Wolfgang Schmid
Webfleet Head of Central Region (DACH+Nordics) at Bridgestone Mobility Solutions- Claim this Profile
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Benjamin Eichelkraut
Ich habe mich sehr wohlgefühlt unter der Führung von Wolfgang, Wolfgang war bei Herausforderungen immer erreichbar, er hatte ein offenes Ohr für alle Anliegen, er war und ist stets hilfsbereit und hat immer eine passende Lösung zur Hand. Er versprüht immer einen positiven Spirit - geprägt von zuversicht und guter Laune. Er kann Teams begeistern und mitziehen. Vielen Dank für die tollen Erfahrungen!
Thomas Schmidt
Wolfgang worked as Channel Manager and later Sales Director in our D-A-CH Sales team at TomTom Telematics / Webfleet. His experience and proven market background in fleet management and telematics services has always helped to win deals, manage the involved teams, mastering the challenges around and supported us on our way to become the market leader in our business in Europe. Wolfgang is a very engaged, experienced and loyal sales professional, who lives and breathes the products and solutions he is selling. He has a unique combination of skills in the area of consultative selling of high-tech solutions as well as coaching its sales partners and team how to best service customers, deliver true value and achieve sales quotas in one. With his deep market knowledge combined with positive attitude, drive, energy and great passion he became one of our most trusted professionals we had in our local sales teams. I really appreciated our time together; wish you continued success and good luck in your personal and professional life. Thank you for the great time and your support.
Benjamin Eichelkraut
Ich habe mich sehr wohlgefühlt unter der Führung von Wolfgang, Wolfgang war bei Herausforderungen immer erreichbar, er hatte ein offenes Ohr für alle Anliegen, er war und ist stets hilfsbereit und hat immer eine passende Lösung zur Hand. Er versprüht immer einen positiven Spirit - geprägt von zuversicht und guter Laune. Er kann Teams begeistern und mitziehen. Vielen Dank für die tollen Erfahrungen!
Thomas Schmidt
Wolfgang worked as Channel Manager and later Sales Director in our D-A-CH Sales team at TomTom Telematics / Webfleet. His experience and proven market background in fleet management and telematics services has always helped to win deals, manage the involved teams, mastering the challenges around and supported us on our way to become the market leader in our business in Europe. Wolfgang is a very engaged, experienced and loyal sales professional, who lives and breathes the products and solutions he is selling. He has a unique combination of skills in the area of consultative selling of high-tech solutions as well as coaching its sales partners and team how to best service customers, deliver true value and achieve sales quotas in one. With his deep market knowledge combined with positive attitude, drive, energy and great passion he became one of our most trusted professionals we had in our local sales teams. I really appreciated our time together; wish you continued success and good luck in your personal and professional life. Thank you for the great time and your support.
Benjamin Eichelkraut
Ich habe mich sehr wohlgefühlt unter der Führung von Wolfgang, Wolfgang war bei Herausforderungen immer erreichbar, er hatte ein offenes Ohr für alle Anliegen, er war und ist stets hilfsbereit und hat immer eine passende Lösung zur Hand. Er versprüht immer einen positiven Spirit - geprägt von zuversicht und guter Laune. Er kann Teams begeistern und mitziehen. Vielen Dank für die tollen Erfahrungen!
Thomas Schmidt
Wolfgang worked as Channel Manager and later Sales Director in our D-A-CH Sales team at TomTom Telematics / Webfleet. His experience and proven market background in fleet management and telematics services has always helped to win deals, manage the involved teams, mastering the challenges around and supported us on our way to become the market leader in our business in Europe. Wolfgang is a very engaged, experienced and loyal sales professional, who lives and breathes the products and solutions he is selling. He has a unique combination of skills in the area of consultative selling of high-tech solutions as well as coaching its sales partners and team how to best service customers, deliver true value and achieve sales quotas in one. With his deep market knowledge combined with positive attitude, drive, energy and great passion he became one of our most trusted professionals we had in our local sales teams. I really appreciated our time together; wish you continued success and good luck in your personal and professional life. Thank you for the great time and your support.
Benjamin Eichelkraut
Ich habe mich sehr wohlgefühlt unter der Führung von Wolfgang, Wolfgang war bei Herausforderungen immer erreichbar, er hatte ein offenes Ohr für alle Anliegen, er war und ist stets hilfsbereit und hat immer eine passende Lösung zur Hand. Er versprüht immer einen positiven Spirit - geprägt von zuversicht und guter Laune. Er kann Teams begeistern und mitziehen. Vielen Dank für die tollen Erfahrungen!
