Daniel Niederberger

Consultant (Strategy)

Munich, Germany

Experience

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
6 months
Hamburg, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Elektrotechnik-Tier 1

  • Developed EMEA site strategy
  • Increased overall efficiency considering production and sales markets
  • Created EMEA distribution network study to optimize logistics footprint
  • Validated outsourcing offers to 3rd party logistics providers (project volume ~€300m)
  • Derived market opportunities and translated them into product features
  • Defined and evaluated scenarios
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
7 months
Dortmund, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Intralogistics-Tech Corporation

  • Designed new business areas using digitalization
  • Optimized technological and organizational competitiveness
  • Structured projects and created challenge briefs in two topics
  • Identified optimization potential
  • Developed business models considering SaaS, condition monitoring, digital service portfolio
  • Defined workstreams with 10 work packages each, OKRs, and budget calculation
  • Aligned with board members
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
6 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Software Technology Corporation

  • Conducted market study focusing on supply chain partnering
  • Identified new business potential at OEM/supplier interface
  • Performed 17 interviews at director and executive level in Europe and the US
  • Evaluated use of IT enterprise architecture processes in SMEs and large companies
  • Highlighted success factors and issues in OEM-supplier collaboration
  • Structured work packages; roadmapped and planned OKRs
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Conceptualized a data governance strategy
  • Structured project phases
  • Conducted expert interviews
  • Built a center-of-competence concept to ensure operational excellence
  • Prepared board presentations
  • Derived market opportunities and translated them into product features
  • Defined and evaluated scenarios
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
9 months
Hamburg, Germany

Interim Project Manager

Energy Company

  • Realigned product portfolio strategy
  • Increased market footprint in e-mobility/energy sector
  • Aggregated internal e-mobility experience
  • Developed strategic framework including vision and mission
  • Benchmarked competitor pricing models
  • Defined strategic direction for e-mobility division
  • Created and approved pricing model
  • Mapped customer journeys
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
2 months
Berlin, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Created an AI impact analysis
  • Approached overall financial optimum for AI at product level
  • Benchmarked trends in consumer, electronics, automotive
  • Identified and evaluated AI-based use cases
  • Assessed impacts on computing power
  • Qualitatively derived top influencing factors
  • Defined priority use cases and their business potential
May 2022 - Sep 2022
5 months
Munich, Germany

Interim Project Manager

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Set up and led a strategic business unit
  • Accelerated top-management decision making
  • Designed and established the unit
  • Prepared and led weeklies and steering committees with top management
  • Coordinated strategic topics across brands and evaluated synergies
  • Led two top-management circles with decision-making authority (division head level)
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
4 months
Dortmund, Germany

Consultant (Strategy & Partnering)

Automotive Tier 1

  • Business development and deal initiation
  • Established business relationships and generated revenue
  • Qualified company to strengthen OEM/TierX relationships
  • Introduced client at C-level and director level at OEMs and TierX for deals
  • Defined target picture for company direction (focus automotive)
  • Improved external visibility through university partnerships and conferences
  • Delivered customer presentations and initiated pilot projects
  • Secured top leads with seven companies (OEMs/suppliers)
  • Created strategic target picture with guidelines
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
3 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive OEM

  • Conducted benchmarking focusing on purchasing volumes
  • Optimized purchasing by adopting competitor elements
  • Conducted ~30 expert interviews with specialists, leaders, and executives from automotive, aerospace, tech, and startups
  • Clustered findings and derived customer-targeted recommendations
  • Included current and forecasted competitor offers in automotive and digital consumer services
  • Validated purchasing modules through cross-industry benchmarking
  • Developed new modules incorporating non-automotive lessons learned
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
2 months
Germany

Project Manager (Team size 2)

Automotive Tier 1

  • Defined a holistic requirements set for "updateability"
  • Created a company-wide aligned updateability requirements set
  • Prepared decision studies for supervisory board and management
  • Evaluated requirements documents at varying levels of detail
  • Clustered content and reviewed existing requirements
  • Held ~25 expert workshops to resolve conflicting requirements and align across brands
  • Finalized study
  • Raised employee awareness of updateability relevance and connections
  • Completed overall requirements set
  • Handed over for operational implementation to lean portfolio management
May 2021 - Jul 2021
3 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 2)

