Kerstin Gronau

creative mind 🧠 | empowering stakeholder relations 🌟 | shaping the future together 🚀

Austria

About

Creative-Allrounder mit einem starken Fokus auf Innovationsmanagement, Eventmanagement und Partnership-Management. Ich bin stets darauf bedacht, innovative Lösungen zu finden, um die Sichtbarkeit von Marken zu steigern und ein beeindruckendes Kundenerlebnis zu schaffen.

Experience

  • Referentin Abteilung Innovation & Digitalisierung at Wirtschaftskammer Österreich
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Community & Stakeholder Specialist at Innovation Map We explore trends, emerging technologies and ambitions to find ways to ensure that Austrias companies stay competitive and future-proof. - manage stakeholder ecossystem across business, research and the public sector around the Innovation Map - create and scale engagement formats such as “How to Future” to enable structured exchange and hands on foresight thinking - design workshop architectures and method toolkits (from concept to facilitation and documentation) - facilitate workshops and co creation sessions, turning insights into actionable outputs and next steps - drive iterative improvement of formats and methods to increase adoption, clarity and impact for member companies

  • Marketing & Event Specialist AT at BestSecret
    Aug 2019 - Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    We are the leading European off-price specialist for fashion. We protect our partners brand equity - both online & offline. - led large scale retail customer events in Austria (up to 1,000 guests), from concept to delivery and post event review - owned cross functional stakeholder management as the Austria interface between HQ Germany, store teams, partners and external agencies - budget responsibility for key initiatives, maintaining a strong customer experience while reducing event spend - planned and executed retail marketing and POS activities, including external communications, CRM/newsletter campaigns and the ongoing development of the B2B approach - supported the Austrian management team with project coordination, process development and day to day execution in close collaboration with AT leadership - served as the Austrian point of contact and interface for retail system implementations (POS, invoicing, logistics - SAP HANA V4), coordinating requirements, testing, rollouts and internal communication (task allocation led by management) - contributed to Covid 19 operational measures, including coordination support for short time work processes

  • Eventmanagement at Marketing Natives
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs

    Marketing Natives is a non profit community connecting marketeers through curated events and knowledge exchange. - managed stakeholder coordination with the venue partner (A1 Headquarters) - responsible for sponsor relationship management for example with Coca-Cola - coordinated speaker and technical briefings and ensured smooth on site execution - owned run of show alignment and on site event coordination - set up ticketing and attendee management via Eventbrite

  • Junior Consultant Live Marketing at Stargate Group Werbeagentur GmbH
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr

    - Project management for live marketing and brand activations (concept to rollout to debrief) - Concept and delivery of BTL/POS campaigns and on site promotions (multi location) - Client and stakeholder coordination for accounts incl. SPAR, HOFER/Medion and A1 - Pitch support and concept development for events and activations - Promoter operations: selection, onboarding, briefings, QA; promoter database setup - Budget responsibility: cost calculations, monitoring and supplier coordination

  • Assistenz der Geschäftsführung at ECM Processanalytic GmbH
    Sep 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos