Martijn Venema

Built a network of Solarlux dealers in the UK & Ireland, whilst securing the no. 1 position of Solarlux amongst architects and specifiers. Re-aligned the UK&I organisation to a successful, knowledgable and higly motivated team. Delivered double-digit Year on Year sales growth for the fourth succesive year.

Responsible for Business Planning, Customer Experience, Market Research, Marketing Reporting, E-Commerce, managing the inhouse Design Studio and Special Projects. Design and implementation of an improved Employee and Customer Experience in UK. Based in Leeds, UK, 7 direct reports

Group Project Manager for improving Customer and Employee Experience in UK, Holland, Belgium and France. Introducing Net Promotor Score across these countries and launched a Balanced Scorecard in every country. Co-ordinating of Customer and Employee Experience research and touchpoint mapping. Based in Uithoorn, NL with frequent travel abroad

Building common assortments in Goods for ReSale across NL, UK, BE and FR. Launched Own Label range of products in PL, CZ, HU, increasing sales with 600k euro after 1 year. Sharing of best demonstrated practices and suppliers across countries, resulting in cost savings of 6M euro cumulative over 3 years. Based in Uithoorn, NL, with frequent travel abroad

Responsable for purchasing & procurement. Launched an own brand in Goods for Resale, resulting in a 10% increase of Gross Margin over the category. Realised a 5% annual cost reduction on Goods for Resale. SAP superuser & responsable for Master data. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 direct report.

Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Customer Experience

Innovation Management