Product leader with 20 yrs experience building empowered teams, driving product vision & business value across e-commerce and industrial software.
Aktualisiert am 27.04.2026
Profil
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Verfügbar ab: 27.04.2026
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 100%
Scrum Product Owner
Programmmanagement
Business Development
Projektmanagement/Projektleitung
Requirements Engineering
Prozessberatung
Product Management
Roadmap
Scrum
Kanban
BPMN
Atlassian JIRA Agile
Atlassian Confluence
Produkt-Portfoliomanagement
German
Muttersprache
English
Business Fluent

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

10 months
2025-05 - 2026-02

2nd & 3rd Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach

  • Continuous Discovery:
    • Iterative prototyping, validating solutions directly with users before investing in engineering.
  • Alignment:
    • Fostered strong partnership across Product, Business, Design and Engineering aligned to product strategy.
  • Outcome-Oriented Metrics:
    • ?Replaced output-based sprint goals with clear business objectives.


Business Outcomes

  • Drove significant increases in conversion rates and average basket values via AI-powered personalization.
  • Improved customer retention by continuously addressing core user pain points.
  • Achieved measurable improvements in user satisfaction reflected in strongly increased business KPIs.
Tchibo GmbH Retail
Hamburg & Munich
1 year
2023-09 - 2024-08

2nd & 3rd Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
  • Continuous Discovery:
    • Iterative prototyping, validating solutions directly with users before investing in engineering.
  • Alignment:
    • Fostered strong partnership across Product, Business, Design and Engineering aligned to product strategy.
  • Outcome-Oriented Metrics:
    • Replaced output-based sprint goals with clear business objectives.


Business Outcomes

  • Drove significant increases in conversion rates and average basket values via AI-powered personalization.
  • Improved customer retention by continuously addressing core user pain points.
  • Achieved measurable improvements in user satisfaction reflected in strongly increased business KPIs.
Tchibo GmbH
Hamburg & Munich
1 year 2 months
2022-07 - 2023-08

Business Model Canvas + St. Gallen Navigato

Senior Business Analyst (Product Leader)
Senior Business Analyst (Product Leader)
  • Data Analytics:
    • Detailed analyses of user behavior and industry trends to inform product decisions.
  • Business Model Canvas + St. Gallen Navigator to validate scalable, actionable strategies.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • ?Aligned engineering, marketing and sales with market demands.


Business Outcomes

  • Increased customer engagement via targeted, data-driven personalization strategies.
  • Strengthened competitive advantage by resolving critical industry pain points.
  • Established long-term growth by continuously validating scalable business models.

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
1 year 3 months
2021-06 - 2022-08

1st Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
  • New Flutter-based native e-commerce app engaging younger demographics alongside 2M existing customers.
  • Improved retention across 7 countries with fluid UX and radically increased performance.
  • Delivered scalable architecture ready for higher international growth.
Tchibo GmbH Retail
Hamburg & Munich
1 year 6 months
2019-11 - 2021-04

Quality assurance across

Product Operations Leader
Product Operations Leader
  • Full visibility into budget utilization, empowering leadership to make data-driven decisions.
  • Integrated six empowered Scrum teams into core end-to-end delivery process.
  • Replaced output-focused milestones with value-driven quality assurance across all sprint cycles.
BMW AG
Munich
2 years 3 months
2017-08 - 2019-10

AI and UX/UI concepts for B2B processes

Program Manager
Program Manager

  • MVP approach with rapid iterative prototyping of AI and UX/UI concepts for B2B processes.
  • Replaced output-based project tracking with clear business objectives and prototype feedback loops.


Business Outcomes

  • Accelerated platform adoption via validated AI and UX/UI prototypes addressing core user needs.
  • Led tender process and established strategic software partnership with winning vendor.
TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH
Munich
3 years 7 months
2012-08 - 2016-02

Delivered PTC Windchill-based PLM system

Product Coach & Product Owner
Product Coach & Product Owner
  • Delivered PTC Windchill-based PLM system integrating mechanical and electronic product data globally.
  • Led cross-functional organization of up to 60 internal and external personnel with Agile leadership.
  • Scaled Agile practices across Asia, Europe and Americas using a follow-the-sun model.


Business Outcomes

  • Significant efficiency gains by automating manual tasks and enabling bulk updates.
  • Established collaborative work management model empowering self-organizing teams across regions.
  • Ensured continuous improvement through comprehensive knowledge transfer and process coaching.
Continental AG
Regensburg

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2020 - 2023

Specialization in Strategy

Harvard Business School


2018 - 2019

Digital Business

Postgraduate Diploma

MIT Sloan School of Management


2003 - 2005

Informatics & eCommerce

Master of Science

University of Augsburg


1999 - 2003

Informatics & eCommerce

Bachelor of Science

University of Augsburg & TU Munich


Certifications

  • Competitive Strategy ? Accelerating Growth Through Sustainable Solutions
  • Disruptive Strategy
  • Strategy Execution
  • Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) & PSM I
  • Global Business & Leadership Principles
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
  • Digital Marketing, Platform Strategies, Digital Transformation
  • Design Thinking
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
  • TOGAF 9 Certified
  • PRINCE2 Foundation

