Vienna, Vienna, Austria
I am a successful business professional with an extensive record in the Mobility industry. Thanks to my strong technical background and substantial experience in managing global programs and running multi-country operations, I want to highlight the following areas of expertize: A proven record of developing new strategic content and expanding geographies, including market research, supplier negotiation and the successful integration of 3rd party content with self-produced data. Solid offshore production experience heading cartography teams in in India An entrepreneurial spirit leading teams of project managers from different departments to achieve one common goal. Program management experience in understanding customer expectations, translating them into engineering and production tasks and delivering content globally.
- Ensuring that TomTom provides the most comprehensive traffic information in 40+ countries across the globe. - Setting up a system of 100 local data experts to collect critical county specific information ensuring a 24/7 emergency service. - Enhancing the service by signing agreements with real time traffic information providers. - Supporting sourcing of other real time content such as electrical vehicle charging stations, low emission zone information and toll roads. - Realising the highest customer satisfaction level by enabling TomTom to grow its market share to 85% of all connected vehicles.
- Growing strategic data partnerships in Europe and Central Asia by establishing successful cooperations with the authorities in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. - Finding, reviewing and selecting the best possible partners based on high quality standards and commercial requirements. - Establishing cooperative working agreements fulfilling global requirements while respecting local conditions. - Supporting Partner Development managers in other regions of the world in business modelling, pricing, content, quality, legal and IP. - Building meaningful KPIs/OKRs to effectively drive partnerships and business activities.
- Overall responsibility for the Navigation Map in 13 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. - Handled data acquisition, recruitment of local teams and establishment of local units. - Built the most content rich geographic database of this area of the world exceeding automotive customer expectations. - Special geographic focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia region.
- Continued map operations in existing countries. - Performed market analysis and subsequent data acquisitions in former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania. - Signed numerous data licensing deals with National Mapping Agencies to ensure legal compliance. - Recruited local staff (15+ team members).
- Lead branch office in Vienna. - Implemented the corporate strategy (technical, financial, facility and HR) on country level. - Expanded maps operations to Slovak Republic and Hungary. - Relocated map production activities from Belgium to India. - Established a management and QC system to safeguard quality. - Delivered the first full coverage navigable map of Austria.
- Lead data collection team Austria and restructured them to a decentralised organisation. - Established a network to public authorities and private companies. - Took over the production responsibilities and contributed in the move from Germany to Belgium. - Expanded map operations to the Czech Republic and integrated team members of the partner company in Prague. - Provided on site technical support during the acquisition of ETAK, Menlo Park.
- Founded the Austria Subsidiary. - Set up the field data collection team. - Recruited five team members and mentored them to become top performers. - Released the first navigation CD of Austria