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Calvià, Ib, Es

Puerto Portals

I know the feeling of wanting to live in a place where others go on holiday. A place that is good for your soul, where you can be sure of a more relaxed life and where your children will grow up in an international environment. And I also know the doubts that come with moving to a new country. Even if it is just picking a holiday home in a foreign environment. Having followed exactly the same path, I can now professionally support you in the search for your new home. I love Mallorca, know the island, the regions and the legal situation. Of course, I also speak Spanish and your language. There are no barriers or misunderstandings. From selecting the ideal region for your family to arranging the telephone connection after buying a property, you have one contact: me as your personal real estate expert from Neptunus International Real Estate. Dare to step into a new home in Majorca! I support you in buying and selling property, as well as in renting property.

Sotheby's Concierge Auctions is the world's largest marketplace for luxury property auctions with a market share of more than 90% and the world's most comprehensive database of high-net-worth property connoisseurs. The traditional model of buying and selling unique properties has its limitations. DM me for more info!

Palma, Balearen, Spanje

Many sales teams find it difficult to get in touch with the right decision makers. Distinguishing yourself as an organization but also as a sales professional is difficult. It's all about distinctiveness.But when you focus on specific issues and are relevant to the target group, suddenly getting into contact is not that difficult anymore.We support sales teams in generating quality conversations with their ideal target audience. We connect the right decision makers to the members of the sales team and ensure that easily accessible conversations arise through campaigns, especially at C-level and we know how to connect hundreds of relevant contacts to the LinkedIn profiles of sales teams.The built-up network will be the lifeline for more campaigns, thought leadership and engagement that continuously generates more leads .The Vendigi method is a method that we implement at B2B companies with a strong specialization on the service industry and ICT sector.It's an innovative way to quickly connect with hundreds of relevant contacts, create a large database of interested decision makers and increase your turnover and margin.

Palma, Balearen, Spanje

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Nederland

Next Generation Sales is a market leading training agency that provides sales and account managers with solutions for commercial challenges and the right tools and mind-set to achieve significantly higher sales results. - Developed customised training programmes based on the latest scientific research. - Developed programmes covering business development, account management, telesales, social media and networking. - Worked with a number of blue-chip clients including market leading organisations in the (credit) insurance industry. - Trained (internal) sales teams on a worldwide basis with courses delivered in the USA, Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium and Eastern Europe. - Average client satisfaction 8,5.- A major customer (daughter company of a large stock listed multinational) indicated: "We have achieved 24% growth in turnover compared to last year. With fewer people, more sales. You have absolutely contributed to this success: thanks for that!" (reference available).

Palma De Mallorca En Omgeving

Palma, Balearen, Spanje

Energía Grafeno is a young and ambitious energy supplier (with an official license) that approaches the electricity market in a different way:- a small margin on top of the purchase price as well as low overheads through digitizing the business, we offer the lowest rates. - through real understanding of power and consumption on energy bills from the competition and technical analysis we help clients realise the highest possible savings.- we speak the customer's language (German, English, Spanis, Dutch etc.) because service and a satisfied customer are important to us.- we are the only electricity provider that compensates free of charge for the surplus that the solar panels supply during the day at times when the solar panels do not produce enough electricity, for example at night. In this way the maximum yield of the solar panels is obtained. - through our sister company Solar Solution Mallorca we provide solar solutions and became the main installer in Mallorca since 2019.- we are the first energy supplier to make reforestation part of our strategy. For every new member of Grafeno we plant a new tree. - at Energía Grafeno we don't know what we have earned from a customer, we know what the customer has saved! - Energía Grafeno not only provides cheaper electricity, but above all cheaper bills.

Rotterdam

- Took responsibility for providing sales training and coaching to help organisations improve their new business development, avoid price discussions and differentiate from competition (teams and individuals, all levels).- Provided professionals with solutions and tools for commercial challenges.- Worked with clients in a wide range of business sectors including insurance, banking, intermediaries, consultants, software, training, trading, industry and electronics.- Undertook comprehensive training need analysis to gain an understanding of client needs.- Developed customised training materials and delivered training to groups in English, Dutch and German. - Visiting trainer in 2010, 2011 and 2012 at Europe’s leading business school INSEAD/Cedep – Fontainebleau, France. General managers and directors of intermediaries in insurance were trained on: "How to survive as a company in crisis times and even increase business results". The outcome of this training was a strategic business plan to increase revenue and margin by at least 10%.