Thomas Schmidt
Wolfgang worked as Channel Manager and later Sales Director in our D-A-CH Sales team at TomTom Telematics / Webfleet. His experience and proven market background in fleet management and telematics services has always helped to win deals, manage the involved teams, mastering the challenges around and supported us on our way to become the market leader in our business in Europe. Wolfgang is a very engaged, experienced and loyal sales professional, who lives and breathes the products and solutions he is selling. He has a unique combination of skills in the area of consultative selling of high-tech solutions as well as coaching its sales partners and team how to best service customers, deliver true value and achieve sales quotas in one. With his deep market knowledge combined with positive attitude, drive, energy and great passion he became one of our most trusted professionals we had in our local sales teams. I really appreciated our time together; wish you continued success and good luck in your personal and professional life. Thank you for the great time and your support.
Experience
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Bridgestone Mobility Solutions
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Netherlands
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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Webfleet Head of Central Region (DACH+Nordics)
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Jan 2023 - Present
Leading the Webfleet Teams of Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Customer Support in Bridgestone Mobility Central region (DACH+Nordics) . Responsible for the commercial and customer activities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Driving the direction for the company within this regions
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Webfleet Director Central (DACH) Region
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Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Leading the (Management-) Teams of Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Customer Support in the Central (DACH) region. Responsible for the local commercial and customer activities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Driving the direction for the company within the region.
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Sales Director D-A-CH
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Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
Serving society with superior quality In April 2019, TomTom Telematics was acquired by Bridgestone EMEA. Since October 2019 we are known as Webfleet Solutions. Together with our Bridgestone colleagues, we are a leader in mobility solutions. We increase efficiency, customer satisfaction, compliance, safety and sustainability by digitizing mobility I’m responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for Webfleet Solutions… Show more Serving society with superior quality In April 2019, TomTom Telematics was acquired by Bridgestone EMEA. Since October 2019 we are known as Webfleet Solutions. Together with our Bridgestone colleagues, we are a leader in mobility solutions. We increase efficiency, customer satisfaction, compliance, safety and sustainability by digitizing mobility I’m responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for Webfleet Solutions SaaS fleet management and connected car solutions. Show less Serving society with superior quality In April 2019, TomTom Telematics was acquired by Bridgestone EMEA. Since October 2019 we are known as Webfleet Solutions. Together with our Bridgestone colleagues, we are a leader in mobility solutions. We increase efficiency, customer satisfaction, compliance, safety and sustainability by digitizing mobility I’m responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for Webfleet Solutions… Show more Serving society with superior quality In April 2019, TomTom Telematics was acquired by Bridgestone EMEA. Since October 2019 we are known as Webfleet Solutions. Together with our Bridgestone colleagues, we are a leader in mobility solutions. We increase efficiency, customer satisfaction, compliance, safety and sustainability by digitizing mobility I’m responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for Webfleet Solutions SaaS fleet management and connected car solutions. Show less
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Webfleet
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Sales Director D-A-CH
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Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
Being responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for TomTom Telematics SaaS fleet management • Developing and executing regional strategies for the DACH-Area in order to deliver against the company’s ambitious growth objectives, • Promoting loyalty, commitment, and exceptional performance amongst existing sales partner channels, whilst also finding and establishing new routes to market, • Inspiring and engaging… Show more Being responsible for all Sales-Channels and the regional Marketing in the DACH-Area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for TomTom Telematics SaaS fleet management • Developing and executing regional strategies for the DACH-Area in order to deliver against the company’s ambitious growth objectives, • Promoting loyalty, commitment, and exceptional performance amongst existing sales partner channels, whilst also finding and establishing new routes to market, • Inspiring and engaging all internal and external stakeholders that service the DACH customer base (fulfillment, customer support, CRM etc.) to drive customer loyalty and revenue growth, • Building the eco-system of software partners and integrators that can drive higher value sales to end-to-end customers, • Maintaining active involvement in large deals and closing deals when necessary, • Leading by example and coaching the sales team members to become more effective with customers/prospects by emphasizing good sales processes and methods, • Building and developing the team in DACH to reach outstanding performance against company objectives, • Developing and managing KPI’s to drive appropriate individual and team behavior, effectively
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Country Sales Manager
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Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
After my promotion I was supposed to take over the team management of the 6 Area Sales Managers as Country Manager for Germany, but acted as a temporary replacement for the Sales Director after I had accepted this position.
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Channel Manager D-A-CH
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Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
As account manager I was responsible for the business development of the sales and software partners in Bavaria. Especially through active sales, motivation and training I increased the achievement of targets from 60% to over 100% within half a year and to expand the network of great partners, without whom this success would never have been possible
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logistik konzepte software GmbH
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Dietmannsried, Bayern, Deutschland
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Geschäftsführer
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Jan 2001 - Dec 2014
Starting from the scratch with two employees, but founded by Spedition Roos GmbH, I was able to develop this company to the biggest and most successfull provider of third-party add-ons for TomTom Telematics. Starting from the scratch with two employees, but founded by Spedition Roos GmbH, I was able to develop this company to the biggest and most successfull provider of third-party add-ons for TomTom Telematics.
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Education
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VWA-Hochschule für berufsbegleitendes Studium
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Städtische Fachschule für Wirtschaftsinformatik Memmingen
Wirtschaftsinformatiker (staatl. geprüft), Wirtschaftsinformatik