation levers are live and their P&L impact is measurable in euros. - A documented playbook exists, and the next integration starts faster than the last. Over time you own integration and value creation for the whole group at a pace of several acquisitions per year, and build the team that delivers it. Package - Fixed base plus a variable component tied directly to the success of each integration. - Virtual equity in Andercore at the current strike, with meaningful upside if we build what we intend to build. - Direct work with the Founder & CEO, the M&A advisor, the Board and our investors. We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic. We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic. We believe that diversity drives innovation, creativity, and collective strength. ## About Andercore ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Andercore is an AI-driven trade platform that unifies sourcing, pricing, logistics, and financing for industrial supply in infrastructure, energy, and construction materials. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Philipp Andernach and Elsa Cordonnier ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Industrial supply chain, wholesale trade, energy and infrastructure materials, construction materials. - **Target customers**: B2B – industrial buyers (project sites, warehouses, manufacturers) and suppliers across Europe, MENA, and Asia. - **Mission**: “Enable faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective trade for industrial buyers and suppliers” [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us). ## Products & Services - **AI-Powered Trade Platform**: A software system that automates quoting, order execution, quality assurance, logistics coordination, and financing. Buyers can submit requests via phone, email, WhatsApp, or app and receive binding quotes within minutes. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/) - **Embedded Financing**: Integrated credit lines, multi-currency payments, and secure settlement, underwritten by institutional partners including Commerzbank and KfW. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) - **End-to-End Logistics**: Manages transport from origin to last‑mile delivery, with real‑time tracking, route optimisation, and customs documentation. Uses a network of third‑party logistics providers. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) - **Quality & Compliance**: Certifications managed with partners such as TÜV Rheinland, Bureau Veritas, and SGS. Ensures ESG compliance and regulatory requirements across the supply chain. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding – $75 million raised to date (including a $40 million Series B announced February 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atomico, Project A, Inven Capital, Target Global; institutional financing from Commerzbank and KfW. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us) - **Growth Signals**: - Serves over 4,500 buyers and works with more than 2,000 suppliers. - Operates across seven European markets in infrastructure, energy, and construction. - Team of ~80 employees with offices in Berlin, India, and China. - Executed a 56 MW solar project on the A3 motorway near Cologne with over 100 individual deliveries. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) ## Competitive Advantages - **End‑to‑end unification**: Combines sourcing, pricing, logistics, and financing into a single AI‑orchestrated flow, eliminating fragmented manual processes. - **Fifth‑generation trading heritage**: Founders come from the A.W. Andernach Group (established 1888), providing deep domain expertise in physical trade and supply chains. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) - **Embedded financing**: Buyers can obtain credit lines directly within the ordering process without separate bank applications, reducing working‑capital pressure. - **Real‑time AI pricing & forecasting**: Uses platform data and logistics signals to provide instant quotes and predict availability and lead times. - **Global reach with local execution**: Operates across Europe, MENA, and Asia with local sales teams (French, Italian, German, English) and regional 3PL hubs. ## Strategic Focus - **European expansion**: The Series B funding is specifically aimed at accelerating growth across European markets. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us) - **AI‑driven automation**: Continuously scaling AI systems to handle quoting, quality assurance, order execution, and logistics autonomously. - **Category & supplier breadth**: Growing the live catalogue of 4,000+ SKUs and expanding the supplier network across energy, infrastructure, and industrial goods. ## Why Work Here - **In‑office culture**: Andercore operates a five‑day‑per‑week in‑office policy at its Berlin headquarters, deliberately chosen to foster a focused, team‑oriented environment. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) - **English working language**: The internal language is English; German is not required. Sales teams serve local markets in native languages. - **Early responsibility**: A small team (~80 people) with high commercial volume. Junior hires get direct P&L exposure in commercial roles; engineers work on a live AI platform handling thousands of monthly transactions. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) - **International team**: Colleagues from multiple nationalities, with offices in Berlin, India, and China. - **Impact‑driven work**: The platform directly affects real‑world infrastructure and energy projects, offering a tangible sense of purpose. ## Sources 1. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/) – Homepage and platform description 2. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us) – Company background, mission, investors, timeline 3. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) – Detailed FAQs on products, team, office policy, funding 4. [andercore.com/en/career](https://andercore.com/en/career/) – Careers page, application instructions 5. 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