Barbara Tobiesen

Senior Digital Growth Consultant

Barbara Tobiesen
Munich, Germany

Experience

Aug 2024 - Present
7 months

Senior Enabler

enable2grow GmbH

Senior Enabler for digital growth strategy and digital Transformation

May 2023 - Present
1 year 10 months

Digital Growth and E-Commerce Consultant

Self-employed

I consult clients project based or as interim CMO in building customer centric growth strategies, effective e-commerce and digital marketing experiences that really connect with customers. I bring a holistic customer and business understanding and work closely with my clients from business case to execution. I focus on helping SMBs to grow and retain their customer base with engaging campaigns, exciting web/ marketplace UX and putting KPI & tracking in place. And – support them in automating operations and backend to make room for more growth!

My core areas of expertise are:

  • Digital & E-Commerce growth strategy
  • Digital customer acquisition & retention
  • Conversion funnel optimization
  • KPI framworks
  • E-Commerce tech (shop, process automation)

About Me:

  • I am passionate to support brands flourish, customers happy and businesses grow.
  • Strong customer & growth-mindset, developed during 7 years of Marketing leadership @Amazon
  • Analytical problem solving skills trained during years of internal and management consulting
  • Strong project management

What I believe in:

  • Customer first: always ask what problem you can solve for your customer
  • Data driven: instead of endless debate identify core hypothesis, test and let the data speak
Sep 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 2 months
Munich, Germany

Senior Product Marketing Manager - EU Heavy & Bulky

Amazon

Responsible for increasing awareness and CX of EU Heavy Bulky products and installation services. Built up and managed a marketing team

  • Customer insight: Led insight studies and identified awareness and trust gaps
  • Strategy: Defined an EU marketing / CX strategy and made it a top business priority for EU senior leadership
  • Leadership: Built up and managed a team of 2 Sr. Marketing Managers
  • Marketing operations: Launched performance, onsite and affiliate campaigns; tested value propositions and messaging, set up regular performance reporting
  • CX: Designed CX feature roadmap for pre-purchase customer journey; global product ownership for search filters
  • Pricing: ownership for pricing strategy for installation services incl. automating competitor price monitoring, price elasticity experiments
Oct 2018 - May 2020
1 year 8 months
Munich, Germany

Senior Product Manager Customer Experience - EU Hardlines

Amazon

  • Led Amazon’s European Basket Building program which enables automated product recommendations at scale.
  • Delivered +20% YoY revenue growth by scaling the programm's coverage through machine learning and improving conversion with new CX features
  • Delivered +22% YoY deals revenue by implementing a deals strategy involving business and vendors
  • Owned global initiative to increase discoverability of compatible products by integrating compatibility attributes into catalog and related customer facing website features (Vision, tech roadmap, budget)
  • Managed a broad global stakeholder network from senior management to business and tech.
Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 9 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Product Management and Online Marketing, DE Books

Amazon

  • Responsible for revenue management and demand strategy of the Books category DE – one of the largest categories on Amazon, and a team of 8 FTE (incl. 2 managers)
  • Category revenue management: weekly reporting & deep dives, annual forecasting
  • Marketing strategy: Defined and implemented an x-channel traffic and conversion strategy (SEO, affiliate, email, onsite display) supporting 18% YoY category revenue growth
  • CX initiatives: Owned pricing initiatives, feed & data management and vendor marketing relations
  • Leadership: Transformed the team from an execution function to a team of project managers delivering scalable and high impact CX and marketing initiatives. Reduced repetitive tasks by -30%, implemented a new marketing management system and spareheaded the reorganization of all media marketing teams to a centralized organization (Books, DVD and Music;~25 FTE)
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
11 months

Manager, Online Marketing and Content Management, DE Books

Amazon

  • Full responsibility for CX, content and traffic of the DE Books category, leading a team of 6 marketing managers that execute emailing, onsite display, SEO and content Management.
  • Relaunched the Books homepage creating an inspiring experience, reduced abandonment rate by -15%
  • Launched a SEO initiative (+15% YoY Rev) and drove data-driven optimisation of 20 e-mail programs
  • Launched an affiliate partnership with BILD to generate offline visibility
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 3 months

Senior Program Manager

Hubert Burda Media

Corporate Development, Burda Publishing Magazines Division, reporting to the CEO

  • Acted as the core PMO for two company-wide transformation programmes that delivered 25%YoY profit; Managed and controlled 12 workstreams
  • Outsourced copy editing services of 20 magazines, cost savings of -45% p.a.
  • Re-negotiated pre-press services contract for 45 magazines, saving-25% p.a.
  • Innovation: Organised a 2-month SCRUM rapid prototyping bootcamp for 15 software developers; Design thinking workshops for 150 employees
Apr 2011 - Dec 2014
2 years 9 months

Project Manager

Hubert Burda Media

  • Corporate Development, Burda Publishing Magazines Division, reporting to the CEO
  • Supported the launch of a new business unit for digital and entertainment
Apr 2010 - Apr 2011
1 year 1 month

Management Trainee Crossmedia

Hubert Burda Media

Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
1 year

Associate Consultant

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
1 year

Freelancer Online Marketing

Hitradio Antenne Niedersachsen

Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
1 year

Associate Consultant

Simon-Kucher & Partners

Telecommunications, IT

Summary

Hi I’m Barbara. I am a digital marketing and e-commerce consultant with over 13 years hands on experience: 8 years e-commerce and digital marketing @Amazon and more than 5 years in strategy and corporate development. I help growing SMB businesses to boost their growth with engaging digital marketing strategies and e- commerce optimization. I am passionate to help brands flourish, making customers happy and businesses grow. I have a creative spirit, an analytical mind and thrive on making change happen. You want to: ? Bring your customer acquisition to a next level? ? Turn customers into loyal fans that come back again and again? ? Boost your shop’s conversion rate? ? Automate all the e-commerce processes that cost you so much time? ? Or simply nail how and where you can delight your customers most? Get in touch! I am passionate about #ecommerce #Digitization #digitalstrategy #growthmarketing #growthstrategy #consulting #customeracquisition #customerretention #conversionoptimization #customercentricity Top skills: B2C-Marketing, Email Marketing, Team Management Publication: Schöne neue Markenwelt: Eine empirische Untersuchung des Potenzials zur Nutzenstiftung von Marken auf Social Networking Sites am Beispiel von Facebook, in Helmut Scherer, Daniela Schlütz, Hannah Schmid-Petri, Anke Trommershausen (Hg.): Marken im Web 2.0

Languages

German
Native
Danish
Advanced
English
Advanced
French
Advanced

Education

Jun 2008 - Oct 2008

San Jose State University

Visiting student, Communication and Media studies · San Jose, United States

Jun 2007 - Oct 2007

University of St. Gallen - HSG

Visiting student, Marketing · St. Gallen, Switzerland

Oct 2006 - Jun 2009

Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media

Master of Arts · Media management · Hannover, Germany