Oosterhout

- Held full management responsibility for establishing a business focused on recruitment and contracting in the Dutch IT market. - Managed the implementation of a database with 230.000 candidates from 45.000 companies. - Provided first class candidates for clients operating in the IT, Finance, HR and Sales sectors. - Recruited and managed a team of four recruiters. - Successfully generated profitable revenue and acquired contracts with major organisations in the Netherlands including Tele2, Inter Access, HP, Microsoft and Lenovo.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

- Held full responsibility for managing and driving the performance of a team of five recruiters. - Successfully undertook search and selection mandates for 75 sales and marketing vacancies for Tele 2. - Developed a comprehensive strategic and business plan for recruitment in 2008.- Developed and implemented more robust search and selection techniques.- Provided training, mentoring and coaching for line management to improve new hiring process.- Quality of new hires (290) increased, costs decreased, transparent recruitment process, labour market communication plan defined and executed as well as retention increased.

Deventer

- Appointed to this senior role with full P&L responsibility for revenue of 9 million Euros. - Managed a team of fifteen sales professionals and engineers. - Tasked with personally managing and growing revenue with a key account.- Established a new, improved sales strategy and managed the associated change, creating competitive edge. - Implemented managed ICT Services which significantly increased underlying revenue streams.- Designed and delivered a highly effective sales training course based on “Let’s get real - helping clients succeed by Mohan Kalsa”.- Implementing ERP system of Exact as well as instructions with respect to work flow.

Nederland

- Recruiting independent distributors for direct sales. - Consultant to a security company partnering with Essent. Consultancy at acquisition, sales training, lead generation and strategy.- Consultancy regarding set up of sales team on behalf of a partner of Versatel. Main activities; recruiting and training sales, defining market approach as well as target groups.- Setting up a distribution network for Nutricia in health products.

De Meern

- General management responsibility of Euro 25 million incl. Profit & Loss.- Led a sales team of 20 managers and sales professionals in the Netherlands.- Successfully completed and integrated take-over of major IBM reseller in existing organization and PQR as a whole.- Restructured the organisation and developed a more effective sales strategy which achieved higher customer as well as business partner satisfaction, value-add business defined and implemented. - Budget 2002 projects 20 % revenue growth and normal profit levels again.

Benelux (Rotterdam And Brussels)

- Business management responsibility for US $ 31 million of sales.- Manager of 60 managers and sales staff in the Netherlands and Belgium.- Implemented a new direct sales and marketing model and introduced tele-coverage (75% of customers covered by telephone) which was supported by a high impact marketing & communications campaign, customer focussed sales force through market segmentation, change in accountancy rules implemented, value-added products (integrating with SAP, Oracle, Siebel and SAS) introduced as well as third party lead generation and cooperation.- Reduced the cost of sales while also achieving the highest sales per head in Europe and 4% revenue growth in a flat market.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

- Business management responsibility of US $ 130 million.- Manager of 90 managers and sales staff. - Accountable for implementation of direct sales activities, i.e. campaign management, database management, lead management and call/response centre.- Identified a number of issues which were impacting sales performance including declining margins, poor relationship with business partners, low acceptance internally in route-to-market, low revenue and productivity, unclear budget and low structure in teamwork. - Deployed a revised sales strategy, excellent business/working relationship with business partners, included in every business unit’s route-to-market model, expense to revenue and revenue per head 2nd best in Europe, regionalisation for database and campaigns to be completed 1st half 1997, budget issues cleared and structure implemented.

Eindhoven

- Marketing and sales of Philips consumer products (audio, video, white goods, lighting, professional products) through local agents and distributors. First 2 years in Central America / Caribbean and last 4 years on a travel basis to the Middle East (United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, North and South Yemen).

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

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Executive Programme, Economics

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Business Administration

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