German Tutorials

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia

Curriculum Vitae

Languages:

German, English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Dutch

Key Skills:

  • International market analyses, business development and strategic alliances.
  • Customer management, recruitment and motivation.
  • Excellent presentation, teaching and communication skills.
  • Mastering multi-task environments combined with strong organizational, logistical and creative abilities.
  • Strategic thinker with great attention to accuracy and detail; leadership qualities.
  • Enthusiastic learner and self-starter; easily adaptable to new assignments and environments.
  • Excellent budget management and allocation (2 Mio. US$).

Current Employment:

Self Employed (Canada) 03/2002 - present

Private German Tutor; Business IT Consultant

  • Preparing clients for international studies, research, visits and work in German speaking countries.
  • Providing IT consultancy and language training to local, national and international companies to penetrate the European Market.
  • Establishing a solid customer base, as well as a competitive product and company presence.
  • Offering inter-cultural communication and inter-cultural training to all clients in combination with IT consultancy or language training.
  • Managing company projects such as market research, marketing communications, customer service and business development.

Professional Experience/High-Tech Industry:

IBOT, INC. (Israel) 04/2001 - 08/2001

Director of Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Europe

  • Recruitment of strategic partners to enable combined product offering in Europe.
  • Manage high quality lead generation, and develop business plans.
  • Build up completely new customer base and penetrate new markets.
  • Partner, customer, trade-show visits abroad providing product presentation.
  • Revamping web site, developing sales and marketing collateral/presentations.
  • Identify European PR agency and European events for final product launch.
  • Manage research organisations and undertake research projects to gain competitive edge.

COMMTOUCH SOFTWARE LTD. (Israel) 08/2000 - 04/2001

Senior Marketing Manager, Europe

  • Manage and drive all identified marketing projects in liaison with European Sales, Business Development, PR, Corporate Communications.
  • Responsible for quarterly marketing plan and budget allocation per activity/per country.
  • Identify and implement strategic marketing projects; provide competitive analyses.
  • Manage specific channel marketing activities for appointed partners.
  • Write marketing documentation for various audiences; localize respective collateral (8 languages); manage external agencies and suppliers.
  • Supervise all activities of the Marcoms Manager for Europe, such as trade-shows, events, speaking opportunities, offline/online advertising, PR.
  • Work and manage independently without any supervision/European Management.

COMPAQ COMPUTER, GmbH (Germany) 03/1997 - 01/1999

Service Marketing Communications Manager, EMEA

  • Introducing a completely new role at Compaq Computer for EMEA.
  • Establishing the first ever Service Marketing Team and Service Marketing Tools (collateral, presentations) externally and internally for EMEA .
  • In charge of developing coherent service marketing branding, strategies, messages and service marketing material.
  • Close contact with Marcoms in U.S. to achieve global consistence.
  • Manage major market research projects (Gartner Group).
  • Develop yearly Service Marcoms plans for central and local implementation.
  • Handle large budgets (2 Mio. US $).

MADGE NETWORKS LTD. (UK) 06/1996 - 02/1997

Market Development Manager, Eastern Europe & Middle East

  • Responsible for the increase of company's market share and demand creation in terms of company and product awareness.
  • Manage and identify suitable channel partners abroad.
  • Liaison with sales in respective regional offices to meet customer needs.
  • Analyze, establish and maintain new business opportunities.
  • In charge of advertising, PR activities, exhibitions and product launches.
  • Arrange and organize reseller/end-user seminars, and product training.

INTEL CORPORATION LTD. (UK) 05/1995 - 06/1996

Channel Marketing Manager, EMEA

  • Responsible for designing, implementing and managing complex sales and marketing promotions for Intel's channel (branded products range).
  • Pre-campaign research to ensure optimal results.
  • Communicating new channel programs to product marketing, legal department, telemarketing and regional sales offices.
  • Localizing programs and documentation into 8 languages.
  • Visiting distributors and resellers regularly to ensure all their needs are covered; manage spiff-days and product training for channel partners.
  • Organizing pan-European sales conferences to provide the channel with product training and updates on channel marketing programs.

INTEL CORPORATION LTD. (Israel) 03/1994 - 04/1995

Sales Manager, Europe

  • Recruiting own customer base, thereby establishing German, French and Eastern European market.
  • Responsible for growth of respective unique software product (application management tool).
  • Management and support of appointed distributors and corporate accounts.
  • Selling and promoting software product either via tele-sales (cold calls), direct visits of distributors, end-user accounts or international trade show participation.
  • Transferring to the UK office as the result of a promotion.

RAD DATA COMMUNICATIONS LTD. (Israel) 09/1993 - 03/1994

Marketing Executive, International

  • Supporting world-wide growth of wide range of hardware products.
  • Assisting in the establishment of new subsidiary in Hong Kong.
  • Managing and supporting appointed distributors worldwide.
  • Providing channel with technical support, new product releases and product updates.
  • Liaison with product marketing, marketing communication and technical unit for product updates, pricing and marketing material.
 
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