Stefan Manahl

Project Manager and Interim Manager - Innovation Development and CRM

Vienna, Austria
Experience
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
3 months
Germany
On-site

Project Manager - Value-Oriented Sales Management

German car 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

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

Seminar Leader - "Pyramidal Presenting" Seminar

German car manufacturer

Project duration: 1 day

Training participants in pyramidal presenting:

  • Structuring the topic
  • Audience analysis
  • Formulating the core message
  • Creating a storyboard
Germany

Project Manager - Proposition Development Password Manager & VPN

German software provider

Project duration: 2 months

Developing 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 running marketing campaigns
  • KPI monitoring and report creation
Germany

Project Manager - CRM Target Vision

German telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Analyzing existing CRM campaigns and systems
  • Assessing potential for new campaign ideas
  • Creating a CRM target vision
Germany

Consultant - CRM Campaign Development

German telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Specifying all CRM campaigns for a newly acquired campaign management tool
  • Prioritizing campaigns for implementation
  • Creating a contact strategy
  • Internal coordination including management presentations
Germany

Consultant - Interim Product Manager

German telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 8 months

  • Customer & market insights research
  • Developing product portfolios for a hosted phone system
  • Planning and running 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 paper / recommendations
Germany

Project Manager - Call Center Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 6 months

  • Introducing a new commission model for call center service providers
  • Optimizing service provider management
  • Improving forecasting
  • Adjusting commission billing and reporting
Germany

Project Manager - Care 2 Sell

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Status quo analysis
  • Identifying and evaluating measures to improve sales via the care hotline
  • Optimizing CRM campaigns
Germany

Project Manager - Mobile Insurance Launch

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Introducing mobile insurance
  • Defining the product
  • Defining the process
  • Negotiating with the partner
Germany

Project Manager - Realtime Contextual Campaigning Launch

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Defining contextual realtime campaigns (triggers, decision trees, offers, response measurement, etc.)
  • Coordinating with internal CRM managers
  • Coordinating with business intelligence
  • Project reporting
Germany

Project Manager - Innovation Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Developing new innovation ideas with the internal team
  • Evaluating ideas
  • Drafting proposition concepts
  • Creating business cases
  • Developing a roadmap proposal
Germany

Project Manager - Internal Chargeback for Mobile Data Propositions

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 4 months

  • Developing a transfer pricing concept for mobile data propositions
  • Country market analysis in Southeast Europe for mobile applications
  • Internal company coordination
  • Various ad hoc tasks
Germany

Project Manager - Concept Development Mobile Voice-Data Convergence Product

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Segmenting target groups
  • Competitor analysis
  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales concept
  • Business planning
Germany

Project Manager - VAT Project

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 8 months

  • Adjusting prices of all prepaid 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
  • Supporting implementation
Germany

Project Manager - Mobile Product Manager

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 9 months

  • Portfolio relaunch
  • Performance monitoring
  • Pre- and post-calculations of tariffs
  • Creating business cases
  • Preparing management presentations and reports
  • Initiating product-related promotions and marketing actions
  • Optimizing the hardware portfolio
Germany

Project Manager - Subscriber Retention Cost Reduction / Next Best Activity

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 6 months

  • Identifying measures to reduce SRC (new commission model for call center service providers, tool support for providers, offer-side measures)
  • Creating a business case
  • Supporting implementation
  • Preparing 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 (designing qualitative market research and analyzing results)
  • Deriving mobile data propositions
  • Testing propositions (designing quantitative market research and surveys, analyzing results)
  • Preparing a decision basis with recommendations for management
  • Project management
Germany

Seminar Leader - Presentation Skills Seminar

German telecommunications provider

Training in an in-house seminar covering:

  • Pyramidal presenting (structure of a management presentation)
  • Storyboard and slide design
  • Delivering presentations
Germany

Consultant - CRM Support for IT System Replacement

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

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

Consultant - Customer Service Event Concept

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 months

  • Conceptualizing an internal event
  • Coordinating with the event agency
  • Project management for execution
Germany

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

Consultant - Business Field Planning

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 3 months

  • Capex-Opex planning
  • Identifying ARPU-increasing measures
  • EBITDA optimization using the simplex method
Germany

