Marco Suvilaakso Email & Phone Number

Finland

Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland

Nucu’s mission is to help caregivers provide babies with the best combination of positive stimulation and developmental sleep during the crucial first years of life and development.

Mentoring start-ups in the largest global ecosystem in sports innovation. With over 40,000 members, including retail brands, athletic clubs, federations and academia together with over 11,000 startups, HYPE has an unrivalled capacity for outreach to global partners across all sectors in this highly diverse field.

Finland

We are a revolutionary sport-biotech companyWith Summa, athletes can achieve higher performance levels and sustained wellbeing with a revolutionary approach to tracking training stress load and recovery levels.

Finland

I established GrowTrail to help companies ranging from start-ups and larger incumbent companies in the fitness, wellness, wearable-tech, IoT sectors. My extensive international product management and strategic planning experience support them with sound strategic planning, product management operations, partnering, analytics and strategic communications advice. If you want to talk, please reach out to me via LinkedIn.

Oulu Area, Finland

-leading a cross-functional team to define Polar Group level strategy towards fundamental renewal and business model transformation exceeding €200m p.a. -analyzing and prioritizing group level inbound investment and collaboration proposals and initiatives for maximal impact-counseling senior management teams on opportunity and risks-establishing driving a data-driven decision culture by building and supporting market(MI), customer intelligence(CI), and big-data teams-leading the cross-functional Customer Satisfaction forum to synthesize actionable reports to management teams-managing Global PR, strategic communications including crisis management communications-overseeing and supporting SOME communications, partnerships, user-guidance and sponsorships management -defining and leading the top-line partnership ecosystem objectives and line-management -directly interacting with the global level media and contracted agencies -promoting Polar internationally through event and media evangelism

Oulu Area, Finland

-Based on high performance leading the B-C product management, the B-B businesses added to the scope of responsibilities-leading the Group Level BtoC and BtoB product and cross-segment portfolio-level strategy to most significant growth in Polar history-business planning, including multi-tier pricing, cost analysis and pricing for hardware and mobile applications businesses -Recruited, coached and supported a highly-effective multi-disciplinary Product Management, Concept Development devices, Cloud services and app organization across BtoC and BtoB business -supportive member contributing to Group level strategy development-interacting with critical international buyers, journalists and partners to promote Polar and 'sell' the unique product and services in collaboration with foreign and domestic subsidiaries

Oulu Area, Finland

-scaling the transformational and successful customer-centric approach that was applied initially to the running segment/category to all consumer products and services-leading the BtoC product and focused portfolio-level strategy to improve profitability and ease of choice amongst the customers-leading renewal planning proactively to counter incoming category level disruptors-Global brand evangelism to crucial category influencers-positively evolved the value chain communication approach amongst the product managers

Oulu Area, Finland

-led the brand and marketing communications team to modernize and renew the omnichannel brand communication to a human aspirational and inspirational positioning-Managing creative agencies to deliver successful output efficiently-selling the brand and product to crucial clients and category influencers-Managed all costs and budgeting of vendors

Oulu Area, Finland

-introduced new consumer-centric processed to Polar to kick-start Product Management renewal as a growth catalyst for the company-managed the cradle to grave business planning, global rollout and key communications for new products in the running category-established the running category to achieve 40m€ turnover within two years

Helsinki Area, Finland

-successfully sold new partnership programs and cloud services initiatives with the top-tier US and Canadian Mobile Operators and large corporate entities-developed innovative and scaleable new mobile data service concepts and business plans for next-generation mobile platforms

Toronto, Canada Area

-successfully secured and managed millions of dollars of global transportation sales contracts to large multinational corporations with a presence in Canada-extensive application of consultative selling to key stakeholders-refined high-value personal negotiation skills

Toronto, Canada Area

-efficiently organized international logistics (transport, customs, financial) for complex transactions with up to 550metric tons weekly to multiple destinations -supported product marketing development and vendor negotiations for the Asian and European business