Etten-Leur, North Brabant, Netherlands
Throughout my career, I have attained comprehensive experience in creating bottom-line impact globally through targeted project and program management initiatives aligned with organizational objectives. I have stellar record of completing targets and directing cross-functional teams to resolve complex business impactful issues, while meeting deadlines within time and budgetary constraints. I am instrumental in organizing programs and activities in accordance with mission and goals of the organization. I am proficient in translating business and market strategies into Innovation programs. I have demonstrated success in launching, directing and managing of large-scale programs and projects within multiple organizations and companies. I have remarkable efficiency in managing operations and defining strategic processes and programs to achieve desired outcomes. I excel at developing evaluation methods to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement. I am experienced in mentoring and leading teams to go above-and-beyond in delivery of exceptional service. I am an collaborative communicator, possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, focused on building relationships and synergy to drive positive change.
Next to the role of Manager Programs and Delivery ad interim fulfill the MT role of Manager Development and Engineering. • Leading multi disciplinary engineering teams (300+ employees in total) to deliver high quality product releases, driving roadmap execution, optimizing development processes, and improving delivery predictability. • Translate business strategy into actionable engineering plans, ensuring alignment between product vision, technology direction, and resource planning. • Implement robust development practices working towards operational excellence. • Manage engineering budgets, capacity planning, and vendor relationships while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. • Drive cross functional collaboration between Engineering and Operations to ensure seamless end to end delivery. • Mentor and develop engineering talent, building strong, high-performing teams and supporting career growth paths.
Lead Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. Team Leadership: Manage and mentor cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project goals and expectations. Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategic plans to achieve project and organizational objectives. Process Optimization: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery. Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to ensure smooth execution and delivery. Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources effectively to optimize project outcomes. Performance Monitoring: Track and report on project performance, using key metrics to drive continuous improvement. Budget Management: Develop and manage project budgets, ensuring financial accountability and cost control. Innovation: Drive innovation by introducing new tools, methodologies, and best practices to improve project delivery. Member of the ETG T&D MT.
As PMO act as the central nerve for the effort in a Business opportunity, gathering updates on the status of activities, identifying functional and work stream issues, evaluating the impact of issues and risks on the overall program, and escalating when necessary to the executive steering committee. Focus on establishing project governance, change management, reporting cadence, and steering the cross-functional project plan with critical milestones.
In my position as Sr. Director Project Management Office (PMO) Major Responsibilities: Planning, coordinating, and spearheading execution and completion of multiple offer development projects by utilizing agile, scrum, and waterfall methodologies for the Professional Luminaires, Systems and Services Business globally, leading, coaching, and guiding internal resources, vendors, and third-party contractors to ensure flawless execution of projects within scope and budget, conducting meetings with staff, clients, and key stakeholders to identify / resolve complex project risk and devise innovative solutions, implementing project related Innovation to market improvement activities to achieve desired outcomes, performing various tasks comprising project resources allocation / management, risk management, roadmap development, portfolio management, project management, and overall teams' performance management. As MT member taking ownership on the Management Control Reporting System, and Strategic Initiatives program for the Business. Key Accomplishments, I achieved during this role: • Achieved portfolio and project objectives by balancing schedule, cost, quality and requirements and devising / executing robust strategies. • Spearheaded and delivered complex projects with keen focus on project outcomes and deliverables. • Derived performance excellence by leading, training, and mentoring cross-functional teams. • Delivered portfolio of projects by defining strategy, plan, and governance. • Ensured successful implementation of projects through strategic waterfall execution and scaled agile process framework development. • Defined the transition plan for the re-structuring of the Business Unit towards a more optimized organization.
Major Responsibilities: As Head of the Project Management Office for Signify, Regional Business Unit Professional Europe, managing the offer development projects. Defining the strategy, plan and governance to deliver the portfolio of projects, managing dependencies, risks and issues. Developing project management excellence and nurturing the community of practice on the subject matters related to Professional Luminaires. As MT member taking ownership on the Management Control Review System, and Strategic Initiatives program for the Business.
Major Responsibilities: As Head of the Project Management Office for Philips Lighting, Regional Business Unit Professional Europe, managing the offer development projects (via Agile/Scrum). Defining the strategy, plan and governance to deliver the portfolio of projects, managing dependencies, risks and issues. Developing project management excellence and nurturing the community of practice on the subject matters related to Professional Luminaires. As MT member taking ownership on the Management Control Review System, and Strategic Initiatives program for the Business.
In my position as Sr. Director, Head of R&D (ad interim next to the PMO role) Major Responsibilities: Providing proactive support and leadership to R&D Group for Regional Business Unit Professional Europe, while aiming at accomplishing targeted goals, administering R&D competences with focus on ensuring compliance with the business strategy to achieve desired outcomes, managing overall re-organisation through strategic analysis, planning, and execution. Key Accomplishments, I achieved during this role: • Executed innovative projects for the business by managing and allocating R&D resources (~100 FTE). • Achieved organisational objectives by translating the Business product roadmap into an innovation / R&D program.
Major Responsibilities: Devising and deploying robust plans for the development of innovation roadmap for the segments Office, Industry, and Healthcare, whilst collaborating with segment marketing, product marketing, and R&D, leading, training, and mentoring multi-disciplinary innovation and roadmap teams with focus on meeting and exceeding organisational objectives, delivering strategic guidelines for the mid- and long-term developments within platform and research programs, implementing best practices for the merger of state of the art and competitive features, whilst ensuring new technologies insights utilisation, performing various tasks including cost roadmaps maintenance / development, Value Engineering/DfX activities initiation, program management. Key Accomplishments, I achieved during this role: • Ensured the alignment of roadmaps on system and product level, focusing on front-end innovation programs and Global platform developments. • Enhanced the value creation by initiating, leading, and managing projects, whilst ensuring compliance with business objectives. • Optimized overall performance by identifying improvement opportunities and interpreting into practical activities and projects.
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