Daniel Niederberger
Consultant (Strategy)
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
HybridProject 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 yearsVarious 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
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