Arnhem-Nijmegen Region
Senior IT and sourcing leader with 25+ years of global experience in infrastructure management, procurement, vendor management and transformation across multinational environments. Proven track record in executing IT strategy, driving RFIs/RFPs/RFQs, managing multi-million contracts and service portfolios, leading teams, and delivering projects and programs that improve cost efficiency, service quality and operational resilience in B2B and B2C environments.
Leading the IT Office team (10 FTE), covering Business Partnering, PMO, Asset Management and the functional leadership of IT Finance & IT Procurement. Driving strategic alignment, portfolio governance and operational maturity across SARIA’s global IT organization. Key achievements & responsibilities: - Defined and executed IT strategy, strengthening alignment with business unit priorities. - Implemented PMO standards that improved project delivery predictability and portfolio transparency. - Professionalized IT financial management (Opex, Capex, project budgets) through harmonized processes and reporting. - Enhanced vendor management practices, including contract governance, SLAs, RFPs and performance monitoring. - Improved IT asset and license management to increase compliance and cost visibility.
Interim leadership of the IT Infrastructure team (5 FTE), responsible for all datacenter, network, workplace, print and telephony services across the organization. Key achievements & responsibilities: - Ensured operational performance and service continuity across core infrastructure domains. - Led infrastructure initiatives supporting acquisitions, hardware refresh programs and business integrations.
Led global platform and infrastructure teams (35 FTE) delivering architecture, solution design and implementation across workplace, cloud, hosting, IAM, WAN/LAN, telephony and collaboration services. Supported 40,000 users across 1,100 sites with an annual budget of €20M. Key achievements & responsibilities: - Developed mid-term IT strategy and delivered large-scale migration and consolidation programs, rationalizing services and improving operational processes. - Guided solution engineering and design for enterprise infrastructure platforms. - Strengthened operational excellence through improved change, incident and problem management processes.
Interim leader of global delivery and domain management teams (15 FTE) overseeing managed services for service desk, workplace, AD, WAN/LAN, voice, firewall and email/collaboration, with an annual budget of €40M. Key achievements & responsibilities: - Managed strategic suppliers (OBS, HCL, Vodafone, Verizon) to ensure high-quality service delivery. - Restructured management layers, recruited key talent and uplifted organizational capability. - Optimized contract performance, cost efficiency and SLA governance.
Interim responsibility for global foundational infrastructure (WAN/LAN, firewall, cloud & hosting), managing outsourced operations with an annual budget of €35M and 10 FTE. Key achievements & responsibilities: - Delivered global consolidation and migration programs improving service quality and user satisfaction. - Negotiated and governed multi-million, multi-year outsourcing contracts. - Implemented continuous improvement initiatives, strengthening operational stability and SLA performance.
Coordinated software marketing activities, developed marketing plans and supported sales. Managed a team of four interns during a year-long assignment.