René Appel

Challenges in Omnichannel Sales and Services keep me going

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

- Customer Lifetime Value Maximization and Experience Optimization. - Business Development - Cross- and up-selling-actions. - Customer acquisition. - Benchmarking and forecasting. - Omnichannel services. - Development and roll-out of telesales-campaigns. - Process definition and structuring of service formations. - Search, selection and testing of new service software. - Product and project "ambassador". - Certification according to DIN EN 9001:2008 and DIN EN15838. - Capacity planning. - Budgeting and controlling. - People and team management across multiple locations and service-levels. - Scanner Personality

Experience

  • Director Operations at AvD Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Huawei Cloud Europe (Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland · On-site)
    • Partner Development Director Germany
      Mar 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

      -Partner Management & Development -Business Development -Lead Factory and Management -Channel Sales -Funnel Creation

    • Head of European Cloud Telesales
      Dec 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

      -responsible for sales of all cloud solutions in the Huawei portfolio -P & L responsibility -strategic process development -leadership of sales team -partner management -Saas sales -tender management -budget control -lead management -sales, care & growth

  • Head of Callcenter Management at Huawei Deutschland
    Jun 2022 - Nov 2022 · 6 mos

    - Responsible for the operational management of all German call center activities - Complete budget and result responsibility in the department - Leadership in the process and the efficiency optimization program - Full responsibility for processes & procedures in the call center operation areas / teams - Planning, control and analysis from the supplier management - Pesponsibility for all technological structures in the call centers and the efficiency assurance of the operational readiness

  • Telesales/Omnichannel Process Manager at DKV Euro Service
    Dec 2019 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    - Management of all sales channels in 14 European countries. - Responsibility for the development, conception and implementation of all sales processes. - Analysis of present situation and requirements including rollout of the overall entrepreneurial omnichannel processes. - Structure, design and life of a performance measurement system. - Planning of the daily business resources. - Conception of a structured further development of all omnichannel employees. - Centrally responsible for the omnichannel sales process and contact person for collaborative selling. - Rollout of MS Dynamics & Genesys Purecloud in Sales.

  • Callcenter-Manager at AOK Rheinland/Hamburg
    Feb 2019 - Nov 2019 · 10 mos

    - Expansion management and structuring of existing call centers with professional, modern and future-oriented framework conditions up to 400 employees. - Composition, organization and leading of a motivated, dedicated team. - Development and implementation of professional structures and processes. - Creation and introduction of practical guidelines for new omnichannel solutions. - Control of compliance with applicable GDPR compliance. - Capacity planning and quality-management. - Employee motivation and coordination to achieve defined efficiency goals. - Extensive human resources (monitoring, termination, hiring and management of employees). - Maintaining the project documentation and the associated tools for planning and controlling training, team meetings and work processes.