Schaeffler appoints e-mobility expert Schröder to Executive Board

The supervisory board of German automotive supplier Schaeffler has appointed Jochen Schröder to its Executive Board, where he will oversee production, supply chain management and procurement. However, further restructuring is expected, as the company plans to merge the department with research and development in the longer term.

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Jochen Schröder (54) will join the Schaeffler executive board on 1 April 2026. In this role, he will take responsibility for the Production, Supply Chain Management and Procurement divisions, while also serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will succeed Andreas Schick (55), who is leaving the company at his own request on 31 March 2026.

Schröder’s influence on the board could expand further in the future. “The Supervisory Board also decided to look at combining the Chief Technology Officer function with the Chief Operating Officer function to reduce the size of the Board of Managing Directors and achieve efficiencies,” the company stated. As an e-mobility specialist, Schröder is a natural fit for this development.

Schröder joined Schaeffler in 2018, where he initially took over the leadership of the newly established E-Mobility business division. Since October 2024, he has served as Regional CEO Europe and a member of the Executive Board of Schaeffler AG. Prior to this, he worked as CTO at Valeo-Siemens eAutomotive from 2016 onwards. He began his career at BMW AG in transmission development and held various leadership positions in the electrification of the powertrain until 2016, giving him extensive experience in powertrain development, which also qualifies him for the CTO role at Schaeffler.

“I am very pleased that we have found in Dr. Jochen Schröder a competent and experienced colleague from within our organization to take over from Mr. Schick,” said Georg F. W. Schaeffler, Family Shareholder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schaeffler AG. “Dr. Schröder was instrumental in the development of the E-Mobility business division prior to the acquisition of Vitesco and, because of his work as Regional CEO Europe, is extremely well acquainted with the Schaeffler Group’s business and its four divisions.”

Schröder’s successor as Regional CEO Europe will be Rémy Triouleyre (48), who previously led the France subregion and simultaneously served as Global Key Account Manager with global customer responsibility for the Stellantis Group. Additionally, the Schaeffler executive board has decided that Xiangbin Chen (44) will assume the role of Regional CEO Greater China from 1 January 2027. He will succeed Yilin Zhang, who is set to retire at the end of 2026.

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