I’m a young professional with the ability to leverage multi-cultural environments. I have been involved in the international development of companies, helping them to find new business opportunities abroad, and developing a new market. This experience include business planning, sales, marketing research, and events and fair organization.
My experience includes supporting European companies to expand into the South American market (mainly Brazil), by growing direct exports and finding new potential partners and clients.
During these years, I have developed a extensive network of contacts and friends in various industries across the globe. In my professional life, I have been involved in industries such as international law, international relations, off-shore and on-line education (languages).
I graduated from the University of the West of England in the UK and and was selected to study at the University Troyes in France and at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the USA. This significantly improved my language skills and my knowledge of other markets and business culture. I have studied and worked in 6 countries (Brazil, UK, France, Spain, USA and The Netherlands).
Main strengths:
- International professional (with vast global experience)
- International Sales
- Business fairs and event management
- Market research
- Strong language skills (English, Portuguese, Spanish and French)
- Experience in developing markets (South America)
- New Business Development, Sales, Marketing, and Operations
- Commercial management/ new business development of international tradeshows in the BRIC countries
- Team Player as well as independently resourceful
- Result-driven
New Business Development Executive @ As the European leader in social business technology, inSided believes in empowering your customers in order to reduce costs, improve sales, develop better customer relationships and drive innovation.
The inSided Social Business Platform powers successful communities - attracting millions of visitors for companies like T-Mobile, KPN Group, Tele2, Volkswagen, Philips and Sundio Group.
The platform facilitates interaction between your company and its customers such as support questions, feedback and co-creation. It has helped our clients:
• Expand service capabilities and reduce existing service costs through call reduction
• Improve response times and increase customer satisfaction through quicker and better service
• Boost SEO and increase online sales
• Increase customer research, get customer insights and improve products/services
We are an experienced team with community building firmly rooted in our DNA. If you're interested in having an open chat or receive a business case with proven ROI about how communities can help your organisation for social support, marketing, commerce or insights please reach out to me at julio.sismanoglu@insided.nl or visit our website http://www.insided.com From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsBusiness to Business sale executive @ - Managing current portfolio of global clients and organising the on-boarding stages of students for existing clients as well as potential clients who's staff need language training solutions.
- Assistant team manager for Business Development Team
- Planning, implementing and brainstorming innovative solutions for product development and positioning
- Managing a global portfolio of students throughout the mYngle on-boarding process for B2B clients
- Coordinating daily tasks with our Education Department in Asia
- Collating detailed student reporting using various Excel, Office, and CRM databases
- Identifying companies’ needs for effective, customised and niche language learning solutions that can be adapted to their business model
- Market research
- New Business development
- CRM From February 2014 to August 2014 (7 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsInternational Sales Representative (South America) @ • Consulting Geomil to enter the South American market (marketing research, Logistics, legal procedures to start operations in Brazil and making contacts with potential clients as well as potential business partners.
• Sales and technical support
• Translation of promotion material and quotations
• Organization of international fairs and events in order to promote the Geomil name in new markets.
• Marketing research and business planning.
• Marketing and logistics From October 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 3 months) NetherlandsSales @ • Main function was to find new clients, assist existing clients.
• Translation of material from Portuguese to English and English.
• Support in all lawyers in preparing paper work and doing research.
• Keeping clients informed of the cases progress.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications From 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Rio de Janeiro Area, BrazilMarketing @ • Main roll creating date bases of general information of the 1000’s of customers
• Help finding costumers abroad, in countries such as USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Asia. From September 2007 to April 2008 (8 months) United Kingdomtrainee @ • Main function to assist the European and North American companies to get tax reduction for imported products to Brazil and to other countries in South America.
• Participated in various meetings of the WTO
• Gained knowledge about environmental laws and trade barriers in South America, North America and Europe. From 2008 to 2008 (less than a year) Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazilcustomer service sales support @ • Dealing with problems of costumers with their network and mobiles phones
• Selling value added services over the phone. From 2006 to 2006 (less than a year) Leeds, United Kingdom
International Business with Modern languages, International Business @ University of the West of England From 2006 to 2010 Marketing, European Studies @ ESC Troyes From 2009 to 2009 International Business management, Business Administration and Management, General @ Indiana University of Pennsylvania From 2008 to 2008 European studies, Cours de civilisation française @ Sorbonne From 2005 to 2006 Julio S. is skilled in: Spanish, French, English, International Relations, Marketing, Research, Microsoft Office, International..., Strategic Planning, Social Media, Sales, Teamwork, Policy Analysis, Customer Service, Business Planning, Negotiation, Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Non-profits, Editing, Market Research, International Business, Event Management, Online Marketing, Brazilian Portuguese, South America, New Business Development, Microsoft CRM, CRM, Account Management, Pricing, Educational Technology