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Frédéric PLASSON

GRENOBLE

En résumé

Gained seniority through 9 years of sales activities.
Passionate in sharing and transferring knowledge and competencies by coaching internally, as well as our partner ecosystem (EUC sales metholodgies) and privately (personal development).

Experienced sales achiever with four languages: German and French native speaker, English fluent, Polish good. Interaction oriented solution provider, Demand Generation top achiever and coach, excellent in building relations with resellers, distributors, customers in all sales stages. CRM tools. Customer aqcuisition and portfolio and account management. Achieving and overachieving targets.

Specialties: Sales coaching, IT Sales in End User Computing, Desktop and Workspace Virtualization.
Languages, multiculturalism.

Mes compétences :
Communication
EFFICIENCY
Environment
Flexible
Microsoft Project
results driven
Team work

Entreprises

  • VMware - End User Computing Business Specialist, Germany - Munich, Germany

    GRENOBLE 2015 - maintenant - Partner Sales Enablements inside the EUC ELITE PARTNER Programm together with Partner Programme Management and Partner Business Managers
    •Cooperation in Partner Business Plan and EUC strategy settings
    •Developing partner individual training plans
    •Reseller Demand Generation, planning, follow up
    - Responsible for the General Business EUC Pipeline
    •Growth through Demand Generation, Lead qualification and conversion, partner project registration conversion
    •weekly progress monitoring, opportunity validation checks and qualification
    •Point of contact for EUC knowledge queries for German Sales teams on EUC licensing, solution
  • VMware - Inside End User Computing Business Specialist CEMEA, Cork, Irlande

    GRENOBLE 2013 - 2015 •EUC DACH Demand Generation concepts and management: create own and follow up on team’s activities to contribute to net new EUC revenue and pipeline in DACH
    •Tech-sales enablements for iPBMs, reseller, distributors and led development teams to leverage EUC activities’ impact
    •Key Account negotiation, relationship building and coordination with VMware teams
    •EUC CEMEA lead management, reporting and process optimizations
    •EUC DACH Pipeline : weekly progress monitoring, opportunity validation checks and qualification
    •First point of contact for EUC knowledge queries for CEMEA inside Sales team. Creation of knowledge bases on VMware’s socialcast, on share drive, in own blogs
    •Interdepartemental cooperation with System Engineer teams, the Business Unit, Lead Development etc. for added value in daily inside Sales and EUC Field teams activities
  • VMware International Ltd, Cork, Ireland - Inside Partner Business Manager Swiss Market

    2010 - 2013 06.2010 - 01.2012: Inside Sales Representative Swiss Market

    REFERENCE: Christian Nink, Inside Sales Manager ALPS, VMware Intl, Cork, Ireland
    cnink@VMware.com

    •Measured on: 2010: 8 Territories for Large Enterprise, Focus, Territory and Public Accounts
    Since 01.2011: T4, SMBs for German and French speaking customers

    • Account Planning and Management, Opportunity Identification through BANT and ERIC Models, Design of Incremental Business Initiatives, Future Quarters Pipeline Build-Up

    •Coordination of Customer (C-Level Executives e.g.) and Field Teams (Service Engineers, Account Managers) Contacts and Meetings, Customer Satisfaction Solution Finding

    •Channel Sales Opportunity Coordination on Virtualization Solutions for Server Consolidation, Desktop and Disaster Recovery

    •Monitoring and Accuracy of Opportunity Pipeline

    •Quoting, Licensing, Coordination of Customer and Lic./Quoting Teams Contacts

    Achievements 2010H02: 148%. 2011H01: 135%

    Qualifications: VSP 4 and 5– VMware Sales Professional
    VTSP4 – VMware Technical Sales Professional
  • IBM.com Dublin, Ireland - Inside Sales Specialist Swiss Market for Maintenance

