Olaf Schabirosky appointed new Vice President Strategy & Transformation at the Otto Group, Dennis Kollmann new CEO of Hermes Germany
Effective 1 October 2024, Olaf Schabirosky will become Vice President Strategy & Transformation at the Otto Group. The current CSO of Hermes Germany, Dennis Kollmann, will succeed him as CEO.
A graduate of industrial engineering, Olaf Schabirosky has been heavily involved in the Otto Group for many years and has held a number of positions successfully during this time. In addition to his international activities, including a spell in South Korea as managing director of Otto Doosan, he was also managing director during the founding phase of Blue Yonder. He has played a major role in shaping logistics at Hermes Germany since 2014. As managing director with responsibility for finance and services and as Chief Digital Officer, he successfully drove the company forward, developed innovative solutions and was appointed CEO of Hermes Germany in June 2018.
In his new role as Vice President Strategy & Transformation at the Otto Group, he succeeds Christoph Schulte, who passed away unexpectedly this summer. In future, Olaf Schabirosky will be reporting to Petra Scharner-Wolff, who will become CEO of the Otto Group from March 2025. “In Olaf Schabirosky, we have an accomplished retail and logistics expert with in-depth knowledge of the Group,” says Petra Scharner-Wolff, adding, “We look forward to shaping strategy and transformation with him and providing significant impetus for the Group’s direction.”
Olaf Schabirosky passes the baton on to Dennis Kollmann, the current CSO of Hermes Germany. The business administration graduate can look back on a long career with the German Hermes Group. After starting in marketing, he spent several years in operations where he was responsible for a number of functions, including the development and expansion of the parcel shop system. After holding various positions in product management and key account management, he joined the management team as Chief Sales & Commercial Officer in 2019.
“I am delighted that we have been able to appoint Dennis Kollmann, a strategically-minded, successful manager from our own ranks, as Chair of the Management Board. Given his undoubted expertise, he is going to play an important role in growing Hermes still further in what is a challenging environment. We wish him every success in his new, demanding position,” says Kay Schiebur, Otto Group Executive Board Member for Services.
Dennis Kollmann will take over the role of CEO, with effect from 1 October. Together with his colleagues Marco Schlüter and Alexander Bortel, he will be driving forward the development of Hermes Germany on the new three-member board.
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About the Otto Group
Founded in 1949 in Germany, the Otto Group is today a globally operating e-commerce and service group with around 38,500 employees in 30 significant corporate groups, primarily present in the three economic areas of Germany, the rest of Europe, and the USA. Its business activities extend to the Platforms, Brand Concepts, Retailers, Services, and Financial Services segments. In the 2023/24 financial year (29 February), the Otto Group generated revenue of EUR 15 billion. With online sales of around EUR 10.8 billion (2023/24 financial year), the Otto Group is among the world’s largest online retailers. The Group’s main strength is its broad-based presence with various ranges of products for diverse target groups in important regions around the world. A number of strategic partnerships and joint ventures offer the Otto Group outstanding conditions for the transfer of know-how and the use of synergy potential. A high degree of entrepreneurial responsibility and the Group companies’ willingness to collaborate guarantee both flexibility and customer proximity along with optimal appeal to target groups in each country.
About Hermes Germany
Based in Hamburg, Hermes Germany GmbH is one of Germany’s leading logistics service providers and partner to numerous online shops and multi-channel distributors in Germany and abroad. Hermes Germany focuses on national parcel delivery – in addition, the logistics expert also offers a range of attractive international parcel delivery services. Hermes Germany employs over 6,000 people and handles parcel deliveries throughout Germany via 11 state-of-the-art logistics centres and around 270 company-owned and partner locations, in addition to around 17,000 ParcelShops nationwide.