Ellen Monique Pooters

My mission is to support and lead individuals & teams to realize their business development succes. To me, Business Development is an ART. Why? As apart from facts like business goals, product features & planning, Business Development is about business creativity, market vision & emotions. An ART, and hard work too. I like this challenge. It proofs the importance ánd difference true Business Development can make to the succes of any person & business. Ideas to team-up? Happy to connect: Xing / LinkedIn.

- The best of two worlds - In 2020 I resigned to travel, explore new fields. This experience inspired me to combine my new life ánd passion for business & customers. Not in a corporate setting like before, but as Business Development Consultant. Working with teams/ individuals on new markets/ concepts or strenghten existing markets. Love it! A happy start of this new episode in my career, living the best of two worlds. The freedom to travel/ explore ánd focus on projects related to business & customers.

- My customers & business are my passion - Yet, I decided to resign to free up time to travel, explore. This decision gave room for further personal development: my strenghts became more profound, my weaknesses clearer which resulted in a stronger me. My speciailities: 1. Building high trust relationships & nourishing my business, creating focus, opportunities for growth. 2. International sales, business development in existing & new technical markets 3. Business marketing & communication

Working for the Sappi Speciality Mills in Europe, I am responsible for Global & European key accounts in the pressure sensitive industry. Highly technical markets with an application focus. Focus to understand end users needs. And service directly or in a triangle, via commercial coaters. Enjoying to build win- win relationships with all major players in this industry and endusers. A dynamic, complex market focused on applications, technical know- how and service.

Start- up of European Headquarters of Océ Business Services. OBS offers document outsourcing services to top 500 ranking companies. Acting as change agent combining European strategy, synergy opportunities for local sales organisations and creating a customer value program. From 2012 in new Pan- European organisation adding Business Development to my role.

Acting as Business Development Manager, change agent and Account Manager in different roles. Developing with sales organisations a new market for Océ, the graphic arts market, the supplies business for all Océ markets in UK, F, ES, P, Scandinavia or initiating & implementing European partner program for the indirect channel. Distributing Océ equipment and supplies, technical substrates with special structures based on film, canvas, paper with self adhesive set up. In- and outdoor applications.

Building a new assortment for the graphic arts market with products, tooling and education. Finding, coaching pioneers in the European sales organisation to develop this new market for Océ. Building & sharing know- how and building trust to enter this new market.

Setting up the licensing team, selling artist properties in Europe. Our customers strengthen their sales of their products by applying market proven design from artists from the publishing division of Verkerke, Hallmark. Liaison between creative and producer of for example china ware and textiles.

Building and securing business with international accounts in pressure sensitive industry in Europe and Far East. As Sales Manager and later Business Team Manager managing a multi-disciplinary team and agents.