Elin Yri

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ELIN YRI

I’m a result oriented, enthusiastic person who has 30 years of experience from solution selling, product management and customer development, 25 of the years in the IT field.This has given me a broad experience and significant knowledge about the Norwegian market. Throughout these years, I’ve had the pleasure to build a broad network of relationships among chains, telco’s, resellers, distributors and partners – ranging from sales representatives to top management. The last’s years interesting convergence between telecom and traditional data network, has given me an experience around Unified Communications Solutions as well solution selling in SD WAN, WAN, Managed LAN solutions and data security perspective in large Accounts in Norway. I have the last 9 years worked with the largest public customers in Norway, and are working with both the BID process, negotiations, over to contract and project start, before ordinary operational phase continues. So I serve and help the customers, through their full contract period with developing the customer according to their new needs for stabile and secure solutions.I also get the chance to have insight in new trends in the market, and it has given me a lot of new interesting perspective to end users and to partners. I’m combining the hunter role with the farmer’s patience role. This means I’m good at both short term relations ships, to get a deal/sale closed, and see new possibilities, but also know and enjoys the long term relationships for strategic, operational and tactical reasons. I really fancy the development and changes in our industry, this forces me to always stay on top, be alert and ready for new challenges.My personal goal is to do my very best every day, and at the same time balance my life to have fun and enjoy it! The Job in Jabra also gave me the chance to work with strategic partners in the Nordics. In 2012 the IT-resellers voted Jabra as the vendor of the year in Norway. As the Sales Manager for Jabra in Norway at this time, and also the only employed in Norway at that time, it showed that combining strategic work, with dedicated market insight and a great products and solutions are a winning strategy.