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Global Capability Owner - Web & Search Engine Strategy Lead in one of the top-20 global Pharmaceutical Companies

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ABOUT ALEXANDER DROSS

B.Sc. Business Engineering. Google Partner, Web Performance- & SEM, SEO, SEA Specialist.

Digital strategist with 15+ years of experience, primarily in the pharmaceutical sector. Enhanced customer engagement and online presence through data-driven strategies. Expert in digital strategy and large digital ecosystems, aligning innovation with business goals. Passionate about delivering exceptional digital experiences

Architecture of large scale Web Eco Systems
100%
Web Strategy & Consulting
100%
Technical SEO (onPage SEO)
100%
Conference Speaking
92%

Freelance: Available

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Alexander Dross - B.Sc. Business Engineering, Google Partner certified, Digital Governance & SEM, SEO, SEA Specialist

RESUME

Curriculum Vitae of Alexander Dross

EDUCATION

B.Sc. Business Engineering and Electrical Engineering

2009 – 2016

Bochum University of Applied Sciences

B.Sc. business engineering and electrical engineering (250 credits)
Award for the best bachelor’s thesis of the year:
“Approach of a global domain strategy in pharmaceutical industry”
www.hochschule-bochum.de

Asset Strategy in a Digital World

2023 – 2023

IESE Business School, Barcelona

Gaining insights into digitalization's impact on the pharmaceutical industry.

  • Developing customer-centric value propositions
  • Building a prototype application
  • Implementing digital strategies within Boehringer Ingelheim

The program was structured into two parts: a hybrid online component and an on-campus residential module at IESE.

    Part 1:

  • Understanding the Broader Context and Seeing Beyond the Trends
  • Digital Density and the Evolution of Industries
  • Creating Value Propositions in a Digital World
  • Digital Capabilities in Established Organizations

    Part 1:

  • Managing Change
  • New Value Propositions and Rapid Prototyping Workshops
www.iese.edu

WORK EXPERIENCE

Global Capability Owner - Web Strategy

Nov. 2021 – Present

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Go-to-Market' (GTM) team in Corporate
Responsible for Boehringer Ingelheim's global Web Platform

  • Building unified Server Platform which runs on AWS to host thousands of Web Applications,
  • Defining CDN and Caching Strategy,
  • Develop and prioritise Roadmap for upcoming Platform Releases,
  • Technical coordination of Scrum Team, Production Partners & Technical Processes.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Global Capability Lead (Business & IT) for Search Engine Strategy

March 2020 – Present

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Go-to-Market' (GTM) team in Corporate
Leading both, the technical and business side of Boehringer Ingelheim’s global Search Strategy:

  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO),
  • Web Performance & Dev Standards,
  • Paid Search (SEA),
  • Domain Strategy of 18k Domains,
  • Global centralisation of Google Ads,
  • Global roll-out of Google Search Ads 360 (SA360),
  • Establish global E2E Process and ensure governance through development of SOPs,
  • Develop and provide trainings to markets.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Global Process, Data & Platform Owner (Director Level) – Search, Apps, 3rd Party Data & Paid Media Management

Oct. 2019 – Nov. 2021

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Go-to-Market' (GTM) team in Corporate
Accountable for Boehringer Ingelheim’s global Search Engine Strategy

  • Search Engine Strategy: SEO, Paid Search (SEA), Domain Strategy and Web Performance.
  • Smartphone Apps: iOS, Android, Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
  • 3rd party Data: BMJ, Medscape, Univadis, M3.com, Doximity, Sermo.
  • Paid Media Management: Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Global Process Owner (GPO) – Search Strategy

Oct. 2018 – Sept. 2019

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Go-to-Market' (GTM) team in Corporate