Consultant - Interim Winback Management

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 11 months

  • Defining/optimizing winback offers (tariff/hardware/credits/etc.)
  • Optimizing the winback process
  • Optimizing and ongoing management of winback campaigns
  • Conducting market research activities for winback
  • Creating business cases
Germany

Consultant - DSL Winback and Prevention

German telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Managing existing DSL winback and prevention campaigns
  • Designing new prevention campaigns
  • Running a challenge with incentives to boost Q4 performance in customer service
  • Identifying and implementing churn-reducing measures
  • Performance management and KPI measurement
  • Developing a new reporting blueprint
Germany

Consultant - Innovation Development

German consumer electronics company

Project duration: 2 months

  • Analyzing the consumer electronics market and related markets (e.g. telecommunications)
  • Identifying innovation ideas
  • Evaluating/ranking innovation ideas
Germany

Project Manager - Channel Management

German fiber-optic company

Project duration: 3 months

  • General project management
  • Developing a channel strategy (online – telesales – door-to-door sales)
  • Stream lead telesales
  • Market screening for potential telesales partners
  • Negotiating contracts with partners
  • Implementing a POC including agent training
United Kingdom

Project Manager - Base Simplification / Migration of Customers to New Tariffs

English telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 2 years

  • Tariff analysis to determine cleanup potential
  • Setting up and configuring tariff simulation software
  • Running tariff simulations
  • Migrating customers from old to current tariffs
  • Designing and implementing upsell campaigns
  • Project management (about 40 project members, including around 5 consultants)
United Kingdom

Project Manager - In-life Base Management

English telecommunications and TV provider

Project duration: 4 months

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

Project Manager - Wholesale Pricing

Dutch telecommunications company

Project duration: 2 months

  • Collecting wholesale pricing models internationally
  • Designing interviews
  • Surveying decision makers in wholesale pricing
  • Analyzing results and deriving recommendations
Austria

Seminar Leader - Proposition Development Seminar

Austrian & German telecommunications provider

  • Training proposition and product marketing managers on:
  • Idea generation for innovations
  • Open innovation
  • Proposition development process with 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
  • Overhaul of the entire product portfolio
  • Website relaunch
Austria

Product Manager (Permanent) - Proposition Development Fixed-Line VPN

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 7 months

  • Defining target groups
  • Competitor analysis
  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Leading implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Product Manager (Permanent) - Proposition Development Fixed-Mobile VPN

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 7 months

  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Negotiating with potential partners
  • Leading implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Product Manager (Permanent) - Proposition Development Messaging Service

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Defining target groups
  • Competitor analysis
  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Business planning
  • Leading implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Project Manager - B2B Proposition Development

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 5 months

  • Developing a B2B proposition strategy
  • Conducting a capability analysis
  • Customer & market insights research
  • Creating proposition concepts
  • Defining marketing, sales and customer support strategy
Austria

Project Manager (Permanent) - Business Development WLAN

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 1 year 6 months

  • Strategy development
  • Business planning
  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Leading partnership negotiations
Austria

Project Manager (Permanent) - Mobile Services Launch

Austrian telecommunications provider

Project duration: 2 years 1 month

  • Strategy development
  • Business planning
  • Defining the product
  • Marketing and sales strategy
  • Technical design
  • Negotiating with potential partners
  • Implementation
  • Market launch
Austria

Seminar Leader - Commercial Skills Seminar

Austrian telecommunications provider

Training commercial managers on:

  • 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 for churn risk
  • Reviewing the churn scoring model and customer communication throughout the customer lifecycle
  • Generating ideas for churn reduction measures, including evaluation, prioritization and decision support
  • Detailed elaboration of approved measures
  • Supporting implementation / 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 includes successfully delivering 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-oriented products and services, optimizing CRM campaigns and existing customer offers, and implementing digitalization initiatives. In doing so, I have proven revenue increases and improved customer loyalty.

My core competencies include innovation development (e.g. using Design Sprint) as well as designing and optimizing CRM campaigns (including realtime) 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

Master's degree · Social and Economic Sciences · Lyon, France

Certifications & licenses

Project Management Professional

PMI

SCRUM Master

Scrum Alliance

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