Commercial Strategy to Execution

Commercial strategy that goes all the way.

I work with mid-market companies, scale-ups, and PE-backed businesses. From diagnosis to delivery — one senior person, throughout.

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What I do

01

Pricing Strategy & Optimisation

Pricing is the highest-leverage lever in commercial strategy. Changes drop straight to the bottom line. Deployed across several clients in energy, PE, and mid-market — from pricing architecture to execution.

02

Customer Segmentation & Value Analysis

Commercial resources go to the wrong customers more often than anyone admits. I help you focus where it actually matters — using CLV, CPA, and granular segmentation to surface the customers that drive real value.

03

Commercial Due Diligence

Pre-acquisition commercial assessment: TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, competitive dynamics, customer analysis, growth assumption validation. Delivered for several clients across PE and corporate M&A contexts.

AI

AI in Commercial Operations

Actively building experience embedding AI into commercial workflows — from automated customer analysis to AI-assisted pricing and segmentation. Currently in practice with a startup client. Once the results are in, this becomes a fourth service area. For now: mention it when relevant, and ask me about it.

Clients & organisations I’ve worked with

Accenture · SHV Energy · Staedean · Castolin Eutectic · Klafs · Gilde Equity Management · Vescom · Parcom · Paragon Partners · Shell · Vattenfall · Alliander · GrandVision · Heineken · KLM · Blue Health · Accenture · SHV Energy · Staedean · Castolin Eutectic · Klafs · Gilde Equity Management · Vescom · Parcom · Paragon Partners · Shell · Vattenfall · Alliander · GrandVision · Heineken · KLM · Blue Health ·

“Your team knows the market. I help you turn that knowledge into a plan that actually works.”

Most commercial consultants hand you a strategy and leave. I work end-to-end — starting from the knowledge already inside your organisation, building outward from there. You get a senior consultant doing the work throughout. No junior analysts, no large-firm overhead.

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Working environment

Who this is for

Mid-market companies

Strong commercial people but no clear strategy connecting it all.

Scale-ups post-funding

Making the jump from founder-led commercial to a structured operation.

PE-backed companies

Need their value creation plan turned into an executable commercial roadmap.

Willem van der Schoot

Fifteen years in, still doing the work myself.

Fifteen years across energy, PE, logistics, and technology. I've been the person who builds the strategy and the person who runs the execution. That combination is what Van der Schoot Advisory is built on.

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