  • Develop and evolve global search engine optimization standards and domain strategy.
  • Ensure that Boehriner Ingelheim applies the highest standards and processess required for high SERPs ranking.
  • Supplier assessment for creative and production partners in Search.
  • Regular analysis and optimization of standards and processes.
  • Demonstrate impact to business by monitoring of actual vs. target archievments and global SEO performance.
  • Steer and manage global Search partners; ensure adherence to standards.
  • Provide training to corporate and country peers.
  • Establish assessment process pitching and automated assessment processes for quality assurance.
  • Work with cross-functional teams within a competitive environment and manage interdepartmental and cross-company interfaces.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Global Digital Capabilities Manager – Search Excellence

Jan. 2018 – Sept. 2018

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Digital Excellence' team in Corporate

  • Develop and evolve global search engine optimization standards and domain strategy.
  • Ensure that Boehriner Ingelheim applies the highest standards and processess required for high SERPs ranking.
  • Supplier assessment for creative and production partners in Search.
  • Regular analysis and optimization of standards and processes.
  • Demonstrate impact to business by monitoring of actual vs. target archievments and global SEO performance.
  • Steer and manage global Search partners; ensure adherence to standards.
  • Provide training to corporate and country peers.
  • Establish assessment process pitching and automated assessment processes for quality assurance.
  • Work with cross-functional teams within a competitive environment and manage interdepartmental and cross-company interfaces.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Corporate Digital Governance & Quality Assurance Manager

Sept. 2016 – Dec. 2017

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Digital Excellence' team in Corporate

  • Implements governance for quality standards related to analytics, content design & development, user centered design and Search.
  • Maintains and improves digital excellence quality standards and guidelines.
  • Develops global domain strategy and governance process.
  • Performs sanity checks to ensure adherence of digital excellence standards by digital production house.
  • Reports issues from quality checks into Senior Business Relationship Manager (BRM) DPH on a monthly basis.
  • Upskills DPH Partners to improve quality in case of quality issues; coordinated through Senior BRM DPH.
  • Builds a global Digital Governance process to be owned by Digital Excellence incl. compliance, content quality, search optimization, legal and data privacy.
  • Member of the “Digital Excellence” Team and “Digital Advisory Board” (Corporate Unit).
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

UX, Global SEO & Domain Strategy (Contractor)

April 2016 – Aug. 2016

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH

Part of the 'Digital Excellence' team in Corporate

  • Work with Content Strategy Business Lead and UX Agency to create and validate a global process of User Centered Design and testing with integration to key content elements web, email and MVA (iPad based Master Visual Aid).
  • Work with Content Strategy Business Lead to implement a tool for A/B Splittesting and ensure interface connection to Adobe Analytics.
  • Field-test A/B-Testing in partnership with a brand or country team or within a marketing campaign to show value of User Centered Design methodology.
  • Ensure the process is feasible with regards to time and budget of a marketing team.
  • Work with UX Agency and Senior Digital Managers to assess and test selected projects.
  • Work with Content Strategy Business Lead to establish an internal UX Testing Center at BI incl. mobile Eyetracking technology.
  • Work with Senior Digital Managers to ensure testing delivers improvements that build on easily understandable recommendations.
  • Member of the “Digital Excellence” Team and “Digital Advisory Board” (Corporate Unit).
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

CEO & Founder

Jan. 2008 – Present

Dross:Media Consulting

Consulting, strategic and operative implementation of online branding, online communication, Inbound Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Web-development, campaign control. Costumers: McDonald’s NRW, Bayer AG & Butterfly et al.

www.drossmedia.de

Freelance Project Management & Business Development

Feb. 2011 – May 2012

team:penta GmbH & Co.KG

Strategic planning of a web-platform of an internship agency.

www.teampenta.de

Co-Founder & Marketing

Jul. 2010 – Jan. 2012

sixunity GmbH

frinXX – Own gastronomy services innovation: customers are now able to order real beverages online – for own consumption or as a gift for friends. Payment is done via paypal, debit note, instant bank transfer et al. The customer receives an electronic code on his/her mobile and is able to redeem it to a drink when visiting one of the participating bars, clubs and restaurants

www.sixunity.de

Freelance Project & Regional Manager

Oct. 2006 – Aug. 2011

virtualnights:media Ltd. (now Brandfit GmbH)