    2008 - 2010 REFERENCE:
    Heike Stoll, GTS Inside Sales Manager IMT Alps, ibm.com Sales Centre, Dublin
    Office: +353 1 8812033, Heike_Stoll@ie.ibm.com

    •Since 01.2010: Loyalty Management for Maintenance Switzerland: Identification of Sales Potential within Non Maintained IBM Infrastructure. Analyse of Inventories, Enhancement of the Loyalty Rate by Inventory Cleaning and Sales Reactions.
    Result Since Start: Elimination of 1,8 % Negative Impact (82,6 to 84,4 %). Target 2010: 95%+

    • Maintenance Swiss Market: sales of Hard- and Software Maintenance Solutions to all German and French Speaking Customers. Warranty Exits, Renewals, Opportunity Identifying

    •Focal Point for “Data Quality”, Monitoring the Quality of the Swiss GTS Team in CRM Siebel
    Result 2009: 117% overachievement
  • Deutsche Vermögensberatung - Cadre

    New York 2005 - 2008 Free Lance Financial Advisor for Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG, Frankfurt

    •Key Account Management, Clients and Portfolio Development

    •Mainly cold customer acquisition, following own marketing or company’s leads

    •Total number of customer acquired: 230
  • Beatz Incorporated, Cracow, Poland - Event Management

    2003 - 2005 •Management of Commercial Projects for Corporate, Institutional and Private Clients
    •Elaborating PR, Marketing, Sponsoring Solutions and Business Plans. Monitoring Clients Satisfaction, Media and Sponsoring Partners
    •Team Coordination: Artists, Technicians, Secretary, Accounting, Security etc.
    •Acquisition and Management of Sponsoring and Partner Funds

    23 Events. Turnover: 18k € // Sponsoring: Total 24k € // Media-Plans: 180k € (TV, Radio, Press)
    Website: 850k Visitors Monthly
    Clients: Sheraton Hotel Cracow, University of Cracow, Philipp Morris Polska, Carlsberg, etc.
  • The Jagiellonian University, Faculty for European Studies, Cracow, Poland - Lecturer of Robert Bosch Foundation

    2001 - 2003 •Conversation Classes in German and French Language on European Integration Questions and the Polish EU-Integration Negotiation strategies

    •Goethe Institut, Cracow: German conversation classes on socio-political questions and Poland’s international relations

    •Private coaching of European Union Concours candidates
  • The Villa Decius Association, Cracow, Poland - Project Coordinator of the International Conferences Cycle

    2001 - 2003 Project Coordinator of the International Conferences Cycle „The Weimar Triangle in the New Europe: Models of East-West Co-Operation” for the Promotion of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration

    •Initiation of the Concept and Global Management of the Project, Team and budget
    •Selection and Monitoring of Participants, Production of Calls for Papers, Acquisition of Sponsors
    •Networking of Potential Co-Operation Partners, with a Special Focus on Future Decision Makers

    •Press and Internet Publication of the Conferences’ Results

    Total Budget 55 k € – Printed Publication: 2000 books
    175 VIPs, Politicians, Parliamentarians, Journalists, Students from Germany, France and Poland

Formations

  • Université Strasbourg 3 Robert Schuman

    Strasbourg 2001 - 2002 Masters in Germanistics at Centre for high European Studies

    Geopolitical and Intercultural Studies in German Speaking Countries

    2001: Practical Training at the French Embassy in Vienna, Cultural Department.
    Master Thesis: “The Ten Years of the Weimar Triangle - Conclusions and Perspectives”, Defended with and Published Organisation.
  • Université Strasbourg 2 Marc Bloch

    Strasbourg 1995 - 1999 B.A. in Germanistics

    BA Thesis: “Interactions of American Secretaries of State, of War and of Finances as factors of Influence on the US Germany Policy 1943 – 1947”. Grade: Very Good (French: “Mention Très bien”)
  • Lycée International Des Pontonniers

    Strasbourg 1990 - 1994 International Baccalaureate OIB with German and French

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