Bridging Commerce & Tech.

I'm a commercial leader driving e-commerce and SaaS growth through practical AI applications, high-velocity digital marketing, and retention economics.

Currently, I'm transforming digital commerce and scaling performance as Commercial Director at PerfecteWijn.nl, while building the future of simplified personal finance as Co-Founder of Zivvy.nl.

E-CommerceAI MarketingSaaS GrowthRetentionSEO Architecture
Roel Timmermans — Commercial Director & Co-Founder

Roel Timmermans

Commercial Director & Co-Founder

GrandVision logo
EssilorLuxottica logo
Ray-Ban logo
Heineken logo
Denon logo
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Where I'm Building Now

Active commercial roles at the intersection of digital retail, SaaS, and personal finance.

PW

PerfecteWijn.nl

Commercial Director

May 2025 – Present

At PerfecteWijn, we leverage AI and next-gen marketing to build the future of online wine retail, transforming a traditional industry into a highly scalable digital machine.

  • Market Outperformance: Spearheaded strategic commerce initiatives driving +26% YoY revenue growth in a structurally contracting retail market.

  • SEO & AI Search Resilience: Designed defensive/offensive SEO architectures—optimizing 202+ landing pages to withstand major Google core algorithm updates.

  • Retention & Loyalty Flows: Introduced Klaviyo, delivering a massive increase in email-originated revenue and loyalty flows. Integrated Smile.io systems to scale customer retention.

  • Market Rollout: Successfully executed a digital market expansion and rollout to Wallonia, establishing brand presence in French-speaking Belgium.

  • AI Tooling & Automation: Built proprietary, customer-facing AI wine assistants and automated internal marketing workflows (SEO, content generation).

◈ Highlighted Projects

AI Wine Taste Profiler

Created an AI system that constructs professional taste profiles, complexity levels, drinking windows, and expert ratings (e.g., Parker, Wine Spectator) from unstructured review and producer text with zero manual effort.

Data ExtractionAI EnrichmentE-Commerce
AI Operating System (AI OS)

Developing a custom agentic operating system that orchestrates teams of specialized agents to automate marketing tasks, conduct deep business analysis, and generate optimized sales proposals.

AI OSMulti-Agent SystemsWorkflow Automation
UX & Churn Research Engine

Established user research frameworks that automatically track and analyze customer churn patterns, feeding insights directly back into the product roadmap.

UX ResearchRetention EconomicsData Pipelines
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ZV

Zivvy.nl

Co-Founder

May 2026 – Present

Zivvy is a personal finance SaaS platform, built with AI, that helps Dutch households calculate, simulate, and understand the financial impact of life decisions and government subsidies. By relying on deterministic calculations instead of LLM models for financial math, it guarantees 0% chance of AI hallucinations.

  • Product-Led Growth: Co-founded and designed the GTM strategy, pricing model, and onboarding flow for a secure, passwordless financial assistant.

  • Demystifying Complexity: Leading commercial positioning to translate complex legislative guidelines into an elegant, user-centric interface.

  • Agile Ventures: Directing agile development cycles to bridge financial data with daily human decision-making.

◈ Highlighted Projects

AI Ticketing & Coding Agent Orchestrator

Designed a closed-loop AI ticketing system where an AI PM logs, prioritizes, and drafts specifications for issues/ideas. It automatically coordinates with coding agents to build features and performs verification checks on the output.

AI AgentsOrchestrationAuto-QA
Human-in-the-Loop Feedback Loop

Built an automated feedback processing flow that ingests customer feedback, groups and analyzes patterns, and drafts ticket suggestions. Requires single-click human approval before sync to the PM system.

Feedback LoopHuman-in-the-LoopNLP Analysis
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The Legacy & Playbook

Prior to my active portfolio, I scaled global brands to eight-figure revenue and multi-market reach.

EssilorLuxottica logo

EssilorLuxottica

Performance Creative Lead

2019 – 2023

13+
Opco's Served

Led Performance Creative and agile growth teams serving brands in 13+ operating companies (including GrandVision and Pearle), generating multi-million Euro lead flows across omnichannel campaigns.

OmnichannelPerformance CreativeLead GenerationAgile Growth
Heineken logo

Heineken

E-Commerce & Digital Lead

2017 – 2019

€35M+
D2C Revenue

Scaled Heineken's premium D2C e-commerce platform (including Beerwulf and The SUB) to over €35 million in revenue with triple-digit YoY growth. Built the commercial foundation for a global beer brand's direct-to-consumer future.

D2C E-CommercePremium DTCGrowth StrategyPerformance Marketing
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Sound United (Denon & Marantz)

Senior Digital Marketing Manager

2013 – 2017

2x
CRM Engagement

Modernized global marketing CRM and digital operations for premium audio brands Denon and Marantz, deploying marketing automation (Oracle Eloqua) to drive engagement and reduce returns.

CRM MarketingEmail AutomationBrand StorytellingOmnichannel Growth
SSW

Sisow Payment Innovations

Marketing & Communications Lead

2011 – 2013

PSP
E-Com Growth

Headed PR, brand positioning, and B2B marketing for the Dutch payment service provider Sisow, driving expansion during the early boom of e-commerce payment integrations.

Fintech MarketingPR & CommunicationBrand StrategyB2B Commerce

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Let's Collaborate or Spar

Whether you are a founder looking to scale, an e-commerce brand deploying practical AI, or an enterprise maximizing retention — I am always open to a high-value conversation.

Fractional & Advisory RolesKeynotes & Workshops on E-commerce / AIStrategic Growth AuditsBoard Positions
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→ Based in 's-Hertogenbosch, NL · Open to remote & international

Agile & Scrum Credentials

ICP-ACC - Agile Coaching Certified
ICP-ACC
ICP-ATF - Agile Team Facilitation Certified
ICP-ATF
PAL I - Professional Agile Leadership I
PAL I