Markus N.

Managing Director

Herxheim bei Landau (Pfalz), Germany

Experience

Jan 2014 - Present
11 years 8 months
Germany

Managing Director

Health Content

  • Medical texts and other content for healthcare professionals and laypeople (patients)
  • Dietary supplements, (herbal) medicinal products (OTC, prescription drugs), indications, medical devices.
  • 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)
  • Writing independent texts (books, reports, press releases)
  • Translating English-language books and journal articles
  • Editing German and English books
Sep 1992 - Feb 1995
2 years 6 months
Atlanta, United States

Postdoctoral Fellow

Emory University

  • At the Department of Pharmacology with Prof. Dr. Ray Dingledine
  • Research in molecular neurobiology
  • Fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Sep 1988 - Jul 1992

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

PhD · Molecular Neurobiology · Heidelberg, Germany

Oct 1982 - Apr 1988

University of Regensburg and University of Konstanz

Diploma · Biology · Germany

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