Leading Creative Campaigns for Global Clients

Some of the main brands I have worked for leading brand strategy, campaign concepting and creative production at DEPT®.

During this period, I moved beyond project management into full-creativity leadership: concept development, visual direction and production oversight.

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Editorial Strategy, Content Creation and Curation for Douglas Group

As one of our longest partnerships at DEPT®, we accompanied Douglas Europe wide across Website, Content, Outreach and AI Strategy throughout its growth, challenges, developments and across different markets. I led the Editorial and Content team for consulting, campaigning and brand pages following both a brand focused and a nuanced localization approach merging a recognizable visual identity with market specificities – always close to the consumer, current industry trends and emotional storytelling.

Project role: Creative Lead for both Editorial Strategy and Art Direction.
Team size: 8-10 internally, 5-8 external stakeholders, 10-12 extended interested stakeholder.
Duration & time of completion: 4mo, 2024.
Tools: Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Keynote, Userlytics.

Bridging Community Building and Performance: Engaging Email Marketing for smart Europe

A user journey driven and insights based, automated framework of emails that combines inspirating visuals, storytelling and desire. Where visuals meet concept meets strategy. And together generate relevance – across 13 markets.

“Luise and her team built the new smart brand with us. The editorial, yet sales-driven approach of our emails generated 25 mio. revenue in 2 years. This is direct revenue only, not even accounting for all the indirect contributions to purchase decision and brand relevance.”

Fabian Sawatzki, Head of customer experience at smart Europe

Project role: Creative Automation and Email Marketing Lead, leading a team of Creative Director, Editorial Director, Copywriter, Creative Strategist and Designer, as well as user journey orquestrator.
Team size: 8 people on core team, 11 colleagues on exteded team, 10-12 direct stakeholders on client team across all 13 markets.
Duration & time of completion: about 1mo of duration per campaign throughout 2024-2025
Tools: Miro for workshops and ideation, Figma for layouting and client approval process, Midjourney paired with 3Ds Max for photorealistic image generation, Adobe Photoshop for image retouch, many more throughout development and automation process. AI assisted localization process.

DEPT® launches biggest campaign of the year for smart

Production of a digital first full funnel campaign.
Read more here.

“With “This is smart”, we are starting with the positioning of the smart brand as an ‘urban companion’, which also fully meets the zeitgeist of the modern, urban target group with a product like the smart #1. It’s about future-oriented and solution-oriented ideas that actively enrich people’s everyday lives”

Björn Schick, Chief Experience Officer at smart Europe GmbH

More Life Campaign for Brother Printers - an ode to our Personas

Brother: anyone who ever needed to reliably print something – without the hustle competitive products can cause – knows that name and many dream of owning one. But how does one actually create desire for a product that is perceived more when NOT working than when doing so and how does one bridge the gap from industry supplies to home office wishlist?

By infusing the campaign with L I F E – and by placing the user into the centre. And then adding a good amount of unexpected quirk: Three main clips tell the surprising, vivid and colorful stories of our persona’s after work hobbies; be it punk trumpeting, lucha libre or extreme gardening. The printer is an enabler, but the focus rests on the important part: time for individuality.

From CTV over digital and owned media to socials and DOOH – an integrated, highly localized 360 degrees approach across 15 countries generated the expected buzz and exceptional conversions.

Project role: Overarching Project Lead
Team size: 30 direct internal collaborators, 25 extended project members during production, 15-20 direct stakeholders on client side.
Duration & time of completion: 7mo, 2025.

Live Event: Wero Thrift Club in Berlin

From payment solution to connecting people, to local hype event – that’s how our latest influencer live concept for EPI and their growing product Wero came to life.

Twelf hand-selected creators from the European fashion community came together in Berlin to sell some of their personal gems for the local guests. The only condition? Contactless payment via Wero.

Press release here.

Project role: Account Lead and Creative Strategy.
Team size: 8-10 internally, 10-15 extended production team (execution not coordinated by me), 12 creators, 5 direct client stakeholders.
Duration & time of completion: 4mo, 2025.

We also created Wero’s influencer strategy.

Over 100 creators, more than 400 content pieces across 4 European markets, divided into 6 interest based collectives – selected by their relevance for our target group and how the seamless payment solution could be integrated into their authentic online presence.

I led overall strategy, content concepting, creator management and QA agents, our experts responsible for content approval and the tailored community management strategy.

CLTV and Digital Campaigning for Neutrogena Hydroboost

The brief was: Loudly announcing a reformulated product of an established brand with the goal to increase the audience and communicate scientific RTBs, all while maintaining the brand’s core identity, but giving it a younger look & feel. Shortly, a product focused brand campaign.

Diversified talent, lightweight colors, digital touchpoints and channel specific adaptations – we even shot social first recordings despite a very limited production budget and concepted behind the scenes content. All while communicating the ingredient packed formula, maintaining the dermatological brand heritage and addressing a broad low to medium segment audience.

How? A research based strategic approach, many many conversations with the product team, sending our storyboards into market testings – we learnt how the less complex ideas performed best in the segment! – and finally teaming up with a brand experienced production team.

The result? High-impact, multi-audiences reach, significant increase of brand lift.

Project role: Lead for both Campaign Strategy, Creative Direction and Video Production.
Team size: 5-6 core team, 12-14 exteded team throughout different phases, 16-18 production team.
Duration & time of completion: 6mo, 2023.
Tools: Midjourney for Storyboarding, Keynote for Concept Deck and PPM, frame.io during production approval process, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for Key Visuals and Figma for Campaign Visual Creation, After Effects and others for animations, Keynote for Concept Deck and PPM, market research and brand lift study tools. Cutdowns, grading and sound design through external partner.

Emotional Storytelling for the new BOSCH Air Fryers

The challenge: two similar products with their different RTBs and use cases in a very competitive market – to be communicated highlighting tech aka speed, lifestyle aka ease of use and obviously criiiiispness!

The results: Two main movies, lots of platform and RTB specific cutdowns, eretail content, landing pages and creative automation powered localization into 13 markets.

NIVEA and NIVEA MEN - Authentic Social First Content co-created with Micro Influencers

Social Media and Website Content for the 100+ years beauty and care favorite NIVEA: That’s all about maintaining the balance between representing a fresh and relevant online presence and drawing from a nostalgia packed brand history – all whilst talking to an immense audience that ranges in age, nationality and social background.

We did so by being approachable, relevant, trend conscious, responsive – short: by being there. Being where our audience likes to spend its time, be it for beauty insights, product testing opportunities, live shopping events, Christmas present inspiration, raffles or simply connecting with a well-known bathroom fave through new, aesthetic imagery. By showing up, consistently, by fostering interaction and by listening. And by partnering up with equally approachable, social native, age-varied talent.

Besides the above, I successfully participated in and shaped the following pitches

Victoria’s Secret DE Creative Campaign

Zalando DACH Creative Lead Agency

NIVEA DACH Lead Agency

NIVEA Social Media Strategy

EPI / Wero Influencer Strategy

Shopware Social Media Strategy and Management

Gardena Media Strategy

smart Europe Full Service Digital Agency

James Hardie Brand Campaign Channel Strategy

Haufe Sustainability AI-driven Campaign

2x Haufe Video Campaign

GSK Vaccination Creative Videostorytelling

All cases shared with permission from both agency and brands.
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