Stefan M.

Project Manager and Interim Manager - Innovation Development & CRM

Vienna, Austria

Experience

Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
3 months
Germany
On-site

Project Manager - Value-Oriented Sales Management

German Automotive Manufacturer

Project duration: 3 months

  • Status quo analysis
  • Definition of a target vision
  • Concept development
  • Business case
  • Pilot for 2017
Germany

Project Manager - CRM System Implementation

German NPO

Project duration: 12 months

  • Overall project management
  • Designing a CRM system using a Design Sprint
  • Creating a prototype
  • Conducting user tests
  • Preparing a tender
  • Developing an implementation roadmap
Germany

Seminar Leader - 'Pyramidal Presenting'

German Automotive Manufacturer

Project duration: 1 day

Training participants on pyramidal presenting:

  • Structuring the topic
  • Analyzing the audience
  • Formulating the core message
  • Creating a storyboard
Germany

Project Manager - Proposition Development for Password Manager & VPN

German software provider

Project duration: 2 months

Development of a password manager proposition consisting of:

  • Customer and market insights via secondary market research
  • Needs analysis and clustering
  • Customer promise
  • Proposition concept
  • Business case
  • Management presentations
Germany

Consultant - Interim Product Manager

German software provider

Project duration: 9 months

  • Designing and implementing product improvements
  • Generating and implementing ideas to increase revenue
  • Conducting user tests
  • Initiating and executing marketing campaigns
  • KPI monitoring and reporting
Germany

Project Manager - CRM Target Vision

German Telecommunications and TV Provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Analysis of existing CRM campaigns and systems
  • Assessment of potential for new campaign ideas
  • Creation of a CRM target vision
Germany

Business Consultant - CRM Campaign Development

German Telecommunications and TV Provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Specifying all CRM campaigns for a new campaign management tool
  • Prioritizing campaigns for implementation
  • Developing a contact strategy
  • Internal coordination including management presentations
Germany

Business Consultant - Interim Product Manager

German Telecommunications and TV Provider

Project duration: 8 months

  • Research on customer and market insights
  • Developing product portfolios for a hosted phone system
  • Planning and conducting design sprints and user tests
  • Defining target processes
  • Implementation support
Germany

Consultant - Customer Migration

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 10 months

  • Defining migration paths
  • Designing and running migration campaigns (voluntary migration and automated forced migration)
  • Introducing an automated address validation process
Germany

Project Manager - Partner Program

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Status quo analysis
  • Designing a new partner program including a commission model for indirect sales partners
  • Testing the new program with selected partners
  • Creating a business case
  • Management decision template / recommendations
Germany

Project Manager - Call Center Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 6 months

  • Introduction of a new commission model for call center service providers
  • Optimization of service provider management
  • Optimization of forecasting
  • Adjustment of commission accounting and reporting
Germany

Project Manager - Care 2 Sell

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Status quo analysis
  • Identification and evaluation of measures to improve sales at the care hotline
  • Optimization of CRM campaigns
Germany

Project Manager - Mobile Phone Insurance Implementation

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Introduction of mobile phone insurance
  • Product definition
  • Process definition
  • Negotiations with the partner
Germany

Project Manager - Real-time Contextual Campaigning Implementation

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Definition of contextual real-time campaigns (triggers, decision trees, offers, response measurement, etc.)
  • Coordination with internal CRM managers
  • Coordination with business intelligence
  • Project reporting
Germany

Project Manager - Innovation Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Development of new innovation ideas together with the internal team
  • Evaluation of ideas
  • Elaboration of proposition concepts
  • Business case creation
  • Creation of roadmap proposal
Germany

Project Manager - Internal Service Billing for Mobile Data Propositions

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Development of a transfer pricing concept for mobile data propositions
  • Market analysis of Southeast Europe for mobile applications
  • Internal company coordination
  • Various ad hoc tasks
Germany

Project Manager - Concept Development for Mobile Voice-Data Convergence Product

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Target group segmentation
  • Competitor analysis
  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales concept
  • Business planning
Germany

Project Manager - VAT Project

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 8 months

  • Price adjustment of all pre- and postpaid tariffs, packs, options, and discounts due to the VAT increase from 16% to 19% (for private and business customers)
  • Business planning
  • Competitor analysis/competitive intelligence
  • Support for implementation
Germany

Project Manager - Mobile Product Manager

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 9 months

  • Portfolio relaunch
  • Performance monitoring
  • Pre- and post-calculations of tariffs
  • Creation of business cases
  • Preparation of management presentations and reports
  • Initiation of product-related promotions and marketing measures
  • Optimization of the hardware portfolio
Germany

Project Manager - Reduction of Subscriber Retention Costs / Next Best Activity

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 6 months

  • Identification of measures to reduce SRC (new commission model for call center service providers, tool support for service providers, offer-side measures)
  • Development of a business case
  • Support for implementation
  • Creation of a requirements document to optimize the existing NBA tool
Germany

Project Manager - Mobile Data Product Portfolio Relaunch

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Generating customer insights (creating concepts for qualitative market research and analyzing the results)
  • Deriving mobile data propositions
  • Testing propositions (creating concepts and designing questionnaires for quantitative market research and analyzing the results)
  • Preparing a decision-making basis with recommendations for management
  • Project management
Germany

Seminar Leader - Presentation Techniques Seminar

German Telecommunications Provider

Training within an in-house seminar on:

  • Pyramid presentation (structure of a management presentation)
  • Storyboarding and slide design
  • Delivering a presentation
Germany

Management Consultant - CRM Support in IT System Replacement

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Analyzing key CRM functionalities
  • Conducting vendor workshops and evaluating vendors using scoring models
  • Creating management presentations
Germany