Automotive OEM

  • Validated digital business model with governance qualification
  • Professionalized and made a new offering fit for governance
  • Defined project scope, goals, responsibilities, and governance structure
  • Clarified new parameters and sensitivity of influencing factors for the planned model
  • Shaped client-side offering model
  • Professionally set up project environment
  • Finalized company-wide aligned offering model
  • Validated business model assumptions and finalized business case
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
9 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Consultant (Strategy & Org)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Evaluated market opportunities in hydrogen and e-mobility
  • Prepared decision studies for supervisory board and management
  • Identified business chances on technical and economic levels for battery e-mobility and hydrogen applications
  • Considered both on-board and off-board infrastructure applications
  • Evaluated recommendations based on client structure ("unfair advantage")
  • Prepared board materials
Mar 2021 - May 2021
3 months
Regensburg, Germany

Consultant (Strategy & Org)

Automotive Tier 1

  • Qualified purchasing for software and licenses
  • Developed an operating model for software procurement
  • Conducted ~15 internal interviews with R&D, sales, and finance
  • Mapped processes and vision via four cross-functional workshops
  • Benchmarked competitor activities and transferred lessons learned
  • Developed a "software license house"
  • Adapted procurement process with software modules
  • Created a total operating model for software purchasing and license management
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
4 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Insurance

  • Identified investment targets in mobility
  • Evaluated business concepts and investment opportunities
  • Conducted expert interviews in automotive, mobility, tech, and investment sectors
  • Prepared and moderated two expert panels
  • Identified business fields in automotive and mobility
  • Assessed startup potential against investment criteria
  • Recommended investment targets
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
3 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Developed a holistic updateability strategy concept
  • Addressed vehicle updateability from tech, business, and organizational viewpoints
  • Built a financial model
  • Conducted ~35 interviews with specialists from various brands and divisions
  • Developed an end-to-end process for vehicle updateability (software supply chain, product management, CI/CD, deployment, customer support)
  • Created an influencing factors model for updateability business design
  • Designed process landscape with competitive differentiators
  • Built organizational model at brand, corporate, and supplier levels
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
2 months
Ingolstadt, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Developed central transformation organization (based on SAFe)
  • Created aligned concept with implementation plan
  • Conducted ~15 interviews with experts in R&D, org, and sales
  • Developed SAFe-based org concept with hybrid agile/conventional approach
  • Involved in-house stakeholders (R&D) and external suppliers
  • Completed org concept, aligned structure, and anchored it organizationally
  • Presented at board level
  • Formally embedded in corporate org documentation
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
7 months
Munich, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 6)

Engineering Service Provider

  • Built a new business unit for hydrogen applications
  • Developed and validated strategy, business model, team setup, and lead generation
  • Iterative, collaborative team setup with tech and sales specialists and executive management
  • Created sales-customer journey
  • Generated customer leads
  • Prepared pitch materials
  • Designed business unit end to end
  • Launched to market in August 2020
  • Developed and tested customer journey with clients
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
6 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy & Org)

Automotive Technology Corporation

  • Developed division org model (≈700 employees)
  • Structured division to ensure full performance in the value stream
  • Conducted external benchmarking at automotive and digital companies
  • Clustered work packages and department content
  • Led leadership workshops at division and department levels for org and strategy design
  • Defined budget for division growth
  • Built division organization with international site links
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
6 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant / Operational Focus

SaaS/Hardware Startup

  • Business development focusing on OKRs, sales strategy & investor relations
  • Professionalized operations and prepared for growth
  • Co-created vision and mission with management team
  • Introduced OKR goal system and cascaded goals to teams
  • Strategically optimized sales by professionalizing customer-sales journey
  • Prepared investor pitch
  • Created strategic framework for company
  • Ensured teams work with the new goal system
  • Optimized customer journey & significantly increased new customers
  • Validated new product features with market feedback and prioritized backlog
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
7 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Consultant / Project Manager

Mobility Corporation

  • Built digital service strategy, development & sales of digital mobility services
  • Developed and validated strategy, generated lead sales, managed network
  • Validated digital strategy under market and business considerations
  • Operationalized digital strategy
  • Co-developed digital services
  • Created sales-customer journey
  • Prepared board materials and iterative reporting to digital CIO
  • Crafted validated strategy with optional scenarios and presented to board
  • Developed and tested customer journey with clients
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
3 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Consultant / Operational Focus

