Philipp Weber

Head of Business Development Lufthansa Airlines

Offenbach, Hesse, Germany

About

Experienced strategist and aviation enthusiast with MBA background. Loves to combine unique leadership skills with sound expertise to achieve ultimate long-term results.

Experience

  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland)
    • Head of Business Development
      Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Sr. Manager Business Development LHA
      Jun 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Head of Staff & Industry Travel at Discover
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Lufthansa Group (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Sr. Project Manager Business Development Touristic
      Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      The mandate of Project Touristic (FRA JT) is to develop and implement a new commercial setup as well as necessary capabilities to profitably increase Lufthansa Group’s footprint in tour operator markets both at home (DACH-B) and abroad. The core aim is to align and strengthen LHG’s B2B touristic offer across all group airlines.

    • Network Planning Manager Long-Haul // Project Ocean Commercial Workstream Lead
      Feb 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      The Intercontinental Network Planning Team has the primary goal to develop and optimize the Intercontinental LHG network (OS, LH, LX, SN) in order to provide optimum schedules and connectivity for customers and to maximize profitability. The LHG Project "Ocean" has the main goal to build up the new start-up airline "EW Discover" (4Y). With its fleet of A330 and home base in FRA, 4Y will operate mainly on leisure long-haul routes starting Summer 2021. The position of the commercial workstream The position Commercial Workstream Lead is responsible for building the commercial areas and corresponding systems to enable 4Y to successfully sell tickets across all global channels.

  • Lufthansa Cargo AG (Frankfurt am Main und Umgebung, Deutschland)
    • Executive Assistant to CCO
      Apr 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Additional to my current position, I led the cooperation project "BMW Vision iNext World Flight" in close collaboration external partners with internal colleagues worldwide.

    • Project Manager eAWB
      Apr 2014 - Mar 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Verkaufsleiter at Lidl in Deutschland
    Oct 2013 - Mar 2014 · 6 mos