Management personality with many years of start-up experience. Expert for mail order, teleshopping, liveshopping and e-commerce. Creative thinker and leader with high analytical and conceptual strength.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

General Management

• Installing and maintaining of interdisciplinary teams and companies around the world
• Managing the operational initiatives and priorities
• Analysing and evaluating projects in corporate context
• Ensuring highly productive and efficient day to day functionality
• Winding-up a company after previous restructuring attempts
• International and Intercultural Competence
• Identifying and selecting partners through my personal network
• Conducting negotiations and enforcing company's interests
• Developing and implementing ambitious business plans in cooperation with company management
• Integrating local organization in a corporate structure, taking national circumstances into account as a basis for a successful teamwork
• Managing teams from planning, purchasing, marketing, sales, production, logistics, finance, IT and human resources
• Leading Meetings

Team building / team development

• Handpicking teams
• Coaching, training and development of teams
• Optimizing synergies within teams
• Recognising employee potentials

Project management

• Excellent understanding of processes
• Continuous monitoring in compliance with project plans
• Analysis deviations to derive preventive measures
• Ensuring efficient project management with reduced, targeted use of controlling instruments
• Joint development and enforcement of measures to counter with a negative goal difference
• Organizing system wide thinking and acting to exploit synergies

Business Development / Marketing

• Developing and introducing strategies for market entry and/or market expansion
• Evaluating alternative models, including "make or buy"
• Controlling integration processes across all operational functions involving the respective process owners
• Installing strategic and operational marketing mix tools, including introduction, reintroduction, line extensions, etc.
• Selecting advertising, PR and research agencies by using international companies’ contacts