OBJECTIVE:

To secure a full time position in an international consultative sales and marketing environment, that will allow me to exercise leadership and interpersonal skills, to achieve increase in the company’s sales revenues as well as supporting a strong, creative and highly qualitative business environment. Relocating is not an issue, to achieve this goal.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

- Tenacious, versatile and solutions driven personality which adapts well to rapidly changing and multi-cultural environments.

- Ability to understand and interact with the executive side as well as the consumer side of the business equation.

- Resourceful, creative problem-solver with aptitude to provide innovative solutions to complex or ambiguous customer and management requirements in start-up’s, established organizations and re-organizations.

- Skilled in competitive international negotiations and sales techniques, to achieve an increase in sales revenues and objectives.

- Articulate communicator with exceptional interpersonal and motivational skills.

QUALIFICATIONS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

- 2011-2016: Mobis Parts Europe NV - Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai and Kia Parts & Accessories Sales)

▪ Responsible for an annual sales revenue of approximately € 50 million to our customers for Kia Motors France & Russia and Hyundai Motors France and Russia

▪ Organized weekly, monthly, quarterly sales campaigns ▪ Business target setting, tracking and reporting ▪ Sales planning and negotiating annual business plans with

C-level Executive Management ▪ Creation of Special Limited Edition Models ▪ Supporting in initial set-up of Kia & Hyundai Accessory

Store ▪ Setting up of International Distributor and National Dealer

trainings ▪ Worked with Mobis Russia (Hyundai & Kia Motors Russia) to

find custom product solutions in a very volatile market due to significant currency depreciation and increasingly complicated export challenges due to new customs regulations

- Hyundai and Kia Parts & Accessories Marketing: ▪ Setting and allocating marketing budgets to distributors ▪ Worked and negotiated with new and established 3 party

vendors for non OEM products and services ▪ Hyundai & Kia Mobile application development for

accessories (HTML5) ▪ Cooperated in organizing European events and shows to

present new products & services ▪ Worked with the each national distributor on localized

advertising for brand recognition and product visibility (ex. Paris Motor Show, Moscow Motor Show, etc.)

- Hyundai Motors France Dealer Direct Delivery project: ▪ Took lead in closing down Hyundai France warehouse in

Paris to consolidate all dealer deliveries and sales & marketing efforts from our office and warehouse at Mobis Parts Europe in Lummen, Belgium

▪ Negotiated and executed buy-back of € 6 million of stock ▪ Set-up of new 3PL (transporter) and dealer direct delivery ▪ Distributor and Dealer training and implementation of new

software system for ordering, delivery and sales tracking

- 2009-2011: ID2U Card Solutions (Business Owner) 2007-2009: ScreenCheck North America (Sales & Marketing Manager)

▪ Lead a 300+ customer database (ex. United Nations, US Army, Scuba Schools International, etc.)

▪ The company specialized in Custom ID/Smart-card software solutions (loyalty, membership and security solutions)

▪ Customers in North America, Central America, Oceania and Europe

▪ Managed the Sales & Marketing department and was responsible over new B2B customer acquisition and project management

▪ In cohesion with our other departments we enabled our organization to grow from a $50,000 initial investment start-up to the sale of our company to Polaroid ID Systems for $5 million in 3 years

- Manheim’s Dallas Auto Auction (subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Fortune 500 company) 2004-2009 - Manager Dealer & Outside Sales

2003-2004 - Assistant Manager Marketing and Sales 2002-2003 - Corporate Management Trainee

▪ Responsible over new large accounts acquisition and negotiated annual contracts for customers like General Motors, Hyundai, DaimlerChrysler, Nissan-Infiniti, Wells Fargo, HSBC Bank, Hertz RAC, Enterprise RAC, etc.)

▪ Created and rolled out annual marketing action plans for our large key accounts

▪ Lead co-marketing budgeting negotiations and pricing strategies for customers’ products using analytical data

▪ Lead a 10 people Inside Sales Team that put these marketing plans into promotional campaigns

COLLEGE EDUCATION HISTORY:

2005-2007 Executive Master of Business Administration University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

2001-2002 Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing and Business Management (2 degrees) Northwood University – Cedar Hill, TX, USA

1999-2001 Associates in Business Administration - Marketing and Management

(also Belgian Student Council President) IVA-Driebergen University, Driebergen, the Netherlands

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

- Dutch: Fluent, English: Fluent, French: Basic

COMPUTER SKILLS:

- Proficient in using Microsoft Windows and Apple operating systems: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, IBM AS400 software and various online CRM solutions