For the last couple of years, I have been working as a Interim manager from my own company but is now looking for a full-time position where I can make use of my extensive experience and network.
• Research, in-depth experience and knowledge within research on both a collection point and consultative level.
• Sales, extensive experience within sales, ranging from canvas to global partnerships, built several sales departments from scratch and developed less profitable ones into profitable ones.
• Leadership, My leadership is based on trust and personally showing the way. I believe that people can perform more than they think themselves. A genuine interest in all staff members will greatly enhance the company's results. A large dose of trust, topped with thorough follow-up.
• Marketing, I prefer innovative and cost-efficient methods rather than broad and traditional ones.
• Online, experience of online marketing and research, both B2C and B2B.
• Social, I am frequently engaged as Keynote speaker and thrive on stage. My motto is that all contacts shall remember me by my first name after one initial meeting.
• Strategic, my belief is that long-term strategies can never survive without short-term realism and a well-defined HOW throughout the entire organization.
I have had the fortune to work for very diverse companies around the world, and if there is one thing that has always been a fundamental part of my commitment, it is the commercial side.
When I was 19 years old I started working for a chemical company, it meant traveling around in Europe and knocking on doors selling cleaning liquid to anybody with a stamp and a checkbook, this way I learned that success is all about a mix of attitude and knowledge, and to be perfectly honest the things I learned the hard way in my early days is still a fundamental part of my way of working today.
I believe that a high level of persistence mixed with a humble attitude will take you a long way, and therefore my managerial style is quite personal and built on the attiMore...