Netherlands
My long experience in leading different firms taught me how to grow a team sustainably, but also how to dismantle organisations in time of difficulty or necessity. The formation and growth of a team in all facets, and building sustainable relationships with both internal and external customers is one of my mean features. I have got an excellent birds' eye view and am capable of switching between subjects quickly. I enjoy indepth analysis and I excell in organisations that strive for quality and service. Of course, the commercial interests need to go hand in hand! My main strength is to reorganize a team by putting team members in their best positions by looking at competences, by creating a shift in overall output, and by letting go of the 10% slackers to boost overall morale. I spend a substantial part of my free time with volunteer work with a charity organization and an organization that cares for people in need. Besides that, I enjoy friendships at a locasl Lions club where we do fundraising for charities as well. Feel free to contact me: Jeroen van Dam
Directly Managing two sub departments of the radiology department of the largest Dutch non-university hospital. Main feats: - implementation of trombolysis management in secondary location during COVID-19 crisis; - within 3 days implementation of pre-surgery COVID-19 diagnostic CT scan program; - build of new intervention operating room incl. purchase of bi-plane; - several improvent (quality, cost, evicacy) programs; - Build of new CT room in secondary location incl. purchase of a Philips Spectral CT.
Dactari is the Dutch cooperative for active veterinarians. It is Dactari's main objective to support her members in their daily work as a veterinarian by offering multiple services to them. These services vary from joint-buying of non-veterinarian necessities, to the facilitation of peer-to-peer learning groups, to providing an online system for the registration of PE points in various mandatory and voluntary quality registers.
Doc&Booff (now known as VoorMijnDier.nl) is the webshop for pet parents focusing mainly of dietary food for dogs and cats, medical devices and health products. Hundreds of Dutch veterinary clinics have joined forces to act as pick-up points for orders and to support the website with their knowledge and marketingpower to their client base. As GM my first task was to rewrite the marketingplan of the webshop which lead to a major rebuild of the website which lead to the transformation of the website to www.voormijndier.nl. Besides that I am responsible for the team (E-commerce, category management, customer service, marketing etc.) as well as for the purchasing process and quality management. VoorMijnDier was acquired by an investment company in 2018.
Managing an orientation project to add two modules to the consumer e-commerce platform.
Goodlife Dermatology is a sales driven organisation with an excellent service lever aiming to deliver the best products in the field of cosmetic medicine and wound care to Dutch clinics by partnering with industry leaders from their respective fields. Over a short period of time, solid and sustainable relations were build with both customers and suppliers. Personal achievements could be identified as the closing of four exclusive distribution agreements, gaining momentum to build a profitable turnover with eyes on the long term results, and training and coaching of the employees. Besided all day-to-day operations, I was fully responsible for P&L, of which the results were reported back to the shareholders on a regular basis.
Leja Products B.V. of Nieuw-Vennep the Netherlands is a highly specialized, ISO-certified company that develops and produces disposable medical devices (class I) for semen analysis (quantitative and qualitative). Leja being a SME, this implies that my responsibilities were widespread: budgetplanning, sales & marketing, communication with and visiting International distributors and International trade shows, financial reporting, HR work (partly outsourced), and R&D etc. In daily practice this meant that I was the main contact for all our International distributors on sales and marketing affairs. That I lead the (external) R&D for all our projects. That I reported to the shareholders (first Dutch, after acquisition French) on a monthly basis, but also that I lead the management team. I strongly executed compentence management and delegated responsibilities to the management team in order for them to grow in their roles. What I most enjoyed working at Leja was the combination of working with scientists (KOLs from the WHO for example, or other experts in their niche field) and to always be on the lookout for commercial opportunities. This has led to a very solid growth of the Leja business and many co operations with companies and scientists and eventually the acquisition of the company by our largest customer in the veterinary field, a French company. My main role in all these collaborations was the ability to always keep the bigger picture in mind and make the translation from science to daily practice. Sometimes this is quite literal (translating scientific publications into brochures), sometimes more on an abstract level (new product ideas). It is important to be able to switch between daily practice (communication with customers and employees) and the more abstract (where does the company need to be in 5 years?). This is something I became very good at: fast switching between challenges at hand!