Niels Schenk

Leading Global Digital Transformations across Product Management, Engineering, and Analytics

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

I am a results-driven leader with extensive experience in digital transformations of large global organizations across product management, engineering, and data/analytics. I have successfully built and led a global product management organization from scratch, building teams that deliver innovative products that scaled from 0 to millions of users. I have also designed and implemented effective organizational structures and processes that fostered cross-functional collaboration, agility, and customer-centricity. I am passionate about creating value for businesses and users through technology and data-driven solutions.

Experience

  • Global Product and Technology Transformation Director at Arcadis
    Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • FedEx (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Interim Director Digital Product Development and Digital Data & Analytics
      Jan 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Two main responsibilities: - closely working together with IT-counterparts to build a product management organisation consisting of approximately 100 people responsible for modernising our customer-facing online shipping applications. - responsible for transforming our global digital data & analytics teams: everything from ways of working to re-platforming.

    • Manager Digital Product Development
      Oct 2020 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Product manager
      Dec 2019 - Sep 2020 · 10 mos

  • Product Manager at TNT
    Aug 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Annalect (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Head of data science and cloud engineering
      Jan 2018 - Aug 2018 · 8 mos

    • Data Director
      Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr

  • IncreaseOnline ()
    • CTO
      Sep 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Coordination and co-development of revenue optimization platform for online advertising, and Smartfloors, an automated system for floor price optimization on Google Ad Exchange.

    • Chief Data Science
      May 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Responsible for coordinating a small team of data and computer scientists (partly located oversees) that built an internal yield optimization solution and customer facing reporting systems.