Max F.-Senior Product Manager/Owner & Consultant
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Experience
Senior Product Manager/Owner & Consultant
Freelancer
- Interim product management as Product Manager/Owner (Lead/Senior level)
- Interim management for digital and agile projects
- Consulting in product, product management, agile methods & agile project management
Senior Product Manager
CHECK24 Vergleichsportal für Sachversicherungen GmbH
- Building and leading a product team (>5 people)
- Expanding the product strategy and managing the product roadmap
- Responsibility for Product Discovery and Product Delivery for two large digital products in different environments (desktop, mobile, app)
- Further development of the CRM tool and optimization of backend processes
Senior Associate in Customer & Operations/ Management Consulting
PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH
- Various international and national project assignments with a focus on digitalization, product management, agile transformation, and crisis management
- Business development in the areas of digitalization and agile transformation
Intern Master thesis in the Organisational Development Unit
Deutsche Bank AG
Master thesis in the Organisational Development Unit
Student assistant at the chair of Strategic Management
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Support for Prof. Dr. Nils Stieglitz in Strategic Management
Intern in Strategic Media Planning and Media Beyond Advertising
MediaCom Agentur für Mediaberatung GmbH
Tutor for Accounting and Controlling
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Intern in Marketing and IT
2W Media GmbH
Support for management
Intern in Marketing and PR
Maybourne Hotel Group
Marketing and PR for the Claridge’s, Connaught and The Berkeley hotels
Industry experience
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Experienced in Professional Services, Information Technology, Insurance, Education, Banking and Finance, and Advertising.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Product Development, Project Management, Information Technology, Human Resources, Research and Development, and Strategy.
Summary
My name is Max Fortmeier, and I am an experienced Product Manager/Owner and Consultant. Before I started working for myself in 2021, I worked as a management consultant at PwC and as a Senior Product Manager at CHECK24.
I have 9+ years of overall experience and 7+ years as a Product Manager/Owner leading cross-functional teams in agile project environments. I have worked in different industries (IT & Software, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Energy, NGOs, Management Consulting, Web3 & Blockchain), but I am also open to other areas.
Skills
- Ms Office
- Confluence
- Jira
- Miro
- Asana
- Notion
- Trello
- Teams
- Slack
- Zoom
- Figma
- Azure Devops
- Sql
- Html
- Css
- Javascript
Languages
Education
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Master of Science in Management · Management · Frankfurt am Main, Germany · 1,2
Universidad C.E.U. San Pablo
Madrid, Spain
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Certifications & licenses
scrum.org
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Experience
Global experience
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Qualifications
Profile
Frequently asked questions
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Max is based in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Max speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced).
Max has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Max has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 8 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 4 months. Note that Max may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Max would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Product Manager/Owner & Consultant, Senior Product Manager, Senior Associate in Customer & Operations/ Management Consulting.
Max's most recent position is Senior Product Manager/Owner & Consultant at Freelancer.
In recent years, Max has worked for Freelancer.
Max is most experienced in industries like Professional Services, Information Technology, and Insurance. Max also has some experience in Education, Banking and Finance, and Media and Entertainment.
Max is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Project Management, and Information Technology. Max also has some experience in Research and Development, Strategy, and Marketing.
Max has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Professional Services.
Max has recently worked in business areas like Product Development and Project Management.
Max holds a Master in Management from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Bachelor in International Business Administration from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Max has 1 certificate: Professional Scrum Product Owner I.
The availability of Max needs to be confirmed.
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