Management Consultant - Customer Service Event Concept

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Developing the content concept for an internal event
  • Coordinating with the event agency
  • Project management for implementation
Germany

Management Consultant - Product Catalog Implementation

German Telecommunications Provider

Project duration: 2 years – 9 months

  • Defining requirements from a product perspective
  • Ensuring correct implementation
  • Representing product marketing in the project
Germany

Management Consultant - Business Unit Planning

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Capex-Opex planning
  • Identification of measures to increase ARPU
  • EBITDA optimization using the simplex method
Germany

Management Consultant - Interim Winback Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 11 months

  • Definition/optimization of win-back offers (tariff/hardware/credits/etc.)
  • Optimization of win-back process
  • Optimization and ongoing support of win-back campaigns
  • Execution of market research activities for win-back
  • Creation of business cases
Germany

Management Consultant - Winback and DSL Prevention

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Management of existing DSL win-back and prevention campaigns.
  • Design of new prevention campaigns
  • Implementation of a challenge with incentives to boost Q4 performance in customer service
  • Identification and implementation of churn-reducing measures
  • Performance control and KPI measurement
  • Development of a new reporting blueprint
Germany

Management Consultant - Innovation Development

German consumer electronics company

Project duration: 2 months

  • Analysis of the consumer electronics market and related markets (e.g., telecommunications market)
  • Identification of innovation ideas
  • Evaluation/ranking of innovation ideas
Germany

Project Manager - Channel Management

German fiber optic company

Project duration: 3 months

  • General project management
  • Development of a channel strategy (online – telesales – door-to-door sales)
  • Stream lead telesales
  • Market screening of potential telesales partners
  • Contract negotiations with partners
  • Implementation of a POC including training of agents
United Kingdom

Project Manager - Base Simplification / Migration of customers to new tariffs

English telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 2 years

  • Tariff analysis to identify cleanup potential
  • Setup and configuration of tariff simulation software
  • Conducting tariff simulations
  • Migration of customers from old to current tariffs
  • Designing and implementing upsell campaigns
  • Project management (approx. 40 project staff, including about 5 consultants)
United Kingdom

Project Manager - Inlife Base Management

English telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Conducting various analyses of the customer base (incl. tariff simulation)
  • Developing measures to simplify the customer base and optimize revenue
  • Developing a tariff cleanup strategy
  • Project management (approx. 10 project staff, including 4 consultants)
Netherlands

Project Manager - Wholesale Pricing

Dutch telecommunications company

Project duration: 2 months

  • Collecting wholesale pricing models in an international context
  • Interview design
  • Surveying decision-makers in the wholesale pricing area
  • Analyzing results and deriving recommendations
Austria

Seminar Leader - Seminar Proposition Development

Austrian & German telecommunications provider

  • Training proposition and/or product marketing managers on:
  • Idea generation for innovations
  • Open innovation
  • Proposition development process including practical examples and exercises
Austria

Marketing Manager (permanent) - Portfolio-Relaunch

Austrian manufacturer of mobile presentation systems

Project duration: 5 months

  • Target group analysis
  • Competitor analysis
  • Revision of the entire product portfolio
  • Website relaunch
Austria

Product Manager (full-time) - Proposition Development Fixed Network VPN

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 7 months

  • Target group definition
  • Competitor analysis
  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Project management for implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Product Manager (full-time) - Proposition Development Fixed-Mobile VPN

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 7 months

  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Negotiations with potential partners
  • Project management for implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Product Manager (full-time) - Proposition Development Messaging Service

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Target group definition
  • Competitor analysis
  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Project management for implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Project Manager - B2B Proposition Development

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Development of a B2B proposition strategy
  • Conducting a capability analysis
  • Customer & market insights research
  • Developing the proposition concept
  • Defining the marketing, sales, and customer support strategy
Austria

Project Manager (full-time) - Business Development Wi-Fi

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 1 year – 6 months

  • Strategy development
  • Business planning
  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Leading partnership talks with potential partners
Austria

Project Manager (Permanent) - Launch of Mobile Service Offerings

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 years – 1 month

  • Strategy development
  • Business planning
  • Product definition
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Technical design
  • Negotiations with potential partners
  • Implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Seminar Leader - Commercial Skills Seminar

Austrian telecommunications provider

Training of commercial managers in:

  • Marketing basics
  • Proposition Development
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Customer Experience Management
Austria

Consultant - Churn Reduction

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Detailed analysis of existing customers regarding churn risk
  • Assessment of the churn scoring model and customer communication across the customer lifecycle
  • Idea generation for churn reduction measures including evaluation, prioritization and decision preparation
  • Detailed elaboration of the agreed measures
  • Support during implementation and implementation support

Summary

With over 25 years of experience as a project manager and interim manager, I have specialized in innovation development and CRM. My expertise covers the successful execution of growth projects in the telecommunications, automotive, and software industries.

As a certified Project Management Professional and SCRUM Master, I combine structured project management with agile methods. My focus is on developing customer-centric products and services, optimizing CRM campaigns and existing customer offers, and implementing digitalization initiatives. I have consistently achieved revenue growth and improved customer retention.

My core competencies include innovation development (e.g., through Design Sprints) as well as designing and optimizing CRM campaigns (including real-time) and offers (e.g., using NBO/NBA). I have international project experience in Germany, Austria, the UK, and the Netherlands.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Intermediate

Education

Vienna University of Economics and Business & Ecole de Management Lyon

Magister · Social and Economic Sciences · Lyon, France

Certifications & licenses

Project Management Professional

PMI

SCRUM Master

Scrum Alliance

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