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Holger Prange

Interim Sales/Marketing/Business Development/Transformation Manager

Holger Prange
Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Jan 2003 - Present
23 years 1 month
Hamburg, Germany

Interim Sales/Marketing/Business Development/Transformation Manager

Management-Lotsen

  • Developing and reviewing business plans
  • Restructuring/transformation
  • Reviewing investment decisions
  • Adjusting business models
  • Operational support for extraordinary transactions
  • Digitization (sales and marketing)
  • Process optimization
  • Supporting generational transitions
  • Brand management – brand reactivation
Jan 2000 - Dec 2003
4 years
Hamburg, Germany

Head of Marketing and Sales, Member of Management Board

Gies Kerzen GmbH (Blyth Inc)

  • Developing and launching a new product range
  • Building a new specialist trade distribution in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
  • Negotiating international industrial partnerships
  • Creating efficient structures for the food retail, specialist trade, department store, and mail order channels
  • Introducing an objective- and performance-oriented management system
  • Implementing modern key account management
Jan 1995 - Dec 2000
6 years
Hamburg, Germany

Marketing and Sales Director / International Marketing Director

Reemtsma Cigaretten GmbH

  • Aligning country interests with headquarters (1995–1996)
  • Conducting portfolio analyses and realignment; launching new brands and relaunches; planning and executing brand diversification projects; market analysis and development of sales strategies and trade marketing concepts (1996–1998)
  • Identifying and closing portfolio gaps; evaluating sociocultural segments; deriving positioning and brand strategies; developing the marketing mix for BOSS and Polo; successfully launching in eight countries (1998–2000)
Jan 1994 - Dec 1995
2 years
Munich, Germany

National Key Account Manager

Bertelsmann Music Group

  • Generating revenue in the high seven-figure range
Jan 1989 - Dec 1994
6 years
Hamburg, Germany

Trainee / Project & Promotion Manager / Sales Manager Food Retail / Senior Product Manager Ice Cream

Langnese Iglo GmbH

  • Trainee program and project management in promotions in East Germany with budget responsibility of DM 8.5 million and leading 20 employees (1990–1991)
  • Establishing the sales management in food retail with revenue responsibility of DM 85 million and leading 17 employees (1991–1993)
  • Relaunch of an ice cream brand as Senior Product Manager (1993–1994)

Summary

A highly action-oriented and crisis-tested sales manager focused on developing and implementing successful strategies to boost revenue, market share, or profitability, as well as exploring new markets and developing (digital) business models or (digital) marketing strategies – for growth projects and in restructuring/transformation.

Proven success in operational leadership and rebuilding sales and marketing departments, restructuring, process optimization, and strategic and operational realignment of business units.

SME-oriented and hands-on, with strong motivational skills.

Experienced in private equity (Aurelius, SVP, Allistro, Maj Invest)

Industries: B2C, B2B, MedTech, OTC, Food/Non-Food, Consumer Goods, Specialty Papers, Automotive, Media, Gift and Collectibles, Manufactures, Home Decor, Tobacco, Wholesale and Retail

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

University of Hamburg

Diploma in Business Administration · Marketing/Law/Psychology · Hamburg, Germany

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