The Randstad, Netherlands
With a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, I bring a deep understanding of human behavior, motivation and performance to my role. With more than 15 years of experience in HR, I focus on training and development, talent management, organizational change and optimization. I started my career at Media Markt Nederland, where I managed the training cycle, developed strategic plans and supported the store directors in the challenging & dynamic Retail sector. As an HR Business Partner, I was the trusted advisor and partner of the management team, providing consultancy and guidance on HR policy, reward and performance management and digital transformation. As Head of HR at Vitol I work at the most rewarding company in the Netherlands and was able to bring the HR Department up to speed. Last but not least, as an HR Director of Toolstation Benelux I created a strong fundament to build further! I am passionate about creating a learning culture, driving organizational excellence and empowering employees to achieve their full potential. I am skilled in mentoring, coaching, data analytics and I enjoy working with diverse and cross-functional teams. I am also certified as a PI Analyst, a Stress and Burnout Coach and a Lifestyle Coach. I speak English, Hindi, and Dutch fluently.
Over the past years, I’ve had the privilege of serving as HR Director for Toolstation Benelux, leading a team of almost 20 HR professionals and overseeing the full HR lifecycle across the region. In this role, I guided the organization through a period of transformation — balancing growth and professionalisation while keeping people, clarity and business continuity at the centre. My responsibilities included: 🔹 End-to-end HR leadership Talent acquisition, onboarding, performance, development, engagement, reward, wellbeing and exit processes. 🔹 Internation strategic involvement Organizational design and ensuring compliant, transparent communication as the lead of department internal and external communication. 🔹 Leadership & culture Coaching managers, embedding accountability through KPI’s, strengthening feedback culture and improving employee experience. 🔹 Works Council partnership Managing a constructive, professional relationship with the OR, preparing advisory and consent requests, scenario analyses and financial justifications. 🔹 Process improvement & HR transformation Streamlining HR processes, imbed policies, shaping learning culture and enabling a leaner, more future-proof organization. It’s been a challenging but deeply meaningful journey — shaping structure, stability and direction in a phase of significant change.
As the Head of HR, I lead the human resources strategy and operations at Vitol Rotterdam. Vitol is the largest energy trading company in the world.
The HR Business Partner is the strategic and trusted partner of management and responsible for the general HR consultancy, advice and support to the managers at the holding and Store Directors in the stores of Media Markt. As “partner in business” I am responsible for advising, challenging and supporting the directors and management with a set of activities ranging from general HR consultancy & support in HR Policy, Organizational Change Management, Talent Management, Reward & Performance Management, Digital Transformation (Employability).
My initial role involved the daily learning & development activities but due to changed circumstances it developed to adaptive strategic management. My function contains achieving the stores and holding in operating goals by maximizing employee productivity and well-being by Learning & Development activities. My role is also to contribute to the overall L&D Strategy and to achieve the overall international business goals. The focus lies on creating a learning culture that develops the correct learning environment for learning within Media Markt and the company through effective and positive communication, creating a desire to learn and using the existing L&D delivery model within the business. Other main tasks: - Operation and implementation career development methodology. - Develop, improve and maintain effective induction and onboarding programs for new employees. - Identifying training and development needs within the organization through job analysis, appraisals, survey’s and consultation. - Develop, improve and maintain leadership/ management training for leaders. - Organize the preparation, production and execution of Corporate learning and development programmes ensuring that planned activity has key objectives, targets for achievement set and maximises the potential of people in line with corporate guidelines. - Promote and effectively communicate learning and development activity in accordance with the stores and industry partners and agreed calendars and development plans. - Conduct LMS administration and provide report results on a analytic way. - Provide vital information with audit protocols/schedules legal compliances. - Collaborate and support the wider international team (15 countries) in the development of new training programs by sharing knowledge, experience and delivering solutions. - Implementation of online integrated Learning Management System with internal interfaces and connections with other platforms of industry partners.
My responsibilities were to support the training and career learning. My main task related to advising the Media Market Store Directors in the field of learning, development and training. Further I was engaged with several projects such as realizing leadership programs, training programs, setting up education within Media Markt- Saturn and the Upgrade of our learning tools. Continually, I get inspired by recent developments and advances in the Retail world and implement my findings in training, development and learning to keep up the skills and knowledge optimal for our employees. I describe myself as a forward thinking training professional with extensive experience and a proven track record of achieving results across a wide range of learning tools. Using techniques such as accelerated learning, NLP and traditional training methods to promote a unique learning environment.
My main task was to facilitate companies in their staffing needs and assist them to achieve their resourcing goals. My tasks as an organizational psychology trainee were reporting of assessment interviews, role profiling on social media, project reporting, planning and development and contribution to various projects on an as needs basis.
For the research we interviewed students to get insights in the learning process of our students relating to learning and studying strategies at Erasmus University.