Career · Digital commerce · 20+ years

I’ve spent my career figuring out how digital becomes business.

From online media and acquisition to eCommerce strategy, marketplaces and emerging digital channels, my career has followed one constant: understanding how technology changes the way businesses reach and serve customers.

  • Strategist
  • Operator
  • Entrepreneur
  • Advisor
The journey

From online media to agentic commerce.

2014–today
Digital commerce

Nestlé

From online marketing to digital commerce strategy.

At Nestlé, my role moved from individual digital channels toward the broader business question: how should a global organization build and grow eCommerce?

  1. 2014–2024eCommerce Strategy and eBusiness SpecialistNestlé Spain’s eCommerce Strategy team, working with all brands and retailers: digital shelf, retail search, content, UX-CRO, data, retail media and consumer activations. Point of contact for Z-EMENA projects.
  2. 2024–2025Global Digital Shelf and Retail Media LeadPart of the global eCommerce leadership team and global business owner of the Digital Shelf Analytics tools.
  3. 2025–2026Global Retail Digital Media and Social CommerceGlobal guidelines for retail media, and the social commerce strategy, including guidebooks for TikTok Shop and other platforms.
  4. 2026–todayeB2B and Emerging Channels LeadThe eB2B platform for the market, plus marketplaces, social, conversational and agentic commerce.
  • eCommerce strategy
  • Digital commerce
  • Multiple brands
  • eRetailer partnerships
  • Marketplaces
  • Amazon
  • Bricks & mortar
  • Pure players
  • Cross-market collaboration
  • Z-EMENA projects

Brands×Markets×Retailers×Channels

2014–2020
Build

Vudoir

Co-founder and marketing advisor

Building a business from the other side of the table. Entrepreneurship added another dimension: not just marketing, but the constraints and decisions involved in building a company.

  • Initial business plan
  • Strategic roadmap
  • Marketing strategy
  • Business development
  • Advising the company as it evolved
2014
Scale

Veepee

Global Acquisition Manager

At Veepee, then Privalia, digital acquisition became an international operation. This was the move from executing campaigns to managing teams, markets and cross-functional strategy.

Spain · Italy · Mexico

  • User acquisition
  • Team leadership
  • Coordination with Business Intelligence
  • Coordination with Design
  • Agency internalization for Spain, Italy, Mexico and Brazil
2013–today
Independent practice

vdelafuente marketing S.L.

Founder and CEO

Alongside my corporate career, I built my own consulting and entrepreneurial practice. It runs in parallel to everything else on this page, and it’s where the different parts of my career meet.

  • eCommerce consulting
  • Digital marketing
  • Strategy
  • Education
  • Digital products
  • Experimentation
  • Independent projects

A parallel thread, still running

2012–2013
The whole journey

Groupalia

Online Marketing Manager

At Groupalia, acquisition became a broader growth discipline. The work widened from media buying to the complete customer journey.

  • Acquisition strategy for Spain and Italy
  • CRM
  • CRO
  • Team leadership
  • Coordination across functions

Acquisition → Retention → Conversion

2011–2012
Closer to commerce

Ulabox

Online Marketing Manager

The next step moved closer to commerce itself: using digital marketing not simply to generate traffic, but to acquire customers for an online retailer.

  • SEM campaigns
  • Product feeds
  • Partnerships
  • Online acquisition
  • eCommerce

From traffic → to transactions

2006–2010
The early web

Adevinta

Online marketing and media

My career started in online marketing and digital media, at a time when companies were still figuring out what the internet meant for their businesses.

  • Online media investment
  • Digital advertising
  • Performance marketing
  • Campaigns for Fotocasa.es and other properties
  • Coordination of Segundamano.es

Then called Anuntis Segundamano.

The focus: learning how to acquire audiences online.

My career changed. The problem remained the same.

  1. Online media
  2. Performance marketing
  3. Customer acquisition
  4. CRM + CRO
  5. eCommerce
  6. Digital commerce
  7. Marketplaces
  8. AI + emerging channels

The tools changed. The fundamental question didn’t: how can technology create better businesses and better customer experiences?

The internet changed. My question stayed the same.

How do you turn digital opportunities into real businesses?

