Yorick Astier

Yorick Astier

EMEA Sales leader Marketing and Social Cloud at Oracle
Paris, France

About me

Passion...this is what gets me out of bed every morning
Passion for success is what drives me, the success of my team and the success of our customers.


Leading a sales organisation is leading a bunch of excellent and sharp skilled talents. People who are driven, don't take no for an answer and fight to win. It's very rewarding to work in this environment even though the pressure can be high at times.


About seven years ago I discovered true coaching (yes, better late than never), since I find amazing how helping people create new opportunities creates new path for development and growth for people.


We have a vision on how we can help companies transform their digital marketing strategy and our job day in day out is to explain, re-explain, convince, re-convince until we've established trust and that our customers are comfortable with our vision.


I can't resist to tell you what is this vision about...Businesses need more and more to differentiate themselves and given the plethora and the complexity of products available, it becomes difficult to show the difference based on products. Customers want more than a product. They want a company who cares about them. They want a company that makes them feel unique. They want a RELATIONSHIP.
Building relationship is easier said than done. It's already challenging enough between 2 friends so how about between a company and millions of customers.


This is where Digital Marketing comes into play. It brings a way to understand/listen better to what customers are looking for and as a result allows companies to adapt the type of engagement (channel, content, time) to each individual.


Many companies are just starting their Digital Marketing transformation or evolution, we are here to help them on their journey, to get them to succeed.


People who I met would know that I'm crazy enough to wake up at 5am to go running 3 times a week, it's part of the things that make me feel good! 

Positions

EMEA Sales leader Marketing and Social Cloud
Oracle
France
July 2013 - Present (11 years 4 months)
Lead a fantastic sales team to Inspire the market about how Modern Marketing and Social Engagement drive revenue.
Sales Development Leader Cloud CRM and Cloud HCM in Western Europe
Oracle
France
September 2012 - Present (12 years 2 months)
Identify and Execute key strategic initiatives to boost Oracle Cloud CRM and Cloud HCM business.
Leverage Oracle Cloud strategy: Saas, Paas, Iaas
Senior Sales Director - US East coast
Oracle
France
June 2011 - October 2012 (1 year 4 months)
Build & Execute a strategy to deliver double digit growth for our technology line of products
Enjoy leading a team of 70 sales professionals
Develop each person in the organization through coaching
Achieved 8% growth YoY on a $100M quota
Technology Senior Sales Director
Oracle
France
June 2010 - May 2011 (11 months)
Lead a fantastic Inside Sales team selling Technology and Middleware solutions for North East of the US.
Delivered 16% growth on a $60M+ quota
Set up a coaching mindset in the organization
Application Sales Director
Oracle
France
June 2009 - May 2010 (11 months)
Lead the Inside Sales team for ERP, EPM, CRM and CRM On Demand (4 Managers and 40 Sales) for Europe.
Achieved :
+ Re-established credibility with stakeholders to sustain investment
+ Set new & higher standards
+ Increased revenue by 30% Quarter on Quarter
EMEA CRM On Demand Sales Director
Oracle
France
September 2006 - May 2009 (2 years 8 months)
Build and drive an EMEA Inside sales team for Oracle Siebel CRM On Demand, Oracle CRM Saas offering :
+ Responsible for building this new business model for Inside Sales
+ Drive innovation to deliver the high growth expectations
+ Set up a demand generation model to ensure growth
+ Consistently challenge 'way of working' to improve
+ Successfully built a team of sales professionals
+ Delivered 300% growth in 3 years
Senior Business Development Manager Southern Europe
Oracle
France
May 2005 - August 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Managing a team of Business Development Consultant working from Dublin in French, Italian and Spanish Market.
This team's aim is to create valuable pipeline for the sales force.
My principle duties are :
+ liaise with the differents sales and marketing organisations,
+ manage and coaching the team,
+ improve the value add by the team.
Business unit Manager
SWORD
France
December 2000 - March 2005 (4 years 3 months)
My role involves several kind of skills :
+ to create an IT offer to be different from others competitors : focus on collaborative solutions based on Lotus Domino and MS SharePoint and MS Exchange,
+ to sell know how,
+ to recruit highly skilled professionals,
+ to manage the team (35+),
+ to lead huge project to manage company commitment.

Education

IT Engineer - Computer science

1990 - 1995 (5 years)

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