Experience
Mar 2025 - Present
7 monthsBraunschweig, Germany
Remote
- Management of strategic clients (FMCG, textiles & household goods) for marketplaces Amazon, eBay, Otto Markets, Conrad, Kaufland
- Strategic consulting, workshops & campaign management
- Coordination of interfaces & listing-feed tools: Channable, Perpetua, Magnalister, Marketplace Connect, Mirakl
- Data analysis & dashboard creation with Tableau, Power BI & Claude.ai
Feb 2025 - Present
8 months
- Creation of course materials & delivering lectures
- Topics: Digital marketing (SEA, SEO, social media & search ads), e-commerce, data analytics, digital marketplaces, SCM & logistics
Nov 2024 - Aug 2025
10 months
- Training LLMs using RLHF ("Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback") method for future AI applications
- Various training methods to improve AI applications
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
3 monthsJan 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 8 months
- Development, production & distribution of fresh baby & toddler food
- Took on CFO & COO responsibilities
- Creation & implementation of corporate & growth strategy
- Leadership in new product & assortment development
- DACH expansion DTC & retail within 4 months
- Restructuring & building up of the digital marketing department
- Performance & social ads (Meta, TikTok, Google, Pinterest)
- Data analytics (marketing mix model / logistic regression / attribution models)
- UGC & influencer marketing strategy
- ERP migration from SAP B1 to JTL Wawi, Shopify migration from Shopware, SEA & SEO strategy alignment
- Structural D2C transformation: culture, team & tech stack
- Reduction of fixed cost base including payroll (50%)
Dec 2022 - Present
2 years 10 months
- Lecturer for the Ecomex Business Academy
- Focus on Amazon seller best practices & applications
- Strategy, multichannel operations & marketing modeling
- Amazon & Shopify SEO & SEA
- Digital marketing on Amazon (PPC, brand ads, brand story, A/B testing)
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 6 months
- Food startup with DTC & B2B sales
- E-commerce, SCM & operational responsibilities
- Social media & PPC ads (TikTok, Meta, Amazon, Google)
- SCRUM master & agile coach
- Support for Amazon, Shopify & middleware including SEO & SEA
- Migration & setup of warehouse management system
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
6 months
- Luxury lighting industry
- Product owner & agile coach
- Replaced a mono with a "leagile" dual supply chain strategy
- Creation & planning of a flexible European component manufacturing line
- Support for migration from Microsoft Dynamics
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
9 months
- Retail e-commerce company with various leading brands in Europe with approx. €250M annual revenue
- Consulting & implementation plan for a centralized WMS & reorder system including forecast modeling
- ERP system consulting to merge various silo solutions from different departments & brands
- Test integration of SAP Hybris & Oracle NetSuite
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
9 months
- Retail e-commerce company with brands in textiles & dietary supplements
- Digital marketing (conversion tracking, analytics, PPC ads)
- Implementation of online shop & Amazon strategy incl. SEO & SEA
Jul 2019 - May 2021
1 year 11 months
- On behalf of KKR Inc. / Hilding Anders AB, Malmö, Sweden
- Reporting to the BoD, full P&L responsibility
- Responsible for the entire e-commerce strategy & KPI management: marketing & media, brand, sales, product & IT
- Due diligence & turnaround (rationalization), result: reduced burn rate from €300K to EBITDA break-even in 3 months
- Digital marketing (shop & marketplaces)
- DTC transformation: converting vendor (1st-party) to seller (3rd-party) contract models (Amazon, Otto, Wayfair)
- Development of a new 5-year business plan
- Building a product innovation pipeline with R&D to increase competitiveness & customer satisfaction
- Plentymarkets (ERP) process optimization & automation
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
1 year 8 months
- Online sales of CBD oils (cannabidiol)
- Building the brand & B2C online sales channel
- Social media marketing (Meta), SEO & SEA
Jul 2018 - Present
7 years 3 months
- Service & consulting for international B2C online sales
- Specialized in consumer goods, especially food
- 6-month consulting project for a major confectionery manufacturer (completed)
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
1 year 1 month
- Sales of confectionery via Amazon (FBA program Europe)
- Amazon brand & performance marketing
- Rationalization project from corporate transfer
Nov 2015 - Jun 2018
2 years 8 months
- International confectionery B2C & B2B online sales
- Led the entire team (approx. 30 employees)
- Quadrupled revenue within 3 years
- Expanded product range from 300 to 2,400 items
- Seed & Series A investment over €1M
- Sales across 24 online marketplaces in 8 main target markets
- Online marketing: Facebook, IG, Google, Amazon, affiliate marketing
- Migration to JTL Wawi (ERP, WMS)
May 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 6 months
- Created & developed a confectionery online business
- Set up an xtCommerce shop system
- Built a digital multichannel distribution structure
- Connected & launched marketplaces Amazon & eBay
- Implemented & integrated an order processing & inventory management system (dreamrobot)
- Online marketing strategy & management
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
8 months
- Created & developed a confectionery online business
- Online marketing, Google SEA, on- & off-page SEO
- Built an online shop using a website builder
- Product management & product development
Aug 2011 - Aug 2013
2 years 1 month
- Bachelor's thesis: development of a site evaluation for the medical kit assembly area in collaboration with relevant departments
- Creation of inventory controlling via SAP MM & MS Excel incl. tracking defined actions for old stock audit / stock reduction (volume: €2M)
- Processing & cleansing of material master data in SAP MM
- Preparation of cost center reports with SAP FI/CO & MS Excel
Dec 2010 - Apr 2011
5 monthsFeb 2010 - Oct 2010
9 monthsMar 2009 - Mar 2010
1 year 1 monthOct 2007 - Jul 2008
10 monthsJun 2007 - Oct 2007
5 monthsJan 2005 - Present
20 years 9 months
- BMX World Champion Park discipline 2007
- BMX Freestyle Olympic squad men elite 2018
- Certified J+S cycling instructor (CH)