Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
Passionate Procurement Leader who believes in the “power of connections” — combining strong process expertise with people skills. Proven track record in leading transformation programs within Integrated Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing and Contract Management. Successfully builds and leads teams to achieve targets. Educated in Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (Ir./MSc), and Certified in Production and Inventory Management (C.P.I.M.), I bring a solid analytical foundation combined with hands-on leadership experience. I am recognized as a result-driven and analytical professional with an entrepreneurial mindset. As a collaborative team player and strong communicator, I combine strategic vision with execution power, continuously driving innovation and sustainable value creation.
Responsible for the further professionalization of the procurement organization within Gilde Opleidingen, consisting of more than 10,000 students, a total of 15 schools, spread across 7 municipalities in Limburg.
Responsible for setting up and optimizing improved procurement processes through the implementation of an end-to-end Source-to-Pay process. This including supplier selection, the design and implementation of Contract Management and Procure-to-Pay modules. Additionally responsible for negotiations within Corporate IT.
Accountable for the supply chain & logistical operations at Neways Advanced Applications. My department consists out of 3 teams, namely Supply Chain Planning, Production Planning and Customer Orderdesk with in total 39 FTE.
Leading Senior Sourcing Managers team, located in 4 different locations in Europe, that reassures at least 2-3 % contribution to overall company profitability and big contribution to strategic changes of company. This, by transforming the Procurement department to an innovative and strategic supply base optimizing competence center. Both via leveraging global connections as well as keeping a one ☝️ market focused approach in serving ABOs and Customers. Global category co-responsible for Professional Services supporting A70 vision of Amway: “helping people to live a better healthier life“ via turning Passion into Products. Professional Service meaning Human Capital for : Finance, Treasury, Banking, Legal, Business process outsourcing, Sales / Customer Service, HRM , Logistic Services and IT / Management Consultancy. In total about $250M in over 50 countries mainly executed via Global Business Shared Services Centers located in Poland 🇵🇱, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and China🇨🇳 Combined with Procurement Regional leader role for Europe 🇪🇺 34 countries $100M and leading team of Global Senior Sourcing Managers with additional responsibilities for all other Indirect categories like Travel, Sales / Special Events, MRO, Physical Presence, Marketing, Digital, Transportation, Warehousing, Operations, Facility Management, Literature and Shipping Supplies. Also responsible and connection point to Direct Procurement for Europe about $50M and part of Supply Chain Management Team Europe headquartered in Venlo 🇳🇱 the Netherlands, united in Supply Chain Excellence. Part of Global Procurement Leadership Team as well as European Executive Team. Europe includes South Africa and Australia & New Zealand.
Reassuring 3-4% contribution to high regional profitability (COI) via reducing costs, increasing services and performance of major suppliers. This by setting up (Indirect) Procurement in Europe and Russia. Implemented Procurement Policy, Procedures with other major departments like Supply Chain, Quality, Regulations, Finance and Legal and working on early involvement in strategic decisions with all functional stakeholders. From scratch built team of 14 persons, with Sourcing Managers, Senior Buyers and Buyers at 6 locations in Europe/Russia: United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine , Turkey and Russia. Responsibility for all spend categories: Materials like among others Literature, Shipping supplies and packaging materials. Services like Creative Agencies for Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Special Events/Tavel, Information Technology, Lettershop/Mailing, Banking, Office Supplies, Recruitment Companies/Training and Equipment/Buildings. This within Procurement Europe and Russia of Amway Supply Chain Services Procurement spends~ $150M in over 30 countries. Annual Total Economic Value 6-8%
Increased speed to market by creating a smooth transition of the packaging and printing supply base, from conventional to digital print. Responsible for the Sourcing Strategy for Literature and Shipping Materials of Amway Supply Chain Services in Europe. Steering Tactically and Operational Senior Buyers and Buyers in the Netherlands, Poland and Russia. Part of the European Strategic Procurement group. Amway is the largest direct selling company in the world, with sales of $9B and headquarters in Ada Michigan 🇺🇸 Amway sells these articles under several brand names in over 80 markets. Independent resellers (so-called ABOs) sell cosmetics, cleaning and health products directly to consumers, without the involvement of the retail sector. Worldwide, Amway employs more than three million ABOs. Amway Supply Chain Services also operates 65 R&D laboratories and owns various product facilities, four farms and distribution centers all over the world. The Aliticor group as a whole employs 15,000 people worldwide.
Increased speed and agility by streamlining activities in 2 major business divisions of Philips especially in the area of Global Procurement. Examples are improvements in visibility on liabilities throughout total supply chain and successfully designed and implemented corrective action plans. Company: Philips Consumer Lifestyle Supply Chain Management $9B Place and country: Eindhoven, the Netherlands Function: Global Business Process Owner Industry and Procurement Philips Consumer Electronics Supply Chain Management July 2004 - July 2007 Head of Procurement Process and Systems Philips Consumer Lifestyle Procurement Supply July 2007- Jan 2009 Responsibility: Business improvement and re-engineering projects within Consumer Lifestyle word-wide effecting the processes Industry and Procurement and related effects on systems, organisation and competence.
Created agility and speed by changing Supply Chain footprint from regional to global when moving from conventional TVs 📺 to plasma’s and LCD products. Company: Philips Consumer Electronics TV-Asia Pacific Middle East & Africa Headquarters Place and country: Singapore Function: Supply Chain Director TV Region APMEA 2001- 2004 Responsibility: Total Supply Chain TV in Region Asia Pacific Middle East & Africa including sales, distribution and production in Suzhou (China), Puna (India), Encovision (Malaysia), OEM (LG Korea and TCL China) and supplies to North America and Latam America. Total turn-over of €420M Business Process Owner for the i2 system implementation for Supply Chain Planning for TV Region Asia Pacific.
Largely contributed to high service and low stock by setting up Supply Chain function in new factory 🇵🇱 Poland and achieving Business Excellence 🥇 awards for major functions in Supply Chain. Company: Philips Consumer Electronics Industries Poland, TV Place and country: Kwidzyn, Poland Function: Supply Chain Manager TV 1998- 2001 Responsibility: Purchasing, Procurement, Planning and Shipment for the TV-Assembly and the Printed Circuit Board Factory in Kwidzyn (Poland). Became the largest TV factory for Philips in the world, by increasing the output from 2M to 4M TV’s per year.