Daniel Wolff
Senior Consultant Digital Products, Commercials & Technology
Experience
Sabbatical
Sabbatical
- Travel and Gen AI trainings
Business Consultant
Self-employed
Advising and hands-on supporting the Digital Sales & Ancillaries department
Advocating and implementing investment appraisal processes
Calculating business cases for initiative governance
Overseeing project governance compliance
Writing the requirements for and leading the negotiations with a vendor for a white label partnership for dynamic packaging of tourism products for new revenue streams for Saudia Airlines with a € 250m revenue target in year 5
Director
TUI International Holiday (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
- Spearheaded the end-to-end establishment of the Malaysian start-up, achieving annual EBIT targets and managing full P&L accountability
- Designed and executed a comprehensive organizational framework encompassing Product Management, HR, Finance, IT, and Customer Service departments
- Recruited and led an interdisciplinary team of 18 direct and indirect reports within a high-growth environment
- Realized significant increases in sales volumes and profit margins by automating analytics and pricing and optimizing the content portfolio
- Engineered the company’s supply chain by negotiating and onboarding critical global partners, including Amadeus, Adyen, and Hotelbeds
Head of International Partnerships
TUI AG
- Developed the business models and cases for white label and SaaS partnerships with airlines for dynamic packaging of tourism products, as well as product and platform requirements
- Secured and implemented high-stakes white-label partnership agreements with major carriers, including Qatar Airways and Malaysia Airlines
- Grew the global business by double-digit million € ARR by entering 43 markets, including evaluating, devising, and implementing end-to-end necessities to cater for all market specific needs
- Reduced operational costs and boosted market agility by acquiring a SaaS-based booking engine through a complex cross-border deal, including the business case and incorporating a new IT hub in Vietnam
Principal Manager API Factory
Vodafone Group Services
- Managed a € 3M budget and built a global team of 60 across 7 offices in Europe and Asia
- Orchestrated a full organizational shift from Waterfall to Agile Scrum, resulting in a 50% reduction in implementation costs and 30% faster time-to-market (4 Scrum Teams)
- Improved release stability to >90% bug-free first releases through automation of testing, introduction of DevOps and continuous integration
- Established the Group API department from the ground up, defining the global strategy and delivering the first B2B SaaS models for national Vodafone companies
Team Manager, Consumer Marketing
Vodafone DE
- Consistently met turnover targets exceeding €1B by introducing innovative mobile data tariffs and turnaround strategies for legacy services
- Acted as the lead project manager for the German market debut of high-profile hardware, including the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablet
- Developed first-to-market features in Germany, such as real-time on-device postpaid agreements and on-demand bandwidth throttling disablement
- Led a team of 8 members
Senior Product Manager, Consumer Marketing
Vodafone DE
- Increased the market leadership in the mobile broadband segment
Consultant
BearingPoint GmbH
- Worked on projects with the German Ministry of Defence (Supply Chain) and Vodafone (Product and Project Management)
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Experienced in Telecommunication (10 years), Tourism (9 years), and Aerospace and Defense (1 year).
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Experienced in Product Development (16 years), Project Management (10 years), Operations (7 years), Strategy (7 years), Information Technology (6 years), and Finance (4 years).
Summary
20+ years of experience leading product, go-to-market, partnerships, and technology at TUI and Vodafone. P&L holder with experience scaling international hubs (Europe, India, Malaysia, Vietnam) and teams (up to 50), growing revenue by multi-million EUR and delivering Agile/DevOps transformations that cut costs by 50% and accelerated time-to-market by 30%. Led start-up, commercial, and technology organisations, negotiated global white label deals and vendor partnerships.
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Education
Anglia Ruskin University
BA (Hons) European Business · European Business · Cambridge, United Kingdom
Berlin School of Economics and Law
Diplom-Kaufmann / Master of Business Economics · Business Economics · Berlin, Germany
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