Jean Pierre Martin

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT JEAN PIERRE MARTIN

Motivated charismatic senior executive with over 20 years of experience architecting sales and operations in high growth business settings, with expertise in sales /marketing, business development, operations and P&L management. Providing and implementing strategies in a hands-on partnership and risk sharing spirit to startups and established companies facing growth challenges in Europe (Seed fundings, BP, Business Strategy, Partnership, network) Thrives in a commercial and visible leadership role. Talented at building consensus around critical decisions and innovative ideas. Visionary strategist who use his targeted market expertise and network to fuel sales and profit growth Long track record of sales and operations leadership in Consumer Electronics, IT, IoT, FMCG, Mobile and Telco environments Key achievements Started from scratch the Europe operation of an American company, to end managing a US$ 65MP & L delivering US$ 11,7M profit to share holders Hired as an independent interim French country manager was rapidly proposed managing the EMEA sales and marketing before being offered the role of Business unit VP and Managing Director Leader for multiple integration and optimization projects after merger Solid track record of managing US$850M turnover with over sales representative spread in a complex matrix organization over 22 countries. Led breakthrough project and manage to double the revenue in three years (+42% YoY revenue growth while market was performing at +11% the second year of the project) Managed and implemented European agreements with B2B (MediaMark, Dixons, Argos, Tesco, Metro, PPR group, Auchan, Carrefour, Casino, Leclerc) and B2C (Ingram, Techdata, Also ) market leaders. “Door opener and business facilitator” for senior oversea company executives willing to explore business partnership with European companies Helped a startup company to be valued +100M€ after two years and raise +25M€ fundings from a VCs