Valentin Reck

Corporate Strategy at Daimler Truck

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Experience

  • Daimler Truck AG (4 yrs)
    • Manager Corporate Strategy
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    • On-site
      Present

      Member of the core team responsible for developing Daimler Truck’s corporate strategy and preparing the company’s Capital Market Day. Today leading strategy execution and strategic finance topics, ensuring the effective implementation of key initiatives through KPI-driven performance management and close integration of strategy and finance. Focused on translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes and strengthening execution discipline across the organization.

    • Senior Professional Investor Relations
      Nov 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Led Sustainability, AGM, and special projects within Investor Relations, including ESG engagement with investors and proxy advisors, governance roadshow planning, AGM-related shareholder communication, and the setup of Daimler Truck’s first share buyback program. Supported senior leadership in shaping equity narratives and preparing materials for top management and Board discussions.

  • Product Owner Procurement at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
    Mar 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Drove AI and automation initiatives in non-production material procurement, managing digital products from backlog prioritization to rollout. Focused on use cases such as supplier identification, target price prediction, and negotiation automation, while ensuring strategic fit, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business impact through KPI-based rollout concepts.

  • Project Manager M&A at Daimler AG
    Sep 2016 - Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Internships in M&A Advisory, Start-up Business Development, Corporate VC and Corporate M&A at Multiple Companies
    Oct 2013 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    M&A Advisory: Translink Corporate Finance Start-up Business Development: Favendo Corporate Venture-Capital: Daimler AG Corporate M&A: Daimler AG