Expert

Almıla Albayraktaroğlu

CSO, Advisory Board, Executive Business Consultant

Almıla Albayraktaroğlu held management roles at P&G, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon. She was part of the founding team of Amazon Turkey. She now provides management consulting in sales, e-commerce, and e-export, and supports start-ups.

Almıla Albayraktaroğlu is a business leader with over 25 years of experience in fast-moving consumer goods, technology and e-commerce sectors; specialized in global marketplaces, sales leadership, category management and international growth strategies.

Beginning her professional career at Procter & Gamble, Albayraktaroğlu established a strong commercial foundation in sales, business development and channel management. Subsequently, through leadership roles at Nokia, Microsoft, Amazon and technology-focused ventures, she developed comprehensive expertise in the technology and digital commerce world.

One of the significant turning points in her career was serving as part of Amazon Turkey's founding team and assuming active roles during the 2018 launch process. During her tenure in the Amazon Europe expansion team, she led establishment of Turkey operations, category structuring, creation of distributor networks and growth of the consumer electronics category. Working with industry-leading business partners such as Apple, LG, HP, Arena and Index, she assumed critical responsibilities in Amazon Turkey's commercial structuring.

Serving as retail sales leader at Microsoft Turkey; she developed category growth, joint marketing projects and omnichannel sales strategies with large-scale retail customers particularly Teknosa. At Nokia, she managed large-scale teams responsible for sales operations, field teams and dealer network management.

In recent years shifting her focus to entrepreneurship and consulting, Albayraktaroğlu provides consulting to technology ventures, SMEs and large-scale companies on e-commerce growth, international marketplace strategies, digital transformation and market expansion.

During her tenure as CSO at ENVOYO.net, she supported growth of over 200 brands on Amazon and global marketplaces; developing platform-based service models providing operational efficiency and scalability.

Today, she provides strategic and operational support to companies in commercial growth, marketplace management, sales strategies and international expansion.

Areas of Support

E-commerce growth strategies
Cross-border e-commerce and e-export
Amazon and marketplace management
Market entry strategies for Turkey, Europe, US and Gulf markets
Category management and commercial growth
Sales team structuring
Omnichannel sales strategies
Startup growth and launch processes
Digital transformation and new channel development
Distributor and business partnership management
Marketplace operations and optimization
Fractional commercial leadership

Key Areas of Expertise

Almıla Albayraktaroğlu