Andreas Christou
Commercial and Business Development Director at RetailZoom- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Greek Native or bilingual proficiency
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Hungarian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Russian Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Training & Presenting Certification
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Experience
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RetailZoom
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Cyprus
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Market Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Commercial and Business Development Director
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Sep 2017 - Present
Andreas Christou is the newly appointed Commercial Director of RetailZoom. RZ is a technology company infused with big data analytics, hence providing business solutions for Retailers and Manufacturers to gain competitive advantage. Andreas’s role is to ensure that the company offers the highest standards possible both as a consultancy and as a technology company. Furthermore, Andreas’ Commercial background certifies that the company is not only considered as a solution provider but as a company that builds long-lasting partnerships with both Retailers and Manufacturers.
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Nielsen
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Client Service Director
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Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
This position focuses on 4 key pillars. Strengthening relationships both internally at Nielsen as well as with over 110 clients who are ongoing RMS partners with Nielsen.Secondly, it focuses on consultancy by focusing on business critical questions and provokes strategic thinking in order to acquire competitive advantage in an ever growing FMCG market. Thirdly, it revolved around meeting Financial goals by our most important assets, our team, therefore team management is a key role in reaching our financial goals of 5% organic growth. Last but not least, focuses on working and delivering big data to our clients with the help of our Operation, Productions, Sales and many other teams, therefore program and project management is a key. The past 3 years of my professional work enabled me to see the "big picture" in order to deliver a win-win for our partners as well as our internal stakeholders.
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Regional Client Deployment Manager for Europe
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Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
This position revolves around a 360 degree deployment of a program/service delivered by Nielsen to a client. While working as a Regional Manager I am asked to take all deployment models Nielsen had so far and standardize them, create best practices and take into consideration lessons learnt from the past in order to deploy the best possible deployment program.This position is extremely helpful, as it has enabled me to go from a Local position, to a Regional and now Global, seeing all elements of Nielsen as well as get a deep insight to the front-end as well as back-end of Deployment, giving me the knowledge to execute all steps of Deployment from beginning to end as well as step up to becoming a leader and manage my team.
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Global Deployment and Change Management, GTC
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Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
Here I was focusing on grasping as much knowledge as possible. Deployment revolved around 5 key areas. These were: Communication, User Adoption, Change Management, Analytic, Project Management. It has helped me acquire the key elements to all of these areas as well as given me some time to be involved in other work-stream's activities.I have worked closely with the Client, the data stream, the Technology stream (Nielsen Insight Studio as well as Nielsen Answers Desktop/Portal), Commercial teams as well as many other, which helped me gather even more knowledge and made me eager to learn more.This position was a key to lay the founding pillars of my knowledge. It has given me self awareness as well as helped me evaluate my strengths and weaknesses. Global Deployment has greatly helped me in becoming a team-player with members and teams shattered across the world. It Enabled me to travel across the world to meet different clients and cultures as well as build the foundation for several key traits, such as Data Analytic, Soft skills (e.g. presenting, client engagements) and helped improve several areas where i was struggling, such as time management as well as "seeing the big picture" and therefore thinking "globally".
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Client Service Representative
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Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
2 month Internship at the leading Market Research company where I earned the core knowledge about Client Service and expanded my knowledge based on the 'internal affairs' of the company also called as the Four Pillars (Data Collection, Data Validation, Data Processing and Solution Delivery)
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Education
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2009 - 2013
University of Bristol
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services -
2003 - 2009
British International School of Budapest
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Business, Arts and Linguistic majors
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