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Oktay Özen

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About Oktay

As an experienced Sales Leader, I offer interim sales management, sales training and consulting, as well as coaching for fast-growing companies.

Together, we create the inspiring environment your sales team needs to achieve its goals.

Sales Training & Coaching:
  • Training, coaching, and mentoring of sales and business development teams
  • Best practices for customer acquisition, cold outreach, email & demos
  • Developing sales leadership: growth mindset, time management, resilience training

Sales Go-To-Market:
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Development and reporting of sales KPIs
  • Lead generation
  • Implementation of CRM and outbound tools
  • Creation of highly effective B2B outbound emails and LinkedIn campaigns

Interim Management:
  • Mentor and leader of the sales team
  • Sparring partner for founders and management
  • Hiring new talent that fits the company & team
  • Optimization of sales processes

Outcome:
  • Increase in conversion rate from MQL to won business
  • Increase employee NPS (eNPS)
  • Development of high potentials
  • Talent retention through lower employee turnover
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • Turkish

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Oktay Özen Coaching & Sales Consulting
    Personal & Business Coach & Sales Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2019 - Today (6 years and 9 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    - PERSONAL, BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP COACHING
    - HOLISTIC-SYSTEMIC PERSONAL & BUSINESS COACH (PCC-LEVEL 2 according to the ICF)
    - Certified REISS MOTIVATION PROFILE® (RMP) MASTER
    RMP is a scientifically sound personality test based on 128 questions that offers more clarity, insight, orientation and awareness for a successful private and professional life.
    • It looks at your values, predictable behavior, and your motivational drivers.

    - Breath Coach:
    for enhanced stress management, focus, concentration, improved sleep quality, fitness & overall well-being.

    - SALES CONSULTING:
    • Training, Coaching, Mentoring & Enablement for BDRs/SDRs, Account/Sales Executives:
    • > Prospecting
    • > Inbound/Outbound Calls
    • > Email / LinkedIn campaigns
    • > Social Selling workshops
    • > Effective Demos

    - SALES LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
    • > Growth mindset, time management, resilience training
    • Sales & Business Development Strategy Implementation & Execution for B2B / B2C
    • Go-To-Market strategies
    • Implementation of sales (automation) tools and CRMs, like Hubspot, Pipedrive, Zoho, hubsell.com
    • Hiring new talent that fits the company & team
    • Optimization of sales processes

    SOME OF MY FORMER CLIENTS INCLUDE:
    • BCG Digital Ventures & Tenera (Construction Tec)
    • Contentoo (Content Creation Platform)
    • Likeminded (Mental Health)
    • Ninox Software (Low-Code / No-Code Software)
    • Otovo Germany (Solar)
    • Planetly (Sustainability)
    • Sharpist (Coaching / L&D)
    • Sales Automation Labs (Outbound Sales Agency)
    • Sharpist
  • Sharpist
    Business / Leadership Coach
    INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
    December 2022 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Business & Leadership Coach for the Sharpist Spark Program.
    In this leadership development role, I work with individuals, founders and aspiring leaders in fast-growing companies.

    Topics that I work on regularly are:

    - Get to know your personality, strengths, values, and motivational drivers

    - Gain more satisfaction and confidence in job and life

    - Achieve your goals more efficiently and consistently

    - Develop a more empathetic and compassionate leadership style

    - Co-work more easily and productively with your team

    - Communicate more effectively and in a non-violent way

    - Achieve mental and physical strength through healthy and sustainable routines and habits

    - Make decisions from a calm emotional state

    - Let go of convictions and beliefs
  • Sharpist
    Interim Teamlead Business Development
    INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
    April 2022 - November 2023 (1 year and 8 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Responsibilities + achievements:
    - Direct report to CEO & Co-Founder team + member of Revenue Leadership team
    - Leading 10 BDRs + 1 Co-Lead
    - Creation of company-relevant KPIs and quarterly team OKRs
    - Increase of opportunities by 100% compared to start of project
    - Bringing the eNPS team score from the lowest to the highest score within the whole company
    - Weekly performance 1:1s with team members
    - Creation of outbound sales email campaigns targeting C-Level from different industries
    - Hiring interviews, decisions and onboarding of new BDRs in collaboration with HR + introducing new salary bands + bonus structure
    - Execution of weekly learning sessions to improve product knowledge, incl. email conversion + call improvement hacks + Social Selling trainings

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Education

  • Master of Laws
    University of Applied Sciences
    2014
    Master of Laws (LL.M.), Media Law and Media Management
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
    University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
    2011
    Schwerpunkt Produktion & Handel

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