SUMMARY

• Hands-on experienced Sales Manager, Sales Director (TRILINGUAL DU FR ENG) with strong emotional intelligence.
• Strong experience in managing B2B business units in a regional, national and international surroundings (4 years France)
• Start-Up, planning, designing, market research, checking feasability, simulation of results , implementing and management of a new business unit with P&L responsability in France for the regional and national readers- and advertisers-market.
• Managing Director of a Nissan and Iveco dealership for 6 years , while acquiring a “heavy duty trucks contract”  and adapting the infrastructure and expertise of the personnel to the demands of the new contract.

PROFILE

• Result driven with good analysis of the market,  its potential and opportunities.

• Very good negotiator to achieve “win-win” situations.
• Strong coach and “problem solver” who is able to get the utmost out of the team.
• Leadership style  : mentor , with lots of people-orientated empathy and inspiriation , motivator  to transcend targets and to implement the vision and strategy for both the team and the company. What you see is what you get.
• People management: coach, evaluate,  deal with “performance interviews” as well as recruit or dismiss employees.
• Change management: transformation of the PME mentality to multinational “new way of working”.
• Collaborating cross-functional with other services or business-units and using “best practices”.

 CAREER OBJECTIVES

• Possible positions : sales manager, commercial director, business unit manager or business manager PME in middle or higher management in collaboration with the executive commitee or being part of it ;  in order to plan and implement the vision, strategy and targets of the company.
• I’m looking for a new challenge in a line of business for which I have great affinity; where I can impact the end result (P&L responsability) coach a team and where I can make optimal use of my sales competences and experiences.
• Company size is not the first priority , results and vision for the future as possibilities for personal growth are more important.