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Markaryd, Kronoberg County, Sweden

Trelleborg, Sweden

Responsible for developing new and existing business of Marine Fenders throughout the Northern Europe (UK & Scandinavia) and Eastern Europe area, securing orders to effectively meeting sales and marketing objectives, ensuring the products meet market demands and customer requirements and complies with the strategic direction of the company.

Landskrona, Sweden

Direct all facets of global product planning and oversee all stages of product lifecycle for sliding and swing doors. Gather and prioritize the product in accordance with market and customer requirements, defining the product vision and working closely with engineering, sales, and marketing teams to deliver products and services to drive revenue generation and customer service objectives. Provide comprehensive service and support to clients to facilitate business retention. Effectively leverage technical skills to innovate product portfolio, directing cross-functional teams to ensure achievement of specifications, objectives, and overarching business requirements. Curate comprehensive strategic plans in conjunction with executive teams, managing global operations to drive cohesive operations. Lead sales operations through identification of opportunities and cultivation of relationships to drive revenue generation and continuous business growth. Key Accomplishments:• Achieved product portfolio growth of 14% within the first year. • Secured YOY portfolio growth of 10%+ on €2.5B revenue. • Generated portfolio EBIT growth of 3-4% each year.

Sweden

Developed and implemented comprehensive strategies to drive sales and business development initiatives in the Nordic region for a start-up business in the elevator and escalator market segment. Established and maintained relationships with equipment installers, consultants, contractors, and suppliers, to cultivate contracts with vendors, as well as identify and leverage sales opportunities. Negotiated favourable contracts to minimize costs whilst ensuring achievement of product delivery milestones. Leveraged network of clients to foster new business generation. Key Accomplishment:• Grew quotes from 0 to €1M within two months. • Effectively established product presence in major architect and consultant specification documents within three months.

Singapore

Provided consultative services on operations management and business development strategies for European MNC clients. Provided detailed market evaluations and condition reporting, delivering potential opportunities within the APAC region. Established local companies and conducted initial recruitment on behalf of clients. Key Accomplishment:• Facilitated the success of three start-up companies through accurate and comprehensive market research and intelligence.

Singapore

Spearheaded a team of six in accounts, administration, and sales, across the SEA region, overseeing daily operations to ensure adherence to overarching strategies, policies, procedures, and best practices. Key Accomplishment:• Generated approximately 6M SGD in sales each year. • Maintained profitability through heavy market expansion periods with large investments.

Pune Area, India

Managed operations for €3M start-up and sales activities in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Established engineering services in India in supporting group companies in CAD, IT, and Technical Documentation. Directed a team of 25 personnel in accounts management, administration, sales, and technical office management. Acted as subject matter expert in product management for select systems within Ports & Maritime, Aviation, General Industry & Mining & Tunneling.Key Accomplishments:• Secured the largest financial growth of 200%+ in 2010. • Recognized for best new market implementation in 2010. • Re-energized EBIT in first full financial reporting year of 2009.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Established the market presence in Ports & Maritime for MENA market. Driving all sales activities with clients and consultants concerning heavy technical solution sales products. Acting as Product Manager for key systems in the segment and driving the market requirements to support customer needs.Key Accomplishments:• Created a revenue of 15M AED in less than 2 years.• Established a Project pipeline from the region of apprx 100M AED in one year

Uae, Sweden

Operations Manager for Euro Group, Independent Consultant for Project Management and Mechanical Design, Project and Systems Manager for Caran Industri & Design AB, Independent Business Development and Product Management Consultant, Technical/Product Manager for Termo Board AB, Product Manager for Modern Construction, and Insulation Installer for SpreFix International AB.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Innovation Engineering

Upper Secondary, Technical And Scientific Subjects

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, 12