INGE VOELKERLING

I’m a strategic, results-driven leader with 12+ years of experience across media, marketing and technology, successfully navigating diverse environments including start-ups, scale-ups and established organizations.

I excel at bridging vision and execution, delivering impactful outcomes through operational excellence, strategic alignment and people-centric leadership.

My superpower lies in my ability to switch seamlessly between detail-orientation and big-picture thinking, all while maintaining an empathetic and collaborative leadership style.

Driven by integrity, curiosity, and connection, my ambition is to create sustainable strategies that foster business resilience, cultivate trust and empower teams to achieve reliable results.

• Integrity: Built trust with stakeholders through reliable execution and consistent delivery of measurable results.
• Gratitude: Created respectful and supportive work environments, nurturing high-performing teams with a people-first mindset.
• Connection: Bridged gaps between leadership and teams, fostering open communication and mutual understanding.
• Curiosity: Continuously explored innovative solutions and strategies to adapt to evolving business needs.

Chief of Staff (04/2024 – Present)
Hubject GmbH | Berlin, Germany

• Strategic Alignment & Execution: Enhanced decision-making clarity and effectiveness by introducing structured executive planning processes (OKRs, KPIs), ensuring better prioritization and alignment across leadership (2-digit % improvement in strategic initiative completion rates within three quarters).
• Organizational Engagement: Strengthened organizational alignment by creating and establishing internal communication routines, improving team engagement score by 5% in 6 months.
• C-Level Advisory & Enablement: Acting as a trusted strategic advisor to the C-Level team, providing actionable insights, fostering cross-functional collaboration and supporting leadership alignment with company priorities.
• Organizational Design & Development: Leading initiatives to evolve organizational structures and processes, addressing cultural and operational challenges associated with a scale-up surpassing the Dunbar number.
• Cultural Evolution & Change Management: Partnering with Leadership to navigate the cultural shifts of a rapidly growing organization, implementing strategies to align teams, preserve company values and support employee engagement during periods of transformation.

Executive Manager (09/2021 – 03/2024)
Nerds GmbH | Berlin, Germany

• Process Design & Optimization: Increased project profitability by 25% by building & streamlining operational processes and optimizing resource allocation.
• Team Growth & Development: Expanded team capacity by 67% through targeted hiring, retention strategies and employee development programs.
• Sales Enablement & Growth: Built a scalable sales infrastructure that improved deal size by 30% and shortened the sales cycle by 20% in less than 12 months.

Head of Agency Partnerships DACH

Meta Platforms, Inc. | Dublin, Ireland | 08/2019 – 08/2021

• Leadership & Talent Development: Built and led a high-performing team of 10+ Partner Managers, implementing tailored development plans that enhanced employee engagement and achieved top-tier satisfaction scores across the EMEA region.
• Strategic Revenue Growth: Consistently surpassed €200M+ annual sales targets by translating market trends into actionable, KPI-driven strategies that strengthened Meta's competitive position.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Designed and executed strategic go-to-market initiatives for EMEA, fostering alignment across sales, product and marketing teams to improve Meta's sales infrastructure and service delivery model.
• Operational Excellence: Optimized partner management workflows enhancing operational scalability to support 2-digit% regional growth.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Acted as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing data-backed insights and strategic recommendations that influenced regional and global decision-making for the agency sales org.

Head of Digital - BILD der FRAU

FUNKE Digital | Berlin, Germany | 11/2016 – 06/2019

• Strategic Leadership & Profitability: Achieved profitability for the platform within 12 months by building a strength-based team and executing a product roadmap aligned with market demands.
• Data-Driven Growth: Boosted monthly user reach by 130% (435k to 1M) through data-informed SEO and Social Media strategies, leveraging cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable results.
• Operational Efficiency: Optimized editorial workflows, increasing content production efficiency by 25% while ensuring high-quality standards and consistency.

Earlier Roles (Summarized)

Sales Lead Digital, BILD der FRAU | FUNKE Digital | 2016: Led client relationships, driving double-digit revenue growth.

Business Lead to CEO | Mediengruppe DuMont | 2015: Enabled digital transformation projects by designing data-backed strategies.

Digital Sales Manager | Mediengruppe DuMont | 2012-2015: Delivered consistent revenue growth by building innovative cross-channel campaigns.