• Sales and Delivery Leader with a solid background in global IT Service Management • Professional communication skills • Experienced, practical, driving, coaching and spontaneous team-player • English – fluent in speech and writing, French – conversational skills
Sales of Content Management and Storage Management Professional Services in the Nordic countries
Channel Development and Management
Workshops
Detailed Description
Responsible for business development and bid management of Enterprise Content Management projects in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
Sold services primarily to Finance- Telco- and Manufacturing clients in the Nordic region, such as SEB, Nokia, ABB, Volvo Cars, Telia, BP and Norsk Hydro
Collaborated with internal sales organizations, wrote Statements of Work, negotiated the deals with customers, partners and subcontractors, managed the executive relationships as well as sold and resourced cross-functional projects
Set up a network of local subcontractor-partners
Produced a monthly newsletter
Took active part in customer workshops and pre-studies.
Services Sales Manager at Sun Professional Services, growing the revenue from 2M€ to 12M€ in five years. I was a member of the local Management team, and was selected a SunStar in 1998 by the Sun PS EMEA VP, and achieved SunRise club membership in 2000.
2000–2004 Services Sales Manager I managed a team of services sales specialists, working in close cooperation with other parts of the organisation both locally and internationally. My responsibility, in addition to leading and coaching the team, was business development, sales, and bid management, direct as well as together with resellers.
Was involved in selling Application Development projects, Operational Management services and Datacenter Solutions to clients like Swedish Post, 3 (Hi3G), Ericsson and TeliaSonera.
Trained and certified Suns channel-partners, and educated and coached the sales-teams on how to sell services.
Launched corporate offering locally
Produced an internal quarterly newsletter with success-stories and information on new offerings.
Headed the steering committee as responsible at Sun for the services part of major projects.
Introduced a proposal & pricing-tool for resellers and our internal organisation.
1996-1999 Business Development Manager Responsible for Business Development, I was charted to create business opportunities for the newly started consulting services dept, Sun Professional Services, and to drive solution selling within the Sun organisation.
Launched a solution-selling training for all account managers, which I developed and conducted myself with great success.
Was involved in scoping, calculating, selling and managing the delivery of Datacenter- and Storagesolutions as well as application-development projects.
Defined and introduced new sales and reporting processes
Acted as Marketing Manager for Sun Professional Services, managing the website, speaking at product launches and meetings, planning and conducting road shows and producing brochures and presentations.
Sales of Retailsystems and UNIX-based IT-solutions to Retail and Manufacturing customers
Programming, pre/post sales, training and implementation of software solutions to the retail- petrol- and hospitality market in Scandinavia
Detailed Description
1986-1995 Account Manager I sold Unix- and PC-based POS-systems to two major retail chains. Spent three weeks in Japan to design a new system together with our technical engineers at the plant. In 1991 I moved to the Communication & Government division, selling client/server solutions; Unix-servers, PC, middleware, storage and network components and services to clients like Telia, Ericsson and the Swedish Defence. I overachieved six of those years.
1980-1985 Nordic Systems Manager for a team of four people. The task was to design, develop, document and support POS-systems for the hospitality market. I was the chief designer, and also responsible for training, implementation and documentation as well as post/presale support, and covered all hospitality clients (nightclubs, boats, hotels and bars) in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.