Experienced logistics leader Martin Umland to succeed Raphael Adrian Maier in Otto Group supply chain role

Experienced logistics leader Martin Umland to succeed Raphael Adrian Maier in Otto Group supply chain role

(IN BRIEF) The Otto Group has appointed long-serving logistics specialist Martin Umland as its new Group Vice President Supply Chain Management, effective October 1, 2025. Umland, who has been with the company since 2006 and most recently led Bonprix Group’s international logistics operations and a wide-reaching transformation program, will take on responsibility for logistics planning, strategy, innovation, and corporate services at the group level. He succeeds Raphael Adrian Maier, who will leave the company at the end of September 2025 to return to Switzerland. Maier, credited with advancing Otto Group’s supply chain to new levels and securing key partnerships with Covariant and Boston Dynamics, leaves behind a strong legacy of innovation.

(PRESS RELEASE) HAMBURG, 11-Sep-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — The Otto Group has announced that, effective October 1, 2025, Martin Umland will become Group Vice President Supply Chain Management, succeeding Raphael Adrian Maier, who has chosen to leave the Hamburg-based retail and services group at his own request.

With this appointment, the Otto Group is placing a seasoned logistics expert from within its own ranks into a strategically vital leadership role. In his new position, Umland will oversee group-wide logistics planning, strategy, innovation, and corporate services, helping to strengthen the company’s long-term supply chain resilience.

An engineer by training, Umland joined the Otto Group in 2006, initially working as a project manager within the Otto Group Holding and later at Hermes Fulfilment. From 2010 onward, he moved into leadership positions at Bonprix Group, where he most recently served as Vice President Logistics, responsible for the international logistics operations of the global fashion brand. In addition to leading complex logistics networks, Umland successfully managed and delivered a comprehensive transformation program for the entire Bonprix Group organization, which concluded at the end of 2024.

“We are delighted that Martin, an accomplished and trusted leader from within the Otto Group, is stepping into this strategically important position at Otto Group Holding. His track record of success gives us confidence in his ability to drive forward our logistics strategy,” said Kay Schiebur, Executive Board Services of the Otto Group.

Umland will succeed Raphael Adrian Maier, who departs on September 30, 2025, to return to his native Switzerland. “Raphael has been instrumental in elevating supply chain management across the Otto Group,” added Schiebur. “He has delivered remarkable achievements, including forging pioneering partnerships in AI robotics with Covariant and Boston Dynamics. His contributions have set new standards in our logistics strategy. While we regret his decision to leave, we extend our sincere thanks and best wishes for his future.”

About Otto Group

With a strong heritage as a family business and firmly rooted values, the Otto Group is looking to the future with confidence. Over the past 75 years, the company has developed from a catalog-based mail order company into an international digital retail and services group with 36,300 employees and a large number of key companies, brands and holdings in over thirty countries, primarily in Germany, the rest of Europe and North America. Its business activities extend to the Platforms, Brand Concepts, Retailers, Services and Financial Services segments. In the 2024/25 financial year (ending February 28), the Otto Group generated revenues of 15 billion euros. As the largest online retailer of European origin, it is shaping the digital retail and digital services of the future by drawing on its strength, market significance and values. Driven by a passionate and entrepreneurial performance culture, the Group is exploiting its vast market expertise and technological competence to inspire its many millions of customers with high-quality products, unique choice of goods and an array of services. The Otto Group is proof that a value-oriented approach and business success can go hand in hand. Environmental protection has been another corporate objective since 1986. It takes its ecological, social and digital responsibility seriously – and will continue to do so.

Media Contacts:

Annette Siragusano, +49 40 6461 3982, annette.siragusano@ottogroup.com

Martin Zander: +49 40 6461 2820 / martin.zander@ottogroup.com

SOURCE: Otto Group