The Ingolstadt car manufacturer Audi gets a purchasing manager. On April 1, 2023, Renate Vachenauer will take over the department from Dirk Große-Loheide (58), who is involved in expanded Group procurement Volkswagen has moved up, as the company announced on Friday. This means that there will again be two women on the Audi Board of Management, as was the case a few months ago. Sabine Maassen left Thyssenkrupp in April 2020 Audi changed and worked there as HR director. However, the connection did not last long: Last year, Maassen was replaced by Xavier Ros
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Vachenauer came from bmw and has been responsible for the development of interiors, interaction and data management at Audi since April 2021. CEO Duesmann and sales manager Hildegard Wortmann (56) had already switched from BMW to Audi.
Vachenauer, who has a doctorate in electrical engineering, held various positions in Germany and abroad at the BMW Group from 1999 to 2020. Among other things, as department manager, she was responsible for the area of active driver assistance systems and e-drive control units.
She then switched to the position of head of department in the development of transmissions/drive trains and later took over the business line “My Journey” for navigation, mobility services, e-mobility and others.