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Dirk De Smedt

Business Development and Account Management

€750/day
Brussel, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Dirk

• Extensive experience in sales, Solution and Consultative Selling of professional services, technology-based solutions, MES/MOM, Industrial ICT infrastructure, cloud solutions, asset management solutions, solutions for the healthcare sector, Factory Automation, Building & Infrastructure, Industry & Manufacturing
• Distribution of Industrial ICT solutions
• Sectors: sold in almost all sectors and verticals
• Sales-oriented with extensive knowledge of Business Development, approaching new markets
• Results and customer-oriented, creative thinking with commercial insight, networking and entrepreneurship
• Social and integer
• Entrepreneurial approach, investigative and working with/coaching team
• Agency for Scarlet, currently Proximus and KPN, currently Orange for over 12 years. Including fix, mobile and internet connectivity, hosting and housing, data center solutions, MPLS multi-site solutions.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Dutch

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Brussel (up to 50km)

Experience

  • SALES Belgium
    Business Development and Account Management
    E-COMMERCE
    January 2024 - January 2026 (2 years)
    Belgium
    Several activities. Short sales assignments, business and sales processes, assignment in the social sector around profitability and its reorientation. Apply different perspectives and view to strategic and operational business challenges.
    • Interim sales for various organizations in need of sales force
    • Interim sales assignment WEngage, Action, BPost,
    Account Management Business Development Solution Selling Team Management Business plan
  • Koning & Hartman
    Business Development Manager
    January 2022 - January 2024 (2 years)
    Belux, Tbilisi, Georgia
    • Business plan, market focus definition
    • Distribution and also direct sales to end customers
    • Building & Infrastructure, Industry & Manufacturing, distribution of high quality components for Factory Automation, Smart Buildings solutions, Microsoft IoT reseller
    • Complex production processes: collect, analyze and visualize data via BI tools
    • Special verticals: Healthcare/Medical, Rail/Transport, Professional Services
    • Focus on Business plan definition, deployments in Europe (project Creonis)
    • Complex production processes. Suitable for all 'batch & fill' processes. Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
    • Various industries, including food (beer, water and soft drinks, nutrition, industrial bakeries, etc.), pharma and hospitals, other comparable business and production processes.
  • NextSales
    Business Development Manager
    January 2018 - January 2021 (3 years)
    Brussels, Belgium
    • Sales of software for Asset Management, ITSM, Knowledge Management, Big Data Analytics.
    • Start-up of Belgian activities
    • Business Development
    • Enterprise market, national and international entities.

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Education

  • Postgraduate Business Economics,
    HUB - VLEKHO
    1993
    Postgraduate Business Economics,
  • Professional Bachelor Electromechanics option Business automation, micro electronics,
    KAHO Sint-Lieven
    1992
    Professional Bachelor Electromechanics option Business automation, micro electronics,

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