I started my career in online marketing and media, when the discipline was still being defined. Since then, I’ve worked across acquisition, CRM, CRO, eCommerce and digital commerce, moving from individual channels toward a broader understanding of how digital businesses actually grow.

Today, I work at the intersection of commerce, technology and strategy, while sharing what I’ve learned through teaching, speaking and writing.

Lessons

What 20+ years in digital have taught me

Channels change. Fundamentals don’t.

Customers, economics and business models still decide.

Acquisition is only the beginning.

Traffic is worth little without conversion and retention.

eCommerce isn’t a department.

It reaches marketing, sales, operations and the supply chain.

Strategy without execution is just a presentation.

Good strategy survives real teams and real constraints.

Technology is a means, not an answer.

Start from the problem, then choose the tool.

Teaching makes you better at what you do.

Explaining an idea forces you to understand it.

Career at a glance

Twenty years, in a few numbers.

20+
Years in digital

Online marketing, eCommerce and digital commerce.

2006
First role in digital

Online media and campaigns at Adevinta.

Global
International markets

Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, EMENA and global teams.

2
Companies founded

vdelafuente marketing and Vudoir.

9
Universities and schools

UB, UAB, MIOTI, ISDI, EADA and more, since 2016.

150+
Colleagues trained

In-house programmes at Nestlé Spain.

Speaker at eShow, FBA Show and Global SEMrush Day. Sessions in Spanish and English.

Selected experiences

VeepeeAgency internalization
Challenge
Media and design ran through external agencies across four markets.
My role
Global Acquisition Manager for Spain, Italy and Mexico.
What changed
Media strategy (SEM, SEO, social, mobile, affiliation, display) brought in-house for Spain, Italy, Mexico and Brazil, with a new design team and in-house platforms.
GroupaliaConversion on site and app
Challenge
Turning acquisition into conversion, not just traffic.
My role
Head of acquisition for Spain and Italy, plus CRM and CRO projects.
What changed
An AI-based recommendations tool and behaviour-triggered messaging, with landing-page and banner guidelines agreed with design.
NestléGlobal digital shelf
Challenge
Content, retail search and retail media measured differently across markets and retailers.
My role
Global Digital Shelf and Retail Media Lead; business owner of the Digital Shelf Analytics tools.
What changed
Shared best practices, standardized guidelines and performance tracking for markets.
NestléSocial commerce
Challenge
Selling where people now discover products: inside social platforms.
My role
Led the global social commerce strategy within the eCommerce leadership team.
What changed
Guidebooks for TikTok Shop and other platforms, built around native in-platform content.

The corporate career is only half the story.

Since 2016

Teaching

Real-world experience becomes material for classrooms, workshops and executive education.

eShow · FBA Show · SEMrush Day

Speaking

Years of experience become ideas that can be shared with audiences.

Books and essays

Writing

Experience becomes reflection, analysis and books about technology, business and life.

Victor de la Fuente Retail Digital Media

What I’m thinking about now

  • eCommerceHow digital commerce continues to evolve across retailers, marketplaces and brands.
  • AIWhat AI actually changes in digital business, beyond the hype.
  • Agentic commerceHow AI agents may change discovery, shopping and the relationship between consumers and businesses.
  • Digital strategyHow organizations can turn emerging technologies into practical business decisions.
  • EducationHow we should teach digital skills when the tools change faster than curricula.

A career in technology is ultimately a career in change.

The tools I work with today barely resemble the ones I started with. That’s part of what makes digital interesting.

You never really finish learning.

The job is to understand what changed, what didn’t, and what matters next.

Know more

Experience in eCommerce online marketing

eCommerce online marketing career and experience

The career path above shows a steady focus on digital channels. Each role added a new layer: first performance marketing, then eCommerce strategy, and later emerging channels such as marketplaces and social commerce.

Today the work centres on eB2B and new forms of commerce. For example, agentic commerce changes how brands appear when AI assistants recommend products. Moreover, social commerce blurs the line between content and checkout.

What eCommerce online marketing means in practice

It means connecting media, data and the digital shelf. In other words, every euro invested should be traceable to sales. Also, teams need clear processes to test, learn and scale.

In short, the field keeps evolving. Therefore, staying close to real projects is the best way to stay relevant.

Keep reading

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Want to work together?

I work with organizations on eCommerce and digital strategy, teach professionals and students, and speak about the forces changing digital business.