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Bio

Born 15th, January 1970

Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Retail and Marketing management
Degree certificate: Diplom Betriebswirt ( FH ) Final Grade: 1,7

Married, three daughters ( aged 11, 9 and 7 )

Nationality: German













Professional Highlights

• Head of retail West Germany and member of management of Douglas Germany/ Country Manager Douglas Switzerland with complete HR responsibility

• Increase the number of store from around 60 stores to 145 stores in 12 years with a growth from 200 millions € turnover to nearly 500 millions turnover.

• In lead for 17 direct reports ( 11 sales area managers, 1 HR AM, 1 Purchase manager, 1 marketing and visual merchandiser manager, 1 Omnichannel manager, 1 supply chain manager, 1 real estate manager )

• More than 10 years of experience as dynamic, results-proven retail manager with a ​strong track record capturing revenues, turnover and other key KPI’s driving location specific market shares. Developer of Training Session ‘Leading by numbers ‘ and concepting an easily to understand dashboard for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly figures. Also develop a seminar ‘ From reading the figures to work with and improve the figures’

• Wide range of experiences in change management, restructuring teams starting from a family business to a joint stock company to a private equity company by achieving proven results without loosing the enthusiasm and the passion of the sales teams

• 17 years of focus in omnichannel management with increasing the omnichannel share from 1,5% to nearly 12% in 4 years; successfully pioneering the cross-over from offline to online business.

• Respected new business fields developer delivering optimized results to achieve best in class results in inner beauty segment, customer card share and privat label share

• Excellent leadership, systemic coaching ( certifized systemic coach in Vienna ), staffing and communication skills.

• Operational excellence with hands-on and doer-mentality used to handle multi priorities paired with senior project ( such as Head of national luxury store project or leading the national assortment council )

• 21 years of proven leadership competence and people management capabilities by working on a partnership basis, informative, direct, integrative, enabling and sparking.