Position

Position

  • Lead Product Manager
  • Product Strategy & Empowered Teams
  • Product Coach

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Scrum Product Owner Programmmanagement Business Development Projektmanagement/Projektleitung Requirements Engineering Prozessberatung Product Management Roadmap Scrum Kanban BPMN Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence Produkt-Portfoliomanagement

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

Experienced Product Leader specializing in building and coaching empowered product teams to solve hard customer problems in ways that drive measurable business value. Adept at establishing product vision and strategy across both e-commerce and complex industrial software sectors. Backed by 20 years of experience driving business-IT alignment in international corporate environments, with a proven track record of partnering across Product, Business, Design and Engineering to maximize user and business value and tackle core product risks.


Core Competencies

  • Continuous Product Discovery 
  • Outcome-Driven Delivery 
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Product Vision & Roadmap 
  • Empowered Team Coaching 
  • Program Management
  • International Corporate Experience
  • Product Strategy & Innovation 
  • Business-IT Alignment


Skills & Expertise

Product Management & Innovation

  • Product Vision, Strategy, Roadmap 
  • Data-Driven Insights 
  • Design Thinking 
  • UX 
  • A/B Testing 
  • Continuous Product Discovery


Strategic Management

  • OKR 
  • Balanced Scorecard 
  • SWOT 
  • Business Model Canvas 
  • Scenario Planning 
  • Portfolio Management 
  • TOGAF


Agile & Process

  • Scrum (PO, SM) 
  • Kanban 
  • BPMN 2.0 
  • LEAN 
  • Jira 
  • Confluence 
  • Azure Cloud 
  • Google Cloud
  •  ITIL 
  • ASPICE


Technical Skills

  • Cloud Infra (Azure, GCP) 
  • SQL 
  • HTML 
  • XML 
  • Java 
  • UML 
  • Enterprise Architect 
  • PTC Windchill 
  • Contentsquare


Work Experience

2017 - today

Role: Lead Product Manager, Program Manager, Partner 

Customer: on request


2011 - 2017

Role: Senior Management Consultant & Program Manager 
Customer: Cassini Consulting & Opitz Business Consulting


2009 - 2011

Role: Product Manager & Project Manager 

Customer: Siemens AG


2007 - 2009

Role: Senior Strategy Consultant 

Customer: adesso AG


2003 - 2007

Role: Solutions Architect & Project Manager

Customer: O2 Germany

Branchen

Branchen

  • Finance & Insurance
  • Automotive
  • Public Sector
  • Telecom & Media
  • Retail & Services
  • IT & Technology

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Munich (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

10 months
2025-05 - 2026-02

2nd & 3rd Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach

  • Continuous Discovery:
    • Iterative prototyping, validating solutions directly with users before investing in engineering.
  • Alignment:
    • Fostered strong partnership across Product, Business, Design and Engineering aligned to product strategy.
  • Outcome-Oriented Metrics:
    • ?Replaced output-based sprint goals with clear business objectives.


Business Outcomes

  • Drove significant increases in conversion rates and average basket values via AI-powered personalization.
  • Improved customer retention by continuously addressing core user pain points.
  • Achieved measurable improvements in user satisfaction reflected in strongly increased business KPIs.
Tchibo GmbH Retail
Hamburg & Munich
1 year
2023-09 - 2024-08

2nd & 3rd Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
  • Continuous Discovery:
    • Iterative prototyping, validating solutions directly with users before investing in engineering.
  • Alignment:
    • Fostered strong partnership across Product, Business, Design and Engineering aligned to product strategy.
  • Outcome-Oriented Metrics:
    • Replaced output-based sprint goals with clear business objectives.


Business Outcomes

  • Drove significant increases in conversion rates and average basket values via AI-powered personalization.
  • Improved customer retention by continuously addressing core user pain points.
  • Achieved measurable improvements in user satisfaction reflected in strongly increased business KPIs.
Tchibo GmbH
Hamburg & Munich
1 year 2 months
2022-07 - 2023-08

Business Model Canvas + St. Gallen Navigato

Senior Business Analyst (Product Leader)
Senior Business Analyst (Product Leader)
  • Data Analytics:
    • Detailed analyses of user behavior and industry trends to inform product decisions.
  • Business Model Canvas + St. Gallen Navigator to validate scalable, actionable strategies.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • ?Aligned engineering, marketing and sales with market demands.


Business Outcomes

  • Increased customer engagement via targeted, data-driven personalization strategies.
  • Strengthened competitive advantage by resolving critical industry pain points.
  • Established long-term growth by continuously validating scalable business models.

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
1 year 3 months
2021-06 - 2022-08

1st Engagement

Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
Lead Product Owner & Product Coach
  • New Flutter-based native e-commerce app engaging younger demographics alongside 2M existing customers.
  • Improved retention across 7 countries with fluid UX and radically increased performance.
  • Delivered scalable architecture ready for higher international growth.
Tchibo GmbH Retail
Hamburg & Munich
1 year 6 months
2019-11 - 2021-04

Quality assurance across

Product Operations Leader
Product Operations Leader
  • Full visibility into budget utilization, empowering leadership to make data-driven decisions.
  • Integrated six empowered Scrum teams into core end-to-end delivery process.
  • Replaced output-focused milestones with value-driven quality assurance across all sprint cycles.
BMW AG
Munich
2 years 3 months
2017-08 - 2019-10

AI and UX/UI concepts for B2B processes

Program Manager
Program Manager

  • MVP approach with rapid iterative prototyping of AI and UX/UI concepts for B2B processes.
  • Replaced output-based project tracking with clear business objectives and prototype feedback loops.


Business Outcomes

  • Accelerated platform adoption via validated AI and UX/UI prototypes addressing core user needs.
  • Led tender process and established strategic software partnership with winning vendor.
TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH
Munich
3 years 7 months
2012-08 - 2016-02

Delivered PTC Windchill-based PLM system

Product Coach & Product Owner
Product Coach & Product Owner
  • Delivered PTC Windchill-based PLM system integrating mechanical and electronic product data globally.
  • Led cross-functional organization of up to 60 internal and external personnel with Agile leadership.
  • Scaled Agile practices across Asia, Europe and Americas using a follow-the-sun model.


Business Outcomes

  • Significant efficiency gains by automating manual tasks and enabling bulk updates.
  • Established collaborative work management model empowering self-organizing teams across regions.
  • Ensured continuous improvement through comprehensive knowledge transfer and process coaching.
Continental AG
Regensburg

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2020 - 2023

Specialization in Strategy

Harvard Business School


2018 - 2019

Digital Business

Postgraduate Diploma

MIT Sloan School of Management


2003 - 2005

Informatics & eCommerce

Master of Science

University of Augsburg


1999 - 2003

Informatics & eCommerce

Bachelor of Science

University of Augsburg & TU Munich


Certifications

  • Competitive Strategy ? Accelerating Growth Through Sustainable Solutions
  • Disruptive Strategy
  • Strategy Execution
  • Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) & PSM I
  • Global Business & Leadership Principles
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
  • Digital Marketing, Platform Strategies, Digital Transformation
  • Design Thinking
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
  • TOGAF 9 Certified
  • PRINCE2 Foundation

Position

Position

  • Lead Product Manager
  • Product Strategy & Empowered Teams
  • Product Coach

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Scrum Product Owner Programmmanagement Business Development Projektmanagement/Projektleitung Requirements Engineering Prozessberatung Product Management Roadmap Scrum Kanban BPMN Atlassian JIRA Agile Atlassian Confluence Produkt-Portfoliomanagement

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

Experienced Product Leader specializing in building and coaching empowered product teams to solve hard customer problems in ways that drive measurable business value. Adept at establishing product vision and strategy across both e-commerce and complex industrial software sectors. Backed by 20 years of experience driving business-IT alignment in international corporate environments, with a proven track record of partnering across Product, Business, Design and Engineering to maximize user and business value and tackle core product risks.


Core Competencies

  • Continuous Product Discovery 
  • Outcome-Driven Delivery 
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Product Vision & Roadmap 
  • Empowered Team Coaching 
  • Program Management
  • International Corporate Experience
  • Product Strategy & Innovation 
  • Business-IT Alignment


Skills & Expertise

Product Management & Innovation

  • Product Vision, Strategy, Roadmap 
  • Data-Driven Insights 
  • Design Thinking 
  • UX 
  • A/B Testing 
  • Continuous Product Discovery


Strategic Management

  • OKR 
  • Balanced Scorecard 
  • SWOT 
  • Business Model Canvas 
  • Scenario Planning 
  • Portfolio Management 
  • TOGAF


Agile & Process

  • Scrum (PO, SM) 
  • Kanban 
  • BPMN 2.0 
  • LEAN 
  • Jira 
  • Confluence 
  • Azure Cloud 
  • Google Cloud
  •  ITIL 
  • ASPICE


Technical Skills

  • Cloud Infra (Azure, GCP) 
  • SQL 
  • HTML 
  • XML 
  • Java 
  • UML 
  • Enterprise Architect 
  • PTC Windchill 
  • Contentsquare


Work Experience

2017 - today

Role: Lead Product Manager, Program Manager, Partner 

Customer: on request


2011 - 2017

Role: Senior Management Consultant & Program Manager 
Customer: Cassini Consulting & Opitz Business Consulting


2009 - 2011

Role: Product Manager & Project Manager 

Customer: Siemens AG


2007 - 2009

Role: Senior Strategy Consultant 

Customer: adesso AG


2003 - 2007

Role: Solutions Architect & Project Manager

Customer: O2 Germany

Branchen

Branchen

  • Finance & Insurance
  • Automotive
  • Public Sector
  • Telecom & Media
  • Retail & Services
  • IT & Technology

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