Lars J.

Project Manager & Data Privacy/Compliance Manager

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Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Oct 2023 - Nov 2025
2 years 2 months

Project Manager & Data Privacy/Compliance Manager

LJ & Partner

  • Implementation of OneTrust as the central register for all processing activities

  • Introduction of JIRA Service Management for all privacy requests

  • Conducting DSFAs and third-party management (e.g. third-country transfers)

  • Drafting data processing agreements (DPAs)

  • Conducting trainings (e.g. OneTrust), daily stand-ups and sprints

  • Redesign of marketing cookie & consent processes (opt-in/opt-out)

  • Risk management

  • Setting up marketing campaigns (with and without promotions) for existing customers and prospects with privacy checks

  • Coordinating and managing assessments and audits

  • Designing a loyalty program

  • 1000+ processing activities documented in a privacy-compliant way

  • Up to 50% faster incident and ticket handling through ticket automation

  • Successful implementation of the loyalty program with a privacy-compliant process

  • Complete setup of OneTrust, supplier, contract, and asset documentation

May 2022 - Feb 2023
10 months

Project Manager Head of Customer Value Proposition – Interim Management & Promotion Design

LJ & Partner

  • Designing new promotions and value propositions for multiple segments

  • Project leadership for new customer campaigns/promotions, leading a team of up to 10 employees

  • Redesigned the loyalty program including benefit structure (e.g. referral bonuses, data volume)

  • Defined cross-channel incentives and pricing mechanics

  • Budget and strategic responsibility for all new customer campaigns/offers (up to 3 million CHF)

  • Analysis of competitive products and market movements

  • Development and maintenance of marketing materials (brochures, flyers, emails)

  • Conducting and leading workshops

  • Increased customer loyalty by up to 25%

  • Successful launch of a new referral program

  • Effective budget utilization of several million CHF

  • Implementation and repositioning of a new internet & TV product portfolio (including an ATL TV campaign)

  • Reduced churn rate by up to 35%

  • Gained solid knowledge in Figma (UI/UX), Hybris, Google Analytics and Adobe Experience Manager, Target, Campaign

Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years 1 month

Project Manager Product Owner

LJ & Partner

  • Implementation of Adobe Journey Optimizer, DMP, Target, Experience Manager and Google Analytics as a full campaign stack

  • Creation of 50+ cross-channel CRM and marketing use cases

  • Rebuilding targeting logic based on customer behavior

  • Building an agile operational structure following Spotify Tribes and Squads

  • Setting up marketing campaigns (with and without promotions) for existing customers and prospects

  • Using all CRM first-, second- and third-party data for effective retargeting

  • Developing go-to-market strategies with relevant campaigns

  • 50% more effective marketing campaigns

  • NPS improvement by 30%

  • Unified technical white-label platform across all channels and brands

  • Unified KPI monitoring across the customer lifecycle (conversion, churn, ARPU, CLV)

  • Overall project management of the implementation of the entire Adobe stack with many developers and project managers

  • Sustainable agile knowledge transfer to all teams

  • Successful launch of 8 brands within the defined time and budget

Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 months

Project Lead – Establishment and Launch of a Migration Department

LJ & Partner

  • Establishing the new migration department

  • Defining all relevant migration paths and process chains

  • Managing technical and commercial migration activities

  • Creating requirement specifications, business cases and governance documents

  • Leading a team of 5 FTE and integrating it into the overall company

  • Leading the development of IT requirements for tools like Remedy, WebOM, Confluence

  • Successfully migrated over 100 large customers

  • Reduced error rate by 40%

  • Ensured regulatory compliance and documentation

  • Built a fully functional department within the given time and budget

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
6 months

Project Lead – Implementation of the Google Marketing Cloud

LJ & Partner

  • Project lead from commissioning to operational implementation of the Google Marketing Cloud

  • Analysis and selection of the Google reseller

  • Defining technical use cases and segmentation logic

  • Managing UAT, testing processes and deployment planning

  • Cost negotiations up to 2 million EUR

  • 20% better campaign performance

  • 30% increase in digital revenues

  • Technically sound implementation on time and within budget

  • Optimized reseller costs

  • Successful implementation of up to 15 use cases

  • Successful execution of UAT, defect handling and deployments

Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
5 months

Project Lead for SAP Marketing Cloud Implementation

LJ & Partner

  • Scoping workshops with all stakeholders

  • Creating an overview of 100 systems and interfaces

  • Introducing the SAP Marketing Cloud into the system landscape

  • Defining the new marketing IT structure with orchestrated data pools

  • Using all CRM 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-party data for retargeting

  • Developing use cases

  • UAT and quality assurance

  • Successfully deployed 50 use cases in production

  • Increased lead generation by up to 20%

  • Created a tool overview with over 100 software and interfaces

  • Implementation within time and budget

  • Transparent, scalable marketing architecture

  • More effective B2B sales teams through better campaign delivery

  • Successful UAT, defect management, and deployment

Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
1 year 1 month

Project Manager for Concept and Implementation of a New Product and Pricing Portfolio

LJ & Partner

  • Concept for a new pricing and product portfolio

  • Reorganizing and training the customer service

  • Creating use cases and target group models

  • Developing go-to-market strategies

  • Deploying using agile methods in sprints

  • Monitoring KPIs along the customer lifecycle (conversion, churn, ARPU, CLV)

  • Risk management

  • Conducting UAT, go-live support, defect and test management

  • Introduced a new pricing portfolio (similar to a Spotify Family package) and bundles with a budget of 1-2 million CHF

  • Built a new customer service with an incentive system

  • Improved NPS by 30%

  • Achieved 15% ARPU growth through cross- and up-sell

  • Developed up to 5 marketing campaigns online and offline

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
7 months

Project Lead for B2B 5G Concept and Implementation

LJ & Partner

  • Defining 5G tariffs and product structure

  • Creating mockups and business specifications

  • Leading UAT

  • Introducing an objective system based on OKR (Objectives and Key Results)

