Brussels Metropolitan Area
Versatile and highly accomplished executive leader offering 20 years of experience across global end-to-end supply chain operation processes and methodologies across Demand, Supply and Inventory planning, S&OP, Manufacturing, Operational excellence LEAN and organizational transformation. Broad International experience in W&E-Europe, Russia, Middle-East, N-Africa covering key positions in Procter & Gamble, Perrigo / Omega Pharma, Dalli GmbH. Diploma degree in chemical engineering, with postgraduate Master in Management. A proven track record in leading and transforming supply chain organizations in an international environment, supply strategy development and change management. Strong operational focus and resilience to drive company results and achieve personal goals through performance management and continuous improvement. Firm believer in an empowering management style encouraging ideas and decision making at all levels. High level of attention to influencing internal and external stakeholders. Used to clear and fact-based communication and interaction across all levels. Committed mentor and trainer. Fluent in English, French, and German with communication knowledge in Dutch. Core Competencies: International management • Supply chain operation • Sourcing Strategy development • Procurement • Operational Excellence • Organization design • Change management • Project & Program Management • Performance management • Continuous improvement programs • Cost reduction and optimization • Leadership • Supply Network optimization • Planning • Regulated industry • Business strategy
Responsibility for the supply chain management of the companies vaccines portfolio for the European markets. Leading and improving the core business activities such as Demand Forecasting, Supply Planning and S&OP. The role sits at the interface of the local sales organizations and the corporate functions of global industrial operations and marketing.
Head of Global Supply Chain & Logistics (Member of the executive Committee) Responsibility for designing and leading the global supply chain management organization in order to meet the short-term as well as strategic goals of the company. The organization of approximately 70 employees spans across long-, and short-term production planning, forecasting, customer service as well as warehousing and transportation. • Lead the renewal of the company supply network strategy from “Push” to “Pull”. This entails sizing and construction of a new full-service manipulation & distribution center in eastern Europe as well as the set-up of novel business processes in ERP to allow late stage product customization and inter-company shipment processes • Organizational transformation and change management - define and deploy a vision for an integrated Supply Chain function. Design and shape the organization in line with the business strategy - set up of demand planning function and transfer of roles as a result of sourcing decisions. The transformation is implemented and final training and process adjustments ongoing. • Performance Management – develop a Business intelligence dashboard to increase transparency and focus on key metrics for inventory, forecast accuracy and case fill rate – turn around customer service to be consistently above the aligned target of 98% and reduction of obsolete stock by 25% • People development and coaching - Co- sponsoring of the corporate trainee program
Director Global Supply Chain Management Responsibility to set up and centralize the local supply planning activities in the Belgium headquarter in collaboration with the regional sales offices. Overall ownership for the corporate artwork process serving 35 markets. Directing a team of supply planners in multiple locations in daily supply operations/ new business planning. • Design & implement a central planning organization with focus on demand consolidation, order management and S&OP process for strategic corporate brands. Improvement of order fulfillment by 20% through segmentation of the product portfolio by distribution channel (retail/drugstores vs. pharma channel) and adapted inventory strategy • 3rd party supplier management and product sourcing strategy - drive the implementation of standardized operational tools and metrics to monitor and improve supplier performance thus reducing inventory by 10% • Responsible for the corporate Artwork Process ==> reduce time to market by 25% - streamlining the approval process and reducing touch-points in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders
Part of a global task force team chartered to facilitate the operational handover of the Pringles brand to the new business owner during the transition phase. • Responsible to establish a business blueprint and implement a supply chain interface between the new business owner and P&G, respecting the legal requirements for approval and business decision taking • Define and align service level agreement with focus on demand forecast, order, shipment and billing as well as new product introductions • Support new business owner in introducing a stage gate process for product management
Member of Site leadership team responsible for planning and procurement department leading 32 people for the home-care as well as snacks production module. Overseeing the in-, and outbound supply chains in the plant as well as the production scheduling. Representing the plant towards corporate planning department and senior leaders. • Capability owner of the LEAN Loss elimination process - leading the annual value stream mapping in a cross functional effort to identify an array of opportunities to meet the given 5% cost reduction target • Responsible for the set up of a new cleaning product category produced on site as part of a corporate sourcing decision. The plant ensured continued case fill rate at target level of 99% throughout the 12 months transition phase • Global Pringles planning – reduction of non-performing inventory by 20% over 12 months through implementation of a more efficient operating strategy with and involving the commercial functions in the plant “ZERO LOSS” journey • Category planning manager for laundry detergent tablets - Alignment of annual cost and cash targets with controlling, development and execution of cost improvement programs with technical functions to achieve the product cost and 10% cash reduction target
Responsible for the supply chain design and sourcing strategy of Laundry liquid detergents in EMEA. Overall coordination accountability for the successful technical implementation of the aligned product initiative masterplan across the manufacturing network in Europe. Leading a team of 5 project managers and steering concurrently various cross functional technical project teams. • Increase by 50% portfolio resource efficiency in terms of NPV/resource in the course of 2 years through roll out of resource allocation tool and regular masterplan sufficiency reviews with business leadership • Design and implement a supply chain for a “new to the world” laundry detergent category supporting a product launch in 10 WE countries with annual sales of $ 200 M • Lead and coordinate the effort to identify and deliver $ 15 M of annual supply chain savings through optimized product sourcing and implementation of structural cost reduction programs across various product cost elements • Received the annual CEO award for the development cross functional project readiness assessment tool / The tool has been deployed globally and is in use since the past 8 years