P&L Responsibility
Career CV
Career evidence for business building, market expansion, and digital operating models.
A reverse-chronological CV showing the operating record behind the positioning: designing new commercial concepts, turning them into businesses, and scaling digital models inside complex organisations.
For strategy and business development roles in fast technical markets, the relevant pattern is not one industry label. It is the ability to understand a market, build the commercial model, align stakeholders, and execute.
Core Competencies
Strategy and business development capabilities.
These are the transferable capabilities that matter most when the role is about market development, partnerships, operating models, and adoption in a technical category.
Commercial Leadership
Strategic Business Development & Business Building
New Product Development & Market Entry
Go-to-Market & Partnership Development
Business Transformation
Cross-Functional Execution
Market & Competitive Analysis
Digital Business Models & E-Commerce
Technical Fluency & Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Professional Experience
From zero-to-one product building to scaled commercial transformation.
Grouped by employer and ordered in modern reverse-chronological format, with emphasis on the parts of the career that prove market entry, business building, and execution.
Philips
Healthcare & Consumer Electronics
Jan 2021 - Present
Direct-to-Business (D2B) Leader, Personal Health, Western Europe
Lead the D2B Personal Health business in Western Europe with 7 direct reports, commercial leadership for the core regular-customer channel, and end-to-end accountability for customer experience.
Built and deployed the D2B go-to-market model from a 100-customer pilot to a full rollout now serving more than 5,000 B2B customers.
Reshaped the business beyond the traditional customer segment through business transformation and organisational redesign, helping to deliver fivefold revenue growth during my tenure while halving the FTE required to run the organisation.
Directed business operations through KPI-led daily management and structured problem solving across the value chain, while tracking NPS continuously for four years and improving it from negative territory to more than two years of positive performance, most recently reaching an all-time high of 69 based on more than 2,000 customer responses.
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Manager DACH
Led commercial performance, customer experience, and user-experience development for the Philips D2C channel in DACH, managing a team of 3.
Delivered triple-digit sales growth for three consecutive years through digital growth strategy and go-to-market execution, increasing the cluster from EUR 7m to EUR 42m and making it one of Philips' strongest D2C markets globally.
Led the RFP process for the DACH Philips Consumer Online Shop together with procurement, evaluating agencies including Arvato, Astound, and Hatraco.
Managed a EUR 12m advertising and promotion budget and defined activation strategies for major campaigns including Black Friday and Christmas.
Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
E-Trade Marketing Manager DACH
Restructured the E-Trade department for Philips DACH as a commercial transformation, defining team structure, role profiles, and KPI frameworks to improve performance.
Worked closely with major key accounts including Amazon, MediaMarkt, Saturn, OTTO, Expert, dm, and Rossmann to plan and execute shopper activation programmes.
Developed content, digital marketing, and customer activation strategies on retailer platforms and acted as an e-commerce sparring partner to strengthen key account execution.
Tetenal Europe
Chemicals and Hardware for Imaging Technologies
Jan 2013 - Mar 2016
Business Unit Manager, Authorized Signatory (Prokurist)
Designed and commercialised a new photobook product concept and helped turn it into a dedicated company subsidiary, combining product, market entry, commercial model, and operating setup.
Held full P&L responsibility for the subsidiary and led a cross-functional team of 10 across sales, marketing, production, and product development.
Launched the photobook brand Silverbook across multiple European markets, driving expansion, positioning, and market entry.
Shifted the business from traditional sales toward e-commerce through digital transformation and by developing online shops in collaboration with internal IT and external agencies.
Built a digital activation strategy focused on content marketing, market development, and key opinion leader engagement.
Jul 2009 - Dec 2012
Product Manager
Managed the product life cycle for owned brands, adapting portfolios to market developments, customer requirements, and commercial priorities.
Worked directly with key accounts, sold investment goods, and conducted annual business reviews with major customers.
Owned product positioning, pricing, competitive analysis, and portfolio management.
Coordinated cross-functional teams in sales, marketing, and production to improve launches and product development execution.
Academic Engagement
Teaching experience alongside the main career track.
Included because it shows the ability to structure market mechanics, digital business topics, and commercial concepts clearly enough to teach them.
NORDAKADEMIE University
Elmshorn, Germany
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Lecturer for E-Commerce
Led the elective course in e-commerce for bachelor students in Business Administration and Business Informatics.
Authored evaluations and determined final grades for bachelor theses, supporting academic quality and student progression.
Education
Academic and vocational background.
Presented in reverse-chronological order, with emphasis on business, marketing, sales, and the analytical foundation behind the commercial career.
FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
Hamburg, Germany
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Marketing & Communication
Master's thesis: empirical quantitative research on factors influencing impulse buying behaviour in the German B2C e-commerce market.
Final grade: A (1.1)
HFH Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences
Hamburg, Germany
Jan 2009 - Aug 2015
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration
Major focus: Marketing & Sales.
Final grade: Good (1.7)
Tetenal AG & Co. KG
Norderstedt, Germany
Aug 2007 - Jun 2009
Apprenticeship in Industrial Management
Commercial foundation through vocational training in industrial trade.
Early Experience
Early practical experience before the main career track.
Early roles that added exposure to care work, corporate environments, and professional responsibility before the later commercial career developed.
Pflege Diakonie gGmbH
Neumuenster, Germany
Aug 2006 - Apr 2007
Community Service
Supported mentally and physically disabled children in a day-care setting.
Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH
Norderstedt, Germany
Feb 2005
Internship
Worked across Human Resources and the European Surgical Institute (ESI).