Carsten R.

Agile Coach

Namborn, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
8 months
Chemnitz, Germany

Sales Project Manager

enviaM & MITGAS GmbH

Consulting & project management for renewable energy sales in the field of PV & heat pumps (FEH) and commodity products

  • Reviewing existing agency contracts
  • Creating new contracts and commission models for sales partners / FEH agencies
  • Defining KPIs and implementing & monitoring them
  • Planning & implementing the ramp-up of FEH sales
  • Supporting the commodity division
  • Annual meetings with sales partners
  • Action planning and execution
  • Securing existing customers
  • Strategic consulting
  • Negotiations with existing and new sales agencies
  • Acquisition of new sales partners
  • Internal and external interface management
  • Cooperation and performance control of FEH agencies
  • Reviewing and optimizing or creating processes
  • Expanding sales to new regions & channels
  • Setting up new sales channels and partnerships & cross-selling
  • Reporting to stakeholders
  • Establishing FEH lead generation
  • Developing sales controlling
  • Action planning for 2025 to Q1 2026
  • Advising department management & team
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
8 months
Karlsruhe, Germany

Sales Controlling Implementation

Stadtwerke Karlsruhe

Strategic & operational implementation

  • Establishing and expanding sales controlling for the entire sales department
  • Defining, integrating, and positioning sales controlling within the overall sales organization
  • Defining KPIs
  • Building sales controlling with reporting and KPI structure
  • Setting up reporting for management and board
  • Developing deep-dive analyses
  • Analyzing and supporting the operational sales team
  • Strategic planning, design, and development of measures to control the overall sales and significantly improve overall performance
  • Identifying deviations in the departments. Proactively supporting and initiating corrective actions
  • Developing and actively supporting the division manager
  • Introducing stakeholder management
  • Planning procurement volumes for electricity and gas
  • Financial planning
  • Budget planning and monitoring
  • Monitoring the profitability of sales
  • Implementing and setting up new analysis tools (e.g., Power BI, InfoZoom)
  • Reporting to sales management and executive board
Apr 2024 - May 2024
2 months
Mannheim, Germany

Truck E-Mobility Infrastructure Development

MVV

Strategic & operational implementation

  • Developing and implementing an efficient charging infrastructure for electric trucks
  • Establishing a new business unit in e-mobility and logistics
  • Billing related to company vehicles, especially electric trucks
  • Creating and optimizing the B2B customer journey for car charging
  • Analyzing the B2B car charging value chain
  • Capturing and optimizing processes
  • Identifying future markets and suitable sales opportunities for B2B car & truck charging
  • Conducting competitive analysis
  • Finding partners in e-charging
  • Developing new SLAs and implementing them
  • Lead management
May 2023 - Mar 2024
11 months
Chemnitz, Germany

Sales Project Manager

enviaM & MITGAS GmbH

Consulting & project management for sales

  • Reviewing and optimizing agency contracts
  • Reviewing and optimizing sales representative contracts
  • Creating new contracts and commission models for sales partners / agencies
  • Product development in collaboration with marketing and product teams
  • Creating business plans for 2023 & 2024
  • Defining KPIs and implementing & monitoring them
  • Planning & implementing the ramp-up or reactivation of B2B – B2C sales after Corona & the energy crisis
  • Sales representative agencies
  • Portals
  • Distributors
  • Organic sales
  • Building cross-selling partners (e.g., energy & telco)
  • Calculating products & commissions
  • Creating overall D2D budget for 2023 & 2024
  • Negotiating with existing and new sales agencies
  • Acquiring new sales partners
  • Managing D2D, portals, and B2B & B2C agency sales
  • Annual meetings including contract negotiations and planning
  • Sales agencies
  • Sales representative agencies
  • Suppliers
  • Onboarding and transferring responsibilities to new colleagues / team
  • Internal and external interface management
  • Cooperation and performance control of agencies
  • Contact person & manager for all sales partners
  • Reviewing and optimizing or creating processes
  • Training internal and external teams
  • Expanding sales to new regions & channels
  • Setting up new sales channels and partnerships & cross-selling
  • Reporting to management
  • Setting up & tracking monitoring
  • Overall budget – D2D and B2B channels
  • Order intake
  • Target vs. actual comparisons
  • Achieving targets
  • Costs and special measures
  • Existing customers
  • New customers
  • Sales partners
  • Competitors
  • Campaigns / A-B testing of campaigns / products
  • Partnerships
  • Analyses & measures
  • Return on sales
  • Order intake / channels / personas etc.
  • Legacy contracts
  • Churn rate // countermeasures
  • Customer journey
  • Customer recovery – preventing cancellations
  • Securing basic supply status
  • Competitors
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
4 months

