The Masterminds & Creativity Behind Cazoo's Incredible Launch: Lucas Bergmans

Lucas was most recently Group Marketing Director at Cazoo, a used car start-up founded in early 2019 with a mission to transform the way people buy used cars. From national launch in early 2020, Cazoo has now sold over 120,000 cars, has over £1.2bn in annual revenues and over 80% awareness in the UK. He spent the first 15 years of his Marketing career on major FMCG brands such as Old El Paso, Haagen-Dazs, Heineken and Pepsi. The last eight years have been spent in marketing leadership roles at MoneySuperMarket, Aviva and Cazoo.

We’ll hear about the secrets behind assembling a competent team, the importance of empathy and transparency in business negotiations, and the practical aspects of building a digital business. Lucas also shares the negotiation tactics that he has acquired throughout his career.

Topics covered during this episode include:

• How Lucas was able to massively grow Cazoo in such a short time span.
• Why assembling a team of internal and agency experts with empathy and a customer-centric mindset is particularly crucial in a digital business.
• How Lucas maintained transparency while negotiating commercial structures.
• The reason why and when sector expertise isn't necessary and can be a hindrence.
• How crafting contracts based on transparency laid a strong foundation for agency relationships.
• How to balance working and non-working expenditure while scaling a business.
• Maintaining an open and transparent relationship with agencies.
• How Lucas extracted maximum commercial value from media deals with negotiation tactics.
• How he used an alternative approach to agency selection, saving time and energy.
• How he ensured transparency in media costs and aligned agency incentives.
• Why having an entrepreneurial spirit helped Cazoo obtain maximum value from its spending.
• How he used open and transparent relationships to negotiate creative media deals.
• Why keeping agencies as close to the business as possible is necessary for growth.

Lucas Bergmans on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lucasbergmans-cmo