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Ralph Breuer

PartnerCologne

A key member of the global customer experience leadership team, supporting clients on transformational impact topics

Ralph is a member of McKinsey’s global customer experience leadership team, where he helps clients achieve transformational impact. With his deep knowledge in commercial transformation, omnichannel, loyalty, customer experience, and digital business building, he supports clients end to end, from strategy to implementation. Ralph works across industries, including travel, consumer goods, and various B2C and B2B industries.

Examples of Ralph’s recent client projects include the following:

  • developing new digital value proposition for energy customers to support the transition to a fully sustainable energy system (e.g., demand-side management; flex; customer nudges and rewards)
  • growing the countrywide tourism demand by developing targeted interventions to enhance hospitality, improve visitor care, and elevate the overall visitor experience driving spend and revisitation
  • developing 2030+ tech and business target picture of a global grocery retail company to tap into the full potential of omnichannel customer interactions
  • conducting a digital transformation for a global medtech and pharmaceutical company along multiple topics: customer-experience measurement system, customer-journey redesign, data strategy, strategy development, and use case development and implementation
  • developing and implementing the customer experience transformation for a healthcare insurance company, which included customer journey redesign, the development of a customer experience measurement system, and skill building
  • designing the new omnichannel experience for a European retail furniture company through the technical development of full e-commerce shopping and omnichannel features
  • building the e-commerce business and digital business unit for a fashion company by applying design thinking and agile ways of working through full implementation.

Published work

European nongrocery retail: Transition and transformation,” McKinsey & Company, November 2024

Delivering a stellar experience for all key stakeholders in medtech,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023

How medtechs can meet industry demand for omnichannel engagement,” McKinsey & Company, March 2023

AI for medtech commercial growth: Five missteps to avoid,” McKinsey & Company, December 2022

The rise of digital marketing in medtech,” McKinsey & Company, September 2021

Omnichannel engagement in medtech: The time is now,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021

The three building blocks of successful customer-experience transformations,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Customer experience as a value driver in German retail banking,” McKinsey & Company, January 2019

New capabilities, new audiences, new opportunities,” Customer Experience Compendium 2, McKinsey & Company, June 2017

Four ways to shape customer-experience measurement for impact,” McKinsey & Company, April 2017

Education

RWTH Aachen University
PhD, social science, economics

Queensland University of Technology and University of Cologne
MSc, business administration