Robert Du Mosch

Experience

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  Ministerie van Defensie

  May 1984 - Jul 1985

  Militairy Service

  Korps Commandotroepen •104 Waarnemings- en Verkennings Compagnie (observation and reconnaissance company) at:Verbindings-Peloton/Verbindingen

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  Tip de Bruin bv

  Jul 1985 - Apr 1990

  Retail Management, The Netherlands

  •Managing staff, visual merchandising, planning, buying, selling high-end, premium fashion/sports brands & after sales.•Store Manager at Fooks and the Tip de Bruin “Boutique” shop.

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  Italtex Unlimited Srl

  May 1990 - Nov 1995

  Senior accountmanager

  •Regional management of 45 Accounts in The Netherlands. •Sales & Marketing Activities in the Jeans-and Casuals Industry. •Sales Management for Big John Jeans Japan, Unlimited Italy and Trader Jeans Holland.•Coordinate & Participate at Sales Meetings in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy.

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  Nike

  Dec 1995 - Dec 2000

  Apparel Sales Manager Nike Nederland

  •Sales Management Apparel Buying Groups (All textile categories & accessoires).•Implemented segmentation & differentation in Nike Textiles Categories. Ultimate goal; Category Management introduced to Strategic/Key Accounts. •Build KPI driven sales strategies and financial selling skills per account team, installed in 1999.Responsible for KA’s/MA’s & Field accounts salesteams selling:•Performance Categories (Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Golf, Fitness, Basketball)•Non Performance Textiles (Branded Collections)•Components (Basic Brushed/Unbrushed Fleece Programs)•All Conditions Gear (ACG Outdoor, Ski)•Jordan Brand (MJ Basketball & Leisure collections)•Accessoires (Bags/Socks/Caps & Hats)•Managing Dutch Apparel Buying Group Team.YEAR 1995->2000 average season growth of 137% to budget.•Working on a daily base with marketing, design, production, visual merchandising and customer service departments at the European Head Quarters in Hilversum, The Netherlands and in Laakdal, Belgium.•Started in Sales & Key Account Management@BNL in 1995Alumni “Nike First European Apparel Academy” School Year 1998. Show less

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  DOBBER Jeans & Casuals B.V. Wholesale & Own Retail.

  Jan 2001 - Mar 2002

  General Manager Europe B.V (Project Lead)

  General Manager DOBBER.•Joined company to streamline all processes when just sold to Vilenzo Int. N.V. (Euronext Stock Exchange). Professionalizion all departments and prepare the company to work in a multi business-units enviroment in the new parent company.•Coordinate transformation from traditional denim brand to a jeans-and casual brand with 6 instead of 2 men/women JIT collections per year. •Develop colour coordinated collections for European franchise and own retail channels. •Extend Agency network in Europe.•Overall strategy to focus on GTN/EBIT. GTN strategy to decrease all discounts given, claims, returns etc. to increase EBIT. •Wholesale Operations with agents in The Netherlands, Belgium, UK/Ireland, Italy, Malta, Finland and Sweden.•Dobber Flagship/Outlet Shops (4x) in Stockholm Area (Södertälje, Arlanda & Stockholm City), Sweden. Implement KPI’s & EDI in shops. Responsible for:- Design- Production- Finance/Admin- Logistics- Marketing- Sales- Own Retail- Factory Outlet Shops Show less

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  EK Fashion

  Feb 2002 - Feb 2003

  Commercial Director

  •Managing 4 departments of senior managers & sales-marketing account teams (+40 fte) for more than 1 year.•Main purpose is to work and learn for +1 Year Full-Time about strategies of large buying groups within the industry to implement in following business assignments.•Developing Private Label brands, assortiment planning and marketing strategies for all Dutch retailers in combination with International brands.•Euretco, based in Hoevelaken, is the largest retail-service organization in the Netherlands.Euretco has 4.100 affiliated retailers with in total €2.2 billion buying power. Show less

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  IC Group A/S

  Mar 2003 - Feb 2007

  Country Manager IC Companys

  •Responsible as Country Manager for the distribution (300+ customers wholesale & partly franchise), of the six Scandinavian brands:-Inwear-Matinique-Jackpot-Cottonfield-Part Two-(Partly) Peak PerformanceWHQ: IC Companys, Copenhagen-Denmark

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  Renfro Corporation

  Feb 2007 - Jan 2010

  General Manager Renfro Europe B.V.

