Due to my resignation at Bits&Pretzels, I was asked by the management if I would continue to be available as a consultant for the partnerships and sales department where I have since continued to take care of some large corporate customers and advise the sales team and management.
As more companies requested consulting, my partner and I decided to set up or own GmbH.
Since then, we take over smaller consulting jobs in the Startup as well as Event Management sector for different corporates and event organizers.
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 6 months
Director Business Development, Sales & Marketing
Tobii UX Explore GmbH
Analyzing the current state of the business development strategy
Identifying customer segments and their needs toward the product
Setting-up a business development strategy together with the product development team
Strong cooperation with PM lead for sprint analyses
Developing and implementing internal and external business release processes
Evaluate on partners to cooperate with and setting joint market strategies
Leading the legal and GDPR related topics for partner cooperations
Analyzing the current state of the sales strategy
Analyzing the different customer persona
Developing a sales strategy together with product development, as the product was / is still not ready to fulfill all client needs and
Development of an international sales strategy, focused on the European market and successful implementation with the sales team
Acquisition of new customers, personal support of existing customers
Further development of the product/service range with the product team
Create transparency on international customer projects and sales status, define and implement systems to measure sales success
Analyzing the actual marketing strategy and assets
Creating an international marketing strategy
Develop a new website
Development of the social media strategy
Evaluating on most promising tradeshows and participating on these in Europe
Redefining the Marketing team
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Chief Commercial Officer | Brand & Partnerships
NFQ Asia
I was brought to NFQ to transform the individual entities (Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Thailand and Vietnam - 1000 employees), which until then functioned independently of each other, into a global group with international structures.
This project has been overturned by a shareholder resolution shortly before implementation also due to current global Covid restrictions.
Create an international strategy to bring partner management together
Develop multiple complex reward program for partners with their diverse interests in Asia and Europe
Advise the Board of Management on partner programs
Implement a quality assurance tool for partner programs
Develop quality assurance training
Set up and lead the training team that manages internal trainings
Support all current partners
Conduct Reward Partner events
Design and build an international, sustainable and scalable sales organization
Development of an international sales strategy together with the management, successful implementation with the sales team
Acquisition of new customers, personal support of existing customers
Further development of the product/service range with the innovation team
Create transparency on international customer projects and sales status, define and implement systems to measure sales success
Analyze the different brand strength of each entity
Set up a brand management plan for the development of the individual and global brand
Create an international marketing strategy
Develop new overarching website
Development of the social media strategy
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
2 years
Head of Sales
Startup Events GmbH
Building the Sales and Business Development organization from the ground up
Being the companies "one face" to the partner
Recruiting and leading the Sales Team
Delivering strategic leadership for defining the commercial path of growth and profitability
Assessing and managing all partners through different channels.
Defining and delivering KPIs across Sales
Actively engaging and developing a comprehensive network
Defining, acquiring, managing and contracting all Key Accounts
Working closely with Marketing and Product to identify costumer needs
Development of all Partner Materials & Workshops
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
3 years
Commercial Manager
freenet TV
Managing of all key accounts in Retail
Building and leading the external Sales Team (16 Pax)
Responsible for the companies training department, containing Retail training, Stakeholder training, Sales & Product training, employee training and Call Center training
Defining KPIs and business goals and delivering them
Monitoring and adapting monthly Retail KPIs
Setting up and continuously improving the customer journey
Controlling of Sales and BTL budgets
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
1 year 7 months
Cologne, Germany
Market Sales Manager
Cologne Marriott Hotel
Acquisition and monitoring of international Key Accounts
Key Account Manager for all DACH and USA clients
Project Management
Driving contracting process with Key Accounts
Budget responsibility for the MICE and Special Corporate segment
Guiding the strategic development of Sales
Building up the Sales Team
Setting up Team Trainings for Service Satisfaction
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
2 months
Cologne, Germany
Sales Manager
Barceló Cologne
(Resell of the hotel and therefore termination of all staff in probationary period)
Acquisition of new accounts
Contract negotiations with key accounts.
Marketing activities in the MICE area
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
8 months
Medebach, Germany
Management Trainee
Center Parcs Medebach
Assistant to the management
Project management of the new occupational safety system
Responsible for all trainings related to the occupational safety system
Monitoring of the social media channels
Summary
a hands-on person
an encouraging leader
a creative problem solver
surprise people with the unexpected
be a challenger
celebrate achievements with the team
to be able to involve myself
a positive working atmosphere
action
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
Dutch
Advanced
Portuguese
Advanced
Education
Stenden University Leeuwarden
Bachelor of Business Administration · Business Administration · Leeuwarden, Netherlands · 1,1 - 1,2