Content strategy, content management, maintenance and optimization,
Content promotion and seeding,
For websites, social media, blogs, email marketing, eBooks and whitepapers
Also for print media: planning and writing books, brochures and articles for medical journals (for lay readers and professionals).
Clients: medical publishers and agencies, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, online pharmacies, larger medical practices
Nov 2000 - Dec 2013
13 years 2 months
Karlsruhe, Germany
Internet Project Manager
Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG
Supporting product management for Tebonin, Crataegutt, Neuroplant and Prostagutt (OTC) and in the planning and implementation of the launch of several dietary supplements (TUIM line)
Overall responsibility for the German-language online presence (company homepage and 11 product homepages):
Designing, writing, maintaining and further developing the entire Schwabe website (Ranked #1 in the "Benchmark Pharma @Award" in the OTC category in 2009)
Planning and implementing search engine optimization (SEO) measures (on- and off-page)
Building and maintaining an online community with up to 7,000 users
Planning, coordinating and partly executing online marketing and PR activities, for example:
Google AdWords campaigns
Banner campaigns
Affiliate advertising network
Newsletter marketing (B2B (doctors/pharmacists) and B2C newsletters, approx. 15,000 subscribers) list building, writing, monitoring
Selecting and managing internal and external service providers (advertising, internet and PR agencies), controlling costs, time and quality
Writing and distributing journalistic texts for online and offline press services
Corresponding with domestic and foreign journalists and influencers (online and print), professionals and laypeople
Participating in the preparation of press conferences
Regularly monitoring the success of online marketing measures using relevant KPIs and presenting the results to marketing management and executive board
Independently planning and managing (schedule and budget control) demanding individual projects in the multimedia and online area.
Sep 1998 - Oct 2000
2 years 2 months
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Editor
S. Karger Verlag für Medizin und Naturwissenschaften GmbH
Performing editing tasks: revising manuscripts (German and English), communicating with authors, monitoring deadlines, coordinating inside and outside the publishing house
Implementing PR activities for individual book projects
Carrying out scheduling and coordination of book and journal projects
Contributing to the conception and development of a new scientific journal in dermatology
Oct 1997 - Aug 1998
11 months
Stuttgart, Germany
PR Department Assistant
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
Writing journalistic texts for the medical and naturopathic press services of the publishing group
Corresponding with domestic and foreign press representatives (print and TV)
Assisting in the preparation of press conferences
Mar 1995 - Sep 1997
2 years 7 months
Berlin, Germany
Freelance writer, editor and translator
Freelance work for various publishers and organizations, mainly in medicine, biology and related natural sciences (specialist and popular science) (especially Spektrum der Wissenschaft)