Christian Weiss Email & Phone Number

Canton Of Zug, Switzerland

Steinhausen, Zug, Switzerland

- Lead the Corporate Communications department, overseeing media relations, shareholder communications, event management (including the Annual General Meeting), consumer affairs, and strategic communications counsel to the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Ensure the company maintains a strong and trustworthy reputation;- Direct the group's internal and external communications, including media relations, LinkedIn engagement, and communications strategies for core markets (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy) and resort destinations;- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement an integrated, topic-focused communications and content strategy. Establish a corporate newsroom to streamline content creation and distribution;- Create and maintain a consistent brand voice and messaging across all company entities, regions, and markets; modernize the brand identity to strengthen the company's industry presence.

Zug, Switzerland

- Owns the external perception of NASDAQ-listed LKQ Corporation – a Fortune 500 company – across Europe;- positions and consults the CEO and executive team, leads the annual internal leadership conference, and manages media relations and external stakeholders to uphold a trustworthy reputation; and- accomplished to establish a consistent communications strategy and modernized branding across all of the holding’s entities, regions and markets to strengthen industry presence.

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

- Led the corporate communications team including brand PR, corporate communications & events (e.g. annual press conference) and consumer affairs, and advising the executive board on strategic communications; - increased corporate communications KPIs to new record levels and almost doubled the corporate PR value by adding and establishing new, modern event formats (corporate media workshops) and targeted media offerings with executive boards; and- safeguarded a trustworthy reputation as the global lead spokesperson for issue management and crisis communications by consulting and supporting the corporation’s worldwide subsidiaries and regional offices.

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

- Co-led corporate communications and especially secured Porsche's good reputation by advising the executive board on strategic communications issues as global crisis communications lead; and- drove forward corporate communications KPIs by introducing different storytelling, intensifying and internationalizing the positioning of executive boards.

Stuttgart Und Umgebung, Deutschland

- Drove forward corporate and employee communications for various key departments such as production & logistics, procurement and quality;- joined the task force for VW Group’s diesel issue in Q4/ 2015 to ensure a one-voice policy and the continuation of a trustworthy reputation; and- massively upgraded corporate core topics and storytelling, e.g. created an international communications campaign for the one-millionth Porsche 911 model which set new KPI records for PR value and reach.

Leipzig, Sachsen, Deutschland

- As a member of the executive management team, he upgraded external and internal communications, brand PR, employee engagement as well as government affairs; and- reorganized and developed the communications team, increased international awareness for the Leipzig site and supported the organizational change process from combustion engine and hybrid models to all-electric vehicles.

Stuttgart Und Umgebung, Deutschland

- As a member of the executive management team, he upscaled global communications including brand PR, corporate and employee communications, corporate events, consumer and government affairs;- initiated celebrity collaborations (Linkin Park), established a new communications strategy, launched the brand’s fashion line at New York Fashion Week and created sought after PR talking pieces ($1 million advent calendar).

Stuttgart Area, Germany

- Drove forward Porsche’s motorsports and sports communications as external spokesperson, and created communications concepts for the McLaren Mercedes Formula One Team and Robert Bosch GmbH.

Stuttgart Area, Germany