Jerome H. Noel

Global Marketing & Sales

763-***-**** adxig7@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/4jeromehnoel

International Marketing & Sales / Medical Devices / Global Business Development

Marketing Strategy & Planning / Competitive Analysis / Business Intelligence

Channel Management / Product Launch / P&L Management

Seasoned and successful sales and marketing leader, consultant with extensive experience in global medical device markets, spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. Develops effective market expansion strategies and sustainable partnerships with a wide variety of partners and clients. Solid ability to build lasting relationships, with both high-profile vendors and clients’ executive teams.

Collaborative and highly respected Director, able to navigate comfortably in international business cultures, having visited and done business in more than 70 countries.

Multi-lingual in English, French and German.

Held several Executive-level International Marketing & Sales roles with medical device industry leaders.

Identified European markets suitable for development and established distribution and manufacturing operations for client firms.

Opened Service Centers in Belgium for Europe and Japan for Asia; established and managed subsidiary firms in Europe and Canada.

Education: MBA – Finance & Marketing, EM Lyon (Lyon School of Business), Lyon, France

BS – Chemical Engineering, Institute for Industrial Chemistry and Physics, Lyon, France Certificate in Accounting, Inver Hills College, Inver Grove Heights, MN.

Career History

International Sales & Marketing Consultant

Noel Global Marketing

09/2000 – Present

Assisting American companies to find distribution partners overseas as well as foreign companies to identify distribution partners in the U.S.A. Clients include companies in medical device, biotechnology, laboratory equipment, and various industrial applications.

Opened new markets in the U.S.A., Europe, Canada, and South Africa for a medical device manufacturer in the vascular and wound care fields.

Recruited, trained and managed more than 50 foreign distributors in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, for medical device companies.

Mediated a patent infringement litigation case between an American and a German company, saving the American company more than $10M in legal fees.

Consulted with small to mid-size firms to establish marketing, sales, service, and manufacturing strategies in domestic & global markets through OTC and direct distribution.

Negotiated with government officials in The Netherlands to establish a key warehouse facility and sales office in Maastricht for a U.S. manufacturer of medical devices (capital equipment and disposables).

Currently serving as Club Supervisor for Crossmark, Inc., a marketing and sales services company that operates within the retail/consumer goods industry, managing a team of up to 23 food demonstrators and merchandisers at Sam’s Club in Saint Louis Park then Shakopee, MN.

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Served numerous clients as management coach at SCORE in drafting effective business and marketing plans (volunteering).

Served as VP–International for Osborn Medical (01/2010 to 04/2011), a medical device manufacturing company; directed all marketing efforts, including printed materials and tradeshow exhibits outside the U.S.A.

Developed successful marketing program directed at cardiac and vascular surgeons, intensive care units, wound-care professionals, physical therapy/rehabilitation therapists and podiatrists.

Coordinated clinical testing of the product and managed registration and licensing in Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia and South Korea.

Trained many first users of the product, including nurses and physicians in the U.S.A., U.K. and Denmark.

Developed significant market intelligence and a strategic alliance in France for a U.S. manufacturer of sophisticated laboratory equipment (liquid chromatography), opening a new market and producing several direct sales.

Restructured the payroll accounting and reporting system for a company that operated businesses in mini-storage, hospitality, and video-gaming sectors; developed a complex royalty calculation formula for the video-gaming business.

Created spreadsheets for a major bank audit. Developed supporting documentation for an in-depth bank audit required for a $1.5M Line-of-Credit application, integrating all A/P, A/R data and bank accounts balance information into an effective cash management tool.

Director of International Sales & Marketing

Possis Medical

08/1999 – 09/2000

Publicly traded medical device company, now part of Boston Scientific.

Directed all international marketing and sales programs, in close coordination with senior management team.

Developed and implemented sweeping new global sales plan, driving 8% increase in profitability.

Negotiated a distribution agreement with a Japanese firm with expected revenues of $5M over 3 years.

Brokered a strategic alliance with a European OEM to purchase $2.5M in products over the first 12 months.

Planned and executed 4 new product launches and created all necessary marketing tools.

Strengths Finder 2.0

1-Learner, 2-Individualization, 3-Restorative, 4-Relator, 5-Responsibility

"The Business Ambassador"

"Jerome can connect the dots even when there are no dots"

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