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Ioanna Smyrniou

Ioanna Smyrniou

Barcelona, Madrid

Summary

Experienced global sales professional specializing in IT and internet sales. Skilled in managing complex contracts and engaging with diverse stakeholders worldwide. Utilizing strong academic and analytical skills to drive business growth and achieve strategic objectives. Committed to delivering exceptional customer service to maximize sales potential and increase revenue, with a focus on customer success. Building and nurturing trusted business relationships through effective communication, ensuring outstanding service delivery and guaranteeing future growth. Demonstrating a natural ability to simplify and communicate complex information across various customer databases, while identifying and analyzing customer needs. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Global Assistant Support

McKinsey & Company
09.2023 - Current
  • Practice EAs support teams on reporting and analysis, event planning, generaladministration, and curating relevant industry insight and
  • Practice operations and support teams on reporting and analysis
  • Event Planning
  • General Administration
  • Curating relevant industry insight
  • Client Research

Sales Account Executive

Revolut
06.2022 - 06.2023
  • Building and closing a pipeline of clients by contacting our existing base of Revolut Business users
  • Responsible for Cross-Selling and Upselling
  • Using a number of outbound tools to increase Revolut Business customer base with our acquiring products
  • Communicating the Revolut acquiring value proposition to prospective customers by identifying pain points with their current payment providers
  • Building confidence and expertise in payments across your aligned sales team by sharing knowledge to maximise the number of acquiring product customers
  • Meeting and exceeding sales targets (KPIs) set by sales management
  • Communicating the value proposition by focusing on a solution-based sales process
  • Developing knowledge and skills of the wider sales team, so that they can develop expertise in positioning Revolut payment products to prospective customers

Partnership Executive

Tripadvisor
01.2022 - 05.2022
  • Manage designated pipeline and make outbound calls to our prospects
  • Demonstrate the product, negotiate and close new business
  • Consultative position our hotel solutions, value proposition and benefit for business success
  • Co-browse with our customers on-line to demonstrate the value proposition
  • Modify customer engagement to overcome objections and win customers; identify solutions to issues and concerns
  • Be capable of engaging with prospects appropriate to their needs and metrics (i.e.
  • Return-on-Investment, traffic, views, and sessions)
  • Achieve and exceed agreed sales targets on revenue, conversion number of new customers & other related KPIs.


Inside Sales Specialist

Shiji Group
01.2020 - 06.2021
  • RevIewPro provides integrated tools to increase guest satisfaction, rankings and revenue to the hotel industry boasting over 60,000 clients such as Radisson and Melia
  • I source and manage sales accounts worldwide
  • Fully supporting Sales Management with regards to lead generation, product demonstration and closing sales
  • Researching potential new customers and identifying sales opportunities
  • Developing and maintaining global relationships to maximise sales potential and ensure future growth
  • Using reporting tools for higher management, recognizing opportunity and risk
  • Providing support and guidance to customers based on their specific needs

Inside Sales Specialist

Erasmusu
03.2018 - 08.2018
  • Sourcing reliable and reputable housing providers
  • Ensuring compliance and risk assessing
  • End to end sales process of the online platform
  • Product and service demonstration
  • Maintaining trusting and ongoing business relationships
  • Providing business data and using reporting tools, Junior Sales

Junior Researcher

Lindberg International
01.2015 - 02.2016
  • Responsible for collecting data from markets around the world with the primary focus on
  • Greek Market
  • The main coordinator of a huge project that required collecting and analyzing data on behalf of Siemens Medical Branch
  • Facilitated a smooth discharge by encouraging and reassuring clients throughout their transitions
  • Maintain good relationship with existing clients

Education

MA - Sustainable Management

Aarhus University
Denmark
01.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Translation Studies & History, Agile Project Management

Ionian University
Greece
01.2014

Skills

    • Empathy and Listening Skills
    • Customer Service Delivery
    • Business Development & Growth
    • Relationship Building
    • Team Player
    • Sales Optimization
      • Reporting Tools & Systems
      • Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
      • Negotiation & Influence
      • Analytical skills
      • Sales and Events
      • Crm Tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Podio)

Accomplishments

  • I was selected for the McKinsey team working for the Implementation strategy of the Fundação Manuel Violate Institute.
  • Steadily achieved more than 100% of the targeted KPIS. I was part of the core team responsible for training new joiners, creating, playbooks and materials for the Greek market. Emphasis on Fintech and Hospitality Industry.
  • Responsible for establishing partnerships on a global scale for the subscription product of Tripadvisor (Tripadvisor Plus). Managed to achieve my goal every quarter reaching 100% of my assigned KPIs (closing 30 contracts per quarter).
  • Achieved the 120% of my quarterly target for the upselling and cross-selling aspects reaching and overachieving the goal of 2.000 Euros in MRR selling a vast portfolio of products both for hotels and restaurants (TripAdvisor Ads, Sponsored Placements, Premium and Business Advantage).
  • Awarded BD of the month closing 8 new contracts in a week when 2 is the minimum performance indicator and thus winning the SPIFF competition from a team of 100 colleagues.

Languages

Greek
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Upper intermediate
B2

Timeline

Global Assistant Support

McKinsey & Company
09.2023 - Current

Sales Account Executive

Revolut
06.2022 - 06.2023

Partnership Executive

Tripadvisor
01.2022 - 05.2022

Inside Sales Specialist

Shiji Group
01.2020 - 06.2021

Inside Sales Specialist

Erasmusu
03.2018 - 08.2018

Junior Researcher

Lindberg International
01.2015 - 02.2016

MA - Sustainable Management

Aarhus University

Bachelor of Arts - Translation Studies & History, Agile Project Management

Ionian University
Ioanna Smyrniou