With a distinguished career spanning 20 years, I offer a wealth of experience in B2C/D2C , in the Consumer Health and in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sectors. Combining my technical education – MSc. in Global Production Engineering – with a classic MBA and having a deep experience in both, domains to merge strategy and innovation with operational excellence, offering a unique leadership style that fosters comprehensive management capabilities. 

Expert in navigating the complexities of technical and commercial aspects of business, ensuring seamless integration and organic growth globally. Having worked in both large corporations and agile smaller organizations including start-ups, I possess the versatility to adapt and lead in diverse business models. 

My leadership is characterized by a hands-on approach to managing end-to-end operations, from strategic planning to execution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market demands

Specialties:

✔️ Strategic Planning 
✔️ Operational Transformation and Operational Excellence
✔️ Full P&L Responsibility 
✔️ Product Portfolio Innovation & Brand Strategy
✔️ Change Management & Complex Project Management
✔️ Digitalization 
✔️ Globalization & New Market Entry 
✔️ Team Building / Talent Management
✔️ Start-Up & Investments Leadership
✔️ Executive Coaching & Mentoring 
✔️ Stakeholder Management

Eylem Samland

traceless materials

traceless materials is a circular bioeconomy scale-up, and we offer a novel solution to tackle plastic pollution: traceless® materials. Based on plant residues of the agricultural industry, traceless® is naturally compostable, climate-friendly, certified plastic-free and designed to for the biological cycle. Based in Hamburg, Germany, our growing female-founded team unites many disciplines and ten nationalities - all driven by our common vision: To help create a future free of pollution and waste!

Head of Marketing

AEB software supports the global trade and logistics processes of businesses in the industrial, commercial, and service sectors. More than 7,000 customers are using AEB solutions in 80 countries for shipping, transport and warehouse management, customs clearance, import and export management, sanctions list screening, and export controls. AEB’s portfolio extends from ready-to-go software products from the cloud to a tailored but highly adaptive logistics platform.

AEB has more than 600+ employees worldwide. The software company has its head office and on-site data centers in Germany and international offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the United States.

My task as Head of Strategic Marketing were:
- Responsible for the marketing strategy in the Customs division
- Development of the Go-To-Market strategy for the realignment of Customs 2030 in two market units (Tier 2 and Parcel)
- Campaign management for new target groups, new markets, new internal and external structures
- Customer journey and persona definition incl. validation through customer interviews
- Support for strategic partnerships

Head of Strategic Marketing

Mission Female

Member

CarbonStack

CarbonStack provides ecosystem data with environmental process mining for reforestation projects. My task as CMO in the early stage startup was to create the right awareness for a complex topic and to attract responsible companies that want to contribute to climate protection in Europe. Unfortunately, due to the difficult financing situation, we had to part ways after only a short time.

- Establishment and expansion of the brand of an early-stage startup in the field of green tech / climate tech
- PR and communication strategy, award applications and articles/TV
- Competitive analysis and business development
- Lead generation

shipcloud GmbH

As CMO of shipcloud, I helped develop the company from start-up to exit. Together with my team, I succeeded in building a leading brand in a new business area, developing the customer journey for our SaaS customers and providing sales with leads.

- Develop brand strategy and market presence for the start-up,
- PR and communication strategy for all channels: Web, social media, content marketing, lead generation, events.
- Establish customer segmentation and targeting,
- Establish business development for SaaS model,
- Integrate channel partners and do partner marketing together,
- Build marketing and customer service teams.

CTS Eventim AG

- Establish B2B marketing in a B2C ticketing company.

B2B Marketing

Intershop Communications

- Rebuild global marketing organization (15 employees),
- Be responsible for global budget (€2.4 million personnel and program costs),
- Lead Field Marketing organizations in EMEA, US and APAC in terms of content,
- Introduce marketing automation tools (Eloqua),
- Establish industry focused communication in web, PR, social and sales tools (9 industries in 4 months).

VP Corporate Marketing

- Lead marketing/lead gen teams (8 employees),
- Be responsible for budget for EMEA market,
- Manage integrated marketing campaigns for successful lead generation, customer and partner retention, product launch (in close coordination with Sales, Product Marketing and PR/Social Media),
- Establish consistent lead process, define SLAs with Sales,
- Familiarize US marketing team, support operational field marketing, Intershop Comm. Inc., San Francisco, 07/2012 - 09/2012

- Organize trade fairs, conferences, seminars and road shows from conception, through implementation and success control,
- develop refinancing models and partner cooperations,
- Manage event agencies and booth builders at home and abroad (500 sqm).

Team Manager Event Marketing

- Develop event strategy,
- Evaluate and organize international conference participation with keynotes and presentations to place C-level speakers and topics.

Event Manager, Intershop Communications AG

MITP und O'Reilly Verlag

- Direct marketing, press relations, online marketing.

Marketing

CMO / VP Marketing / B2B Marketing Expert / Marketing and Sustainability Enthusiast / Software / E-Commerce / Logistics / Impact / Green Tech

Nice to meet you! I'm Ivonne, an enthusiastic CMO and B2B marketing professional with proven experience in software/eCommerce 🧑‍💻, logistics 📯, impact/climate tech 🌳 and startups💡.

My profile - "Gets stuff done" 

Representative of modern marketing and better communication.
🌟Whether circular customer journeys (Saas) or,
🌟Linear Customer Journeys (B2B Lead Generation) incl. measurability,
🌟or brand building as well as internal and external communication.

Successful
🌟In flat hierarchies,
🌟With a high degree of independence,
🌟Even with limited budgets,
🌟In teams and across teams,
🌟Through good analysis and conception.

Leadership skills
🌟Passionate and empathetic,
🌟Goal-oriented,
🌟To the operational excellence of the team.

Awareness and experience with
🌟People and budgets,
🌟The vagaries of going from start-up to grown-up,
🌟The introduction of tools (marketing automation, CRM),
🌟The building of brands and effective marketing programs.

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