Go-to-market Consulting

Energy Company

  • Go-to-market consulting in the energy sales segment
  • Created a sales concept
  • Product development in collaboration with marketing
  • Created business plan
  • Created go-to-market plan
  • Calculated products & commissions
  • Developed training concept for internal & external teams
May 2022 - Dec 2022
8 months

Senior Project Manager & Head of Sales

Hello Fiber Germany / Liberty Networks

  • End-to-end planning of clusters
  • Budget planning and controlling
  • Full responsibility for and management of clusters
  • Responsible for 5 expansion areas and their project managers
  • Shareholder Management
  • Liaison with municipalities and mayors
  • Management of external service providers
  • Management of external sales agencies
  • Planning of new expansion areas from a project manager's perspective
  • Training sessions and presentations on fiber optic expansion
  • Expansion and enhancement of processes
  • Strategic and operational planning (cluster – PM)
  • On-site construction coordination and infill development
  • Management of marketing activities
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Coordinator
  • Sales initiatives / contact with the housing sector
  • Monitoring
  • Reporting
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
2 months

Fulfillment - Sales Development

Norwegian Company

  • Building the fulfillment structure
  • Building partner and sales network (resellers & tradespeople)
  • Training and development of partners
  • Process creation
  • Strategic consulting
  • Agile Coach
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
7 months

B2B Sales Development

Heraeus – Soluva Air Disinfection

  • Building various sales channels
  • Searching for new sales partners at all levels
  • Managing and developing sales agencies
  • Managing all B2B and reseller sales channels
  • Internal and external training
  • Process optimization and creation
  • Managing and coordinating external partners
  • Developing and managing sales activities (campaigns)
  • Sales management
  • New customer management and acquisition
  • Managing promoters and sales representatives
  • Expansion of national and European sales
  • Identifying and integrating new sales channels and partners
  • Managing call centers
  • Interface management
  • First and second management levels
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
7 months

Sales consulting & sales expansion

Financial services provider in tangible assets

  • Creating concepts for sales and marketing using agile methods
  • A/B testing of new products
  • Implementing concepts & launching new products
  • Recruiting and onboarding new freelance sales agents
  • Building a regional sales structure
  • Onboarding new sales partners
  • Training and coaching sales partners
Dec 2020 - Present
4 years 9 months

Certified Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
4 months

Sales Consulting & Development

Nationwide Real Estate Company

  • Brand creation or expansion for premium real estate
  • Creation of marketing and sales concept
  • Training
  • Introduction of agile working methods and values
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
3 months
Munich, Germany

Certified Agile Coach Training

Brainbirds

Agile Coach

Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
3 months

Project development for service and utility concession security, Sales department

EnBW ODR – Energy Baden-Württemberg

  • Concept development for utility security
  • Concept development for person-to-person sales setup
  • Execution in an agile environment – as PO
  • Business case creation
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 9 months

Head and setup of B2C/B2B Sales, Commodity Sales department

EnBW – Energy Baden-Württemberg

  • Development and implementation of corona ramp-down for person-to-person sales
  • Corona crisis management in sales
  • Strategy planning and implementation of ramp-down & ramp-up (Corona crisis) for person-to-person sales
  • Crisis management – path out of the crisis
  • Project to merge sales channels
  • Support and development of sales agencies
  • Support and development of shop systems
  • Support for person-to-person sales channel D2D/B2C
  • Internal and external training
  • Digitalization of sales
  • Creation of requirements specification
  • Legal review (e.g., contactless contract signing)
  • Search for sales software and CRM
  • Testing
  • Training
  • Rollout
  • Optimization and creation of processes
  • Management and coordination of external partners
  • Creation & management of sales campaigns
  • Sales management
  • New customer management
  • Management of promoters and sales representatives
  • Expansion of nationwide person-to-person D2D/B2C sales
  • Find and integrate new sales channels & partners
  • Channel manager
  • Interface management
  • New customer acquisition
  • Various participation in agile projects (EnBW, ODR & Yellow)
  • E-mobility (various projects)
  • Customer acquisition B2B & B2C
  • Strategy development
  • Customer complaints
  • Transition to agile working
  • Campaigns for existing customers
  • Campaigns for new customers
  • Active support of the agile transformation
  • Active participation and implementation of the new agile environment
  • 1st & 2nd management level
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
11 months

