Management Consultant in Berlin

• Freelance work as a consultant (workshops and coaching for small to midsize companies in the areas of lean startup methodology, digital & AI transformation strategy, agile culture, design thinking)
• AI training & certification
• Project Management

Ensuring project coordination for the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations: stakeholder management, meeting coordination, open issue tracking, task prioritization and knowledge transfer between business units and IT.

• Supported orderbird in setting up and driving an internal advanced analytics project for the internal customer dashboard
• Structured the internal dashboard project for later development

• Leadership & global team orchestration: led 30+ designers, engineers, and operators across Europe and Asia through up to 5 parallel workstreams with clear priorities, roadmaps, and delivery cadences.

• Leadership & global team orchestration: designed operating models, OKRs, KPI frameworks, and reporting rituals aligning product, engineering, design, and commercial teams in fully remote, cross-cultural environments.

• Leadership & global team orchestration: built hiring profiles, evaluated talent, and developed leadership capability across product and operations.

• Venture creation & 0→1 product development: built and scaled ventures in consumer products, digital platforms, and hospitality, owning strategy, product decisions, and business development end-to-end.

• Venture creation & 0→1 product development: defined business models, financial plans, and capital requirements; prepared investor narratives, pitch materials, and data rooms for fundraising readiness.

• Venture creation & 0→1 product development: delivered MVPs and early product iterations through structured discovery, roadmapping, and iterative testing focused on establishing PMF.

• Go-to-market & business development: defined value propositions, positioning, and go-to-market strategies that established early revenue pathways.

• Go-to-market & business development: structured commercial partnerships that accelerated access to distribution, credibility, and customer insight.

• Go-to-market & business development: ran validation cycles, customer interviews, and controlled small-scale launches across startup, SME, and corporate contexts to refine offerings, pricing, and market strategy.

• Advisory & venture building for clients and partners: acted as management consultant and venture builder for founders, SMEs, and corporate innovation units, contributing to 20+ ventures from opportunity framing to MVP to commercial traction.

• Advisory & venture building for clients and partners: translated market problems into product strategies and executable roadmaps; aligned C-level stakeholders with engineering, design, and commercial teams.

• Advisory & venture building for clients and partners: supported investor readiness and organizational scaling by coaching leaders on decision-making, hiring, and operating models that increased execution speed and resilience.

• Developing brand, social & digital strategies for brands and agencies, e.g. “Hypoport I&P brand strategy” (09/2022), “MAN Social Media Strategy” (03/2022, Accenture Song).
• Interim leading strategy teams, e.g. ‘Head of Strategy’ (01-05/2021, We are social).
• Planning & facilitating design sprint workshops for brands, e.g. “Router finder”, incl. prototype development (02/2020, AVM).

• Accelerated merchant onboarding and KYC process, rolled out new merchant contracts, and managed an upstream merger at a payment service provider
• Developed and interim-managed procurement processes to defend and pass on supplier price increases at an automotive supplier
• Supported the in-house consulting team of a trade fair organizer on organization and process development topics (hiring, customer inquiries) across functions
• PMO for software testing for an eMobility service provider on behalf of an OEM
• Created a growth strategy and served as interim PMO for the first 100 days of post-merger integration at a landscaping and garden services group
• Conducted commercial due diligence for a mobile sanitation provider
• Designed and implemented quality assurance and customer support processes to prepare for the launch of a media corporate startup
• Interim PMO to build COVID-19 testing capabilities and capacity for a TIC group (including materials, staff, facilities, software, legal)
• Designed a new budgeting and approval process with clear steps, responsibilities, and thresholds for a health education scale-up
• PMO for DB1 and OPEX improvement at a fitness scale-up through product and pricing adjustments and a concept for building in-house consulting

• Rapidly operationalized measurement frameworks and insight generation to evaluate go-to-market initiatives, directly influencing regional planning and investment decisions within the first 60 days.
• Led complex attribution and incrementality analyses to quantify campaign impact, identifying key trends that drove improvements in user adoption and engagement.
• Partnered with product and marketing leadership to translate complex behavioral data into prioritized OKRs and clear strategic narratives.

• Management of large and distributed technology organizations. Leading the digital transformation.
• Program / Project Management, Service Delivery Management, Lean & Agile, PMBOK, ITIL.
• Consulting for continuous delivery, software development and delivery management.
• Consultancy and leadership through the agile and cloud transformation and the way to DevOps.
• Nearshoring of technology and software development projects.
• Consulting services for the RFI/RFP processes, contract negotiations and management.
• Consultancy on product development strategy and definition of the target market.

• Built the business plan, feasibility study, and full industrialization strategy for a greenfield gigafactory
• Modelled CAPEX/OPEX, industrial layout, equipment strategy, and operational ramp scenarios
• Defined PMO governance and the complete commissioning and quality strategy from design through operations
• Managed client relationship and provided strategic advisory on regulatory pathways and technology selection

• Client representation for Taurecon GmbH for three projects and infrastructure in the 'Quartier Heidestrasse', Berlin, service phases 2-5 (volumes of €25–60 million each).
• Client representation, project management, and overall site supervision for the existing Kornversuchsspeicher Berlin building for the Adler Group.
• Monitoring for the Adler Group – 'Wasserstadt Mitte' quarter in Berlin, from service phase 5 (volume over €200 million).
• Tenant fit-out for rental properties for the Adler Group, service phases 1-8, including design concept.
• Review of project developments for the financing bank and analysis, clustering, and development of concepts for a portfolio for PwC.
• Interim management for a Berlin housing company as head of neighborhood management, responsible for 92 employees.
• Consulting for Vivantes, analysis of projects and order volumes, preparation of tender procedures, and application for funding.

• Full strategy development process (diagnosis → priorities → KPIs → roadmap)
• Market & competitor intelligence (opportunity sizing, positioning, where to win)
• Innovation management process (build innovation funnel: idea creation → evaluation → experiments → scaling)
• Carbon accounting + decarbonisation strategy (Set baseline (CCF/PCF) → identify hotspots → reduction roadmap)
• Sustainability strategy + reporting support (CSRD/CBAM; turning reporting into business value)

• Leading mixed-methods discovery for the adidas Running App, using interviews, surveys (incl. choice-modeling), and AI-powered market/app-review intelligence to surface user needs and engagement opportunities.
• Partnering closely with Product, Content Storytelling, CRM, and Analytics teams to translate insights into product direction, segmentation opportunities, and rapid experimentation.
• Synthesizing extensive internal and external research to map knowns, identify critical knowledge gaps, and build an evidence-based research roadmap that supports continuous discovery and optimization.
• Championing AI-supported research practices by guiding cross-functional teams in leveraging AI for faster user feedback synthesis, market intelligence, and rapid workflows.