Alexander Bock

Affiliate, Amazon, AI: Driving Rapid Growth in E-commerce & Digital Transformation | Professional Freelancer |

Alexander Bock
Funchal, Portugal

Experience

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
5 months

Lecturer

Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

  • Lecturer for the course “Design Sprints for Digital Prototyping”
  • Teach students design thinking methodologies for rapid prototyping and user testing
Apr 2021 - Present
4 years 10 months
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Sidroga

  • Manage and drive growth of owned Amazon marketplace presence including logistics, marketing and maintenance
  • Empower colleagues to learn and establish processes to manage the new revenue channel
  • Manage the pitch and selection of a new social media agency
  • Manage, control and lead external agencies and freelancers to achieve optimal results for the marketplace sales channels
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
1 month
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Schüttflix

  • Review overall marketing strategy including goals and team setup
  • Evaluate all existing marketing channels and agencies behind (social media and search)
  • Draft and implement first measures on social media content
  • Generate concrete ideas for next channels and steps and help evaluate them
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
5 months
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Printkiss

  • Set up and facilitate the internal marketing routine
  • Set up and maintain overall reporting
  • Implement and execute a conversion rate optimization program including A/B testing with Google Optimize and Analytics
  • Introduce, evaluate and implement new marketing measures for more traffic (native advertising, social media content, TikTok test)
  • Implement routine with all external marketing suppliers and agencies to boost performance
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
7 months

Co-founder

Dialoks

  • Optimize clients’ Google My Business and Google Maps presence through local search engine optimization and marketing
  • Provide support and management for local stores to optimize their Google My Business accounts
  • Build and strengthen business partnerships with inner city store customers to manage and optimize product sales in key markets
  • Develop and reiterate the business model and experiments to prove the concept
  • Publish two articles in the local newspaper and secure speaking slots at three local events within two months
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
5 months

Product Owner and Digital Marketing Project Manager

Riedel Communications

  • Evaluate different suppliers for building a web shop and recommendation system for B2B products
  • Translate the project into user stories and work on the implementation with different suppliers
Jan 2019 - Present
7 years 1 month

Founder

Digital Nomad Alex

  • Play a key role in developing and expanding business through online marketing and e-commerce strategies
  • Manage online marketing and e-commerce tasks by implementing methodologies including growth hacking, lean start-up, and pretotyping
  • Conduct online and offline workshops for clients
Mar 2010 - Jan 2018
7 years 11 months

Vice President / Director Online Marketing

Arvato AG

  • Enhance business performance through e-commerce to expand services across the global online market
  • Set up, manage and scale a digital marketing unit from three colleagues to 45 people across three continents in eight countries
  • Manage full profit and loss accountability and ensure execution of all operations in line with controlled cost
  • Generate and implement performance online marketing services in 92 markets across various regions including SEA, social performance marketing, display advertising, affiliate networks and influencer campaigns
  • Build networks and infrastructure and formulate reports to ensure smooth running of all operations
  • Establish conversion optimization teams to manage content, SEO, usability, translation, and projects for clients including Microsoft, Sanicare, Asus, Toshiba, Phonak/Sonova, and Parallels
  • Restructure the business when strategies changed towards a focus on supply chain services, logistics and online shop infrastructure
  • Generate an internal start-up (JaLife) within the group for the healthcare unit; build a platform prototype (MVP) combining content marketing and pharmacy shopping via e-commerce with partner Sanicare

Selected contributions:

  • Launch offices and manage staffing in the APAC and LATAM regions, achieving over 100% growth in client revenues
  • Recognised among Top 100 German Affiliate Marketers in 2015 and 2018
  • Build and improve the marketing unit as an affiliate to eight European countries, scaling to 92 markets within two years
  • Double digital growth in 92 markets for major online stores such as Microsoft and Adobe leveraging all marketing channels
  • Lead the global online marketing unit within the e-commerce group and expand to a further 30 countries
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 years

External Consultant

CBL International

Jan 2007 - May 2010
3 years 5 months

Managing Director

Performance Navigator GmbH

  • Set up a performance marketing consulting company by implementing and managing affiliate programs to generate leads and sales
  • Establish and foster professional liaisons with key clients to maximise continuous business profit growth
  • Design infrastructure for creating a startup from tax to website and manage sales and client acquisition

Selected contributions:

  • Secure a high-level role at Arvato through performance excellence in business management
  • Open new performance marketing channels for key clients to boost corporate revenue
Jan 2006 - Dec 2006
1 year

Group Head Performance Marketing

Beyond Interactive

Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
1 year

Senior Consultant

eCircle

Jan 2003 - Dec 2005
3 years

Senior Sales Manager

TradeDoubler

Jan 2002 - Dec 2002
1 year

Sales Manager

TradeDoubler

Jan 2000 - Dec 2002
3 years

Affiliate Manager

TradeDoubler

Summary

Dynamic marketing leader with excellence in team building/management and data-driven decisions. Crafted effective sales and marketing strategies for Microsoft/Sidroga/Adobe, focused on doubling revenues.

Entrepreneurially-driven with a strong action bias. Expert in analyzing consumer dynamics, defining market entry and growth strategies, and building high-performing teams for business success.

Skills

  • Marketing Strategy & Implementation
  • Supplier Recruitment & Selection
  • Project Management & Delivery
  • Revenue Growth
  • Built & Developed Growth Teams
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • Performance Marketing Channel
  • Customer Acquisition
  • General Management / Controlling
  • Ecommerce & Online Marketplaces

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Ludwigs-Maximilians- University – Munich

Magister · Political Science, Philosophy, & New History · Munich, Germany

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