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

  • Implemented OneTrust as a central registry for all processing activities

  • Introduced JIRA Service Management for all privacy requests

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

  • Drafted data processing agreements (DPAs)

  • Delivered trainings (e.g., OneTrust), daily meetings and sprints

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

  • Risk management

  • Set up marketing campaigns (with and without promotions) for existing customers and prospects with privacy review

  • Coordinated and managed assessments and audits

  • Designed a loyalty program

  • Documented 1000+ processing activities in compliance with privacy regulations

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

  • Successfully implemented the loyalty program with a privacy-compliant process

  • Fully set up OneTrust, supplier, contract, and asset documentation

May 2022 - Feb 2023
10 months

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

LJ & Partner

  • Designed new promotions and value propositions for multiple segments

  • Led new customer campaigns/promotions project with a team of up to 10 members

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

  • Defined cross-channel incentives and pricing mechanics

  • Owned budget and strategy for all new customer campaigns/offers (up to 3 million CHF)

  • Analyzed competitor products and market trends

  • Created and maintained marketing materials (brochures, flyers, emails)

  • Conducted and led workshops

  • Increased customer loyalty by up to 25%

  • Successfully launched a new referral program

  • Efficiently managed a multi-million CHF budget

  • Implemented and repositioned a new Internet & TV product portfolio (including an ATL TV campaign)

  • Reduced churn rate by up to 35%

  • Gained solid skills 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

  • Implemented Adobe Journey Optimizer, DMP, Target, Experience Manager, and Google Analytics as a complete campaign stack

  • Created 50+ cross-channel CRM and marketing use cases

  • Rebuilt targeting logic based on customer behavior

  • Established an agile operational structure following Spotify Tribes and Squads

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

  • Leveraged all CRM 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd-party data for effective retargeting

  • Developed go-to-market strategies with relevant campaigns

  • 50% more effective marketing campaigns

  • Improved NPS by 30%

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

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

  • Led the end-to-end implementation of the entire Adobe stack with multiple developers and project managers

  • Sustainable agile knowledge transfer to all teams

  • Successfully launched 8 brands within the defined time and budget

Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 months

Project Lead for Building and Launching a Migration Department

LJ & Partner

  • Built a new migration department

  • Defined all relevant migration paths and process chains

  • Managed technical and commercial migration activities

  • Created requirements specs, business cases, and governance documents

  • Led a team of 5 FTE and integrated it into the overall company

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

  • Successfully migrated over 100 enterprise customers

  • Reduced error rate by 40%

  • Ensured regulatory compliance and documentation

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

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
6 months

Project Lead for Implementing the Google Marketing Cloud

LJ & Partner

  • Led the project from procurement to operational implementation of Google Marketing Cloud

  • Analyzed and selected the Google reseller

  • Defined technical use cases and segmentation logics

  • Managed UAT, testing processes, and deployment planning

  • Negotiated costs up to 2 million EUR

  • 20% better campaign performance

  • Increased digital revenue by 30%

  • Technically clean implementation within time and budget

  • Optimized reseller costs

  • Successfully executed up to 15 use cases

  • Completed UAT, defect fixes, and deployments successfully

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-, 3rd-party data for retargeting

  • Developing use cases

  • UAT and quality assurance

  • Successfully implementing 50 use cases in production

  • Increasing lead generation by up to 20%

  • Creating a tool overview with over 100 software solutions and interfaces

  • Implementing on time and within budget

  • Transparent, scalable marketing architecture

  • More effective B2B sales teams through better campaign delivery

  • Successful UAT, defect, and deployment execution

Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
1 year 1 month

Project Manager for the Design and Implementation of a New Product and Pricing Portfolio

LJ & Partner

  • Designing a new pricing and product portfolio

  • Reorganizing and training the customer service team

  • Creating use cases and target group models

  • Developing go-to-market strategies

  • Deploying with 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

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

  • Setting up a new customer service with an incentive system

  • Improving NPS by 30%

  • Growing ARPU by 15% through cross- and upselling

  • Developing 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 pricing plans and product structure

  • Creating mockups and business specifications

  • Leading UAT

  • Introducing an OKR (Objectives and Key Results) target system

  • 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

  • 30% revenue growth from new 5G pricing plans

  • Strong acquisition of new customers

  • Technically clean implementation of the 5G websites

  • Creating 10 campaign and product websites

  • Implementing the OKR framework with clear, measurable results

  • Successful launch of the new 5G portfolio

Sep 2018 - May 2019
9 months

Project Lead for the Design and Implementation of the Adobe Marketing Cloud

LJ & Partner

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

  • Creating and reviewing tender documents

  • Project management as Scrum Master & Product Owner

  • Analyzing Adobe Marketing Cloud tools

  • Defining targeting and DMP use cases

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

  • Developing go-to-market strategies

  • Conducting workshops

  • Risk management

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

  • Leading up to 25 stakeholders

  • Improving consolidated data quality

  • Implementing up to 30 marketing use cases/campaigns

  • Enhancing retargeting quality

  • Integrating into the 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 transitioning into the new corporate structure

  • Building a new organizational structure

  • Creating and reviewing contract documents

  • Setting up the IT infrastructure

  • Finding real estate

  • Preparing the annual financial statements

  • Introducing new procurement processes

  • Designing new organizational structures and processes worth several million euros for over 300 employees

  • Successfully completing the carve-out in 6 months

  • Transferring 300 employees

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

  • Setting up new offices

  • Renegotiating all SLAs

  • Ensuring smooth operations from day one

Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
7 months

Project Lead for the implementation of a route and dispatch software

LJ & Partner

  • Introduction of LogObject mLogistics

  • Coordination of technical and IT teams

  • 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

  • Implementation of the route planning and dispatch software for over 30 service partners

  • 35% reduction in downtime

  • Faster service responses

  • Improved partner quality

  • Successful go-live

  • Conducted over 50 training sessions

Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
4 months

Project Lead for the implementation of a new ticketing process structure in finance and accounting

LJ & Partner

  • Implementation of SAP HANA in the finance department

  • Creation of a process overview for the CapEx planning process

  • Development of a new finance and accounting process structure including a macro-based template

  • Setup of a SharePoint process with automated workflow

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

  • Preparation and follow-up of the presentation for the finance and accounting director with the parent company

  • Implementation of SAP HANA

  • Introduction of automated approval logic

  • Reduced error rate by up to 30%

  • Successful CapEx calculations

  • Conducted SteerCo meetings with Germany and Spain

Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
9 months

Project Manager for implementing 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 of Adobe service provider and internal teams

  • Test management

  • Project management using Scrum and agile methods

  • Leading workshops with Adobe

  • Improved CRM data by 35%

  • Reduced campaign costs by 0.5 million EUR

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

  • Improved campaign quality and retargeting

May 2016 - Oct 2016
6 months

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

LJ & Partner

  • Management of prequalification proposals and oversight of the tender process

  • Execution of the tender

  • Ensuring alignment with the company strategy

  • Analysis of the Adobe DMP and integration of existing tools (Analytics, Experience Management, Campaign Management)

  • Evaluation and selection of various service providers with a budget of several million EUR

  • Creation of SteerCo presentations

  • Development of 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 involving up to 500 stakeholders and budgets up to 50 million EUR. His focus areas are digital marketing, data privacy & compliance, CRM, digital transformation, and the implementation of 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

English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
German
Elementary

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

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