Nicole Berx

Contact

Email: nicole.berx@thom.be


Key Marketing Expertise

CRM, strategic marketing, business plan development, marcom, direct marketing


Personality

Individual personality : Committed, enthusiastic, perfectionist.

Group role : mediator, reconciliatory, result-driven.

People management : coach and mentor.


Professional Milestones

  • Partner
    Company: The House of Marketing
    From 1995
    Assignments: Founding Partner of The House of Marketing
    Sector: extensive experience in FMCG
    Several consulting and interim management assignments, both for medium-sized and large multinational companies, in the areas of marketing and marketing communication.


  • International Marketing Manager
    Company: Schöller
    From 1989 to 1994
    Responsable for the creation and management of the International Marketing Department, covering Belgium, UK, France, and the Netherlands.

  • Senior Product Manager
    Company: Warner Lambert
    From 1987 to 1989
    Product Management of the Confections Division (chewing gum, boiled candy) for brands such as Clark's, Trident, Chiclets, and Clorets


  • Brand Manager
    Company: British American Tobacco
    From 1982 to 1987
    Responsible for all domestic cigarette brands such as Boule d'Or and consequently for all international brands such as Barclay and Benson and Hedges.


Education Milestones

Post-Graduate Degree 1: Master of Science in Business Administration, USC, USA
Graduate Degree: Commercial engineer, LUC Diepenbeek, Belgium


Additional Knowledge

All Marketing Experts of The House of Marketing are fluent communicators in Dutch, English, and French. They also know common computer programs and can be considered Internet-savvy.

Additional languages : German: good knowledge


Private Milestones

Meeting my husband Marc.

Quitting my secure job and start The House of Marketing.

My brother's sudden death.


My books of inspiration

One-to-One marketing by Peppers & Rogers
Inspired me to change my views on "product-driven marketing"

The Cluetrain Manifesto by Christopher Locke
An eye-opener for a "classical trained off-line marketer"

The Celestine prophecy by James Redfield
A book that drives people to extreme opinions! To be read with an open mind.

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Let's keep looking beyond what seems obvious (and enjoy ourselves at the same time .)


My motto

" Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive ."
-- Elbert Hubbard


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