Johannes Welp

Head of Commodity Sales & Energy Solutions bei Vattenfall Europe Sales - Berlin

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

At a glance ▪ Effective management of the digital acquisition of new customers and retention of existing customers via all relevant online channels ▪ Successful, progressive personnel management and target-oriented implementation of lean management methods in own department ▪ Experienced, generalist project manager with focus on customer acquisition as well as service and process optimisation ▪ Service-oriented thinking and acting with strategic and pragmatic implementation ▪ Creative personality with a holistic mindset and strong communication skills for employees and stakeholders ▪ Sound methodological competence in the area of new working methods (agile methods, Scrum, Design Sprint incl. the relevant tools (Jira, Trello etc.)) ▪ Successes: Establishment of a digital energy service provider (innogy Direkt GmbH with over 220,000 new customers), successful implementation of numerous business-critical projects, establishment and development of own department incl. individual qualification plans

Experience

  • Vattenfall (Berlin, Germany)
    • Head of Commodity Sales & Energy Solutions
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      My team and I are responsible for the operation, continuous improvement and the expansion of 25 commodity stores (as point of sale) and four Energy Solutions showrooms in Hamburg and Berlin.

    • Senior Sales Manager B2C Energy Solutions
      Apr 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Conception, implementation and sales of new B2C Energy Solution products and services, such as photovoltaic, heating, eMobility and others.

  • Head of Category Management and UX Emerging Products at Eon Energie Deutschland GmbH
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr

    Responsible for customer retention and cancellation prevention via eon.de (incl. self-services, app and community) as well as new customer acquisition in the segments e-mobility, smart home, internet - incl. continuous optimization of digital customer journeys ▪ Defining and ensuring efficient and valuable new customer acquisition via digital channels (in particular innogy Direkt GmbH) ▪ Targeted, successful category management (for the photovoltaic, relocation and e-mobility segments), based on defined control and evaluation key performance indicators (KPI) ▪ Efficient market cultivation within existing segments through supporting marketing campaigns ▪ Progress monitoring of KPIs using OKR (Objectives and Key Results) in the form of monthly performance dialogues ▪ Project management B2C 2020/ 2021: Migration innogy Direkt GmbH to E.ON platform, incl. legal merger and customer transfer to E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH Results: ▪ Technical migration of 220,000 customers to CRM & Billing systems of E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH successfully completed during ongoing operations ▪ Continuous optimization of customer journeys such as relocation, consent management, cancellation prevention - based on data-driven analyses and process improvements

  • Head of Digital B2C at innogy SE and RWE Vertrieb AG at innogy SE
    Apr 2013 - Dec 2020 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    ▪ Assumption of management function as of 1 April 2013 ▪ Operationalization of the B2C sales strategy in the digital context ▪ Disciplinary and technical management of up to ten employees ▪ Conception, planning and control of value-oriented digital campaigns ▪ Planning, forecasting and adjustment of the sales budget (up to € 10 million) ▪ Project management B2C 2016: Relaunch rwe.com: Establishment of the new innogy brand incl. replacement of the domain rwe.com Results: ▪ Introduction of innogy Direkt GmbH as a digital energy supplier (started as a Minimum Viable Product, over 220,000 new customers were acquired digitally in two years - sales target exceeded by 50%) ▪ Implementation of Lean Management measures 2020 in the team incl. silver award (achieved by less than 10% of B2C departments) ▪ Complete rebranding incl. modernisation during brand change from rwe.com to innogy.de (optimisation of usability, implementation as mobile-first approach with demonstrably positive customer response)

  • Manager Online Sales Channel at RWE Vertrieb AG
    Sep 2009 - Mar 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    ▪ Management and control of the online sales channel ▪ Ensuring efficient and digital acquisition processes ▪ Conception, planning and control of online and mobile campaigns ▪ Project management B2C 2011: Launch RWE Energiekaufhaus - RWE as the first provider of a joint online shopping cart for energy tariffs and hardware products (Smart Home) Results: ▪ Online contracts doubled with the launch of the RWE Energy Store (thus the strongest B2C acquisition channel with 800 new customer contracts per week in 2012) ▪ One in four online consultations via the newly established Sales Chat leads to the conclusion of a contract

  • RWE Rhein-Ruhr AG (Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
    • Manager Online Marketing
      Dec 2006 - Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      ▪ Responsibility for the digital presence of the B2C area on rwe.com (in particular tariff presentation, usability, customer-centric website online sales and services) ▪ Establishment of cooperation partnerships ▪ Successful qualification in project management (2007) ▪ Project head 2007: Introduction of RWE Kundenkonto Online - a digital customer account as a fully-fledged replacement for phone customer services ▪ Project collaboration 2009: RWE Energiewelt - content-based platform on topics such as energy saving, energy efficiency and a craftsman database Results: ▪ In 2009, the online website rwe.de including the customer account online was awarded 1st place in the Process Consulting web study (compare to 2007: 13th place). ▪ Successful establishment of cooperation partnerships with Check24 and Verivox as the leading energy comparison portals in Germany

    • Trainee Sales
      Jun 2005 - Nov 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

      ▪ Different departments (B2C, B2B, Corporate Communication) ▪ Focus on advertising/ online