Marketing, Product, Innovation & Transformation Strategy Expert
Experience
Expertise in marketing, customer experience, product innovation and sustainability strategy. Leading business transformations with valuable and measurable impact. Forming an operating mechanism with purpose driven teams, delivering the action plan.
Preferred Engagement Focus
Creating an objective linked to corporte strategy, forming up teams with key roles and responsibilities, creating a plan with KPIs and delivering the actions.
25+ years experience, ex Colgate / Goodyear / Bekaert / Ingersoll Rand / BekaertDeslee
Location: Belgium
Reference: BDETA
Leadership Skills
Industry Expertise
Core Competencies
Geo Experience
Professional Experience (examples)
Consultancy and project management on sustainability / customer / marketing / brand / product / sales / innovation strategy, business transformation and change management, product / portfolio management, forming high-performing marketing and commercial teams
Preparing the product and marketing teams for the integration of two companies
Lead the preparation of a Customer excellence program for an FMCG
Define and lead a request-for-proposal for a CRM integration of a family-owned company
Set up the marketing and customer strategy for a non-profit organization
Founding member and Council Director for the Customer Experience Council at The Conference Board
Business Development
(Consulting, Sales, Marketing)
Business Innovation &
Transformation
Strategy &
Operations
Management &
Leadership
Management of Marketing, Innovation, Sustainability teams to contribute to corporate strategy and growth targets
Redesign marketing, product, and innovation teams to be in the driving seats of the organization
Create insights in the value chain through tools and methodologies such as CRM / data analytics / pricing apps and redesign the customer journeys to build up distinctive offerings in the market, work across levers such as key account plans, customer & market segmentation, growth, channel mapping and resource allocation, assess and implement digital opportunities
Set a global Customer Excellence team with new roles and responsibilities consisting of change agents, subject matter experts and analysts, build up capabilities and implement new ways of working, gradually transforming the company from a manufacturing to a commercial mindset
Define the innovation road map and lead product creation process
Senior Leadership / Executive Committee Roles
EMEA Marketing Director at Goodyear, Vice President at Ingersoll Rand, Senior Vice President & CMO at Bekaert, Executive Vice President & CMO at BekaertDeslee
B2B Customer Excellence, Marketing and Product Strategy Leadership
Forming an ecosystem and alliance between different functions and teams
Support to Commercial teams
Lead Customer Experience Council at the Conference Board
Consultant in an executive search firm
Several webinars / key-note speaker engagements
Product / Innovation / Sustainability / Customer Excellence Strategy lead
Translate corporate strategy into actionable commercial plans, driving value creation and growth
Design the sustainability roadmap with focus on materiality topics; innovation, climate and circularity linking it to the corporate strategy with business growth targets
Marketing, sales, digital, innovation, pricing and channel strategy development, through in-depth insights
Contribute to designing the vision of a new formed spin-off company defining investment / growth opportunities for various products & customer segments
Define long-term product strategy in coordination with several countries in EMEA region
Engagement
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Europe, North America
Advisor / Program Lead / Manager
Remote
Full Time / Fractional Executive
English, Turkish
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