Tony S.

Senior Digital & Data-Driven Marketing Consultant | Scrum Master & Product Owner | Workshop Facilitator

Munich, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Present
1 year 11 months

Interim Digital Excellence Manager Oncology

International Rx Pharmaceuticals Company

  • Developed and implemented an integrated digital strategy across the patient journey and treatment pathway for breast and gynecological tumor indications
  • Set up, designed, and launched the first automated medical pre-launch omnichannel campaign for the business unit using modern CRM/MarTech solutions
  • Led the strategic evolution of the central HCP web portal by adding a dedicated medical section as project manager and product owner (requirements management, translating business demands into user stories, managing the tech team and overseeing the go-live)
  • Developed, managed, executed, and optimized automated personalized commercial omnichannel campaigns across the customer journey and funnel
  • End-to-end project management and agile coordination of cross-functional teams
  • Strategic stakeholder management at global and local levels
  • Ongoing optimization of digital initiatives through KPI analysis, A/B testing and personalized outreach
  • Managed external service providers and agencies
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year

Interim Digital Excellence Manager Respiratory & Immunology

International Rx Pharmaceuticals Company

  • Product owner for multiple indication areas to improve an HCP web portal and several patient websites
  • Developed, managed, executed, and optimized automated personalized omnichannel campaigns across the customer journey and funnel
  • Project coordination and leadership
  • Monitoring and reporting of activities
  • Managed external service providers and agencies
  • Close collaboration in a cross-functional team with medical, brand and sales including field teams
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months

Interim Digital Excellence Manager Oncology

International Rx Pharmaceuticals Company

  • Expanded the digital strategy for digital communication and omnichannel marketing
  • Designed and implemented the company's first automated omnichannel campaign in Germany with a cross-functional team
  • Led the initial launch of a central web portal for medical caregivers and its continuous improvement
  • Developed, managed, executed, and optimized personalized omnichannel campaigns across the customer journey and funnel
  • Managed digital projects using Scrum
  • Built a comprehensive campaign tracking system for unified KPI reporting of digital initiatives
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
5 months

Interim Senior Marketing Manager Digital

Banking

  • Built and expanded digital marketing to primarily increase digital sales conversions
  • Designed, executed, and monitored omnichannel campaigns across the entire value chain including lead generation
  • Briefed and managed internal marketers and external agencies
  • Stakeholder and interface management
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
9 months

Interim Senior Manager Data-Driven Marketing / Squad Lead

Retail Corporation

  • Led and managed a cross-functional squad of brand, media, tech, analytics and creative
  • Identified, tested, optimized and evaluated new digital marketing approaches
  • Translated findings into a use case backlog and managed prioritization by business value with relevant stakeholders
  • Implemented identified strategies from the use case backlog into new data-driven marketing approaches and use cases
  • Drove the transformation of the marketing area to an agile, data-driven marketing with a test-and-learn mindset including in-house training
  • Launched the squad, established agile routines, and facilitated sprint plannings, reviews and retrospectives
  • Designed and facilitated internal workshops (e.g. OKR, team and strategy workshops)
May 2020 - Mar 2021
11 months

Interim Digital Excellence Manager (Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases)

International Rx Pharma Group

  • Digital & Omnichannel Lead: advising the business unit on digital marketing strategies
  • Product Owner for the business unit to further develop the overarching HCP web portal
  • Development, management, execution, and optimization of omnichannel campaigns along the treatment pathway and patient journey
  • Project management and leadership
  • Close collaboration in the cross-functional team with medical, brand, and sales, including field force
  • Management of external service providers and agencies
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
8 months

Interim Team Lead Digital and Dialog Marketing in Sales

Media Group

  • Responsible for all digital and dialog marketing channels: email marketing, social advertising, online shop, display, search engine advertising (SEA), on-page, print/mailing
  • Omnichannel: cross-channel planning, management, execution, and control of marketing campaigns and projects
  • Building lead generation journeys and lead management along the funnel
  • Accountability for B2C sales results through the above channels
  • Further development focused on performance marketing
  • Expansion of the paid content strategy
  • Stakeholder and interface management
  • Sales, revenue, and budget planning
  • Leading a six-person team
May 2019 - Sep 2019
5 months

Interim Digital Marketing Manager

Media Group

  • Responsible for digital performance marketing, mainly in social advertising, email marketing, and lead generation
  • Advising on conversion optimization and conversion funnels
  • A/B testing
  • Briefing and managing agencies, developers, and designers
  • Stakeholder and interface management
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 year

