Markus (Georg) Trapp

Executive in personnel services, branch manager, business unit manager, temping director

Bielefeld, Germany
Experience
Aug 2024 - Present
1 year

Career reorientation, parental leave

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
7 months
Lippstadt, Germany

Head of the cademify business unit (formerly experts)

A brand of avitea GmbH (Hella / Forvia Group)

  • Assignment & placement of experts and executives, interim management
  • Financial, technical, and disciplinary management of the business unit
  • Establishment and promotion of the new brand (until 02/2024 avitea experts)
  • Responsible for 12 internal employees
  • Sales, coaching, employer branding
  • Focus: increased independence from the parent company
  • Member of the avitea GmbH executive circle

Reason for leaving: crisis in the automotive industry impacting the parent company, temporary incapacity to work during the probation period

Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
1 year 6 months
Bielefeld, Germany

Managing Consultant / Regional Manager "Northwest"

Brenner Deininger Consultants GmbH

  • Opening the Bielefeld branch
  • Business development - sales
  • Personnel consulting
  • Placement of staff
  • Head hunting
  • Executive search
  • Recruiting specialists and executives up to C-level
  • Advising on strategic HR and organizational issues such as employer branding

Reason for leaving: split between the two managing directors, financial difficulties

Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
3 years 9 months
Bielefeld, Germany

Senior Recruitment Consultant

HAPEKO Hanseatisches Personalkontor Deutschland GmbH

  • Awarded "Best Performer 2020/2021"
  • Recruitment consulting
  • Staff placement
  • Head hunting
  • Executive search
  • Recruiting specialists and executives up to C-level
  • Sales

Reason for leaving: lack of opportunities to shape the business, was headhunted

Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 10 months
Cologne, Germany

Director in temping – sector "Central"

Studitemps GmbH

  • Financial, technical, and disciplinary management of the Central sector with locations in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, and Münster. Opened the Bonn and Bielefeld branches in 2018
  • Revenue increase from €10 million in 2016 to over €17 million in 2017
  • Responsible for about 75 internal employees (approx. 50 FTEs & 25 working students) and up to 2,400 external employees/students (m/f/d)
  • As a member of the second management level, designing and shaping the strategic, tactical, and operational direction and framework conditions of the company. For example: sales strategy, talent development, developing compensation and commission models
  • Participation in the overall budgeting of the company
  • Collaboration with SCRUM teams / Agile coaches

Reason for leaving: return to Bielefeld for family reasons, starting school, planned industry change

Oct 2013 - Jan 2017
3 years 4 months
Rheine, Germany

Head of the Personnel Services Division

Kreishandwerkerschaft Steinfurt-Warendorf

  • Market implementation, expansion, operational and strategic market development, and management of the personnel services division created in 2013
  • Budget and results responsibility, personnel leadership responsibility
  • Cooperation with the management of the master craftsmen’s guild, craft guilds, and reporting to the relevant decision-making bodies of the association
  • Strategy development, web concept, marketing
  • Placement and assignment of industrial-technical and commercial specialists and executives
  • Cooperation with the workshops/training and further education departments of the master craftsmen’s guild
  • Personnel consulting
  • Preparation of expert reports (regarding staff reduction measures)
  • Participation in guild meetings, giving presentations
  • Cooperation with the employment agency, job centers, and educational institutions
  • Cooperation with a Dutch municipality – qualification and labor market integration of job seekers

Reason for leaving: distance from Essen to Rheine, no possibility to work remotely

Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
7 months

Parental leave

Dec 2008 - Feb 2013
4 years 3 months
Cologne, Germany

Branch Manager in Office & Management

DIS AG

  • Placement and assignment of specialists and executives in Office & Management
  • Strategic and operational market development (sales, market analysis, network maintenance, personnel marketing, applicant management, recruitment)
  • Budget and results responsibility
  • Reporting to management
  • Personnel leadership responsibility for 5 internal employees and up to 45 external specialists and executives
  • Member of the "Focus" expert group
  • Organization and execution of a customer event with Dr. Reinhard K. Sprenger "Football Strategies for Managers" at the German Sports and Olympic Museum, Cologne
Jan 2008 - Nov 2008
11 months
Nuremberg, Germany

Business Unit Manager – Engineering

Lorenz Technik GmbH & Co. KG

  • Assignment of engineers, technicians, and skilled workers
  • Regional sales, servicing of key accounts
  • Applicant management
  • Budget and results responsibility
  • Advising management & reporting
  • Personnel leadership responsibility for 6 internal employees and up to 185 external employees (engineers, technicians, and skilled workers)
  • Revenue: approx. €8 million p.a.
Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
2 years
Bielefeld, Germany

