
Martijn Meurisse
Senior Account Manager
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Brussels, Belgium
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
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About me
Intro
MBA candidate & business consultant with 15+ years in sales and leadership across tech and finance sectors. Co-founded medical consultancy firm and led teams up to 14 members, securing multi-year public contracts. Specialized in strategic partnerships, stakeholder management, and crisis leadership with proven revenue growth expertise.
Work experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Lahema BV.
Sep 2023 - Present
3 years 2 months
Hybrid
Lahema BV delivers medical consultancy to laboratory. In close collaboration with our Clinical Biologist, I take care of the business side, like setting up the company, General Management, Finance, sales strategy, contract negotiations and procurement.
Brandweerzone Vlaams-Brabant WEST
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
1840 Londerzeel, Belgium
Voluntary Firefighter
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
1840 Londerzeel, Belgium
Being a firefighter has increased more skills than I could have imagined at the start: * Teamwork: While on a mission, being able to rely on your teammates, and to trust that everyone in the team knows exactly what to do and when to do it, is essential to bringing the intervention to a desirable ending. * Stress resistance: It taught me to stay calm in crisis situations. It also helps to put daily issues in perspective to manage stress. * Take action: Showing up for duty and taking action when others don't. * Decision making: Decision making without hesitations, based on experience and extensive training of course, but being agile in execution is imperative. Beyond these transferable skills, it allowed me to overcome a fear of heights when working on an altitude of 30m on a ladder. Being a firefighter brings me pride, a sense of making a difference in society and joy of actually helping people in time of need.
Business Consultant
May 2025 - Jul 2025
3 months
Liedekerke, Belgium
As part of our MBA, we run a project at Brandweerzone Vlaams-Brabant West to support the HR department in developing a strategy and roadmap to improve diversity and inclusion among the workforce. Doing so, we also try to develop community engagement initiatives.
MBA Candidate
Vlerick Business School
Sep 2024 - Jul 2025
11 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area · On-site
During the general Master in Business Administration program, we got up to speed on key business administration topics such as: * In-Company-Project: At Brandweerzone Vlaams-Brabant West we will develop a Diversity and local community engagement track. DEI and stakeholder management, in a project that will literally have the potential to save lives. * Corporate Finance: a CFO helicopter view of the company: Ins and outs of corporate finance reports (Balance sheet, year report, P&L, Cashflow statement,..) * Crisis Management & Corporate Restructuring: How to turn a company in distress around. * Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial Buy-in or Buy-outs. Creating a startup or managerial buy-ins, all angels to owning your company. * Financial & Managerial Accounting: Double entry-accounting. Being able to calculate project costs and forecasts, set & track specific KPI's * Public speaking: How deliver great presentations, both in small groups as for large audience * Strategy: Strategy Analysis - Strategy Implementation and Sustainability Management * Change Management: How to implement changes and keep everyone on board & How to drive change projects to improve company culture. * Stakeholder Management * HR Management: People and Culture: Frameworks how to manage an organization's most valuable resource: the people * Diversion and inclusion: How a diverse workforce benefits the whole organisations performance * Digital Strategy: Create and optimize your digital strategy in line with overall company strategy * Innovation Management * Leadership * Marketing Management: Different look at Marketing, and value creating commercial strategies * Networking: How to, and how to leverage it * Negotiation to Create Value & The leader as negotiator. Specialized in negotiation techniques to improve negotiation outcomes for both parties. * Problem Solving Skills - Framework to approach and solve complex problems as business consultants.
Senior Account Manager
BNP Paribas 3 Step IT
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 5 months
1082 Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium
BNP Paribas 3Step IT, specialist in renting solutions with circularity at the core of it's proposition, was a startup business unit when I joined. In close collaboration with the Country Manager, I helped shape the Sales strategy (direct and channel) at BNP Paribas 3Step IT, a joint venture of BNP Paribas Leasing solutions. As senior Account Manager I developed my customer portfolio by actively prospection (cold calling, networking events,...), and building relations with key partners and internal stakeholders. Won a public tender to secure a substantial contract for 4 to 8 years.
Dell Technologies
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
4 years
Belgium & Luxembourg
Services Sales Executive
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
3 years
Belgium & Luxembourg
As Services Sales Executive I was responsible for the Services Revenue of Belgium and Luxemburg for Lifecycle Services (4 stages from before to after sales and asset disposal) on both End user equipment as IT infrastructure and standalone services. Spotting interesting opportunities with core account teams in CRM, training SME core-account teams to pitch services and proposing a compliant service offering in Public Tenders. The role required extensive stakeholder management as Services were not main focus of core account teams, so it was important to build and maintain good relationships across the whole BU('s). Forecasting and revenue reporting were also an important aspect in the role.
Services Sales Specialist
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
4 years
Asse, Belgium
Skills: Business Knowledge · People Management · Presentation Skills · Duurzaamheid · Customer Retention · IT Asset Management · Direct Sales · Customer Relationship Management (CRM) · Coaching · Public Speaking
BtoB Account Manager
Vanden Borre
Aug 2011 - Aug 2017
6 years 1 month
Skills: Business Knowledge · Presentation Skills · Sales · Customer Retention · Direct Sales
Sales Coach - Assistant to Sales and Marketing Director
CCV BELGIUM NV
Dec 2010 - Aug 2011
9 months
Ypres, Belgium
Taking the lead of a team of 14 account managers. Doing day-to-day coaching, both in general meetings and one-to-one in the field. I reported to the Sales and Marketing Director on the Direct Business sales performance.
Student
Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
Sep 2006 - Aug 2010
4 years
Skills: Public Speaking
Internship
Celio Sport & Image
Jan 2010 - May 2010
5 months
President
ZVC Rubens
Jan 2005 - Mar 2010
5 years 3 months
A local Futsal club, where I managed internal and external communication, yearly budget, sponsor searches and organisation of events (fundraising and celebrations).
Interim - Student
Zetes
Jan 2008 - Jan 2008
1 month
Technisch administratief bediende
New Vanden Borre N.V.
Jul 2004 - Oct 2006
2 years 4 months
Multimedia technieker met (destijds) administratieve bevoegdheden. Ik verliet het bedrijf in een goede sfeer om mijn studies te hervatten. Ik heb er nog steeds goede contacten.
Education
Vlerick Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2024 - 2025
11 months
Singapore Management University
SMU - Vlerick Executive Immersion Programme
2025 - 2025
1 month
Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
Bachelor
2006 - 2010
4 years 1 month
Don Bosco Technisch Instituut Halle
A2
1999 - 2003
4 years 1 month
Sint Victor Alsemberg
1997 - 1999
2 years 1 month