Automotive Tier 1

  • Led organizational transformation & cost reduction
  • Increased effectiveness and efficiency
  • Introduced agile methods with interdisciplinary, diverse teams
  • Developed training concept in e-mobility
  • Defined more cost-cutting and innovation measures with client teams
  • Defined future mobility training catalog
  • Implemented agile work methods
  • Identified and partly realized cost savings in all functions
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
7 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 3)

Automotive OEM

  • Developed business model and rollout plan for charging infrastructure
  • Built charging solutions for B2B target groups (project volume >€200m)
  • Assessed external and internal conditions (customer perspective)
  • Formed and tested hypotheses and success factors
  • Realigned project goals methodically
  • Prepared board materials and iterative presentations
  • Designed concept for charging infrastructure project
  • Created monetization business model
  • Set up project management with ~30 stakeholders
  • Achieved cost reduction through scenario analysis and optimization potential: >€80m
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
6 years
Munich, Germany

Founder & CEO

NewMobilityBusiness GmbH

  • Focus: transformation of the automotive industry, technology innovation & strategy, data-driven business models
Jan 2018 - May 2018
5 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 5)

Automotive OEM

  • Conceptualized combined software/hardware customer application (B2C)
  • Iteratively developed & positioned customer solution in competitive landscape
  • Established innovation management including local market needs
  • Led workshops with management and brand reps (business modeling, value proposition, customer journey)
  • Enabled product updates within eight weeks via agile process
  • Co-creation development boosted product substance and target focus
  • Secured competitive positioning by leveraging client ecosystem
May 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 8 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive OEM

  • Evaluated international electrification potential for fleets & user choosers
  • Assessed electrification potential for fleets qualitatively and quantitatively in Europe (GER, F, UK, I, BEL)
  • Set up study methodology including mathematical model
  • Conducted 65 in-depth interviews with fleet managers and user choosers
  • Ran workshops and presentations on goals, methodology, and synergies with client team
  • Created 10 customer segments with detailed vehicle and usage analyses
  • Produced country-specific analyses (UK, GER, F, BEL, I) on fleet vehicle use
  • Derived tasks for strategic sales, aftersales, and overall vehicle development
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
2 months
Los Angeles, United States

Project Manager (Team size 3)

Automotive Startup OEM

  • Strategically conceptualized and positioned a ride-sharing vehicle
  • Created investor-ready vehicle concept (technical & economic)
  • Conducted competitive benchmarking of product and business model
  • Derived and evaluated drive scenario options
  • Prepared investor presentation
  • Focused on automotive and aviation applications
  • Delivered board-approved, VC- and investor-ready vehicle and market positioning concept
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
5 years
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Technology Startup

  • Drafted sections of business plan (innovation, hardware (E/E), software, and global rollout business model)
  • Created investor-ready business plan and business model for an electronics wearable startup (B2B/B2C)
  • Assessed innovation potential
  • Highlighted scaling effects
  • Developed business model using Business Model Canvas principles
  • Pitched to investors in UK, Ireland, and Germany
  • Built business model for company
  • Identified automotive/aviation application potential and refined with experts
  • Highlighted cost-optimization opportunities for series production
  • Conducted investor meetings and raised capital
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
5 months
Munich, Germany

Consultant (Strategy)

Automotive OEM

  • Qualified a premium OEM for autonomous driving
  • Identified key success factors for autonomous driving focusing on technology, innovation, and cost, and created an operational roadmap across all functions
  • Analyzed existing innovation processes
  • Developed a process to assess innovation potential of technologies and projects
  • Streamlined core competencies
  • Created strategic masterplan involving all relevant departments and functions
Mar 2015 - May 2015
3 months
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Consultant

Automotive OEM

  • Planned test fields for engines and drivetrains
  • Designed optimal test field layout
  • Determined test field needs based on future engine, drivetrain, and model portfolios
  • Benchmarked external test field options
  • Identified key parameters for optimal business model
  • Designed mathematical model to determine test field requirements
  • Proposed cost/benefit-optimized scenario and best operator model
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year
Munich, Germany

Manager

Strategy Engineers

Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
1 year 1 month
Munich, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 4)

Automotive OEM

  • Enabled battery second-life business, built B2B cooperation
  • Technically and economically evaluated inductive charging technology for automotive scenarios
  • Assessed potential from technical and economic viewpoints
  • Analyzed supplier landscape (corporates, SMEs, startups)
  • Evaluated concepts (Munich, UK)
  • Identified design and operational success factors
  • Created influence-cockpit for optimal technology development
  • Defined requirements catalog
  • Successfully built and ran cross-industry cooperation
Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
4 years
Garching, Germany

