Martin Svensson

Global Account Manager, Wesco Anixter Data Center Solutions

Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

About

Senior commercial executive leader with long experience from exceeding sales budgets, boosting business, leading teams, and controlling P&Ls. I drive progress in the tech and IT sector, with focus on cloud and AI services, SaaS and infrastructure, from scale-ups to Fortune500 organisations. I can bring a structured approach to strategy, sales governance and funnel management to maximize sales predictability and results. I can work in an international environment with multiple stakeholders and teams. I have experience from driving strategic work in several Swedish and Nordic leadership teams. In my current role I am leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) benefits and AI opportunities to major Swedish customers and prospects. Specialities: sales management, team management, customer success, business development, strategy, change management, cloud, AI, product mngmt. Examples of work assignments and skills: - Management team experience on Swedish and Nordic level from Amadeus, Digital Realty and Ecodatacenter. - Managed managers at Ericsson and Amadeus. - Led teams, groups and divisions from 5 to 60 people at Ericsson, Tele2, Amadeus, Digital Realty and Ecodatacenter. - Expert in coaching individuals to growth and success. - Exceeded sales budgets over 10 MUSD at Digital Realty. - Controlled product portfolio P&L budgets of 100 MUSD at Tele2. - Expert in cloud, AI, SaaS and datacenters from Amadeus, Digital Realty, Ecodatacenter and Oracle. - Expert in B2B Sales, Sales strategy, Go-to-market, segmentation, funnel managment, business cases. - Experienced in presentations and negotiations on CxO level from Digital Realty and Oracle. - Expert in Business development to expand customer spend and use up-sell and cross-sell strategies from Tele2, Amadeus, Digital Realty and Oracle. - Expert in product management and portfolio marketing from Ericsson, Tele2 and Amadeus. - Driven and created partnerships at Tele2, Amadeus and Digital Realty. - I master all major CRM systems like Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Hubspot, Oracle Sales Cloud. - Expert in sales methodologies like MEDDPICC, Challenger and SPIN. - Impactful presenter used to present to large audiences at trade shows, exhibitions and other events. - Strong reporting skills used to report to CEO, SVP, EVP level recipients. - Experience from being executive project sponsor, project manager, and KPI owner. - Multi-lingual verbal and written skills - Personal traits: Trustworthy, goal-oriented, flexible, customer-focused, systematic, brave, calm, curious, active listener, inclusive, teamplayer.

Experience

  • Global Account Manager at Wesco Anixter
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Helping customers and partners drive, facilitate and cost-optimize datacenter builds to fuel the AI training and inference needs across the Nordic region.

  • Senior Cloud & AI Sales Executive at Oracle
    Aug 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Spear-heading sales of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AI solutions to a number of named major Swedish accounts. • Closed several key deals among them the first multicloud deal in Sweden.

  • EcoDataCenter (Hybrid)
    • Chief Sales Officer (CSO)
      Jul 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Heading the sales team for sustainable innovative Nordic datacenter provider focused on HPC and AI workloads. • Closed breakthrough deals on CxO level with Fortune500 hyperscale and HPC/AI clients. • Integral in creating new company business plan to boost revenue in Gen AI era. • Part of company management team working with holistic company development.

    • Senior Sales Executive
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos

      - Drove business with major international brands both in High Performance Compute (HPC) and Digital natives. - First hand experience of the transformational moment when ChatGPT turned the datacenter business around.

  • Director of Sales Nordics at Digital Realty
    Mar 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Led a 10+ pan-Nordic datacenter sales team to exceed a $10M sales budget by over 40% in 2021, while maintaining performance during a complex takeover process. • Created a new Go-to-Market plan together with Nordic MD. • Built relationships on C-level with major national, international customers and developed strategic partners. • Part of the Nordic Management team, also reporting (dotted line) to SVP Sales EMEA.

  • Amadeus (On-site)
    • Head of Customer Management EMEA
      Jan 2018 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      • Led an international team of ten people handling sales strategy and strategic projects for key accounts of travel-tech giant Amadeus SaaS portfolio across EMEA. • Drove offering development and solution selling by introducing new solutions using upsell and cross-sell strategies, in select cases increasing customer share of wallet by over 100%.

    • Director of Portfolio & Marketing Division
      Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Responsible for a division of four teams and 60 employees all over Scandinavia • Led the team managers and reached the consolidated results of the division (P&L, customer and employee satisfaction). • Led the division through major organizational transformation process with retained motivation index. • Member of the Amadeus Nordic Management team working with holistic company strategy.

    • Senior Manager, Product Portfolio and Marketing
      Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 · 3 yrs

      • Responsible for all cloud and SaaS solutions and offerings sold on Scandinavian market. P&L responsibility > 20 M Euro. • Led a Nordic team of 15 Commercial Product Owners who each lead cross-functional teams. • Introduced new growth areas like machine learning, digital payments, and online advertising. • Lifted the group from one of the lowest to the highest motivation index in company. • Led strategic offering development programs increasing sales in selected areas by 10-50%. • Sponsor of several major implementation programs for new SaaS offerings. • Established partnership programs to foster new revenue streams, relationships with developer community and content providers.