Simera Professional Key (SPK)

Ian A

Spain

Business Development Director

10+ yrs exp

Skills

  • Account Management
  • Business Development
  • HR Negotiation
  • identity management
  • Negotiation
  • New Business Development
  • Resource Management
  • Sales
  • Talent Management
  • Key Account Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Product Demonstrations
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Team Supervision
  • responsible
  • Client Management
  • responsable
  • Negociation
  • Business Development Rep
  • Lean management
  • community managment
  • Client Engagement
  • Human Resources Management
  • Negotiations
  • Sustainable Resource Management

Ian A

Spain

Business Development Director

10+ yrs exp

Skills

  • Account Management
  • Business Development
  • HR Negotiation
  • identity management
  • Negotiation
  • New Business Development
  • Resource Management
  • Sales
  • Talent Management
  • Key Account Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Product Demonstrations
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Team Supervision
  • responsible
  • Client Management
  • responsable
  • Negociation
  • Business Development Rep
  • Lean management
  • community managment
  • Client Engagement
  • Human Resources Management
  • Negotiations
  • Sustainable Resource Management

Business Development Director

Cleveron
November 2024 - July 2025

Responsible for new business development across Spain & Portugal. Account management with P&L responsibility across all key accounts (Inditex, Tendam, Leroy Merlin, H&M, Ikea). Local marketing initiatives (content, social media, email, events).

Senior Sales Executive

Sisqual WFM
July 2024 - October 2024

Responsible for business development across Spain, focussing on large retail & manufacturing accounts. Responsible for product demonstrations & response to RFPs & RFIs. Responsible for local marketing initiatives, including webinars, trade shows, conferences.

Senior Account Manager

Zebra Technologies
September 2022 - January 2024

Account management responsibilities across all major manufacturing customers in Spain: account planning, order management, pricing, promotions & business development management. Cross-functional responsibilities liaising with channel and distribution management, sales engineering, marketing, finance as well as supply chain to ensure optimal customer service and support. Responsible for supervising and supporting smaller sized accounts managed by a junior account manager.

Senior Presales Solutions Consultant

Zebra Technologies
April 2021 - September 2022

Presales software solution consultant in Reflexis task, workforce management and Zebra prescriptive analytics responsible for technical software demonstrations to prospective clients across Europe, Middle East & Africa. Facilitated workshops to address organisational issues and propose detailed solution designs. Ownership over requests for information and proposals across software portfolio in the region. Supported channel development strategy (ecosystem) in the region. Responsible for internal sales and external partner enablement across the region. Responsible for product gap analysis and product improvement roadmap release prioritisation in the region.

Senior Software Implementation Consultant

Simms & Associates
January 2020 - April 2021

Senior implementation consultant in Kronos Workforce Management software solutions. Responsible for configuration and testing of Kronos software based on customer requirements. Involved in large scale software deployments for manufacturing & retail customers across EMEA.

Senior Software Presales Director

dunnhumby Spain
August 2018 - December 2019

Presales director responsible for successful execution of software solutions demonstrations and proof of concepts. Managed implementation team and facilitated workshops at customer sites to ensure successful deployment and integration of proof of concepts for further roll out. Supported all requests for proposals & information from potential retail clients in Spain.

Senior Solutions Consultant

El Corte Ingles Group
February 2018 - July 2018

Project director in charge of standardising & automating customer data into actionable insights reports for all commercial areas of the business (buying, marketing & sales) to develop and facilitate a new strategic customer-centric decision-making model in retail. Project lead for commercialising customer data reports for strategic partners (suppliers), developing value proposition and tools, and negotiating fees with suppliers.

Senior Client Manager (Tesco UK)

dunnhumby UK
March 2017 - January 2018

Client manager responsible for insight solutions to client (Tesco suppliers) issues through accurate, creative & actionable shopper insights utilising Tesco club card shopper data. Presented actionable strategic business plans delivering value to both supplier & Tesco. Delivered seamless and proactive service working with data science experts cross-functionally to deliver unique value using all dunnhumby science & capabilities.

Global Data Analyst, Global Sales

Reckitt Benckiser
June 2015 - January 2017

Developed and maintained Global Go to Market analytical framework by market using internal and external data detailing country/region macroeconomics & company performance. Analytical lead on all Go to Market projects. Led analytical team supervising global vision store programme in strategic power markets tracking 4 P strategy executions in stores with retail partners and distributors. Responsible for all sales & KPI analysis & global reporting tools using complex Anaplan models.

National Account Executive

Carlsberg UK
July 2014 - April 2015

Sales account executive of national wholesale accounts with profit and loss responsibility circa £12.5m. Negotiated and executed Joint Business Plans, Brand and Promotional plans across all accounts.