Germany’s biggest lifestyle community. Costumer services as well as head of >200 employed photographer. Consultant in media advertising. As Region Manager I do represent VN regionally in lifestyle and event business. As head of photographer am I responsible for coordination, conduction of training, and quality management. Moreover are marketing, sales, and Business Development further core areas

www.virtualnightsmedia.com
INTERNSHIPS

SAP Consultant – Business Transformation Services

Feb. 2015 – May. 2015

SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG

The Business Transformation Services group for Process Industries (BTS PI) advises clients in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries on business processes, data, organization, and provides IT solution support.

www.sap.com

Head of Web & Media Assistant, Germany

Mar. 2012 – Dec. 2017

Enactus Germany c/o KPMG

Online Development & IT-Management – responsible for web strategy, design and implementation of all Enactus web- & social media sites in Germany after the organization’s rebranding in 09/2012. Programming of the Enactus mobile app. Design and implementation of a national wide intranet, linking all Enactus teams and office365 as well as SharePoint. Online marketing and analysis of all german enactus web sites

www.enactus.de

Marketing & Web Development

April 2011 – Dec 2014

Marcus Prünte Rest GmbH (McDonald’s)

McDonald’s NRW: Development of all web sites and sources, customer retention, conceptual designing and implementation of campaigns

www.teampruente.de

Online Marketing & strat. IT-Management

Mar. 2012 – Dec 2012

Bayer HealthCare AG

Development and implementation of bayer web sites for veterinary medicine students in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Restructuring and re-launch of web sites, implementation of a subdomain strategy

www.healthcare.bayer.de

Aerodynamicists

Mar. 2007 – May 2007

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Branch for aerodynamics, hyper wind tunnels, research on scramjets

www.dlr.de
VOLUNTARY ENGAGEMENT

Open Source Contributor

Jan. 2019 – Present

The 'Stratux' Project

Contribute with my technical expertise to make the uncontrolled airspace safer for private aviators (general aviation).
Development of open source anti-collision systems based on Raspberry PI at low cost.

www.drossaviation.com

Member

May 2022 – Present

Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)

The Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) is the definitive professional organization for Enterprise Architects.

www.globalaea.org

Member & Open Source Contributor

June 2018 – Present

Drupal Association

The Drupal Association is an organization dedicated to helping the open-source Drupal CMS project flourish. The Association leads the community and ensures a creative and exciting future for Drupal. We help the Drupal community with fun­ding, infra­structure, events, promotion and distribution.

www.drupal.org

Strategic SEO & IT

Jan. 2018 – Present

Build & Grow e.V

Building housing for people in need Europe’s poorest nations (Moldova and Romania).

www.build-grow.org

Strategic SEO & IT

May 2015 – Mar. 2016

Kiron University

A start-up project that aims to provide refugees and people worldwide with free higher education and the opportunity to graduate with a university degree.

www.kiron.ngo

Election Committee

May 2013 & May 2014

University of Applied Sciences Bochum

Coordination and implementation of committee elections

www.hochschule-bochum.de/wahlen

Marketing Leader

Sept 2012 – July 2013

Enactus University of Applied Sciences Bochum

Managing board in marketing of Enactus Bochum University of Applied Sciences (formerly SIFE)

www.hsbochum.enactus.de

Online Marketing & Web Development

Aug. 2011 – July 2013

Enactus University of Applied Sciences Bochum

Development and Webmaster of Enactus Bochum University of Applied Sciences (formerly SIFE)

www.hsbochum.enactus.de

Mentors Coaching Education

Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2012

University of Applied Sciences Bochum

1.5 years mentoring traineeship – group dynamic training: the effect of group relationships. Analysis of group dynamics, introducton in the methods of coaching

www.hochschule-bochum.de

Youth Leader

Jan. 2006 – Jan. 2007

Air sports group LSG Erbslöh Langenfeld e.V.

