Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
A wealth of experience in delivering bottom-line improvements for clients within CPG, Retail, Aviation, and Commodity trading. Focus is on Operational Efficiency in Sales, Finance, HR, and Procurement. Honors graduate of Rotterdam School of Management. Enjoying traveling, going occasionally to a random museum, wrestling with my dog, and playing field hockey.
- Innovating and implementing GenAI applications for sales and marketing to enhance operational efficiency - Collaborating with sales leadership to develop and manage standardized commercial processes using tools like CPQ, and overseeing systems such as Salesforce and AirTable for streamlined pipeline management - Setting up a center of excellence in India focused on account and competitive intelligence, enhancing our global sales operations strategy - Leading improvements in reporting tools and processes, significantly increasing data granularity and accessibility to drive a data-driven commercial strategy - Standardizing Salesforce usage across the organization, ensuring scalability and data quality, and maintaining systems in collaboration with internal IT - Managing critical internal processes with FP&A and IT, ensuring effective coordination in reporting, commission calculations, and system utilization - Directing a high-performance team to exceed operational goals
Worked on several engagements within the Consumer Goods & Services, (Online) Retail, and Aviation industry, such as: - Led workshops to define the future state and vision for the advertising business within the client’s organization - Assessed the current financial processes (gap assessment) to obtain pain points and challenges - Defined the future organizational set-up - Defined future Financial IT landscape to enable the future state
Worked on strategy and transformation projects mostly with the area of finance, HR, and IT domain, in the Retail, Aviation, and FMCG: - Defined the target operating model as part of an overall finance transformation - Integrated Central Finance (S/4 HANA) with the overall business transformation and enable with RPA, AI and analytics as part of a Digital Finance Transformation - Conducted multiple process designs in the areas Finance & Accounting as part of a wider Finance Transformation - Led the strategic assessment of Robotic Process Automation for multiple F&A workstreams
Together with a small team, we are advising and supporting eager students all over the world in order to achieve their academic dreams. Besides advising students, I am responsible for the overall business strategy and financial planning of the company.