
Thomas AYELA
Senior Business Development Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Toulouse, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
B2B sales & business development expert with 8+ years driving growth across SaaS, biotech, and consulting. Proven track record achieving 160% sales targets and generating €3M+ revenue. Specialized in international expansion, strategic prospecting, and startup scaling with expertise in Google Ads, CRM, and multi-channel growth strategies.
Work experience
Account Director - Google SaaS Solutions
CyberPublicityFreelance
Jul 2023 - Present
3 years 4 months
Remote
Manage the entire sales strategy and find innovative prospecting solutions, challenging existing ones Identify new business opportunities Prospect B2B clients Present solutions to new prospects Follow up with clients Represent the company in various organizations Results: Revenue: $566k - 160% Target Develop the marketing strategy Develop new prospecting methods within the company
Apporteur d'Affaire - BeNeLux
Collective.workFreelance
Oct 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month
Remote
Country Manager
Thomas AYELAFreelance
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
Belgium, WI, USA
After 7 years as an employee, I decided to move into business consulting with young structures wishing to develop their business: Self-employed/ Start-ups/ Corporate departments. - Definition and implementation of the commercial strategy - Identification of the Ideal Customer Profile: ICP, and how to take into account the different socio-economic factors - Understanding the notion of the prescriber and its importance in the business process - Scoring an account in a portfolio and customer scenarios - Multi-channel prospecting and growth hacking - Cold Calling: Script creation and logic, call structure, advanced qualification - Negotiation skills - Closing - Internationalisation of the business (France/ Belgium/ Canada/ Asia... Other, to be discussed according to the situation) - GDPR Compliance - Marketing: Website, communication
Learning and Development Coordinator
Become People ConsultingFreelance
Jan 2023 - May 2023
5 months
Brussels, Belgium
Become People Consulting helps mid & large-sized companies to develop their workforce's skills in a strategic and sustainable way. I help BPC on the business development
Territory Account Manager BeNeLux
ANOZR WAYFreelance
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
7 months
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
Cyber artificial intelligence applied to cyber defense, cyber insurance and economic intelligence. Manage your risks linked to your digital footprint. By piecing open web data together, our solution monitors your digital footprint, predicts its vulnerabilities against your company and people, and assess the risks. Let our AI manage your digital footprint ! http://www.anozrway.com
Manager
Cream Consulting
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
3 years 3 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Cream is a Management consulting firm based in Brussels with a proven experience in combining Efficient Continuous Business Process Improvement, IT Delivery and Motivating Culture – what we call Enterprise Agility. Cream organizes multidisciplinary teams and guilds to carry innovative projects (problem solving, business efficiency improvement, new product development...) through unstable and complex environment contexts. Cream delivers its services to industry leaders and innovative start-ups in Finance, Insurance, Utilities, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Postal & Transport. As a Senior Business Manager at Cream Consulting, I am responsible of my BU: • Managing long-term and healthy growth for Cream within such a competitive environment. • Maintaining strong and sustainable relationships with our clients. • Helping my consultants to achieve their objectives and goals (Employees & freelances). • Participating in different projects in order to improve Cream's ways of working, either with its consultants -our greatest assets-, its clients or its candidates. • Recruiting and selecting interesting candidates for consultant positions within Cream. Finally, as a Business Manager, I strive for excellence, learn from clients as well as from my colleagues. www.creamconsulting.com
Inovarion
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
3 years
Paris Area, France
Sales Manager / development and partnership
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 5 months
Paris Area, France
Inovarion is a biotechnology company active in three areas of life sciences research. - Innovation, with the valorization of research projects developed internally, through a spin-off program. - Collaborative research, for which it brings its scientific and managerial expertise. - The provision of services for the benefit of public and private research in four main themes: Oncology, Neuroscience, Metabolism and Inflammation. My missions: • Optimization of the commercial department growth • Ensuring that collaborators follow the action plan • Development of the activity on the Parisian area • Expanding activities on the Rhône-Alpes and PACA area • Training of the new associates • Creation and implementation of a "Business to Business" division • National business mobility - My results: Turnover of 2M€, and successful implementation in Lyon, Grenoble and Marseille
Business Developer
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
1 year 8 months
Paris Area, France
My mission: • Creation of a commercial development strategy • Implementation of a "Business to Government" commercial action plan • Development of the activity on the Parisian area • Participation in the recruitment of our collaborators, scientific experts • Develop and animate a prospect list • Clients' feedback on the service • National business mobility Result: Turnover of 1M€
Head of Alumni division / Recruitment of Jurors
Innovation and Sales Day 2018
Sep 2017 - May 2018
9 months
Lyon Area, France
Negotiation competition organized by the Master degree Sales & commercial Management of IAE of Lyon, in partnership with the Association of Commercial Executives of France (DCF) • Management of the department (5 persons). • Feedback - Results: 20 alumni were selected as jurors for the competition
Education
Toulouse School of Management
Bachelor's degree
Toulouse School of Economics
LICENCE 2
iaelyon School of Management
Master 2 Business & Management (Alternance)
Toulouse School of Management
Master Management strategique