Jesper Rising Rasmussen

Career transition @ Career Break

About

Experienced commercial leader with a strong background in e-commerce, retail and wholesale. Over the past 15 years, I’ve worked across sales, marketing, operations and strategy – building scalable business models, strong teams and lasting supplier partnerships. As a hands-on and strategic director, I’m passionate about driving growth through data-driven decision-making, digital development and customer-centric thinking. I thrive where commercial insight meets creativity and execution. My experience spans full P&L responsibility, cross-functional leadership and international collaboration – always with a focus on growth, structure and long-term value creation.

Country

Denmark

City

Greater Aarhus Area

Industry

Apparel & Fashion

Skill

Retail, Sales Management, Sales, Wholesale, Fashion, International Sales, Business Development, E-commerce, International Business, Merchandising, Change Management, Apparel, Leadership, Team Leadership, Training, Contract Negotiation, Team Management, Retail Industry, Organizational Structure, Building Strong Teams

Experience

Career transition

Career Break

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

CEO & Co-Owner

House of Kids

2020-12 - 2025-10 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Pure-play international B2C e-commerce company with end-to-end responsibility for P&L and commercial performance.

CEO

House of Kids

2017-9 - 2020-12 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Odder

Career transition

Career Break

2016-9 - 2017-8 · 1 yr

Took an intentional career pause to travel the world, engage in volunteer work, and used time for exploring new opportunities to apply my skills in new and impactful ways.

Sales Director

MSCH COPENHAGEN

2016-1 - 2016-8 · 8 mos

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

International Sales Manager at ONLY & SONS

BESTSELLER

2014-3 - 2015-12 · 1 yr 10 mos

Brande

Full responsibility for global wholesale activities with direct reference to the Brand Director – a role equivalent to today’s Sales Director level. Leadership of 15 national employees & 26 internationally including 5 middle managers. Business- and sales strategy development. Daily monitoring kpi´s to secure P&L goals. Maintain strategic relationships with key account & Regional Bestseller directors in Europe. People and organization development and maintenance. Develop and monitor global sales strategy of 15 market. Go to market strategy of new markets. Closeness to markets by weekly 2-3 days visits at markets. International and national recruitment.

International Sales Manager at VILA A/S

BESTSELLER

2008-3 - 2014-2 · 6 yrs

Denmark, Aarhus.

VILA A/S is a part of the Global known €2bn+ group BESTSELLER A/S. The group owns marketleaders within commercial fashion as ONLY, VERO MODA, JACK & JONES etc. VILA A/S is a international leading brand within feminin fashion. Sold in 14 countries with over 2.400 multibrand- E-commerce- and Key account channels and more than 200 own Retail stores. Full responsibility for global wholesale activities with direct reference to the Brand Director – a role equivalent to today’s Sales Director level. Leadership of 30 national employees & 50 internationally including 5 middle managers. Business- and sales strategy development. Daily monitoring kpi´s to secure P&L goals. Maintain strategic relationships with key account & Regional Bestseller directors in Europe. People and organization development and maintenance. Develop and monitor global sales strategy of 14 market. Go to market strategy of new markets. Closeness to markets by weekly 2-3 days visits at markets. International and national recruitment.