Marcel Herpich

From Strategy to Store: Driving Perfect Execution at Scale | Head of Trade Marketing De’Longhi Group (DE & AT)

Germany

About

Retail & Brand Experience Leader with 13+ years of experience shaping high-impact shopper and brand experiences across Germany & Austria. Known for combining shopper intelligence and creative thinking to deliver speed to market and breakthrough ideas – from store to fair to brand space. I work at the intersection of retail strategy, brand experience and execution, building frameworks, KPIs and activation models that drive visibility, conversion and sustainable growth across brands, channels and partners. An easy-to-work-with, people-first leader with an exceptional network of high-class agencies and shopfitting partners, enabling ideas to move fast from concept to store.

Experience

  • De'Longhi Group (Neu-Isenburg, Hesse, Germany · Hybrid)
    • Head of Trade Marketing De'Longhi Deutschland und Österreich
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Professional and disciplinary lead (4 team members; cross-boarder) of all Point-of-Sale, Point-of-Experience, fairs and events related activities, strategic development and operational management of integrated retail sales concepts, trend-setting standards in In-Store visibility and customer experience, GTM roll-out coordination, A&P budgets responsibility, vendor management

    • Head of Trade Marketing De'Longhi Deutschland
      Jul 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Samsung Electronics (Full-time · 8 yrs 10 mos)
    • Manager Retail Innovation
      Mar 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Retail strategy, product launches at the PoS, sales development, budget responsibility, expansion of PoS presence, analizing and tracking of all marketing activities, feasibility and impact of innovation projects, digitization of processes, management of all Samsung PoS for TV (850 Shops), digitalization of PoS and PoX, strategy development for the transformation of retail, lateral management of two team members

    • Senior Specialist Channel Communication
      Jan 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Product launches at the PoS, budget responsibility, development, implementation and management of the brand and communication strategy at the POS and POX, management of all Samsung PoS for TV (750 Shops), sales development, lateral management of a team member

    • Senior Specialist Retail Marketing
      Apr 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Product launches at PoS, management of all PoS in the TV/AV field (650 shops), budget responsibility, sales development

  • brand on fire Werbeagentur (Idstein)
    • Project & Account Manager
      May 2013 - Sep 2013 · 5 mos

      Project- and Accountmanagement, Projectcontrolling, Sales Development, Trade Marketing

    • Junior Project & Account Manager
      May 2011 - May 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Marketing Trainee at BMW Group
    Jul 2008 - Jan 2009 · 7 mos