Ansgar Pabst Email & Phone Number

South Africa

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Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Strategically assisting Retailers on their move from a "single product-to-single customer (segment)" proposition towards multiple products - multiple customers. By deploying innovative platform thinking, we unlock network effects and introduce complements, effectively leveraging your existing customer base.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Driving Culture change towards ambidexterity: "Act like a start-up, deliver like a grown up". Building SA"s #1 Omnichannel CVP. Creating new disruptive innovation models in the context of a legacy retailer leveraging PnP's key assets: brand, store network, Smart Shopper database.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Strategic Research to unify and amplify a variety of online & offline channel towards a holistic business model. Initiation, Experimentation & Integration of Takealot Marketplace-Reseller framework with PnP's legacy redource allocation model. Conclusion of new PnP Omnichannel Business Strategy

End-to-end Responsibility for Business Unit

Rsa, Ksa, Aus, D, Uk, Dk, Fin, Nl

APC is specialized in consulting on Retail Business Model Innovation, helping incumbents & new entrants to monetise the opportunities Disruption provides. We are conscious of the interdependencies between the "core" (your existing business model, often linear) and the "new". We understand that the fight for resources and to manage both simultaneously often causes conflict inside the organisation. Here we assist through a unique blend of hands-on, international experience coupled with strategic insight with exposure to leading frameworks like Harvard and Insead.Applying lean & agile "start-up" principles, in our pursuit to dominate the consumer's relevant buying criterions, we focus on the following:1. to generate customer insight speedily2. to convert the insight into a viable 4P strategy3. to test in-vivo with customers, learn & iterateIf you are busy disrupting industries, being disrupted or foresee the possibility to be disrupted, we would like to have a chat with you. We would be delighted to jointly explore the world on Omni-channel CX, Community Retail and Retail-as-a-Service to name but a few.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Motivation for and Creation of Accessories Division complementing Hardware Innovation of cross-departmental Bundle Value Propositions for Samsung Africa ForumChange management from sell-in based measurements towards sell-out and behaviour based incentivesContinuous Supply Chain Optimization through conceptualization and launch of (1) demand shaping tool, (2) Fast Moving Line (FML) - Smoothing Incentive and (3) time-based Order & Receipt incentiveCreation of "Samsung TV Tuesday" retail event culminating in "Samsung Blue Weekend" Promotion; simultaneous activation across all channels with complete ATL/BTL activities controlled by Samsung.

Divisional responsibility for Strategy, Positioning, Procurement and Presentation of Merchandise

Sydney, Australia

Merchandise & Category Management CE, Media, Apple

Merchandise Management of ICT and CE categories

Various Locations Uk

District Manager Training with responsibility for Cornwall DistrictSubsequent Promotion to Head of Non Food (Bereichsleiter Aktion) at HQ, London, UK

Hagen/Germany, Copenhagen/Denmark, Turku/Finland, Amsterdam/The Netherlands

FMCG /Confectionery ManufacturingSupply Chain Project Management around the transfer of Manufacturing facilities from Germany to Denmark and Finland

Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kreis- bis 2. Bundesliga - Nur der SVD.

Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy & Globalisation

Disruptive Retail Business Model Innovation as Strategic Sales & Marketing Tool for Sustainable Market Leadership

Dipl-Betriebswirt / Bachelor Of Business & Management Economics:, Buying - Scope Of Customer Satisfaction Management

corporate education & vocational training on the job (Industriekaufmann)

Strategy In The Age Of Digital Disruption, Pass

Disruptive Strategy With Clayton Christensen, Pass

HBX Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen is a 6-week, 30 hour certificate program from Harvard Business School. Disruptive.

Digital Marketing

Strategic Planning & Management In Retailing

Activities and Societies: Strategically plan for growth, including modelling & productivity analysis. Analyse and interpret consumer.

Nexus - Young Leadership Forum

Activities and Societies: Nexus is a personal leadership programme that helps young leaders in business, civil society and government.

Industriekaufmann (Industrial Clerk - Formal Apprenticeship), Fmcg

Abschlusspruefung im Ausbildungsberuf: Industriekaufmann

Abitur (Final High School Exam Paper)

German High School (top tier)