Initiator & Head of Mobility Consulting

Invenio GmbH

  • Business development, sales, customer, budget, and personnel responsibility
Jan 2011 - Nov 2013
1 year 11 months
Munich, Germany

Project Manager (Team size 4)

Automotive OEM

  • Piloted e-mobility fleets (urban and rural)
  • Analyzed usage behavior of e-mobility users and transferred insights into product development
  • Generated scientific findings on e-mobility use in corporate car sharing, tourism, and rural contexts
  • Led project operations (kick-off, stakeholder integration)
  • Managed budget
  • Handled stakeholder management and partner coordination
  • Staffed and mentored team
  • Developed customer functions based on research
  • Delivered new insights (e.g., e-vehicle usage behavior)
  • Transformed insights into product and service design
  • Completed projects on time and under budget
Jun 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year 7 months
Munich, Germany

Project Staff

Automotive OEM

  • Assessed and prototyped inductive charging systems
  • Evaluated inductive charging technology for automotive scenarios from technical and economic perspectives
  • Analyzed supplier landscape (corporates, SMEs, startups)
  • Evaluated concepts (Munich, UK)
  • Identified design and operational success factors
  • Created requirements catalog
Apr 2009 - May 2010
1 year 2 months
Munich, Germany

Project Manager

Automotive OEM

  • Managed series development of E/E architecture
  • Handled project management and cost optimization
  • Led series development for multiple E/E components
  • Negotiated with Tier 1 suppliers on quality and technical adjustments
  • Managed requirements for e-vehicle adaptation
  • Improved quality metrics through product and production optimizations
  • Ran efficient project control
  • Strengthened negotiation position with suppliers
Aug 2008 - Mar 2009
8 months
Detroit, United States

Project Manager & Consultant

Automotive Startup OEM

  • Built innovation management and supplier sourcing processes
  • Introduced innovations into product development and supplier management
  • Developed suppliers and negotiated contracts
  • Assessed innovation potential, including touch displays and solar roofs
  • Supported solar roof and touch display introduction
  • Negotiated infotainment and E/E component contracts
  • Optimized interface between development, design, and production
  • Embedded innovation process organizationally
Mar 2007 - Aug 2007
6 months
Munich, Germany
Hybrid

Project Manager & Consultant

Automotive OEM

  • Adapted E/E architecture for hybrid vehicles
  • Optimized system architecture for cost and function
  • Conducted E/E steering committees
  • Negotiated with suppliers
  • Finalized E/E architecture concept
  • Used LeLe methodology to design pure hybrid E/E architecture platform
Jan 2007 - Dec 2010
4 years
Munich, Germany

Consultant

EDAG AG

Jan 2007 - Dec 2010
4 years
Garching, Germany

Senior Consultant

Invenio GmbH

Jan 2002 - Dec 2008
6 years

Various Internships, Working Student, Thesis

Voith, Daimler AG, BMW AG

Summary

  • Automotive technology / industry, market structures & players

  • CASE: e-mobility (including hydrogen), autonomous driving, connectivity, sharing economy

  • Product development

  • Process management

  • Innovation management

  • Risk & opportunity management

  • Communication & facilitation

  • Change management

  • Financial modeling

  • Digital & AI strategy / transformation

  • Multi-project management & project portfolio management

  • Agile principles & company transformation

  • Building & establishing project management offices

  • Sparring with executive management

  • Coaching project managers / teams

  • Lean Startup, design thinking, customer journey

  • Data analytics & prediction

  • Leadership skills in cross-functional environments and different company cultures

  • Ability to integrate & influence

  • Strong communication skills at all hierarchy levels

  • High social skills & mediation role

  • Building partnerships & networks

  • Turning creative ideas into operational, implementable products

  • Extensive expert network – can be tapped in as needed (e.g., interviews)

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

Frankfurt School of Management

MSc, Data Analytics & Management · International Management · Germany

Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

TUM/HHL/UC Berkeley

MBA · Innovation & Business Creation · Berkeley, United States

Oct 2007 - Jun 2011

University of Economics & Management (FOM)

B.A. · Germany

Certifications & licenses

Scaled Agility Collaboration Coach “SACCO”

kyona GmbH

ScrumMaster

ScrumStudy

Certified Project Manager, GPM/IPMA Level D

GPM/IPMA