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Kevin Liehn

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Last update: 28.01.2023

Project Manager & Productowner e-Commerce, Operations, Supply Chain & Markeptlaces

Graduation: MBA; B.Sc. Business Administration & Engineering
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional) | French (Elementary) | Italian (Elementary)

Attachments

20220913_CV_EN_V6.2.pdf

Skills

Operating Systems:
  • macOS & Windows
ERP & WMS:
  • SAP R/3 & SAP ERP 6.0, SAP TERP10 Certified
  • JTL WAWI
  • Plentymarkets
  • Dreamrobot
Shopsystems:
  • Magento
  • Shopware
  • xtCommerce
  • JTL Shop
  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
Marketplaces & Plattforms:
  • Amazon Vendor Central
  • Amazon Seller Central (Europa, USA, Kanada, Japan, Mexiko)
  • Otto Platform
  • Otto Markets
  • ebay
  • Wayfair (+Castlegate)
  • hood.de
  • dawanda
  • real.de
  • allyouneed
  • rakuten.de
  • ricardo.ch
  • idealo.de
Programming:
  • VBA (basic)
  • HTML (advanced)
  • CSS (basic)
  • javascript (advanced)
  • swift (basic)
Database:
  • SQL (basic)
Prozess Modeling:
  • MS Visio
  • IMS Binner Sycat Process Designer Pro
  • Auto CAD Inventor
  • Unigraphics NX 6 (basic)
Marketing:
  • Channel Advisor
  • Google- Analytics, Adwords, Adsense, Merchant Center
  • Facebook Ad-Manager including Instagram Marketing
  • TikTok paid ads
Analytics & Pricing:
  • Amalytix
  • Clousale
Project Management:
  • Monday (Sprint Board Planning)
  • Agile Project Management
  • SCRUM
  • MS projects
  • Integrated OKR-Roadmap- Planning
  • Jira, Confluence

Project history

05/2022 - Present
Senior-Advisor eCommerce Häppy Candy Brand
Kardinal GmbH, Munich (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Food start-up in eCommerce environment
  • General eCommerce, SCM & operations responsibility
  • SCRUM master & agile Coach
  • Digital business development
  • Shopify applications management
  • Amazon FBA & Expansion management

04/2022 - Present
Advisor MVP Swiss AG
MVP Swiss AG (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Business consultant for eCommerce, operations & supply chain
  • Digital landscape & applications consultant including services for WMS-, ERP-, IMS-, DAM- & CRM systems
  • Interim project management services including productowner-, SCRUM Master- & agile coaching roles

07/2018 - Present
Freelancing Business Consultant eCommerce
Self-employed „simplygrow“, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Service & consulting for international B2C online distribution
  • Specialized in consumer goods, especially food & groceries
  • 6-month consulting- & service project for a famous sweets producer:
    • Merging of multiple online shops & sub-brands
    • Setup & reconstruction of the whole e-commerce & marketplace structure
    • Logistic reorganization & merge of multiple warehouses & fulfillment locations
    • Holistic process-, data- & commodity flow optimizationInternationalization of online shops & marketplaces for central Europe, USA & Japan
    • Amazon product SEO & SEA
    • Amazon brand store conception & realization
    • International multichannel CRM strategy & implementation
    • Strategy & setting of social media marketing with focusing on influencer marketing

04/2022 - 09/2022
Interim Project Manager Supply Chain Transformation
Occhio GmbH, Munich (Consumer goods and retail, 50-250 employees)


11/2021 - 07/2022
Product Owner Supply Chain Strategy & Software Solutions
Casana GmbH, Munich (Consumer goods and retail, 50-250 employees)

  • eCommerce industry of different CPG brands & markets with consolidated sales of €250 mio.
  • Consulting & implementation plan for a centralized WMS &
    replenishment system to create more precise forecast modeling
  • ERP system consulting to merge island solutions across all divisions & brands
  • Adjusted plan for supply chain & sourcing strategy as well as transformation to merge corporate & system landscape requirements

10/2021 - 03/2022
eCommerce Project Manager
Now2you Handels GmbH, Salzburg, Austria (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Supplements, CPG & textile industry in eCommerce
  • SCRUM Master
  • Shopify application & Amazon FBA management

07/2019 - 05/2021
Interim Managing Director for Portfolio Brand Hilding Sweden S&F GmbH, Munich – on behalf of Hilding Anders AB, Malmö, Sweden – a KKR Inc. Portfolio Company
Hilding Anders AB, Malmö, Sweden – a KKR Inc. Portfolio Company (Consumer goods and retail, 1000-5000 employees)

Mattress & bedding brand eCommerce pure player
Full strategic & P&L responsibility
High marketplace focus including Amazon Vendor, Otto Vendor, Amazon FBM, Otto Markets & Wayfair management Reporting & strategy plan to BoD


Stage 1 – Due diligence & turn-around- strategy & execution

Stage 2 – B2B to D2C transformation & scalability execution

Stage 3 – Brand transformation & new 5y plan with BoD & staff scale up


01/2019 - 03/2021
Owner eCommerce CBD-Oil brand
Self-employed „mycbd.store“, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Supplement industry eCommerce pure player
  • Shopify storefront & application management
  • Online marketing responsibility including SEA, social media & SEO tactics

07/2018 - 06/2019
Owner eCommerce Food FBA-brand
Self-employed, FBA-brand „Chocolate Connection“, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Amazon EU FBA brand for food & sweets
  • Amazon FBA PAN-European roll out
  • Amazon Ads & brand marketing

11/2015 - 06/2018
CEO and Founder
MemorySweets GmbH, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, 10-50 employees)

  • International B2C & B2B sweets eCommerce start-up
  • Series-A financing round with an Arabic institutional investor
  • Leadership of all (18) employees & own warehouse facility
  • Revenue growth of x4 within two years
  • Product range from 300 up to 2.400 SKU’s
  • 24 online marketplaces active in Europe, USA, Canada & Japan
  • WMS, PIM & DAM implementation via JTL WaWi + Worker migration
  • Onlineshop Productowner for Magento, xtCommerce & JTL Shop
  • Global Amazon FBA/FBM hybrid model strategy

05/2014 - 10/2015
Managing Partner
Liehn & Schuster GbR „MemorySweets“, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Progression of own eCommerce start-up for sweets
  • Migration to xtCommerce shop system
  • Amazon FBM, ebay & EU-marketplaces expansion
  • IMS implementation (dreamrobot)

09/2013 - 04/2014
First eCommerce start-up
Self-employed (sole trader) „MemorySweets”, Berlin (Consumer goods and retail, < 10 employees)

  • Bootstrapping own eCommerce start-up for sweets
  • Onlineshop Management (Jimdoo)
  • Full creation of operational set up & supply chains
  • Online Marketing via Google Ads, SEO & social media marketing

08/2011 - 08/2013
Student Employee Controlling & Accounting
Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH, Berlin (Industry and mechanical engineering, 50-250 employees)

  • Optical laser industry
  • SAP trouble shooting
  • Financial controlling & accounting assistance
  • Process design & optimization

Certifications

MIT - Transformational Technologies: Applied Lessons from Sports
2022
SAP TERP10 - Associate Business Foundation & Integration with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5-
SAP
2012

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide
International traveling is no problem at all - also depending on project
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