Partner Management – Interim Manager – Consulting, Department 'Renewable Energy – Fulfillment'

EnBW – Energy Baden-Württemberg

  • Partner management (internal – external) incl. coordination
  • Contract management
  • Key account management
  • Optimization of workflows and creation of processes
  • Monitoring and control of production capacities
  • SLA monitoring and taking action
  • Project development and implementation
  • Coordination of sales and production
  • Training (internal & external)
  • Participation in various agile groups, internal and external
  • Supported various projects as Scrum Master or PO
  • Project management
  • Interface between sales – marketing – fulfillment
  • Creation of new sales concepts including implementation
  • Search for new fulfillment partners
  • Transfer of all partner companies to sister company SENEC (contract negotiations & training)
  • 2nd management level
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
2 months
Germany

Interim Team Lead – short-term setup of a B2C sales team

Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH

  • Recruiting including training and coaching of sales representatives
  • Revenue and margin planning
  • Personnel responsibility: 26 employees
  • Second management level
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
9 months

Interim Sales Director - building a business sales organization

Unitymedia Division Business

  • Sales management and controlling
  • Planning and execution of trade shows, new product launches and promotions
  • Building and developing a brand to achieve optimized market penetration
  • Recruiting and development including training and coaching of sales representatives
  • Revenue and margin planning
  • B2B key account management
  • B2B new customer acquisition
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Personnel responsibility: 17 employees
  • Second management level
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
1 year 7 months

Interim Sales Director - setting up sales

SanaCare

  • Global sales setup, management and controlling
  • Building and developing a brand to achieve optimized market penetration
  • Recruiting and development including training and coaching of sales representatives
  • Revenue and margin planning
  • Digitalization of sales
  • B2B key account management
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Personnel responsibility: 8 employees
  • First management level
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
6 months

Interim Sales Director - reorganization, sales setup & strategy consulting

German fashion manufacturer

  • Prevented insolvency
  • Successfully transitioned to a profitable manufacturer
  • Field sales reorganization
  • Training and coaching of internal and field sales staff
  • Sales management
  • Planning and execution of trade shows, new product launches and promotions
  • Annual and restructuring discussions with key account customers
  • Key account management
  • New customer acquisition
  • Setting targets and KPIs and controlling them
  • Strategy consulting and active implementation
  • Product range optimization and finding new assortments
  • Introduction of process management
  • Purchasing
  • Personnel responsibility: 30 employees
  • Sales reorganization
  • First management level
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year

Interim POS Manager for a project in the DIY sector

OSRAM

  • Introduction and implementation of a new POS system
  • Restructuring, management and training of subcontractors
  • Staff management and development (including training)
  • Annual and remodeling discussions with key account customers
  • Key account management
  • Workforce planning
  • POS remodel planning and implementation by subcontractors
  • Complaint management
  • Implementation of sales and POS promotions
  • Revenue responsibility: €10 million
  • Personnel responsibility: 28 employees
  • Second management level
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
7 months
Germany

Interim Regional Manager for Northern Germany

Direct Energy Provider

  • Building a B2B and B2C sales and distribution organization with sales agents
  • Building and developing a brand
  • Recruiting and developing staff including training and coaching
  • Sales and profitability planning and controlling
  • Key account management
  • New B2B customer acquisition
  • Sales and profitability planning
  • Staff responsibility: 25 employees
  • Second management level
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
7 months

Interim Project Manager "Factory Museum"

Märklin GmbH

  • Strategic realignment and redesign of the museum and factory shop
  • Developing a 3-year action plan for sales & visitor numbers, marketing activities, and exhibition & event planning
  • Staff evaluation, training, and development
  • Cost and assortment optimization
  • Promoting cooperation with the city and retailers
  • Redesign of the POS and museum
  • Close collaboration with the board and owners
  • Planning and implementing sales, event, and marketing measures
  • Optimizing internal and external processes
  • Revenue and profitability responsibility
  • Purchasing
  • First management level
  • Staff responsibility: 24 employees
Feb 2012 - Aug 2013
1 year 7 months
Germany

