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Waalre, North Brabant, Netherlands

Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Eersel, North Brabant, Netherlands

Eersel, North Brabant, Netherlands

Worldwide (excl. North America) responsible for Commercial Excellence within the Handmade Cigars category: sales analysis, P&L reporting, pricing strategy, portfolio management, brand performance tracking, sales & operations planning, event forecasting, strategic business development and consumer insights.

Eersel, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Point of contact for the Handmade Cigars category for multiple markets worldwide: Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, as well as for export regions: Eastern Europe (including Baltics), Central Europe, Nordics and UK. Additionally responsible for monitoring and reporting of the handmade cigars sales data.

Eersel, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Point of contact for the Handmade Cigars category for several markets and take care of the international event coordination. Additionally responsible for monitoring and reporting of the handmade cigars sales data, consumer insights and business intelligence.

Eersel, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Project leader TPDII for the Handmade Cigars category, with a main focus on aligning the HMC designs and portfolios for the different EU-markets. Next to that responsible for monitoring and reporting of the handmade cigars sales data, consumer insights and business intelligence on an international level.

Eersel, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Working with product portfolios: 'Premium Machine Made Cigars' and 'Regional Strong Brands' within the MMC division. Giving operational support with a focus on the regulatory changes within the European Tobacco Product Directive (TPD2). Additionally several brand management projects for the Premium portfolio (workshops, brand plans, implementing consumer.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Within the sales team it was my duty to bring in new customers. I was the first contact person of (potential) customers and business partners. Key objectives were: respond to commercial opportunities, anticipate to market and consumer, maximize job efficiency and ensure customer retention.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

In collaboration with the Research department of Philips, I worked on four NPD (New Product Development) projects. My Master Thesis research consisted of a choice-based conjoint analysis regarding consumer insights for a new innovative method to purify indoor air followed by a latent-class segmentation analysis. Next to that, I am co-inventor of a product.

Veghel

I studied the identity and image of the municipality of Veghel (located between 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven and Nijmegen) through both quantitative and qualitative research techniques, where the main findings were translated into strategic recommendations to positively affect the image of the municipality in the areas of living, work and life. To achieve.

Veghel

My main task was to develop a marketing communications plan for the products and services of the Web-marketing department. Two other projects I executed were identifying and mapping the total product portfolio of all departments and optimizing the quotation process.

Master’S Degree, Marketing Management (Msc), 7.0

• Marketing Communication • Strategic Marketing Management and Markstrat simulation game (by StratX) • Research in Marketing (Anova.

Premaster Program, Marketing, 7.0

• Academic Competences Marketing • Business Research Techniques • Services Marketing • Statistics • Marketing • Consumer Behaviour

Bachelor’S Degree, Commercial Economics (Bachelor Of Commerce), 7.4

Location: 's-Hertogenbosch Accelerated Bachelor's Degree Chosen minor: Marketing Communications (Marcom)

Propaedeutic Phase, Business Economics

4 pillars: Marketing, Management, Finance and Accounting

Vwo, Profile: Economy & Society

Additional course: Management & Organisation