Peter Pries
CRM & Bid Management Project Consultant
Experience
CRM & Bid Management Project Consultant
Global mechanical engineering company
- CRM process and feature consulting
- AI infusion workshops to introduce AI apps for critical business processes
- Prototyping – Vibe coding with Lovable
- Development of several apps for global bid management in the CPQ, Salesforce, and SAP S/4HANA environment
- Requirements and process management
- Introduction of a new data governance model
- AI infusion – supporting apps and business processes with AI applications
- Portfolio management of AI ideas: identifying and selecting AI projects in bid management
- Prototyping AI projects with Lovable.dev
- Building an AI data foundation in Snowflake
- Blueprint for different business units and global rollout
- An agile prototype-first approach with design thinking and vibe coding to prototype all applications
- Presentation at a global conference on using AI in business and validating ideas with design thinking & vibe coding
- AI infusion workshops at global conferences for prototyping ideas with business stakeholders
Omnichannel MarTech architecture, MarTech vendor selection, MarTech reporting and optimization
Eventim
- Requirements management, RFP creation, organization of the vendor selection process, decision support
- Machine learning and buying prediction use case for campaign optimization
- Developing AI use cases while protecting Eventim's data from LLM exploitation. Technologies: Bloomreach, Adobe, Salesforce, Braze, Dymatrix, Hubspot, Blueshift, Optimizely, Salesmanago, Movable Ink, Databricks, Snowflake, Zeotap, Tableau, MicroStrategy
Enterprise Architect – CRM Salesforce – EMEA Ecosystem – Data Cloud
Grohe Lixil
- Advising on architecture blueprints and strategic decisions
- Creating RFPs for implementations and managing implementation as a consultant
- Advising on implementing Salesforce Data Cloud as a leading CDP to optimize marketing automation. Technologies: Sales Cloud, SAP, Workato, Stitch, Google Cloud, AWS, Hybris SAP Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Loyalty Cloud, Data Cloud (CDP)
Consultant
Qiagen
- Go-to-market strategy
Co-Lead Corporate Digitalization Program
E.ON
- Project portfolio management based on a gateway and marketplace approach
- Strategy decision tree with business case as a prerequisite for project selection
- Managing a corporate digitalization program with OKRs in workstreams for culture, BI, process automation, architecture, and data governance
AI use case:
- Correction of booking errors using AI technologies: Celonis, SAP, AWS, DMS
Project Lead & Head Product Owner CRM
Ad Alliance
- Restart of the working methods for the CRM development team to speed up delivering the right features to sales
- Agile coaching of the 40+ developer team and stakeholder management
- Product roadmap alignment. Technologies: Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Project Manager / Product Owner / Interim CIO
Douglas Marketing Solutions
- Project manager for go-to-market – self-service B2P retail media portal
- Implementation of Salesforce lead-to-cash
- Implementation of AI tool click prediction for SPA campaigns
- Tender for marketing mix modeling with AI – incrementality
- CPQ and EPC implementation within Salesforce Media Cloud
- Pricing strategy – discounts, promotions and revenue management
- Implementation of Braze MarTech – omnichannel
- Customer data platform – vendor selection & implementation – Zeotap
- Dunning processes
- Analysis of HubSpot vs. Salesforce for Douglas's partner management
- Led SAP integration and process optimization
- AI machine learning project with Einstein, CRM Analytics and Tableau
- Agentforce – AI-powered customer service agent
- Implementation of lead-to-cash and dunning processes
- Ensured IFRS compliance
- Designed and implemented voucher bookings
- Close coordination with SAP teams and business units
- Designed the business end-to-end processes and architecture
- Developed a three-year business plan, presented target architecture, business cases and investments to the board
- Scaled the organization from 8 to 50 employees, multiplying revenue and profit
- Implemented the CDP and supported the Incrementality project with Adtriba, CPD and a custom model based on Salesforce CRM Analytics, Einstein machine learning and Tableau
AI Use Case:
- Click and ROAS prediction for SPS retail media campaigns using a custom ML model (Einstein, data source Snowflake)
- Customer service agent with Salesforce Agentforce
- Marketing mix modeling to predict the impact of incremental retail media spending on supplier revenue at Douglas
Project Lead / Product Owner Service & Marketing Automation
RTL+
- Vendor selection, requirements management, strategy, business case, user story mapping and POCs for service and marketing automation
- Technical lead for implementing the service part
AI Use Case:
- Support for AI personalization with Data Tribe, identifying metadata and customer journeys. Technologies: Braze, Zendesk, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, SAP CDP, Gigya, AWS, Power BI
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Advertising (5 years), Retail (5 years), Manufacturing (3 years), Media and Entertainment (3 years), Energy (2 years), and Biotechnology (1 year).
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Experienced in Information Technology (5 years), Marketing (5 years), Project Management (5 years), Business Intelligence (3 years), Product Development (2 years), and Customer Service (2 years).
Summary
14 years of experience in program and portfolio management in digital transformations at, among others, Merck Pharma, Qiagen, and Ottobock,
First AI projects in 2016 with IBM Watson, then Google, Amazon, Claude, Agentforce, Salesforce Einstein – machine learning, at Eventim, RTL, and Celonis at E.ON
Various AI courses at Google, Coursera, and Claude.
Skills
Ai Consulting And Training
Product Owner
Interim Cio
Project And Program Manager
Business Analyst
Omnichannel Strategy And Implementation
S4 / Hana
Crm: Salesforce And Microsoft Dynamics
Project Controlling And Portfolio Management
Business Architect & Enterprise Architect
Business Process Automation
Marketing Automation
Data-driven Marketing With Customer Data Platform
Bi And Machine Learning Projects
Ai-driven Marketing
Sap Integration And Process Integration
Enterprise Architecture Based On Togaf
Change Management
Sap Ecosystem
Sap Fico
Sap Commerce Cloud
Sap Hybris
Sap R3
Sap Xi
Sap Pp (Master Data Management)
Sap Plm
Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud
Aws
Azure
Google Cloud
Marketing Cloud
Loyalty Cloud
Microsoft Dynamics
Oracle/siebel
Snowflake
S4 Hana
Togaf Enterprise Architecture
Prince2
Safe
Agile Project Management
Bpmn
User Story Mapping
Design Thinking
Languages
Education
Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA)
Business Economist · Business administration, financial management and corporate strategy · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Agile Project Management
Prince2 Practitioner
Product Owner
SAP certifications (various modules)
Scrum Master
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture
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