  •Overall responsible for the EU business.•Our Customers for Privat Label & Branded Sportswear, Workwear and Leisure socks:-Pepsico-Lidl Stiftung AG-REWE Group-Auchan Retail Int.-WM Morrisons-Matalan Retail LTD-Footlocker Europe-Nike EHQ•Renfro Brands with their WHQ in Mount Airy, North Carolina USA, is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of quality socks and legwear products. Renfro Licensed/Own Brands are: -Polo Ralph Lauren-New Balance-Wrangler-Sperry Topsider-Russell Athletic-Copper Militairy Defense-Dr. Scholl’s-Merrell Show less

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  International Fashion Brands BV (IFG), Oscar B.

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2012

  International Sales Manager at IFG B.V.

  •Located in Den Haag, The Netherlands. •Managing a EU team of Fashion Industry Distributors/Agents. MT member within the family owned business.•Managing independent agents on several levels as:- Prospect Plans- Budgetting- Financial Selling- Key Account Management- Category Management Fashion- Marketing- Presentation Skills- CS Skills- P&L Activities- Gross to Nett Strategies

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  Creenstone

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  International Sales Director.

  •Creenstone offers uniquely designed premium coats, jackets & outerwear for women with a sophisticated contemporary style and confident feminine flair.•Lead agent teams in several European countries.•Managing distributors sales & marketing teams by bi-weekly vistiting their offices in the EU/UK.Organising the 2014 — CHIC BEIJING show by Beijing Fashion Expo and China World Trade Center with our own stand.Left company because of bankruptcy.

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  International Fashion Group B.V. Oscar B.

  Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

  Commercial Director at IFG B.V.

  -> Returned to IFG B.V. (Oscar B.) after 13 months because of insolvency of previous jackets company.•Continued managing my former team of +20 European Fashion Distributors/Agents (Belgium, France, Germany (5 agents), Austria, UK (8 agents) Ire, Russia), I use to work with for more than 3 years.•UK & Ireland strategic markets with 8 Agent Sales Offices and 1 Main Agent HQ to coordinate the UK, Scotland, and Ireland business from Leeds, West Yorkshire.•Responsible for hiring, managing, training, motivating and directing European agents and distributors. Realised with the Oscar B. team an anual growth of av. 29% to budget for two years with these partners. Show less

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  Mostrador Business Advisory

  Feb 2016 - now

  Management consultant

  MOSTRADOR ADVISORY: “Backstage” preparation and “Frontstage” performance. Industries of experience:- medical cannabis - animal supplements- green cleaning products - sustainable textiles - garden/ plants architecture - e-bike start-up companies- equine premium products•We accompany from strategy till execution by crafting relevance and substance to companies and start/scale ups.•We help businesses grow and achieve their strategic goals. With over 30 years of experience working for international companies, Mostrador has advised clients from different industries, providing a fresh perspective, thorough analysis, and actionable recommendations. Show less

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  Outdoor Survival Canada

  Feb 2016 - now

  Mostrador Agencies

  •Started in 2016 as Sales Agency for NL for OSC, handmade parka’s/jackets from Toronto, Canada.•Responsible since 2019 for all OSC Sports & Fashion agents/distributors activities in the EU and improve/maintain contact with WHQ Canada. •Focus area’s: expand agents network, product development, marketing, organizing EU Fairs, Ambassadors and Social Media.

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  Vivaltes B.V.

  Sept 2022 - now

  Consultant sales & marketing

  Consultant for:•Int. Strategic Advisory•Overall Sales & Marketing •Strategic Account Management •Product Developmentwww.vivaltes.com•Vivaltes, founded in 2016, is a pre-clinical research company and bridges the latest academic knowledge to industrial product development pipelines. Our HQ, in-house state of the art laboratory and team of international specialists is housed in Bunnik, 30 minutes from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.•Vivaltes’ drive is to reduce, refine and replace animal testing and to offer suitable alternatives to animal studies in pre-clinical research.•Vivaltes’ technology has won several awards in the last few years, including “Top 5 Emerging Bioanalytical Services Companies In UK And Europe” (2021), “Top 10 companies to watch” (2022), and “Specialist research firm of the year” (2023). • Vivaltes has built a machine learning platform that consists of roughly 14.000 plants, 160.000 plant ingredients all which are interconnected with 162.000 health effects. The platform is supported by 11.547 molecular mechanistical pathways by which the plants and their ingredients might cause their health effects.• The Vivaltes plant health platform contains a unique set of plants from all over the world, not only from the EU and the US but also for example a unique specific set from Korea and China.• In-house established statistical pipelines predict synergistic effects of plant and plant compound combinations for the treatment of every possible diseases and for every nutraceutical application.• Simultaneously the platform can reveal powerful new markets for existing products for health & sports supplements brands.• The great advantage of this platform is that this plant-health lead finding property does not require old fashioned screening of chemicals on robots in pharmaceutical R&D companies, it totally relies on its computer predictive self learning platform. Show less