Director Of Customer Operations
Milan Area, Italy
Manage €60M Sales Operations in the Italian branch of a 16-country European ICT system integrator. providing Unified Communication, Networking, Data Center and Contact Center Solutions and offering Cloud Services. Leading a team of 120 engineers, through 5 direct reports, with 10M€ subcontracting budget. Sales, Project Management (PMP and Agile), Project Delivery, Service Delivery, Logistics Operations and Field Services Operations.Full P&L responsability, Forecasting and Budgeting, from Sales to Gross Contribution.Member of several European groups for the harmonization of Marketing and Service processes: European Pricing Committee, European Service Design Team, European Service Delivery Team.Since January 2014 in charge of Presales Consulting Team (12 people): Solution Design, P&L analysis, pricing, customer presentations, POC.Lead special projects on Recurrent Services Business Development and Managed Services Operations, topping 18 M€ Sales in 2010 - best result in company's history.Innovating Service processes for cloud based business models.Design and develop Data Center Professional Services. Responsible for Training and HR Professional Development.In 2013 drove a full restructuring process to cope with declining volumes; despite a 19% decrease in Sales, Gross Contribution grew by 5 pts (from 20 to 25%) while Service Management Costs were almost halved (from 1,5 to 0,8 M€).In 2007 participated in the Management Buyout of the European holding company.Member of the Italian steering committee and of the European Leadership Team.