Accomplished sales and marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience and a proven ability to increase turnover and profitability, develop new business and negotiate successfully with international key accounts (BtoB services, Food-, DIY- and professional retailers & chain stores, European car industry, French public sector…).
Superb record of providing strategic and operational planning consulting services to start-up ventures and established companies.
Connecting people and catalyst of energies, I like taking up new challenges in complex international sales environments, developing profitable business, reconciling collective performance, professional and personal fulfilment and digital transformation.
European leader in the design, production and marketing of decorative household products (main office : Munich, Germany) born from the merger (2001-2003) between ALKOR DECO Germany and VENILIA SA France – Turnover : 175 €M., 650 FTE – BtoBtoC
Member of the Management Committee
Successfully managed sales and marketing operations during the merger of Alkor Deco Germany and Venilia France, overcoming a history of intense competition between the two organizations as well as major differences in company cultures. Set up a new business intelligence department to monitor major competitors for distribution partners in group affiliates and subsidiaries in Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.