Overpelt, Flemish Region, Belgium
Manager with proven track record of managing global multi disciplinary teams through reorganization, while developing successful consumer goods from ideation till production start.
- Manage team of 6 engineers, located in the Netherlands and France - Managing both New Product Development (NPD) as well as Life Cycle Management (LCM) - Lead Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VA/VE) activities - Lead Engineer in various NPD projects, such as Maxi-Cosi Mica Pro Eco i-Size & Titan i-Size
- Manage team of 12 persons, including engineers, softgood-engineering-team and CMF-Team - Delivering of savings inline with budget, compensating reduced quantities with new initiatives. - Manage and optimise Engineering Chances, reducing the backlog - Managing Extensions on homologation for existing products - Create analyse tool to review trends of crash-test-data of CoP-tests to predict future issues
- Defining Product Architecture and Technical Lead for child-safety-products and consumer products, such as Maxi-Cosi CabrioFix and CabrioFix Base, with 1.7 ADAC score (★★★★) on time, on budget and below cost - Create Model to predict ADAC score with close to perfect accuracy
MD of NWL Hamburg Services GmbH & NWL Germany Services GmbH - Manage closure off site Hiddenhausen and transferring knowledge to teams in Poland and US, while maintaining spirit to implement new developments into production on schedule
- Manage Research and Development team of 18 persons, consisting of Design-Engineers, Manufacturing-Engineers, Softgood-Engineers, Softgood-Designers, Fashion-Manager, test-Engineer and Prototype-makers located in Germany and Poland. - Responsible for New Product Development, New Product Introduction and Life Cycle Management for the brand teutonia within the domains of Design, Engineering, Project-Management. - Leading 2M$ VA/VE program, introducing new fashion strategy and products improvements while rationalising the collection.
- Lead fast-track development and introduction of Quinny Zapp Xtra, within time, budget, cost and scope
- Manage Design team of 2 designers - Lead Designer of 1st generation of modular product infant-childseat family with electronic feedback (Maxi-Cosi Familyfix & Pearl) . Awarded with: iF Product Design Award 2010 | Innovation Award 2010 | Best baby & Infant product 2010. - Lead Designer for Quinny Moodd, awarded with: Good Design Award 2012
- Lead Industrialisation of Designs in cooperation with engineering team of supplier in China and - Manage Production Start ups of new products, such as Maxi-Cosi Mura and Quinny Buzz4 - Problem Solving for any production-issues with portfolio
- Rationalise collection based on sales analyses, reducing portfolio to ±50% deleting items without contribution or strategic importance