Branch Manager

SIR Industrieservice GmbH

  • Personnel services company of the ThyssenKrupp Group – from 04/2007: Orizon Group
  • Launch and development, budget and results responsibility
  • Personnel leadership responsibility for 3 internal employees and up to 90 external employees
  • Single-handedly built up a team of 50 employees within 6 months
  • Cooperations and network building within the ThyssenKrupp Group
  • Cooperation with training and education providers
  • Market development (sales, recruitment)
  • Advising management & reporting
  • Collaboration with the works council
  • Membership in the OWL Mechanical Engineering Association
Apr 2002 - Dec 2005
3 years 9 months
Bielefeld, Germany

Branch Manager

Teuto Personal-Service GmbH

  • Opening, development, and management of the branch
  • Market development (sales, recruitment)
  • Results/budget responsibility
  • Advising management & reporting
  • Responsible for the "Training" area
Apr 2000 - Mar 2002
2 years
Detmold, Germany

Branch Manager

randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

  • Opening, development, and management of the branch
  • Assignment of commercial and industrial-technical personnel
  • Maintaining sales-promoting contacts
  • Personnel marketing, advertisement placement, cooperation with educational institutions
  • Results/budget responsibility & reporting
  • Personnel leadership responsibility for 5 internal employees and up to 70 external employees
  • Collaboration with the works council
Jan 1999 - Mar 2000
1 year 3 months
Bielefeld, Germany

Personnel Consultant

randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

  • Participation in the opening and development of the branch
  • Personnel scheduling (sales, recruitment, scheduling)
May 1997 - Dec 1998
1 year 8 months
Moers, Germany

Coordinator

inlingua Sprachschulen Deutschland Arbeitsgemeinschaft internat. Sprachschulen in Deutschland e.V.

  • Establishing, managing, and leading the national offices in Moers and from 04/1998 in Cologne
  • Optimizing cooperation among the language schools and coordinating marketing measures for about 70 schools (design and production of a company brochure, website, cooperation with Spotlight-Verlag)
  • Recruiting and retaining member schools
  • Cooperation with advertising, marketing, and internet agencies as well as print and online media
  • Implementing centralized purchasing (creating a promotional materials catalog)
  • Cooperation with the inlingua headquarters in Bern (CH), foreign partner schools, and publishers
  • Building a database of translators and interpreters
  • Organizing and handling national conferences and events
Jul 1991 - Apr 1997
5 years 10 months
Adelsdorf, Germany

Project Management – Sales

Fa. Messner-Technik GmbH

  • Interrupted by civilian service
Aug 1989 - Mar 1990
8 months
Adelsdorf, Germany

Commercial Project Clerk – Sales

Fa. Messner-Technik GmbH

  • Independent commercial project management (for the sales offices in Munich, Meissen, and Berlin)
  • Interface between production, field service, consulting engineering firms, technical departments, subcontractors, and customer companies (public/non-public)
  • Cost calculation for specifications, preparing offers
  • Post-calculation, controlling
  • Contract review and drafting (application of VOB/VOL knowledge)
  • Preparation and organization of trade fairs
  • Handling English business correspondence
Summary

I am familiar with companies of all sizes and market requirements. I have supported companies ranging from hidden champions in the traditional mid-market, in the crafts sector, to large corporations. My industry knowledge is very versatile and spans automotive, mechanical engineering, electronics, food, kitchen, public clients, IT, and dentistry.

Lived agile mindset – experience working with Scrum teams and Agile coaches and using agile methods and tools (but also understanding their limits). As an Agile Coach and systemic coach, I can support transformation processes and resolve stuck situations.

Experienced in cooperating with: employer and economic development associations, German and Dutch municipalities, chambers of industry and commerce (IHKs), craft businesses and guilds, works councils, network partners such as outplacement agencies, employment agencies, job centers, public clients, training institutes, volunteers, advertising, marketing, and internet agencies, publishers; member of IHC-OWL Industry and Trade Club East Westphalia e.V.; member of the German Coaching Association (DGfC).

Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 2013 - Feb 2018

PFH Private Hochschule Göttingen

Diploma in Business Administration (FH) · Business Administration · Göttingen, Germany

Oct 1995 - Dec 1998

Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie Nürnberg

Business Administrator (VWA) · Business Administration · Nuremberg, Germany · satisfactory

Sep 1986 - Jul 1989

Messner Technik GmbH

Industrial Clerk · Adelsdorf, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Agile Coach

Agile Heroes GmbH

Master Business with AI (MBAI)

LAI Leaders of AI GmbH

Coach (DGfC)

DGfC

Business Administrator (VWA)

VWA – Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie Nürnberg und Düsseldorf

Marketing Specialist (IHK)

Educational Center of the City of Nuremberg

Foreign Language Clerk English (IHK)

DAG-Bamberg

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