Johannes Schrey - General Manager Germany

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Feb 2024 - Present

1 year 6 months

Germany

General Manager Germany

LimeBike Germany GmbH

Leading 3 city clusters (Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne) consisting of 14 cities with over 30k active vehicles and USD 40m revenue.
Responsible to build and implement market growth and profitability strategy.
Partnered across global functions from policy, marketing, hardware, to product to connect internal and external stakeholders.
Led turnaround of largest EU market, achieving YoY 45% growth in utilisation, 16% topline, 33% trips, and 30% asset uptime. Built routines and data-based decision making for the team to manage the market more effectively.
Redesigned 3PL marketplace with focus on partnership, securing the majority of tasks with few trusted partners.
Led project to increase granularity of vehicle flow, improving vehicle positioning in high demand areas. This enabled supply control at all times to meet demand patterns focused on weekday vs weekend and commuter vs tourist.
Managed largest fleet refresh in Germany and 40% fleet increase across all markets. Built new operating model for Berlin to allow e-scooters and e-bikes to work differently, better serving the distinct demand cases of our riders.
Developed team to grow effectiveness, with two management promotions, team growth and clear expectations. Engaged team members on all performance sides to release potential and assign fitting responsibilities.
Supported Marketing and Business Development to implement USD 150k marketing campaign, acquiring B2B partnerships, partnering with high profile events and locations to sharpen our company profile.
Built narrative for public opinion shaping and engaged with policy team to move sentiment of key political decision makers in favour of micromobility. Achieved regulatory continuity in largest market in an environment of tightening regulation. Managed to sway city opinion and codify new, favourable rules in another market.

Nov 2021 - May 2022

7 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Fulfillment

Hive Technologies GmbH

Part of company leadership in Series A start-up focusing on technology in operations.
Built and led the fulfillment organisation to scale up operations and build Hive’s warehouse management software.
Established 3 new sites across 3 EU countries. Grew fulfillment throughput 4x, hired 3 site leads and support staff. Achieved first positive contribution margin for operations, setting productivity and throughput records.
Built integrated tech and operations roadmap for the development of own software into 2025. Enabling integrated EU fulfilment across locations and closing gap to industry benchmarks on delivery speed.
Set and implemented OKR initiatives aiming for best-in-class punctuality and accuracy with limited resources. Built a multi-week capacity planning tool to connect funnel planning and hiring plan.
Built an organisation structure to enable scale up across fulfillment, finance, process engineering and data analytics.

Oct 2020 - Nov 2021

1 year 2 months

Mansfield, United Kingdom

Operations Manager - Outbound Launch Team

Amazon UK Services Ltd

Navigating most complex launch EU-wide to success.
Responsible for outbound performance. Led weekly review call with UK network and guiding peers to implement needed process changes. Led process workshops to bring customer facing KPI of speed and quality to benchmark.
Planned Prime Day ’21 for entire site, achieving best UK on-time shipping SLA for robotics sites. Built planning tool integrating operations and engineering restrictions, allowing site to output over 130% of design capacity.
Supported 3 departments across 8 shifts in launch. Built standardized project template to ramp-up capacity, site fullness, and skill across manager population. Implemented engagement focused tool in absence of centralized performance management tool.
Designed and implemented EU’s largest secondary stow area in a robotics building to increase storage capacity, comprising 2 floors, 80 movable shelving systems and up to 36 associates in challenging, covid-safe area.
Led covid-testing campaign with site increasing testing penetration from 50% to 90% of workforce on weekly basis. EMA2 test planning, scheduling, and associate engagement became benchmark for EU wide implementation and UK roll-out of Amazon offered public PCR tests.
Built tool to track absence types during probation period by identifying gap in UK policy compliance and testing site-specific tracking across 8 other sites before releasing into UK network-wide technical integration of a new HR tool.

Jul 2019 - Sep 2020

1 year 3 months

Bristol, United Kingdom

Operations Manager - Inbound Launch Team

Amazon UK Services Ltd

Pushing Europe’s newest robotics building to record success.
Leading team of 4 direct reports and 200 associates to launch new site, working across departments and with EU-wide stakeholders to implement best-in-class processes and trial new approaches to safe working and engagement.
Implemented robust procedures to keep processing time within SLA while site experienced capacity issues, ensuring customer promise metrics remained within benchmark range.
Subject matter expert in stow, managing projects to set-up and improve benchmark standards. Brought department to highest performance levels of any EU launch in peak season 2019.
Project lead on site for technology upgrade of 158 workstations during full operation with expected productivity gain of 15%-20%. Managed external contractors and organised retraining of over 500 associates over a 6 week period.

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

3 months

Dunstable, United Kingdom

Operations Manager

Amazon UK Services Ltd

Leading 3 different teams across shifts in transition period of new site launch training.
Engaged with 8 Area Managers across shifts to enable a succession period and built strong teams with new step-up managers from second row leadership pool.
Managed performance improvement, re-aligning output levels of an Area Manager to expectation.

Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

8 months

Dunstable, United Kingdom

Area Manager

Amazon UK Services Ltd

Led 2 team leads and 75 associates navigating peak season and running improvement projects.
Trained new graduate Area Manager to perform during critical year-end time, ensuring department performance and adherence to all relevant legal and safety standards.
Proposed and led 12% direct productivity improvement project.
Managed implementation of £450k automation build-out with project owner as point of contact for night shift. Assessed usability, safety, and performance metrics to ensure projected goals were accomplished.

Sep 2017 - Jul 2018

11 months

Brieselang, Germany

Area Manager

Amazon Potsdam GmbH

Leading a team of 30 associates and establishing network wide standards of productivity and safety.
Adapted standard work routines to non-standard layout site, develop subject matter expertise in 2 process paths to join EU-wide team of experts assisting in establishing benchmark standards across the EU network.

Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

7 months

Cologne, Germany

Account Technology Strategist – Cloud, Modern Workplace, Security

Microsoft Deutschland GmbH

Serving German state banks, acting as strategy developer and coordinator to enable move to online services.

Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

6 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Senior Consultant - Independent Project Execution at Client Site

FAS AG

Interim manager for a repo and collateral accounting system at a top tier German bank.
Coordinated 15 specialists, advised on technical and functional solutions, increased reporting speed and accuracy.

Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

1 year 5 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Consultant - Financial Services

FAS AG

Qualitative and quantitative analyses while coordinating client and consulting resources.
Developed reporting tool for derivatives, achieved improvement in quality, reliability, and 50% cycle time reduction.
Led year-end reporting and audit, coordinating bank and audit stakeholders for repo and collateral instruments.

Nov 2010 - Jul 2012

1 year 9 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Consultant, Financial Services

BearingPoint GmbH

Improved regulatory control setup, built hedge accounting solution and multi-currency accounting process.

Summary

As a manager with over 9 years of experience in operations, finance, and technology I am at my best when I navigate fast paced environments where speed and accuracy matter. I believe success is based on solid groundwork, taking different viewpoints to challenge assumptions, and moving fast to execution. My dedication is leading high-performance teams and enabling others to succeed. Ambitious targets and information ambiguity are the stretch I am looking for in a role that allows me to balance data and experience with leadership.

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Intermediate

French

Intermediate

Swedish

Elementary

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