Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
I am Koen, a social, curious, and result-driven person, who wants to have an important contribution to the success of your products and processes. I have 8 years of experience in New Product Introductions (NPI) and process optimizations. At which my ultimate work objective is to deliver innovative products, which even provide more customer-value than initially expected. e.g. was involved in the development of a garbage dump solar system, with many positive side-effects. During my professional career I have developed several unique competences; my high learning ability in relation to (High-Tech and IT) products and processes, extensive stakeholder and expectations management experience, commercial skills to increase customer value, and widely applicable analytical skills. Overall, I have a positive attitude and energy, and I am constantly willing to learn from courses and colleagues to achieve the best results.
New Product Introduction Project Manager for World's leading Semiconductor companies.
Project Manager responsible for New Product Introduction (NPI) and Lifecycle Management (LCM) of high-end embedded computing systems for semiconductor, medical, and scientific customers. Leading cross-functional teams from concept to production, ensuring delivery on time, cost, and quality targets.
• Optimized margins across high-tech programs (Industrial Automation, Embedded Computing, Contract Manufacturing) by managing and reducing costs of new and existing products in cross-functional teams. • Co-responsible for preparing semiconductor sales offers, achieving margin improvements through strategic sourcing, make/buy decisions, should-cost analysis, and value engineering. • Supported Sales and Purchasing in customer and supplier negotiations by providing detailed cost insights on components and manufacturing processes.
• Managed 5 (IT) innovation projects, leading market research, planning, budgeting, quality control, and stakeholder communication. • Advised customers and engineers on ~20 innovation ideas per year, applying Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and business case methodologies to develop new products and services. • Collaborated with innovation leaders to shape and improve RHDHV’s innovation strategy and processes.
My Master-Thesis study addresses the question: How can companies in a Business to Business (B2B) project environment gain the most value of open innovation activities and improve their innovation performances? There is significant support that open innovation activities have a positive influence on innovation performances in a B2B project context. In addition, stakeholders with an entrepreneurial orientation, which is associated with proactive and market push processes, seems to create a fertile setting for open innovation activities. These result are used to develop a complete conceptual management tool, which can be used by all companies in the B2B project environment.
All the work that has to be done to in order to keep the company going. E.g. office tasks and construction contractor.