New roles at Goodyear for Crawley, van Leersum

Goodyear has appointed Ben Crawley to the position of Sales General Manager Replacement Consumer Europe North and Rob van Leersum as Sales General Manager Replacement Truck Europe North.

These new roles take overall responsibility for Goodyear’s replacement sales for the consumer and commercial businesses in BeNeLux, Nordics, UK and Ireland. According to Goodyear, the two positions will provide a more simplified leadership structure, with fewer decision-making layers, which will improve agility and allow faster response times for customers.

Ben Crawley joined Goodyear in 2002 and progressed his career through the UK&I sales and marketing team. Most recently he held the role of Director Motorsport Consumer Europe, leading motorsport activities across Europe, bringing the Goodyear brand back into racing.

Rob Van Leersum joined Goodyear over 30 years ago as an Account Manager, since then he has had a varied and successful career within commercial tyre sales for the Company holding roles of increasing responsibility over the years and most recently as the General Manager Commercial Tires BeNeLux.