Supervision and organization of the association‘ youth group

www.lsgerbsloeh.de
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SCRUM.ORG
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
  • Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I)
GOOGLE PARTNERS + BING
  • GOOGLE DIGITAL GARAGE
  • GOOGLE PARTNER CERTIFIED 2017
  • GOOGLE ADWORDS SEARCH ADVERTISING
  • GOOGLE ADWORDS DISPLAY ADVERTISING
  • GOOGLE ADWORDS VIDEO ADVERTISING
  • GOOGLE ADWORDS MOBILE ADVERTISING
  • GOOGLE ADWORDS SHOPPING ADVERTISING
  • GOOGLE ANALYTICS CERTIFICATION
  • GOOGLE MOBILE SITES CERTIFICATION
  • GOOGLE DIGITAL SALES CERTIFICATION
  • GOOGLE ANALYTICS PLATFORM PRINCIPLES
  • GOOGLE DIGITAL ANALYTICS FUNDAMENTALS
  • MICROSOFT ADVERTISING CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL
  • BING ADS ACCREDITED PROFESSIONAL
MICROSOFT IT ACADEMY
  • OFFICE EXCEL 2013 EXPERT
  • OFFICE WORD 2013 EXPERT
  • MICROSOFT PROJECT 2013
  • MICROSOFT POWER POINT 2013
  • COMPUTER SECURITY AND PRIVACY
  • THE INTERNET, CLOUD SERVICES AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB
CERTIFICATES
  • The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF 9) Level 1+2
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • INNOVATION WORKSHOP WITH KARSTADT WARENHAUS GMBH
  • MENTORS COACHING EDUCATION
  • IT INSIDE BAYER
  • IDEA COMPETITION DM-DROGERIE MARKT
  • INTRODUCTION IN SAP ERP
  • INNOVATION WORKSHOP WITH RWE EFFIZIENT GMBH
  • BUSINESS SIMULATION FORT FANTASTIC
  • PRINCE2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION
AWARDS
  • WINNER OF DRUPAL SPLASH AWARD 2019 IN HEALTH CARE CATEGORY
  • BEST BACHELOR’S THESIS OF THE YEAR
  • ENACTUS: QUALIFICATION FOR THE NATIONAL CUP 2014 BY BERGISCHE UNIVERSITY WUPPERTAL
  • ENACTUS: BEST PROJECT IDEA AWARD 2014 BY ENACTUS GERMANY ALUMNI E.V.
  • ENACTUS: RECRUITING AWARD 2013 BY ENACTUS GERMANY ALUMNI E.V
  • ENACTUS: QUALIFICATION FOR THE NATIONAL CUP 2013 BY RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM
  • ENACTUS: QUALIFICATION FOR THE NATIONAL CUP 2012 BY TALANX AG
  • ENACTUS: TOP 5 NATIONAL CUP 2011 BY DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
  • FOUNDERS CONTEST START2GROW 2011 DORTMUND WITH SIXUNITY GMBH

CLIENTS

Pharmaceutical Companies, Universities, Municipal Facilities, Fast Food and Sports Equipment Manufacturers, as well as sponsorship for NGOs.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Bayer Karriere Blog
  • McDonald's Team Prünte
  • SAP
  • Butterlfly Tabletennis
  • TTBL - Tischtennis Bundesliga
  • Wingly - shared flight community
  • virtualnights (now Brandfit GmbH)
  • Enactus Germany e.V.
  • Kiron NGO
  • Build Grow e.V.
  • Ruhr Uni Bochum
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CONTACT

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+49(0)151/229 54 547 [email protected]
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Alexander Dross: B.Sc. Business Engineering. Google Partner certified, Web Performance- & SEM, SEO, SEA Specialist, is the Global Capability Lead for Web as well as Global Lead for Search Engine Strategy in one of the top-20 global Pharmaceutical Companies.

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