Digital Consultant Lead Generation

B2B Digital Consulting

  • Digital performance marketing for lead generation and nurturing using lead generation offers
  • Designing, executing, monitoring, and optimizing social advertising campaigns focused on Facebook and LinkedIn
  • Building conversion funnels
  • Project management
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years

Project Lead

Media Company

  • Initial workshop: client's business model in the digital world, customer journey
  • Derivation of action areas and strategic topics
  • Designing a pretest for potential use of CRM/marketing automation
  • Developing lead journeys and follow-up campaigns along the customer journey
  • Implementation in ads, email sequences, and landing pages
  • Tracking and reporting
  • Acting as project lead together with art and web development partners
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
1 year 2 months

Digital Consultant & Project Lead

Digital Consulting & Start-Up as a Service Agency

  • Advising clients on digital transformation and the digital value chain: identifying customer problems and turning them into solutions
  • Leading and managing digital projects and their interdisciplinary teams
  • Applying lean startup methods to established companies (prototyping, MVP, validation using KPIs)
  • Advising, planning, implementing, and managing digital strategies within the conversion funnel
  • Designing and managing digital projects and growth marketing campaigns
  • Analyzing and consulting on customer journeys and touchpoints
  • Project controlling and budgeting
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years

Product Owner / External Consultant

Scientific Company

  • Identifying and preparing department needs through interviews and derived use cases
  • Translating and implementing requirements into user stories and epics
  • Refining user stories and tasks together with developers
  • Prioritizing requirements based on expected profit and managing the backlog
  • Analyzing and advising on customer journeys, user flows/funnels, usability, and UX
  • Conversion optimization
  • Stakeholder management as main point of contact for stakeholders and departments on project status
  • Briefing and managing the external agency and approval
Sep 2016 - Present
9 years 1 month

Senior Digital & Data-Driven Marketing Consultant | Workshop Facilitator | Scrum Master & Product Owner

Freelance

  • Strategic consulting in digital transformation and across the entire digital value chain
  • Designing and implementing holistic digital strategies
  • Developing, executing, and optimizing cross-channel campaign strategies (including social, SEA, CRM, display)
  • Data-driven optimization of customer journeys, funnels, and conversion rates
  • Project management and leading cross-functional teams of up to 15 people
  • Implementing agile methods (OKR, Scrum, lean startup)
  • Quality assurance and project outcome monitoring
  • Managing and coordinating external agencies and freelancers
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
1 year 5 months

Online Marketing Manager

Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

  • Designing and executing digital marketing campaigns
  • Managing and strategically developing social media channels
  • Community marketing, blogger relations, newsletter marketing
  • Designing and managing various publishing websites
  • Briefing and managing external service providers and agencies
  • Monitoring and reporting
Jun 2012 - Jan 2015
2 years 8 months

Marketing Manager

Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

  • Responsible for online marketing including budget management
  • Managing and growing social media channels
  • Designing, coordinating, executing, and controlling marketing projects and campaigns
  • Acquiring partners for marketing actions and cross-promotion, including proposal creation, negotiation, and project management
  • Managing external service providers and agencies

Summary

Senior consultant for digital and data-driven marketing with over ten years of experience developing and executing digital strategies across the entire customer journey – from scalable omnichannel campaigns to data-driven test cases that serve as the basis for the strategic development of marketing and customer experience.

As a Product Owner and Scrum Master, I help companies successfully implement and scale agile methods (OKR, Scrum, Lean Startup). I lead cross-functional teams and work at the intersection of various disciplines – from marketing, product development and sales to IT, data & analytics and medical affairs.

In addition, I facilitate workshops and strategy meetings to guide teams efficiently through complex issues, develop creative solutions and enable sustainable decisions.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Jun 2011 - Jun 2015

Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation; Media Campus Frankfurt | The Schools of the German Book Trade

Publishing and Media Management · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Aug 2009 - Jun 2012

Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Training as a digital and print media buyer · Berlin, Germany

Sep 2000 - Jun 2009

Gymnasium Ottobrunn

German high school diploma · Ottobrunn, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Workshop Facilitator

HelloAgile

Professional Agile Leadership I

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills

Scrum.org

Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner II

Scrum.org

Certified OKR Coach

HelloAgile

Certified Professional Scrum Master II

Scrum.org

Certified Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Certificate Program in Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship Academy, Munich

Advanced training in online marketing management

Social Media Academy, Berlin

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