Interim Project Manager - "American Diner" & "Toy/Model Building Store" Projects

Corporate Group from Lower Saxony

Project "American Diner" - Restaurant:

  • Planning a special and unique American diner
  • Full project management until the opening
  • Support during the post-opening phase
  • Implementation from the "first idea" through planning and active execution of the project
  • Leading negotiations with authorities and suppliers
  • Designing and executing marketing activities
  • Event planning and execution
  • Recruiting, onboarding and training staff
  • Defining internal and external processes
  • Budget responsibility
  • Implementing and living the guiding principle: "only fresh products - organic - local" - "slow food not fast food!"
  • Responsible for purchasing property and inventory
  • Staff responsibility: 20 employees
  • First management level

Project "Toy/Model Building Store":

  • Restructuring the sales organization
  • Sales strategy consulting including active implementation
  • Designing and executing marketing activities
  • Event management
  • Redesigning the website and online store
  • Purchasing and supplier optimization
  • Store and warehouse renovation
  • Staff training and development
  • Implementing an inventory management system
  • Changing the product assortment
  • Revenue and profitability responsibility
  • Staff responsibility: 15 employees
  • First management level

The "Diner" and "Toy/Model Building Store" projects were part of a company group. Projects ran in parallel.

Apr 2011 - Dec 2011
9 months

Sales Manager PBS Sector

STANGER Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbH

  • Building and restructuring the sales and distribution organization
  • Leading the inside and outside sales teams
  • Managing key account customer relationships
  • New B2B customer acquisition and purchasing associations
  • Conducting negotiations on terms, listings, promotions, and annual contracts
  • Designing and executing marketing activities to improve market penetration
  • Staff responsibility: 18 employees
  • Second management level
Jun 2010 - Mar 2011
10 months
Germany

Interim Managing Director

Fundag Solar Süd

  • Staff responsibility: 15 employees
Jan 2010 - May 2010
5 months
Brilon, Germany

Key Account Manager and Sales Manager South

Solarhybrid AG

  • Sales responsibility: €20 million
  • Personnel responsibility: 15 employees
Jan 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 10 months

Sales Manager for the Southwest Region

Solar Energie Süd GmbH

  • Restructuring of the sales and distribution organization
  • Building and leading the sales structure
  • Hiring and training of employees (including sales agents)
  • Personnel responsibility: 35 employees
Feb 2004 - Dec 2007
3 years 11 months
Dinkelsbühl, Germany

Self-Employed Merchant

Tabakhaus Roese

Dec 2000 - Jan 2004
3 years 2 months

Sales Director D-A-CH

Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk OHG

  • Restructuring of the sales and distribution organization
  • Building and leading the sales structure
  • Sales management and controlling
  • Recruitment and development of staff including training and employee coaching
  • Revenue and profitability planning
Aug 1992 - Nov 2000
8 years 4 months
Dreieich, Germany

Key Account Manager

Mattel Toys GmbH

  • Managing KAM customers and their headquarters
Mar 1988 - Sep 1992
4 years 7 months
Ottobrunn, Germany

Field Sales & Key Account Manager

LEGO GmbH

  • Managed regional and key account customers.
Sep 1986 - Feb 1988
1 year 6 months
Göttingen, Germany

Store Manager

Coop Südniedersachsen Konsumgenossenschaft e.G.

  • Managed a grocery store with 30 employees.
Jan 1984 - Dec 1986
3 years
Göttingen, Germany

Apprenticeship as Food Retail Clerk

Coop Südniedersachsen Konsumgenossenschaft e.G.

  • Qualification: Food Retail Clerk

Summary

  • I urgently need vacancy coverage
  • A hands-on generalist
  • In-depth knowledge and top contacts in the energy industry
  • Crisis management – way out of the crisis
  • Meaningful addition or gentle entry into the agile world of work
  • I need help with my sales
  • My sales should be optimized, reorganized, expanded, or built up
  • I need a (new) corporate strategy
  • I'm missing new customers!
  • How do I reactivate my existing customers?
  • How can I generate more medium- to long-term returns with my sales?
  • I need a sales practitioner with strategic thinking and action

Languages

German
Native
English
Elementary

Education

Oct 1984 - Jun 1986

Coop Südniedersachsen Konsumgenossenschaft e.G.

Food sales clerk · Göttingen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Certified Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Brainbirds Munich

Trainer Qualification (AdA Certificate)

Driver's License Class 3

HCCP Certificate

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