Senior Product Marketing Manager / Program Manager

Location: Edegem, Belgium

Objective
Senior Product Marketing Manager/Program Manager function within a sales & marketing environment.
Responsible for a team of experts coordinating national & international projects.
Medium to large multinational company active in Telecommunications or Energy.

Skills & Expertise
Trilingual manager with 11-year experience in Telecommunications at national & international level.
Expertise in project & portfolio management, customer relationships and product marketing.
Open to change and innovation, fast learner and communicative.
Team player, coordinator, analytical and organized, result oriented.

Age:

38 years

Work experience

11 years in employment in full time jobs

3 years in employment in student jobs

Previous jobs

2008 - 2009	Program Manager Benelux
Main responsibilities Lead introduction, implementation and optimization of new Go-to-Market (GTM) working process in Benelux Ensure and drive GTM program scoping, feasibility, effective implementation and follow up Work closely with the respective cluster and sales unit GTM leads throughout all the GTM program milestones (from global to local implementation) Project managing a cross-functional team (Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Care, ... / Average of 8-10 members) Major achievements Quickly and efficiently introduced a new way of working (GTM) within Benelux sales unit Repositioned company from a product-driven to a solution-driven organization Successfully launched multiple solutions (eg: Mobile TV, exceeding yearly sales targets in just 2 months)
2004 - 2007	Senior Product Marketing Manager Benelux
Main responsibilities Driving the marketing mix for Enterprise product & service portfolio (Mobility solutions) Define, design and implement local strategy as a member of local management team Lead development and implementation of a new working process for APAC market (Special project, based in Singapore, June - August 2007) Major achievements Efficiently executed local strategy , resulting in profitability of Enterprise BU Achieved and maintained strong market share record in a highly competitive market Successfully implemented a new working process in APAC (Special project Singapore)
2000 - 2003	Business Development Manager Benelux
Main responsibilities Define and develop new business opportunities Drive commercial technology marketing activities (Launch GPRS, MMS, UMTS, ...) Manage, support and motivate local developers' activities Full responsibility of newly created Business Applications BU (BABU) Major achievements Successfully implemented new technologies and introduction of new services Set-up a highly qualitative developer community Complete development & implementation of BABU, setting the scene for the mobile enterprise/B2B market
1999 - 2000	Indirect Sales Manager
Main responsibilities Build indirect sales organization & channels, incl. personnel recruitment resulting in a 6-person's team Responsible for strategy, marketing plans & budget and sales figures Prospect, sign, manage, support and coach network of distributors and retailers Major achievements Set-up and managed new indirect sales team and indirect sales channels, resulting in achieving all set targets in due time
1998 - 1999	Account Manager
Main responsibilities Full management of customer portfolio (prospecting, planning, reporting, ...) Establish Versatel (and its solutions) within the newly liberalized telecom market Major achievements Effectively positioned company and its solution portfolio

Education

2002 - 2003	Marketing Management
1993 - 1997	Licentiaat in de Bestuurskunde

Skills

Skill	Experience	Level	Last used
Product Management	6 years professional 1 years educational	5 of 5	2009
Program Management	3 years professional 1 years educational	4 of 5	2009

1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

Language Skills

Language	Oral	Written
Dutch (First language)	5 of 5	5 of 5
English	4 of 5	4 of 5
French	4 of 5	4 of 5

Job Type wishes

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Full time

Job Category wishes

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Product Management
Sales & Marketing
- Marketing - Offline
- Marketing - Online

Job Location wishes

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Europe
- Belgium
  - Antwerp
  - Brussels
  - Limburg
  - East-Flanders
  - Brabant-Flemish
  - Brabant-Walloon
South East Asia

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