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Hannover, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & yield of approx. 1.200 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUI, airtours, 1-2-Fly.Responsible for a team existing of 14 members and 2 destination management agencies.Key projects:TNBM (testing new business models) stereotyping the 1st production model via channel.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & yield of approx. 2.300 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUI, 1-2-Fly.Responsible for a team existing of 25 members and 3 destination management agencies.Key projects:Change Management: Integration of the luxury brand airtours.Sales: Optimization of allottment.

Germany, Hannover

In 2006 a major restructuring at TUI Germany was realized hence the portfoliomangements were changed into productmanagements.Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & back office tasks of approx. 2.100 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUIResponsible for a team existing of 48 members and 4 destination.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales of approx. 1.300 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUIResponsible for a team existing of 23 members and 5 destination management agencies.Key projects:Change Management: Integration of the departments calculation/product set up and service support into our product.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing for hotel products in the regions I was responsible for.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for concept & implementation of the new homepage of TUI Beteiligungssesellschaft Hotels & Resorts and the re-launch of the Hotels & Resorts Brand Book (image brochure for potential investors).Coordination of several marketing activity plans between the hotel brands Grecotel, Grupotel & Dorfhotel and group tour operators of relevant source.

Cyprus, Limassol

Responsible for the tour representarives teams for the tour operators: TUI, airconti, 1-2-Fly, Imholz, Vögele Reisen in Cyprus. 23 team members. Key Responsibility: guest relations, excursion and rental car sales, ground handling in the airports Larnaca and Paphos.Change: Optimization of handling and service concepts and processes hence reduction of staff.

Greece, Rhodes, Spain, Fuerteventura

Management Trainee Programme to qualify for the position of destination manager at TUI Service.Projects: QuaZi: Implementation of feedback circles to optimize guest relation activities on resort. Invention of the TUI Service Award.

2 Masters' Degrees, Economics & English Studies, Master In Economics (1.0 = A), Master In Englisch Studies (2.0 = B)

Versicherungskaufmann, 1,4 Passend With Distinction Of The Chamber Of Commerce And Industry Hanover

Foreign Language Correspondent For The English Language, Business English, 2,5

German, English, Political Science, Biology

German Abitur , A-Levels, German, English, Political Science, Biology, 2,4

Guest Lecturer, Tourism Management

Since 2011 I offer the course: Job Profile Product Manager each winter semester. Besides basic knowledge in how a tour operator works, the.