Bartek Filipek Growth-to-Profit

Fractional / interim commercial director for D2C brands

Revenue growth doesn't have to dilute profitability. It can strengthen it.

I structure whatever is actually driving your growth – a new sales channel, a new foreign market or a pricing overhaul – so that it turns into real margin, company value and capital efficiency.

Bartek Filipek in conversation with a CEO in an office

In many companies the problem isn't a lack of sales. It's the lack of structure that lets scale become leverage – especially when a D2C brand opens a second channel: B2B and wholesale, or a new market abroad.

Services

Where I help

01

A new foreign market

Europe → North America or the other way round. One concrete market at a time, not a whole continent at once: the message, the channels and the budget focused where traffic actually converts.

International Market-Fit Sprint · 3–4 weeks

02

B2B and wholesale alongside D2C

Retail and distribution partners without cannibalising your own store. I design the function – strategy, process, margin model, targets – and place a capable Head of B2B Sales in it.

Readiness diagnosis · 1–2 weeks, then channel build · 3–6 months

03

Pricing and margin discipline

Revenue grows, margin doesn't. A price architecture across channels and markets that protects margin as you scale.

Pricing & Margin Architecture Audit · 1–2 weeks

Also: moving customer service to an outsourced model that scales with sales, and an ongoing fractional commercial director role for companies whose revenue grows faster than their margin.

Track record

Proof, not promises

As head of commerce at a European consumer electronics brand (marketing, B2B sales, customer service), I built and led a team that:

  • tripled sales two years in a row,
  • cut the marketing and sales cost per unit of revenue more than fivefold,
  • in year one, delivered the biggest product launch in the company's history while the core business doubled without any new product – by sharpening the message and shifting budget to the highest-converting markets: the US (now its largest market), the UK, Germany and the Netherlands,
  • built a B2B/wholesale channel from a handful of test orders to partners in more than a dozen countries – from x-kom in Poland to Best Buy Canada – more than tripling B2B revenue in its third year, without slowing D2C,
  • took a Kickstarter-launched E Ink phone into retail in over a dozen countries – well over ten times more people own it than backed it,
  • moved customer service from a small in-house team to a fully outsourced process that handles twice the ticket volume with no new hires and the same cost per ticket.

Engagement

How I work

Hand in hand with the CEO

I work directly with the CEO and leadership team, drawing on years as a sales leader reporting to the CEO.

Fractional or interim

Typically one to two days a week, or a defined interim mandate of a few months – with time reserved for your company.

Change, not a slide deck

I don't stop at a recommendation. I build the system, make sure the right roles are filled with capable leaders, then hand it over.

Next step

Book a 30-minute call

We'll look at where your business stands, where the biggest profit levers are, and which one is worth pulling first. No pitch, no obligation – you'll leave with at least one concrete next step.

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