Luk
Sales & Marketing Director - Belgium - iCEO #23481

Experience

Highly successful and experienced senior manager. MD, commercial - and sales director in a number of European markets across a wide range of industry sectors. Significant B2B marketing and sales developer working directly and with agents and distributors. Good startup experience. Good strategist, warm and inspirational leader of teams.

Major Achievements

Turnaround : A polyethylene co-extruder producing PE foils/films for different applications. Held full P&L accountability and managed eight direct reports whilst overseeing a re-organisation and a new business plan. Major Achievements : - Helped reverse negative profitability in six months as co-Managing Director by implementing new procedures, setting up a new cost- and selling price system, and completely revising the market/product matrix and market approach. - Improved working capital situation by selling non-strategic inventory and drastically reducing the average collection period.

Industry Sector Competencies

Medical Equipment

Packaging

Automotive

Plastics

Manufacturing

Professional Objectives

Function: VP/Sales & Marketing

Sector: Plastics, packaging

Interim Manager: No

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time

Prefered Locations: Belgium

Countries Covered

Belgium

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Professional)

Business development (Expert)

New product or service launch (Expert)

Geographical expansion (Expert)

Company rescue or turnaround (Expert)

Close down or sell off (Professional)