Sales Business Partner
Current- Partnered with Heads of APAC, Distributors, Heavy Industry sales segments to build sales strategies and long-term plans covering deliveries, prices, revenues, margins, profitability, target customers and countries/markets, and optimal portfolio management by analysing market environment, historical patterns.- Acted as a trusted business partner and controller to sales to achieve shared objectives by onboarding them about the segments, highlighting issues, challenged them to drive profitability by providing actionable insights on customer behaviour, pricing trends, product performance, and market dynamics.- Built a revenue (4.5b€ p.a.), accounts receivables and contribution forecasting model and achieved ±2% (±4m€) deviation versus the actual and target results on the monthly basis with additional capabilities to analyse and bridge results and build various scenarios. Was also responsible for annual revenue and contribution target setting, as well as rolling forecast processes.- Conducted thorough analysis and provided regular insights and reports on customers, region, and products, including their pricing, profitability, buying patterns, retention and trends by analysing historical data and combining with CRM data, and effectively communicated pertinent business insights to the sales teams and senior management to drive decision-making.- Led and maintained the development of sales reports and dashboards in Power BI, provided training to sales colleagues, and streamlined reporting by empowering teams with real-time data visualisation and connecting multiple data sources from across the organisation.- Led cross-functional projects including the creation of a predictive model for business cyclicality, demand, pricing, and EBITDA based on market indicators which is widely used and contributed to the development of organisation strategy.