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Paris, Fr

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Support Irish companies with their entry, scaling and sustained growth in the French market. Work with a team of market advisors in our offices in Paris and Lyon to grow the French market beyond a 1.1 Bn € export target for Irish companies. Priority sectors include Engineering, AgriTech, Construction (services), Digital transformation, Life Sciences, Consumer brands, Retail, Professional services. Handle a wide range of tasks : strategic planning, go-to-market strategy, matchmaking, business development, ...

France

Market adviser/consultant to companies active in the Digital, Corporate IT, Telecoms, Professional Services and Outsourcing arenas wishing to start and/or expand their activities in international markets. Services range from strategic marketing advice to hands-on business development.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands - Brussels Area Belgium

Heading a team of business development professionals that support Irish SMEs exporting to The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Sectors covered mainly include Construction, Manufacturing, Digital, Financial Services, Consumer, Professional Services, ... Owner of the strategic and operational BeNeLux export plans with key targets for export growth and employment creation.

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Management of strategic programs in the areas of new business development, sales optimisation, product development. Head of the International program management team supporting the rolling out of multi-country payroll and HR solutions.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Built and lead the Product marketing team and firm up the marketing strategy at the start of the company. Member of the IPO team that took the company to the stock exchange. Then moved to lead Interconnect and Wholesale and took responsibility for Regulatory affairs and Government Relations. Direct report to the CEO and president of the Regulatory workgroup of the platform of Telecom operators and service providers (within Agoria). Assigned to build the 3G license obtention project and program manage the initial 3G roll out. Head of B-to-B marketing in Mobistar Business Solutions, focusing on increasing the company's share of the SME and corporate market.

Evere / Amsterdam / London

Recruited to roll out marketing of BT's services in Belgium (full marketing mix). Position BT as the number one challenger to the incumbent operator on voice and data services. Lead a team of 5 marketeers. Member of the business development team that bid for participation in and strategic partnership with the incumbent operator.

Wemmel / Ieper

Product management of technology products such as text-to-speech conversion and speech recognition. Head of the product demo team.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Lead the team responsible for developing user hand-outs and instruction material for telecom-related products.