Rafal Jacaszek Email & Phone Number

Bavaria, Germany

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

Tekion is here to redefine the automotive retail. From the user experience to the benefits of the cloud, it's all new, revolutionary and disruptive. Building the Tekion EMEA.

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

Europe

Helping Private Equity companies in acquiring the right targets, managing their portfolio, assisting assets' management teams.• Automotive - industry trends, potential analysis, technology and economy influence, customer expectations, strategy validation.• M&A - market positioning, portfolio USP, competition analysis, due diligence, synergies, organic vs. acquisition growth potential.• Technology - product strategy assessment, platform life-cycle, product positioning, trends.

Munich Area, Germany

Description:• Providing direction and strong vision to the strategies related to business development, account management, sales, marketing and business consulting.• Leading a team of 70 professional across international locations and handling responsibilities for $70m in revenue.• As the public representative of Cox companies and products such as Modix, incadea, Xtime ensuring a positive brand image for the products and services in the market.• Establishing connect and… Show more Description:• Providing direction and strong vision to the strategies related to business development, account management, sales, marketing and business consulting.• Leading a team of 70 professional across international locations and handling responsibilities for $70m in revenue.• As the public representative of Cox companies and products such as Modix, incadea, Xtime ensuring a positive brand image for the products and services in the market.• Establishing connect and maintaining strong customer relationships at a senior level.• Developing and implementing plans to position Cox portfolio in the OEMs global strategies.Notable Achievements:• Successfully worked on the development and execution of the ‘Concept of Cox Automotive International Portfolio’:o Post-acquisition of Incadea first by DealerTrack and then a few months later by Cox, worked on integrating Cox Automotive international strategy with Incadea.o Identified and finalised the globally relevant elements in the portfolio.o Developed an integrated solution portfolio around the consumer journey process wherein both the online and offline parts of the experience would come together as a coherent chain.o Worked closely with the customers (OEMs and dealers) to gradually introduce the solution components as a part of their processes. Show less

Munich Area, Germany

Description:• Provided executive leadership and support for development and implementation of the company’s strategic projects.• Led and handled responsibilities for setting up of the ‘incadea Professional Services Department’ globally.• Reviewed and oversaw the company’s strategic global projects on an executive level.• Built and maintained customer relationships at the senior management level.• Led and handled overall marketing and business communication plan for the… Show more Description:• Provided executive leadership and support for development and implementation of the company’s strategic projects.• Led and handled responsibilities for setting up of the ‘incadea Professional Services Department’ globally.• Reviewed and oversaw the company’s strategic global projects on an executive level.• Built and maintained customer relationships at the senior management level.• Led and handled overall marketing and business communication plan for the company. Notable Achievements:• Achieved an exponential growth in revenues from $1.5m to $25m in professional services and $12m to $65m for the overall company’s revenues.• Successfully worked on the project ‘Launch of Lincoln brand in China – Lincoln experience programme’:o Worked closely with the Lincoln team, identified the need to provide IT solutions that differentiate their offerings for the new automotive brand in China.o Produced dealer templates (organisation, systems, and business management), performed concept testing for war games and ensured implementation of the templates.• Led and implemented the project ‘Turn-around of VW India Retail IT Strategy’:o Resolved issues faced by and with VW India. o Successfully created a consumer experience process as per local requirements, developed a Retail IT landscape workbook, organised a process to source critical components and established an oversight organisation. • Successfully led the transition from a countryside organisation comprising of 120 people to an international player with 26 offices across time zones and 800 employees during 2011 -2015. • A significant contribution to the IPO preparation process:o Hired 100+ key resources and worked with the team to establish incadea as the 2nd biggest global DMS provider.o The subsidiaries founded grew exponentially; in China 100 people, 10m€ revenue, India 140 people, 4m€ and in Mexico 35 people, 3m€.o In 2012, the organisation got listed on the AIM market of the LSE. Show less

Munich Area, Germany

Creating, enhancing and positioning incadea's service and product portfolio.Building the services departments of incadea, establishing organization, hiring teams, defining strategy, implying operational standards.Overlooking strategic project and managing customer relations on executive management level.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

Description:• Developed and managed the implementation of the Dealer Management System (DMS) and Customer Relations Management (CRM) strategies for GM retail networks in Europe.• Handled and managed responsibilities for the selection of vendors and the development of a strategic partnership with system providers via RFI/RFQ process.• Conceptualised and Led implementation projects in several countries.• Identified the focus areas to achieve the targeted business growth and led… Show more Description:• Developed and managed the implementation of the Dealer Management System (DMS) and Customer Relations Management (CRM) strategies for GM retail networks in Europe.• Handled and managed responsibilities for the selection of vendors and the development of a strategic partnership with system providers via RFI/RFQ process.• Conceptualised and Led implementation projects in several countries.• Identified the focus areas to achieve the targeted business growth and led the planning and execution of the deployment, training and change management strategies.• Represented the projects in Executive Management meetings and was responsible for selling and marketing the strategies to the senior leaders.• Built and managed relations with six international system partners and 20+ National Sales Companies• Represent the project in Franchise Boards and Dealers Associations meetings.Notable Achievements:• Member of the ‘GME European DMS Strategy’ project:o Worked with more than 120 DMS providers and 30 down selected vendors for the RFI process.o Handled selection and contracting with six partners, sold and promoted the strategy to different countries, managed relations with partners, worked on the funding model and coordinated with the dealers such as European Board and Retail Systems Council.o At the end of the project, GME achieved more than 80% endorsed DMS penetration in Europe and continual improvement in dealer ratings with 3.9 in 2009 on a 1-5 scale, five being the best. o Achieved the best OEM-Retail integration on the market which no other automotive OEM had achieved on such a large scale. Show less

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland