
Results-driven professional with proven ability to lead projects to success. Strong focus on team collaboration, operational efficiency, and achieving measurable customer and user-related outcomes. Adept at strategic planning, process improvement, and fostering culture of accountability and excellence. Known for adaptability and consistently meeting changing organizational needs.
• Product Owner of "Customer Dialogue", an agent dashboard and platform with a 360° customer view across all data and planned and carried out activities
• full responsibility to scale, optimise, and further develop cross-channel, digital and data-driven user and customer experiences by initiating, designing, prioritising, testing, piloting, training, and rolling out omnichannel innovations, report on feature performance and manage feedback
• independently researching customer needs, market trends and competitor offerings as a basis for product and process decisions
• initiate, manage, and implement large-scale global customer dialogue platform projects across all markets
• consult, lead, and transfer market-specific features to global markets
• independently develop and implement market-specific features for ltur, TUI Austria and Germany taking into account market-specific requirements and existing customer dialogue platform versions (14 versions)
• responsible for the TUI Austria and ltur sales markets, shared responsibility for the DE, TUI UK and TCO market
• ensure user and customer orientation and increasing efficiency through close exchange with sales partners, CX, UX/UI Teams and shadowing
• ensure knowledge transfer across all markets and divisions
• responsibility to manage internal and external service providers (e.g. technology, design, business) and proactive stakeholder management
• maintain Kudi platform and ensure global backlog and bug handling across all markets
Main Projects
• full responsibility for implementation of customer dialogue in ltur sales (DE, AT, CH, FR, TUI Mein Shop, online-units), taking into account market-specific requirements e.g. channel, currency, language, and design
• lead and collaborate major projects such as the appointment tool, omnichannel booking, WhatsApp, ancillary push, design and accessibility, multi-signature process, and video consulting
• develop and implement the appointment tool as a modular feature in TUI UK
• collaborate in global C4C in international project team
• full ownership for design, development and coordination of customer and user-oriented optimised sales processes in close cooperation with central and decentralised departments
• collaborated in projects relating to sales-related, legal, and security-related requirements
• supported and consulted departments in the operational implementation of process-related projects
• initiated interface management with all relevant stakeholders
Main Projects
• end-to-end responsibility for development and implementation of the first digital online sales process on the customer dialogue platform
• initiated implementation of information-based selling to ensure digitalisation and optimisation of customer-centric processes in cooperation with quality management
• responsibility for implementation of ‘Big Picture’ group strategy in own retail
• collaborated in the implementation of permission processes
• analysis and recommendation for successful change management
• full responsibility to adapt and develop customer-centric quality and sales standards due to new processes and systems
• led implementation and KPI-based evaluation and monitoring of quality assurance measures e.g. customer feedback and mystery shopping
• independently designed, planned, and facilitated regular quality circles with all retail-related stakeholders to drive improvements and innovations
• independently communicated via various channels and integrated standards into training formats in coordination with HR
• coordinated and ensured quality measures in cooperation with tour operator customer service and TUI Franchise
Main Projects
• independently revised all existing retail quality standards in cooperation with retail-related stakeholders
• led and managed implementation of quality standards across all new airport sales units
• ensured the use of inspiration techniques in sales process
Quality Management
• end-to-end responsibility to develop and manage quality assurance and tools and supported certification processes
• independently ensured KPI-driven performance review and optimise ongoing concepts and measures
• initiated, designed, implemented, and facilitated quality circles in cooperation with sales-related stakeholders
• integrated sales-related quality standards into HR development measures
HR Learning and Development
• full ownership for talent and leadership development programme
• full responsibility to recruit, integrate, and manage larger multiplier groups such as team coaches
• planned, designed, and implemented HR learning and development measures including budget planning and internal and external trainer management
• independently developed, implemented, and evaluated diagnostic procedures e.g. interviews, assessment centers, management audits, Predictive Index
Business Management Coaching
• full responsibility for business consulting and controlling targets related to the current sales focus
• initiated and sustained marketing activities in cooperation with franchise partners
• independently conducted budgets and targets with franchise partners
• analysis and evaluation of market, area, and location data
Quality Management
• developed, implemented, and communicated quality and sales standards together with sales-related stakeholders
• independently implemented, managed, and ensured KPI-driven evaluation of mystery shopping activities
• implemented an online customer feedback platform in collaboration with CRM
• trained and mentored quality agents
Manuela Hiss, OpEx, CRM and Omnichannel ltur, m.hiss@ltur.de
Iris Zangerl, Omnichannel TUI Austria, iris.zangerl@tui.at
Bea Walter, Customer Experience, CX Quality Management and Reporting, bea.walter@tui.de