Klaus Schmidt

- Identifying innovation trends and business opportunities within the market; - Leading a team to enhance the innovative potential of the business; - Developing, strategizing, and planning new interventions that will drive innovation; - Creating and overseeing a comprehensive long-term innovation strategy for the company; - Participates in client meetings, presentations, and quarterly/annual business reviews to explain technology processes, industry trends, offerings.

- Supervising and directing employees in their day-to-day tasks; - Brief and train the sales force at quarterly sales meetings to create product awareness and demand; - Planning and developing the right marketing strategy to get the product noticed by the target audience; - Briefing the press and analysts, press releases and going on press campaigns; - Market research and developing the core positioning and messaging for the product; - Performing and arranging successful product demonstrations for customers

- Relationship management- establish productive, trusting and professional relationships with key people within each of the merchants of your portfolio; - Serve as a feedback loop for the organization, gathering merchant’s feedback, evaluating the evolution of merchant needs, and communicating these to product and management staff.

- Help and manage a merchant client portfolio establishing long-term trust-based relationships while ensuring they have the appropriate level of service from company; - Contribute to the annual account plan for assigned accounts, agreeing with your director and the different internal stakeholders what actions will be required; - Proactively work with clients to identify new and ongoing opportunities, introducing new products and services as appropriate.

- Combine creativity and business acumen in order to elevate Klarna’s brand equity across all relevant channels in partnership with our biggest based clients; - Plan, execute and evaluate all marketing efforts to develop the right marketing messages and campaigns to accelerate Klarna use at the retail checkout.