Profile:
- I am a commercial leader with 15+ years of experience driving growth in military communication systems, radio-frequency and high-speed data connectivity, and air-conditioning/heat pump markets
- Proven track record in leading sales teams, managing ?10M?27M budgets, and winning strategic defence and industrial accounts (NVIDIA, Nokia, Thales, Rheinmetall, Airbus)
My experiences and skills:
- Connector & Defence Market Expertise
- Leading, organizing, and developing multicultural sales teams
- Market analysis and definition of the sales strategy
- Strategic key account management
- Development and management of product portfolios
- Development and management of marketing activities
- Efficient and adaptable work style - individually and in teams
- Good communicator with AI and media skills
Industries and Products:
- Connectivity & Defence Communication Systems Market Expertise
- Defence Communication Systems: APCOS, SAMMS, Submarine Antennas
- Radio Frequency Technology: Radar, Defence, Aerospace, Broadcasting
- Data Networking: Optoelectronic interfaces and connectors for high-speed data transmission e.g. pluggable form-factors SFP, OSFP, QSFP, flexible PCBs, high speed coaxial cable, SMT reflow, etc.
- Heat pumps, heating, ventilation, air conditioning
Management:
- Sales and Key Account Management EMEA
- Business Development: Market analyses and business cases
- Relationship Management of top customers including incentive trips
- Project Management: International rollouts of digital broadcasting
- Product Management: Defining the portfolio and co-shaping the R&D roadmap
- Leading nationwide sales campaigns
- Defining and managing sales channels
- Negotiation of contract closures, NDAs, supplier contracts
- Implementation of an AI-driven sales strategy
Personnel Management:
- Leading, organizing, and developing multicultural sales teams
- Coordinating globally distributed and competing sales managers in the USA, China, Japan, Italy, UK into a coordinated virtual sales team
- Training and coaching of reports and peers
- Integration of reports after extended illness
- Target agreement meetings and bonus agreements
- Recruitment and development of potential young executives
- Leading a team of specialists OSINT as military intelligence officer, Captain
Product Development:
- Intrapreneurial realization from scratch idea to product market launch
- Initiating development roadmap meetings with personal access to Japanese R&D adapting the roadmap to the European market
Marketing:
- Newsletter campaigns including composition of the newsletters
- Moderating several YouTube product videos
- Company presentations at trade fairs and online events
- Writing articles in trade and company magazines
- Defining catalog content
- Organizing participation in trade fairs
International Experience:
- Collaboration with colleagues and customers from USA, China, Japan, Israel, UAE, Argentina, South Africa, Northern, Western, and Eastern Europe
- Managing Accounts in: UAE, South Africa, Israel, Scandinavia, Finland, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, UK, Germany
Military service:
02/1999 ? 09/2020:
Role: Military Officer Career, Captain (ret.)
Customer: Swiss Armed Forces: Signal Corps and Military Intelligence Service
Tasks:
- Leading a microwave transm. platoon with 30 men, Lieutenant
- Leading an OSINT specialist team as Intelligence Officer, Captain