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Mathias Kullmann

Senior PartnerDüsseldorf

Mathias Kullmann

Senior PartnerDüsseldorf

Brings extensive experience in commercial transformation, digital marketing, and advanced analytics to retail, consumer, and B2C companies

Mathias advises B2C companies on a range of marketing and strategy issues, including digital and advanced-analytics transformation, commercial transformation, multichannel strategies, and digital marketing. He leads McKinsey’s advanced-marketing work in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, supporting clients on issues such as insights solutions, branding, personalization at scale, and agile operating models for marketing.

Examples of Mathias’ recent client projects include the following:

  • developing and executing a significant digital and analytics transformation for a leading European multichannel, nonfood retailer
  • designing and delivering a large-scale, multiyear commercial-transformation program for a leading European utility
  • creating a multichannel pricing strategy and pricing-optimization approach for a leading European consumer-electronics retailer
  • developing a multichannel and multicustomer touchpoints strategy, including e-commerce, customer-relationship-management, and service-portfolio areas, for a leading European consumer-electronics retailer
  • defining an innovative B2C services portfolio, including idea generation, concept development, testing, and piloting along the entire go-to-market model, for a large German logistics and services company
  • developing an e-commerce strategy, including a go-to-market model, operations, financial planning, and implementation planning, for a large, vertically integrated European apparel company

Published work

Brand strength or margin? Both!,” McKinsey & Company, September 2021

Pricing and promotions: The analytics opportunity,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021

How retailers can drive profitable growth through dynamic pricing,” McKinsey & Company, March 2017

Omni-channel: Präsenz auf allen kanällen,” Heriber Meffert and Von Jürgen Meffert, Eins oder Null: Wie Ihr Uternehhmen mit Digital@Scale in die digitale Zukunft führen,” Berlin, Germany: Econ, April 2017

“Preise à la minute,” Akzente, McKinsey & Company, September 2016

“Online marketing – the Digital Factory,” in: Akzente, McKinsey & Company, September 2014

Education

University of Bremen, Germany
PhD, marketing, brand and brand portfolio management

University of Muenster, Germany
MBA, marketing and sales