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Minotrade eCommerce, Logistics & Wholesale Operations

minotrade AG · Jan 2025 – Apr 2026

Broad COO ownership across trading, the four digital B2B/B2C marketplaces PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store, the Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS (completely new store team and full digitalisation), logistics, RMA, product data, suppliers, and wholesale execution—including board dashboards, autonomous workflows, and FIFO control.

Leadership mandate

  • Led the operating model connecting global trading, logistics, eCommerce, retail, suppliers, and channel partners.
  • Held management responsibility for the four online marketplaces PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store.
  • Managed the Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS: built a completely new store team with a dedicated store-manager role and fully digitalised the retail operation.
  • Directed digitalisation priorities for logistics and RMA operations.
  • Coordinated commercial, technology, customer-experience, and operational improvement initiatives.

Hands-on technology scope

  • Shaped an AI-supported trading-stack strategy for product, pricing, logistics, and commercial decisions.
  • Implemented a fully digital, autonomous return-material-authorisation workflow: scanning a barcode or QR code registered each return, product-image capture documented its condition, and the system generated the corresponding report automatically.
  • Implemented FIFO inventory control across logistics and integrated inventory handling with physical point-of-sale operations.
  • Consolidated operating and commercial data from the four eCommerce websites—PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store—into board and C-level dashboards for pricing, sales, and operating decisions.
  • Fully digitalised and managed the four B2B/B2C online marketplaces PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store.
  • Fully digitalised the Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS, built a completely new store team, and introduced weekly smartphone-based inventory counts for faster, more reliable stock control.
  • Implemented autonomous EAN-based article matching and product-master-data capture: online lookup populated height, width, depth, weight, battery-inclusion status, and other product attributes.

Selected outcomes

Operating throughput

Increased logistics and RMA throughput by a factor of three.

Commercial growth

Delivered a 30% revenue increase through the operating and trading strategy.

Four eCommerce marketplaces

Fully digitalised and managed the four B2B/B2C online marketplaces PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store.

Autonomous RMA workflow

Implemented end-to-end digital return registration through barcode / QR scanning, product-condition image capture, and automatic report generation.

FIFO logistics and POS control

Implemented FIFO inventory control across logistics and connected the inventory flow with physical point-of-sale operations.

Board and C-level decision dashboards

Consolidated operating and commercial data from the four eCommerce websites—PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store—into executive dashboards supporting pricing, sales, and operating decisions.

Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS

Built a completely new store team with a dedicated store-manager role, fully digitalised the Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS, and introduced weekly smartphone-based inventory counts that reduced theft by 50%.

Autonomous EAN product onboarding

Automated article matching, online product search, and master-data capture for dimensions, weight, battery inclusion, and other attributes.

Manual effort removed

Reduced manual product-search and data-entry effort by about five person-hours per day.

Relevant executive mandates

Sources & evidence

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