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Sergey Korolev

Business Value Creator via Disciplined Innovation and Inspiration

Phone:

+4915118867108                   

Email:

Address:

Jaguar Land Rover GmbH, Campus Kronberg 7, 61476 Kronberg im Taunus, Germany

Date of Birth:

March 8th, January 1983

About Me

Practically oriented strategist, explorer, dreamer, doer, thinker, speaker, investor, consultant, sportsman and so much more.

I am an enthusiastic professional in tangible business value creation via digital transformation, financial discipline, strategical change, teams mindset change and embedding of practices of phsychology in business.​

My philosophy: keep evolving. Constantly changing and evolving, so what you see here today might not be here tomorrow!​

Now live in Germany, wokring for JLR. Helping company to implement our New "Reimagine strategy" in the area of comprehensive digitalization.​​

In parallel I conduct practical master classes on digitalization and psychology in business for students at the Higher School of Economics, as well as provide consultancies for independent companies on the Guidepoint portal

Professional Background

August 2022 - Present

Senior Digital Creator, JLR Europe 

Responsibilities: 

  • Driving value creation through the development and implementation of innovative digital end-to-end solutions across various facets of the company 

  • Leading digital transformation initiatives, fostering a culture of agility, innovation, and out-of-the-box thinking 

  • Transforming Jaguar Land Rover employees mindsets towards a digital-first approach, facilitating the seamless integration of digital technologies into everyday operations 

  • Structured cooperation with 6 National Sales Companies (NSCs), and overall coordination with more than 40 countries, ensuring alignment and synergy in digital strategies and operations. 

  • Collaborating with various departments across the global company to align digital strategies with overall company objectives and market trends 

  • Guiding the development and execution of comprehensive training programs to enhance digital literacy and proficiency across Jaguar Land Rover Europe 

  • Continuously monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of digital initiatives, making strategic adjustments as necessary to optimize results and drive continuous improvement. 

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Achievements: 

  • Developed an end-to-end solution for integrating messengers into company operations, with expected result of 35% increase in customer engagement and a 95% reduction in response time. 

  • Created from scratch an analytical dashboard that is now recognized at both market and global levels, leading to a 20% improvement in data-driven decision making. 

  • Successfully practically embedded a new, partially external DCT team into Jaguar Land Rover Europe operations. 

  • Pioneered the approach and culture of Performance Marketing within the company, which appears as foundamental tool for future successful operation of Performance centre. 

  • Organised a series of 'Induction to Digital Transformation' training across the company, fostering a culture of digital literacy and innovation, and increasing employee digital proficiency by 30% 

July 2019 - July 2022

April 2017 - June 2019

Sales Operations Director, Jaguar Land Rover Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia

Responsibilities:

  • Managing of full cycle of sales operations of Jaguar Land Rover on the market: New cars supply & sales, Used Cars sales (APO), Fleet & Business Sales, Financial services.

  • Implementation of JLR “Reimagine strategy” on the market

  • Budgeting and full responsibility for delivering targeted Market Equation (ME), Variable Profit (VP)

  • Providing the highest quality of purchase and ownership service to customers (NPS, Customer retention)

  • Development and making key strategic decisions on the representation of the model range on the market. Business model calculation.

  • Development of best solutions for local market exploitation (LME)

  • Exploration, development, testing and implementation of new value creating business opportunities.

  • Strategic and tactical cooperation with the headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover, UK .

  • Development of regulatory processes for structuring the work unit.

  • Formation of the team and the spirit of innovative and modern luxury thinking in the company, integration of agile principles in operations at all levels of the value chain: HQ / JLR Team / Retailers / JLR Partners.

  • JLR team people development

  • Representing of Jaguar Land Rover interests in the media and at official events

Achievements:

  • Successful implementation of the New Value adding sales strategy on the market – reimagine strategy

  • Reaching the record average sales VP/GVR – 23,1% (Q3 FY22) with record VP PU.

  • Improvement of sales financial efficiency: VME expenses reduced from 11% in FY20 to 0,8% in Q3 FY22

  • Reaching customer satisfaction level: 93% (NPS) in Q3 FY22

  • Successful development from the scratch of JLR Mobility sales channel: 58 units sold, +70% VP PU vs regular sales channel.

  • Fleet & business: FY20, FY22 & FY23 - JLR is Number 1 in fleet sales in premium segment on the market with share up to 42% with 70% VME cost reduction.

  • Used cars business: Highest market share on the market for 3 years in a row.

  • Financial services: launch of 2 Guaranteed future value (GFV) products on the market, improvement of FS penetration by 50% within FY22.

  • The team has been formed, aimed at creating value through the transformation of ourselves, dealers, partners.

Manager of Business Development, Jaguar Land Rover Overseas, UK

Responsibilities:

  • Exploring of new business opportunities for the company across the Overseas region

  • Development and implementation of new business models in various markets to increase the company's representation in the region and increase profitability.

  • Innovative business projects leading and value creation across the regional national sales companies.

  • Development of the new sales and after sales channels across the region

 

Achievements:

  • Established operations of the Jaguar Land Rover National sales company in Mexico (full cycle) – Successful acquisition of the company

  • Established commercial operations of Jaguar Land Rover subsidiary in Taiwan. Full cycle.

  • Development and foundation of commercialization approach to online sales channels across the Overseas region. Currently online sales are launched in the 16 countries. On-going project. Current unique sales region result – 5400 cars sold.

June 2012 -March 2017

National Sales Team Leader at Jaguar Land Rover Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia

Responsibilities:

  • Management of sales operations of Jaguar Land Rover dealers' network.

  • Managing the team of regional managers.

  • Regular strategic decisions in dealerships network planning, forecasting, marketing activity.

  • Development of individual plans, monitoring and evaluation of employees, development of motivation systems, the formation of team approach.

  • Strategic planning and budgeting

  • Analysis: market potential, market share, competitor activity, customer satisfaction, the level of consumer demand.

  • Marketing issues: market research, competitor analysis, change tracking of customers portrait, forecasting of future changes

  • Development and implementation of CRM system at all dealerships network

  • Participation in the development of new JLR products

  • Strategic planning of retailer profitability and effectiveness improvement

  • Development of VDM (bonus) system for dealer network

  • Regular strategic and tactical cooperation with the headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover, UK .

  • Development and implementation of systems and steps to increase customer satisfaction (NPS index)

  • Implementing effective changes to increase ASAP

Achievements:

  • Achieving the record level of sales of Jaguar and Land Rover for the company during the existence on the Russian market.

  • The growth index of customer satisfaction (NPS) up to 97%

  • Achieving record retention rate of 47%

  • Achieving the highest level of employee engagement in the company

For more detailed information, please download the detailed CV.

Sergey Korolev CV

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