Ralf Roßkopf
Project and Interim Manager Marketing | CRM | CX
Experience
Project and Interim Manager Marketing | CRM | CX
EDEKA ZENTRALE Stiftung & Co. KG
- Campaign planning – national and regional – for the launch of the PAYBACK card in 2025 and the following year 2026
- Budget planning & controlling for the entire group
- Planning, implementation, and evaluation of all system communication
- Acquiring and activating new PAYBACK customers through cross-channel campaigns and contact journeys
- Developing a customer segmentation strategy for building lifecycle management of EDEKA customers at PAYBACK
- Setting up test concepts and conducting subsequent analyses to identify optimization potential
- Creating event-based trigger journeys across the entire customer lifecycle
- Introducing new bonus mechanisms, e.g. Bio Challenge, Marktkauf discount challenge, EDEKA frequency campaigns
- Operational campaign management and program operations
- Training key users on the coupon tool of the new loyalty platform
- Managing the creation of POS materials (including E-kits and flyers)
- Stakeholder management for EDEKA regions/departments and managing service providers and partners
- Documenting tasks and processes and handing them over to future role holders
International Campaign Management
C&A Mode GmbH & Co. KG
- Managing all participating countries; agency and vendor management
- Operational campaign management and program operations
- Planning, implementation, and evaluation of all system communication
- Optimizing campaign mechanics
- Budget planning & controlling
- Documenting tasks and processes
- Onboarding & handover to the future role holder
Campaign Management CRM
goldgas GmbH (EnBW)
- Conceptualizing and implementing direct marketing measures within the federal government's relief measures (price adjustment campaigns/electricity and gas price brake, tariff change campaigns)
- Creating (automated) campaigns and story flows in DynaCampaign, including selections
- Performance analysis and reporting of campaigns and relevant KPIs, customer data, and behavior
- Project management using the OKR method (Objectives & Key Results)
Direct Marketing Project Management
Deutsche Bahn, DB Fernverkehr AG
- Ensuring development measures and campaigns within the BahnBonus context to secure the bonus program's positioning
- Planning and implementing campaigns aimed at incentivizing trips, increasing BahnCard sales, upselling, providing travel information, reducing customer frustration, and showing appreciation
- Advancing marketing automation
- Collaborating on the design of the contact strategy for the new status program
Project Management Rebranding / PMO Lead
Hays AG
- Creating, elaborating, and rolling out an implementation plan for the entire rebranding/rearchitecture transformation process
- Stakeholder management and interface orchestration
- Evaluating costs and timings of individual touchpoints
- Supporting rollout scenarios & agency management
- Creating presentations for executive management
International Campaign Manager
Hospitality Digital GmbH
- Marketing of the DISH digital platform to 200,000 hospitality customers across 16 countries
- Conceptualizing, briefing, and implementing automated multichannel campaigns (email, app, DISH push notifications, SMS) and deploying them in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Interface management between marketing managers, product owners, and BI/IT
- Agency and service provider management in an international environment
- Process documentation, handover, and onboarding of the new hire
Interim Head of Marketing
Primus GmbH
- Leading the marketing department with 28 employees from product management, purchasing, graphic design and copywriting, production, wholesale, and the online shop
- Managing day-to-day operations; reporting to executive management
- Analyzing existing processes and creating a workflow plan for the entire product lifecycle, while digitizing processes
- Marketing automation in print (programmatic printing)
- Recruiting and onboarding new employees
Marketing Project Manager
gkk DialogGroup (WPP Group)
- Project management for the client PAYBACK (part of the American Express Group)
- Campaign management for the Campaign, Offer and Performance Management Classic program for PAYBACK partners in the retail, FMCG, and financial services sectors
- Managing platinum program partners Aral, REWE, and dm-drogerie markt, as well as partners AMEX – American Express, N26, WeltSparen, and flatex from banking & finance
- Development and implementation of offer-specific concepts and measures for channels such as newsletters, digital advertising (web and app), stand-alone mailings, inserts, and the PAYBACK Points Overview print mailing
Digital Project Manager
KORRES D-A-CH GmbH
- Adapting the KORRES US online store for the German-speaking market, including adjusting all legally relevant parts of the store and translating content pages from English (platform: Shopify)
- SEO optimization of pages, texts, and images
- Integrating various payment service providers, DHL shipping, the Trustami review portal, and the Amazon Seller account
- Creating all transactional emails
- Developing and rolling out a newsletter concept, including building the subscriber list (permission marketing; double opt-in procedure)
- Promoting the relaunch/shop: SEM, banners, affiliates
- Managing agencies and service providers (New York, Athens, Karachi)
Interim Marketing Manager
Deutsche Bahn, DB Fernverkehr AG
- Ensuring further development and campaigns for BahnBonus to secure the loyalty program's positioning
- Further development of marketing automation
- Activating the BahnBonus app and generating downloads through developing new features, cross-media promotion of the channel, and running various sweepstakes
- Contributing to the design of the long-term contact strategy for the new status program (NewComfort)
- Planning and executing short-term communications measures for the long-distance direct marketing division in response to the COVID-19 crisis
- Campaign and media planning for communications on the occasion of the 15-year anniversary of BahnBonus
- Winner of the 2020 Dialog Marketing Award (B2C) from the German Dialog Marketing Association (DDV)
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Retail (2 years), Transportation (1 year), Fashion (0.5 years), Professional Services (0.5 years), Manufacturing (0.5 years), and Advertising (0.5 years).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Marketing (4.5 years), Project Management (1.5 years), Customer Service (1 year), and Operations (1 year).
Summary
Project and Interim Manager for Marketing with in-depth knowledge and many years of experience in CRM/CX – customer relationship management and loyalty/bonus programs.
Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner for agile project management.
Know-how and experience shaped by leadership roles at various industry leaders in fast-changing markets.
Focus on building and optimizing communicative CRM and automating marketing processes. This creates added value and sustainable customer satisfaction throughout the entire customer lifecycle.
Highly operational, strong in execution, with an eye for what's feasible and always working in a cost-conscious manner.
Personal success traits: practice-, implementation- and results-oriented, creative, and flexible.
Skills
Software/it:
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
- Lotus Notes/ibm Notes
Pm Tools:
- Ms Project
- Ms Teams
- Jira
- Confluence
- Miro
- Trello (Kanban Board)
Crm/campaign Tools:
- Microsoft Dynamics Nav
- Oracle Responsys Marketing Cloud Platform
- Oracle Siebel
- Salesforce Cic (Cleo Integration Cloud)
- Emarsys
- Artegic
- Elaine Five
- Optimizely
- Crossengage
- Dynacampaign
- Clever Elements
- Klaviyo Marketing Platform
Webshop/cms:
- Shopify
- Magento (Basic Knowledge)
- Wordpress
- Typo3 (Basic Knowledge)
- Jimdo
- Ionos (1&1)
Google/online Marketing:
- Future Workshop "Basics Of Online Marketing"
- Google Analytics
Languages
Education
Vocational Academy Villingen-Schwenningen
Diploma in Business Administration, International Marketing · Business Administration · Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Product Owner
Scrum.orgTM
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum.orgTM
Certified Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS/Nexus)
Scrum.orgTM
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