Bettina Ilka Kovács Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, DK

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Personally built and executed the rollout strategy for the Connected Cars’ product suite at Volkswagen (VW) Mexico, VW Hong Kong, VW Singapore, VW Australia and various pilot projects with other car brands/markets.
• Created, maintained, and optimized various internal processes within the company's operational framework

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Providing comprehensive support to CEO and senior management by providing strategic counsel, legal expertise, business development insights, financial acumen, and organisational optimisation strategies.

Berlin

• Responsible for planning and executing the rollout strategy for the German Region, and establishing the Instabox footprint within the NRW region & Berlin.
• Optimising the cost spend by reconfiguring the local operational setup, in terms of product placement, and achieved our first milestone by engaging a cooperation with H&M as our first location partner in the German.
• Manage the procurement and supply chain activities of Germany, while coordinating a fluctuating setup of 30 team members, including Drivers, Installers, Coordinators, Engineers, Sales representative,...etc.

Berlin, Germany

• Establishing and managing the sales team and activities within the French market rollout, consisting of an 8 people project team and achieving a 50.000 stock target within 4 months.
• Creator and presenter of investor pitches, followed by the role of direct point of contact for involved shareholders (VW, Daimler, Renault) and their council members.
• Executed the planning of acquisition roadmaps based on shareholder requests and internal market research, bringing forward the sales strategy.
• Partnership and contract establishment with service providers, including first contact, negotiations, and terms agreement.

Berlin, Germany

• Executed country rollout, strategy and launch of: Poland, Slovakia, (preparation of Hungary & The Netherlands).
• Lead Expansion Manager of city launches of Bremen, Halle, Zürich, Odense, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund, Rome, Lyon, Paris, Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia, Krakow, Szczecin, Kolobrzeg, & Bratislava (including preparation of.
• Managing tender application and representation of the company in front of city officials all around the UK (30+ cities).
• Responsible of market needs in legal, tax, authorization, and insurance issues…etc.
• Coordinate pre and post launch activates, hire, train and structure the local teams.
• Structure the financial budgeting, operational setup and logistics, maintain project overview by onsite management.

Berlin, Germany

• Manage acquisitions, expansion and project management activities in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria & Austria.
• Direct stakeholders, as local municipalities, transportation authorities, planning agencies.
• Project lead for the implementation of Salesforce into the Network Planning Team.
• Monitoring portfolio economical KPI's, optimize logistical infrastructure and shift schedules.
• Developing market entry strategies and conduct market research for 9 new countries.
• Utilising qualitative and quantitative data in structuring a competitor analysis.

• Financial responsibility: Individual portfolio financing volumes exceeds one billion dollars annually and outstanding balances total as much as $500 million.
• Team management of the Business Operation, C level financial reporting.
• Analyse all required collateral documentation in order to create a risk assessment, consult customers in improving their collateral position based on their financial statements.
• Design and implement financial programs to collect outstanding debts.
• Completed the IBM Team Leader Academy program.

• Managed knowledge transfer for the Business Account Analyst role from Manchester to the office in Budapest.
• Utilised complex data sets to construct forecasts and pricing strategies.
• Managed sales campaigns within the accounts such as i.e., Deutsche Bank and Fresenius.
• Responsible for billing/credit/debt related activities.

Spain Alicante

• Inventory process implementation.
• Introduced database for maintaining, tracking and assist inventory management.
• Responsible for billing/credit/debt related activities and supply negotiation.

• Consulting and leading business partners in selling 9 product lines such as infrastructure services, cloud and managed security services.
• Responsible as business partner specialist for the Spanish market to deliver the best quality with regards to contract & pricing management as well as CRM.
• Coordinating the team task activities and supporting the Team Lead with analytical and operational reports.

Budapest

• Provided data in generating the geostrategic analysis.
• Assisting in the preparation of the National Economic Atlas
• Contribution the preparation of the National Spatial Development Concept.

City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning, Faculty Of Spatial Sciences

City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning, Faculty Of History & Geography

Master Of Science (M.Sc) Urban Planning & Demography, Faculty Of Science

Thepowermba, Mba, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Innovation & Digital Transformation

Subjects: Business Model Innovation | Testing Business Ideas & Lean Startup | Strategy & Business Fundamentals | Leadership |.