  • Content management and data maintenance

  • Responsible for the B2B website (Adobe Experience Manager)

  • Creating mockups and coordinating campaigns with agencies

  • Configuring in AEM and Hybris

  • Analyzing the B2B customer communication strategy

  • Achieved 30% revenue growth through new 5G tariffs

  • Strong new customer growth

  • Technically clean implementation of the 5G websites

  • Created 10 campaign and product websites

  • Introduced the OKR framework with clear, measurable results

  • Successfully launched the new 5G portfolio

Sep 2018 - May 2019
9 months

Project Lead for Concept and Implementation of the Adobe Marketing Cloud

LJ & Partner

  • Managing the tender process through to selecting Adobe as the service provider

  • Preparing and reviewing tender documents

  • Project management as Scrum Master & Product Owner

  • Analyzing Adobe Marketing Cloud tools

  • Defining targeting and DMP use cases

  • Unified monitoring of KPIs along the customer lifecycle (conversion, churn, ARPU, CLV)

  • Developing go-to-market strategies

  • Conducting workshops

  • Risk management

  • Launched the Adobe Marketing Cloud with a budget of 5 million CHF

  • Led up to 25 stakeholders

  • Improved consolidated data quality

  • Delivered up to 30 marketing use cases/campaigns

  • Increased retargeting quality

  • Integrated into existing IT architecture with Adobe Analytics, Experience Management, and Campaign Management

Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
6 months

Project Lead for Carve-Out

LJ & Partner

  • Developing a carve-out strategy and transformation into a new corporate structure

  • Establishing a new organizational structure

  • Preparing and reviewing contract materials

  • Setting up the IT infrastructure

  • Searching for real estate

  • Preparing the annual financial statements

  • Introducing new procurement processes

  • Developed new organizational structures and processes worth several million EUR for over 300 employees

  • Completed the carve-out successfully in 6 months

  • Transferred 300 employees

  • Introduced new tools (e.g., Legisway)

  • Set up new offices

  • Renegotiated all SLAs

  • Ensured smooth operations from day one

Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
7 months

Project Lead for Implementation of a Routing and Dispatch Software

LJ & Partner

  • Implementation of LogObject mLogistics

  • Coordination of engineering and IT

  • Reviewing proposals and ensuring ITT services

  • Training and onboarding of all partners

  • Implementation of change requests

  • Optimization of partner management

  • Single point of contact for all project stakeholders

  • Implemented routing and dispatch software for over 30 service partners

  • Reduced failures by 35%

  • Faster service deployments

  • Improved partner quality

  • Successful go-live

  • Conducted over 50 training sessions

Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
4 months

Project Lead for Implementing a New Process Structure for Ticket Creation in Finance and Accounting

LJ & Partner

  • Introduction of SAP HANA in the finance department

  • Creation of a process overview for the CapEx planning process

  • Development of a new Finance & Accounting process structure including a macro-based template

  • Set up a SharePoint process with an automated workflow

  • Analysis of the current request list and consolidation of all CapEx project requests

  • Preparation and follow-up of presentations for the Finance & Accounting director and the parent company

  • Implementation of SAP HANA

  • Introduction of automated approval logic

  • Reduced error rate by up to 30%

  • Successful CapEx calculations

  • Conducted steering committee meetings with Germany and Spain

Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
9 months

Project Manager for Implementation of an Adobe Data Management Platform

LJ & Partner

  • Development and testing of data-driven, cross-channel marketing campaigns and processes

  • Implementation of the Adobe DMP

  • Coordination between Adobe and internal teams

  • Test management

  • Project management using Scrum and agile methods

  • Led workshops with Adobe

  • Improved CRM data by 35%

  • Reduced campaign costs by €0.5 million

  • Consolidated collected data (web behavior, CRM) for personalized offers

  • Improved campaign quality and retargeting

May 2016 - Oct 2016
6 months

Project Lead for Evaluation of a Data Management Platform (DMP)

LJ & Partner

  • Managed prequalification proposals and oversaw the tender process

  • Executed the tender

  • Ensured alignment with the company strategy

  • Analyzed the Adobe DMP and integrated existing tools (Analytics, Experience Management, Campaign Management)

  • Evaluated and selected various service providers with a budget of several million euros

  • Prepared steering committee presentations

  • Developed vendor analyses for management

Summary

Lars is a digital marketing expert, data privacy manager and project/interim manager with over 10 years of experience leading and managing transformation projects with up to 500 stakeholders and budgets up to 50 million EUR. His focus areas are digital marketing, data privacy & compliance, CRM, digital transformation and implementing marketing tools/CRM software (including Adobe, Google, Salesforce, JIRA & Confluence).

Skills

  • Project Management

  • Interim Management

  • Data Privacy & Compliance Management

  • Marketing & Crm Strategies/concepts

  • Campaign Management

  • Go-to-market Strategies

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Tenders

  • Tool/software Evaluation & Implementation

  • Change Management

  • Process Analysis

  • Ms Office 365

  • Onetrust

  • Adobe Marketing Cloud

  • Confluence/jira

  • Salesforce

  • Google Marketing Platform

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

University of Sydney / Stockholm School of Economics / Rotterdam School of Management

Master of Arts & Master of Science in Management and Finance, CEMS Program · Management and Finance · Stockholm, Sweden

Oct 2008 - Jun 2011
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Bachelor of Arts, Dual Study Program · Supply Chain Management · Metzingen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

AI Officer

Certified OneTrust Product Owner for Privacy Management Professional

Certified SCRUM Master and Product Owner

Trainer Aptitude Certificate

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