Netherlands
I'm a HR Business Partner with experience across global and regional HR roles, partnering with leaders in complex, fast-moving environments. My work focuses on organizational effectiveness, leadership advisory, and workforce strategy. I support leaders as they make people decisions that have real operational and human consequences. I work closely with leadership teams on structure, performance, capability, and change, with a strong emphasis on clarity, accountability, and practicality. Across my roles, l've operated in environments with high ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving business needs. I'm comfortable working where there are no perfect answers, helping leaders think through trade-offs and make decisions that are sustainable over time. I value thoughtful people decisions over performative HR, context over templates, and substance over slogans.
As a Freelance Career Coach and Consultant, I help professionals navigate their career journeys by offering personalized support in the following areas: - Career Coaching: Providing tailored guidance to help clients identify and achieve their career goals, whether they’re looking for a career change, growth within their current field, or simply clarity on the next step. - CV Enhancement: Working closely with clients to create or refine their CVs, ensuring they highlight their strengths and stand out to potential employers. - Interview Coaching: Preparing clients for success in interviews by improving their communication skills, confidence, and overall interview strategies. With a strong background in HR business partnering, organizational development, and coaching, I leverage my experience with leading global companies like IBM and Unilever to provide high-impact, results-driven coaching that empowers clients to excel in their careers.
Short career break following the end of my contract, during a family transition.
I am a part of the Global Food Solutions Human Resources team, partnering the R&D function and supporting the R&D VP. I also have Global OE&A responsibilities, and I deliver global HR strategic initiatives. In this role, I have responsibility for all aspects of the people agenda for the R&D population distributed in six regions. I collaborate with the UFS R&D leadership team and HR community on the talent, organisation, culture and capability agenda. I am also responsible to drive the Operational Effectiveness Assessment agenda for UFS (i.e. Overheads cost, workforce planning, HR dashboard, engagement surveys etc). Main Roles & Responsibilities: - HR Business Partnering UFS R&D. - Understand the Food Solutions’ R&D needs and define functional plans to deliver for HR solutions related to Talent Management, Organizational and Cultural Development. - Deliver the end-to-end HR agenda, from operational HR delivery to strategic interventions. - Being part of the Nutrition R&D HR team and support the talent management strategy, performance management cycle and the talent pipeline as well as maintaining clean data and structure in the Nutrition R&D Destination Organisation in collaboration with the R&D HR team. - Be the Operational Effectiveness & Assessment lead for organisation development interventions and overheads management, including leading the Workforce Planning process for UFS. - Lead and support the relevant HR strategic initiatives to design and execute the projects in collaboration with the with the wider HR community.
- Responsible for delivering Workforce Restructuring programs that manage the employees' activity within the organization through Surplus Restructuring, Skills Transformation and Poor Performance Management solutions. - Provide program planning, guidance, and support to ensure specific business objectives related to workforce rebalancing are achieved. - Recommend and implements innovative workforce management solutions, manages changes and/or enhancements to associated tools/technology or initiates development of new tools/technology, - Establish measures of success and shares workforce rebalancing expertise.
In support of IBM’s strategy for Africa, I lead the development and delivery of IBM's LEADing to Africa Internship program, a top talent program across 8 countries in MEA that identifies Africa's next generation of early professional leaders for our business. My roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Provide leadership in the development and implementation of a viable internship program. - Facilitate intern learning by assisting interns to fiind appropriate trainings of business and soft skills to enhance overall business performance, employee experience and learn skills essential to lead a successful career. - Act as a consultant/guide for all intern issues in all HR-related areas. - Develop, implement and revise internship policies and procedures - Maintain database administration for purposes of tracking - Develop monthly & quarterly reports to be presented to IBM’s executive management.
- Responsible for working closely with line management, executive teams and other functional areas to proactively address business issues related to workforce development and productivity. - Provide advice and counsel on multiple initiatives and recommending solutions to complex employee relations and HR issues. - Act as a single point of the contact for the employees and managers in the business unit. - Proactively support the delivery of HR Processes at the client’s side. - Manage complex and difficult HR Projects cross-functionally. - Build a strong business relationship with the internal client. - Actively identify gaps, propose and implement changes necessary to cover risks. - Facilitate the management team to bring best solutions for employees.