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Tanja Sanders

Tanja Sanders

Senior Growth Leader/ Chief Growth Officer
Diemen

Summary

With over 17 years of experience in Growth, Marketing, and Sales, I'm a seasoned leader passionate about scaling businesses and harnessing AI technology.


My skill set combines in-depth analytics expertise with a profound understanding of performance marketing. Over the past 12 years, I've excelled in management, leading high-performing teams through hyper-growth and organizational transformation, earning a consistent track record as both a people- and strategic business leader.


My personality is characterized by passion, energy, confidence, and integrity.

My core strength is turning revenue goals into data-driven strategies and leading motivated teams to drive businesses towards sustainable growth and success.

My commitment to achieving margin and exceeding revenue targets sets me apart as a results-oriented growth leader.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Managing Partner Benelux

Chatwin Tech
01.2023 - 10.2023

We Help Tech Startups - Build Global Businesses

Chatwin tech is an international development company that partners with the best tech startups and scaleups to build global businesses of the future.

  • Analyzed and presented financial standings and cost effectiveness to other partners and investors.
  • Represented organization at industry conferences and events.
  • Executed strategic plans for growth and new acquisitions.
  • Hired, trained 2 senior MD's.

Management Trainer & Lecturer

Beeckestijn Business School
01.2022 - Current
  • I provide in-company trainings for the Marketing, Product and Management Teams at Samsung, NN, ING, ABN Amro, Achmea
  • Lecturer in Data-Driven Growth Hacking, Product Led Growth and Marketing Analytics.
  • Average training & lecture rating: 8,9

Head of Digital (Interim)

CarNext
09.2020 - 03.2021
  • Prioritized projects and implemented individual employee growth and learning plans.
  • Developed and motivated high-performing team of digital marketers and , CRM & data specialists - by leading with a data driven strategy and clear aligned team- & individual goals
  • Implemented agile working, sprint goals and experimentation across MDT's.
  • Collaborated with other leaders to define processes for securely managing and reporting on customer data.
  • Directed traffic growth strategies, SEO, content distribution, email marketing and trackbacks.

Director of Growth (Interim)

Viacom
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managing the content and marketing team, re- structure and implemented a data-driven approach
  • Implemented the Growth Hacking Framework, NSM and with my team we executed +10 experiments every week
  • Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.
  • Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.

VP Growth & Marketing ( Interim)

Betty Blocks
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Achieved to build a scalable data-driven structure and bring the CAC down by 70% in 6 months
  • Management of the content, product and marketing team
  • Re-structured the team for cross- functional collaboration on Growth Metrics
  • Implemented a data driven demand generation model, resulted in + 30% of MQL's and + 8% in SQL's
  • Further optimization of cross-touchpoint journeys by implementing a product-led growth strategy to maximize CLTV
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.

Founder & CEO

GrowthHub
01.2015 - Current
  • Growth Agency in Amsterdam with a team of 25 freelancers
  • Growth Consultancy, Training & On the job Coaching
  • Among our customers: SnappCar, Hotelspecials, MisterGreen, ABN Amro, Topdesk, Miele X, Greener.nu, The Good Roll, etc.
  • Optimizing for CLTV, lowering CAC, scalable & sustainable business growth
  • Building High Performance Growth Teams
  • Re-structuring teams aligned with a data driven growth strategy

Managing Director

MyThings
06.2011 - 05.2015

myThings provides cross-device performance advertising for eCommerce brands. I joined the company in early stage and set up the Dutch market from the start, hired and trained the team, acquired top 50 leading e-commerce brands and became a market leader. Orange & Publicis Venture Fund invested 15 mio in myThings during this time.

I was promoted to Regional Director, responsible for 5 countries.

  • Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
  • Negotiated new annual contracts and service agreements with vendors to achieve prime pricing.

Education

Credential of Leadership, Impact, And Management

Harvard Business School Online
07.2016 - 06.2017

Bachelor's Degree - undefined

NHTV
01.2000 - 04.2004

Skills

Building High Performance Teamsundefined

Software

Google Analytics 4

Hubspot

Hrefs

Hotjar

Mixpanel

Google Data Studio

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Quote

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you Don't know what you're selling, and It's probably not going to be a good experience.
Marissa Mayer

Timeline

Managing Partner Benelux

Chatwin Tech
01.2023 - 10.2023

Management Trainer & Lecturer

Beeckestijn Business School
01.2022 - Current

Head of Digital (Interim)

CarNext
09.2020 - 03.2021

VP Growth & Marketing ( Interim)

Betty Blocks
01.2020 - 01.2021

Director of Growth (Interim)

Viacom
01.2019 - 01.2020

Credential of Leadership, Impact, And Management

Harvard Business School Online
07.2016 - 06.2017

Founder & CEO

GrowthHub
01.2015 - Current

Managing Director

MyThings
06.2011 - 05.2015

Bachelor's Degree - undefined

NHTV
01.2000 - 04.2004
Tanja SandersSenior Growth Leader/ Chief Growth Officer