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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Dedicated to optimising profit for (apart)hotels and serviced apartments, we specialize in implementing cutting-edge commercial strategies. Our approach includes:- Crafting and executing innovative Sales & Marketing strategies- Introducing new business lines, such as co-working and Longstay, to diversify revenue streams- Conducting a thorough analysis and optimization of business lines for Revenue per m2 enhancement- Implementing state-of-the-art technology solutions to realise revenue growth- Developing and executing new distribution strategiesWe collaborate with a team of top-tier industry experts, our collective goal is to propel hotels toward unparalleled success. Drawing inspiration from a decade-plus tenure leading award-winning sales and account management teams.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Helping Wundermart to spread their brand awareness and helping them grow their shops in Europe.A Wundermart shop is an unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels or offices. Powered by technology and driven by data, this is a small retail outlet that simply runs itself. Stocked with a wide variety of fresh food, snacks, drinks and amenities, available to guests any time of day. The perfect shop solution that adds a healthy profit to your bottom line, every month.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Your Rocket Fuel is a first-of-a-kind sales intelligence platform that helped hotels & commercial real estate companies uncover which scale-ups are opening up in a city, which companies require additional office space and which corporates will be moving to a new office in the next months, before it was out in the news! The platform redefines how hotels, short stay and real estate companies sell by combining key company & data insights in a first-of-a-kind platform 🚀.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

What is Zoku?Zoku is a place where relocations and traveling professionals can live, work, relax and socialise. The Social Spaces are a great to place to work, share a meal or meet kindred spirits. The Zoku Loft and Loft XL are flexible home/office hybrids, also suitable for long stays, made for mobile professionals to live comfortably and work efficiently.Responsible for making sure that Zoku will reach it's revenue targets by setting out the full commercial strategy in terms of Sales, Marketing, PR and Online Distribution.Sales- Responsible for the entire sales cycle (reaching leads, presentations, closing partnerships) for all corporate accounts.- Analyzing large quantities of data to make commercial decisions- Exploring new platforms & technologies to reach our target groupMarketing- Creating & finetuning Zoku complete digital strategy (e.g Social media, Newsletters, campaigns) together with our online Agency.- Enhancing Zoku's website through A/B testing, constantly improving the conversion rate- In charge of monitoring Zoku's Social Media channels, enabling a steady growth of followers.- Ensuring that new content (e.g. newsletter, blogposts) are being created and sent out to our different target audiences.PR- Liaising with our PR firm, ensuring regular articles being published about Zoku. Examples of outlets writing about Zoku are: Forbes, CNN, Telegraph, Fast Company, Business Insider.Online Distribution- Together with our Revenue Manager, decide upon Zoku's rate strategy. Constantly adapting where needed.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

What is Zoku?Zoku is a place where relocations and traveling professionals can live, work, relax and socialise. The Social Spaces are a great to place to work, share a meal or meet kindred spirits. The Zoku Loft and Loft XL are flexible home/office hybrids, also suitable for long stays, made for mobile professionals to live comfortably and work efficiently.See more on: http://livezoku.com/Responsible for making sure that Zoku will reach it's revenue targets by setting out the commercial and digital strategy.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Spaces stands for meet, work & connect. Spaces is a provider of office spaces, meeting spaces and memberships. Our locations can also serve as an event space for business events large or small. Spaces has three locations in Amsterdam and one in The Hague, where we facilitate the success of our members and tenants by giving them the opportunity to grow and expand. Spaces strives for a further roll-out of the concept in the Netherlands and internationally. www.spaces.nlAfter 3 months of working as a Sales intern at Spaces, I managed to obtain the position as Sales Executive at Spaces Zuidas, 4 months prior to the end of my internship. As a Sales Executive, I'm in charge of providing companies with their dream offices or entrepreneurs with an innovative working space at Spaces Zuidas.What I do as a Sales Executive:- Provide companies with their dream office according to their wishes, or in order words letting 16.000m2 of amazing office space at SPACES Zuidas.- Actively generate new leads, follow up leads, create quotes, keep and create a pipeline and of-course; closing the deal.- Spread the word about the Spaces concept by using different techniques such as story telling.- Participate in networking events.Why I love the job as a Sales Executive:-Being able to provide an office or a working spaces where people can thrive and businesses can grow.- Being in contact and doing business with different companies and individuals on a daily basis.- Being able to successfully connect people and businesses with each other, creating valuable business relations.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

As a team coordinator, I made sure that the Swedish Embassy always had enough qualified personnel in order to give the guests an experience which exceeded their expectations. Next to that I also recruited the personnel, this included that I had to look up their background and working experience in order to make sure that the person was suitable for working at the embassy.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Hospitality Administration/Management

Activities and Societies: Senti Questo, Running Team HTH

Highschool Diploma, Social Sciences & Economics