Mick Brands

Business Development Executive

Dublin, Ireland9 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leadership in managing high-performing teams.
Expertise in e-commerce client management at Google.
Strong background in sales and coaching strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with expertise in e-commerce and digital marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

ManagementSales

Other Skills

CoachingConsultancyProjectmanagementChange ManagementTeamworkLeadershipAccountmanagementSocial mediaDigital marketingPartnermanagementPipeline Management

About

I am a driven and motivated leader who deals with problems head on. By translating complex problems into concrete, simple and manageable parts, I solve tough situations while keeping a broad perspective. In the future, I want to keep learning and developing my personal and professional skill set. My goal is to be the best version of myself I can possibly be.

Experience

Google

6 roles

E-commerce Client Lead (Mid-Market)

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

As a senior Account Executive, I'm responsible for leading a Mid-Market team focussing on e-commerce customers.
Additional responsibilities:
Staffing and hiring for our mid market sales team.
Coaching of tenured & new account strategist.

ManagementSalesCoaching

Senior Strategic Agency Manager

Nov 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

As a Strategic Agency Manager, I'm responsible the long term growth and success of Google's top partners.
Additional responsibilities:
Onboarding new hires.
Hiring / Interviewing for various EMEA roles.
Internal Coaching of Account Strategist.

ManagementSalesCoaching

Strategic Agency Manager

Apr 2023 – Oct 2023 · 6 mos

As a Strategic Agency Manager, I'm responsible the long term growth and success of Google's top partners.

Agency Development Manager

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

As an Agency Development Manager, I have 2 core responsibilities:
Manage and strengthen our partner relationships, with a strong focus on executive C/B-level.
Lead a team of 3 Account Strategist, to optimize their impact on our partners customers.
Additional responsibilities:
Internal Coaching of Account Strategist.
Interviewing (hiring) of Account Strategists.
Onboarding of new hires.
Driving good pipeline behaviour in the team and wider cluster.

ManagementCoaching

Senior Account Strategist

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 · 5 mos

Senior Account Strategist for Google Customer Solutions.
Working on a consultative basis with agencies in the Dutch market, to realise the best return for their clients’ advertising investments. Additionally responsible for:
Coaching other Account Strategist.
Onboarding new hires.
Driving Team Meetings.
Driving Pipeline in the team.

CoachingSales

Agency Account Strategist

Apr 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Agency Account Strategist for Google Customer Solutions.
Working on a consultative basis with agencies in the Dutch market, to realise the best return for their clients’ advertising investments.

Oracle

3 roles

Account Executive Java & GraalVM - EMEA

Jul 2019 – Apr 2020 · 9 mos

Helping companies to do more with their existing infrastructure, by improving the efficiency of their applications with GraalVM
Territories: Benelux, Greece, Turkey, Egypt & the Middle East.

Account Executive Java - EMEA

Sep 2018 – Jul 2019 · 10 mos

Helping companies to improve and secure their Java technology.
Territories: Benelux, Greece, Turkey, Egypt & the Middle East.
Responsible for:
The entire sales cycle (Inbound & Outbound)
Territory analysis
Collaborating internally with different LOBs
Setting up, maintaining and expanding our partner / re-seller business
Creating business cases for customers to find the most cost effective solutions

Business Development Consultant - Benelux

May 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Business Development Consultant specialized in the fields of data-management, chatbots, security and business intelligence solutions.
FY18 Achievements:
Social selling champion for Benelux, Iberia, Italy and France.
Going the extra mile award.
Best performing Benelux BDC in Technology

Tim technical staffing & recruitment

Accountmanager

Mar 2017 – May 2017 · 2 mos · Hilversum

TIM Technical Staffing & Recruitment specializes in mediating middle and higher level technicians.
Responsible for: mediating candidates in the field Mechanical Engineering