Birgit Mattes
Senior
Practice Areas
- ·International sales and operations management
- ·Building and reorganising sales organisations
- ·Business development
- ·Cross-cultural leadership across Europe, the Americas, and Asia
- ·Interim sales and marketing leadership
Professional Background
Birgit Mattes is a Chief Commercial Officer and Interim Executive with 30 years of international sales and marketing experience. Raised trilingual in German, Italian, and English, she has led sales organisations across fashion, footwear, marine interiors, and ceramics. In a leading European footwear company, she first built the global sales operations and service infrastructure and later, from New York, oversaw staff operations for the growth regions of Asia and North America. Since 2011, she has worked as an interim executive in a range of demanding commercial environments, including a premium marine outfitter, where she led the sales transformation through COVID over three and a half years, and an Italian premium ceramics manufacturer, where she introduced value-selling approaches and strengthened premium market positioning.
Languages
- German — Native
- Italian — Native
- English — Business-fluent