Amsterdam Area
Inspiring Talent Acquisition Leader, strategic Business Partner and PeopleManager, energized by change, transformation, and continuous improvement.. Progressive recruitment architect with entrepreneurial mindset, international experience. Building successfull teams, based on my 20+ years experience (IT & Corporate). Permanent & Contingent Recruitment, Hiring strategy, Talent Management, Talent Intelligence, Recruitment Process Improvement. Agile driver of change and innovation.Hungry for success. People & Culture Advocate, Employer Branding, (Senior) Stakeholder Management, Strategic Workforce, Sourcing Strategy, DEI hiring, Workforce Planning, TA Excellence, Succession Planning, Project Management etc
Ahold Delhaize, is a multinational retail & e-commerce company who is changing into a food & tech company. AH Technology (1400 software developers) has an open culture and dynamic international Tech environment. My role involves: • Strategic TA Leadership: Develop and execute a scalable, data-driven TA strategy, search and growth strategy aligned with Ahold ambitious plans and organizational objectives. • Team Leadership: Manage and inspire the perm and flex Talent Acquisition Partners, fostering collaboration, innovation, and high performance. Drive accountability, agility, and operational excellence. • Tech Talent Acquisition: Drive recruiting excellence, ensuring robust candidate pipelines, exceptional candidate experiences, and agile processes across all hiring needs, from individual contributors to senior leadership. • Talent Operations: Optimize tech recruitment operations, levering best practices to streamline processes and enhance efficiency and scale. • Partnership and Collaboration: Partner closely with the executive team and People Business Partners, ensuring alignment and effective workforce planning to support Albert Heijn Technology’s strategic goals. Define, measure, and improve the quality of hire for the business units. • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Champion diversity and inclusion initiatives, integrating inclusive practices throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle. • Metrics and Analytics: Define, track, and report on key performance indicators and recruitment data and analytics to inform decisions and continuously improve strategies. Achievements: • Set Up Tech recruitment perm & flex department from scratch with hiring manager satisfaction of 8.2 • Downsized use of agencies for permanent recruitment to 0% • Downsized external IT population from 85% to 40% in 5 years • Nearshoring work to East European location(s) • 8 months interim corporate recruitment manager (total) Reporting to HR Director, European Business Services
Handling international recruitment and inhouse (senior) executive search for EMEA (Pre)Sales, Cloud Architects, Professional Services roles, and EMEA GTM, Management & Corporate roles (Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance), also helping out with Early in Career team (campus recruitment) . Diversity hiring specialist. In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. We’re focused on one thing, helping your business get the most out of your data. NetApp brings the enterprise-grade data services you rely on into the cloud, and the simple flexibility of cloud into the data center. Our industry-leading solutions work across diverse customer environments and the world’s biggest public clouds. NetApp has strategic relationships with Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. As a cloud-led, data-centric software company, only NetApp can help build your unique data fabric, simplify and connect your cloud, and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. NetApp Inc is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and ranked in Fortune500 since 2012 Working with Succesfactors, Eightfold, HireVue
KPN Telecom is changing from a TelCo to an innovative IT company. As Tech Lead Recruitment I was responsible with a small team for high volume tech hires in a rapidly changing innovation tech hub within the big corporate KPN. My responsibilities: - Identifying business needs and translate them into recruitment strategy, plans and policies that aim to fulfil the needs within time, budget and quality constraints. - Developing creative and innovative recruiting and sourcing strategies with a focus on digital / agile mindset to meet the high growth demands of our organization. - Improving recruitment processes and tools. Drive efficiency with excellent stakeholder and improving candidate experience, diversity and inclusion. - Leading, coach and manage a team of recruiters, recruitment assistant and onboarding specialist (6 FTE). - Ensuring requisition load is balanced across team members. - Replacing 70% of the external / freelance population by hiring new internal people that made savings of 2 mln euro - Ensuring sufficient inflow of potentially suitable candidates by managing and utilizing the required recruitment capacity and sourcing channels, as well as by building and maintaining professional networks and talent pools. Founder of Amsterdam Python Digital MeetUp - Ensuring candidates are identified, interviewed and evaluated in line with the agreed digital recruitment focus, agile way-of working with a strong focus on creating and delivering the ultimate candidate experience including onboarding and expat hiring (relocation, registration). - Execute activities to build and improve our employer brand, active presence on social media like Instagram - Advising HR regarding improvements HR procedures, relocation, employee journey, referral program. - Pro-active stakeholder management. Reporting to VP KPN Digital & People Ops Manager KPN. ATS: Hireserve
Royal BAM Group nv is a construction firm with ten operating companies in five European home markets and in niche markets worldwide. BAM’s operating companies are active in the business lines Construction and Property, Civil engineering, as well as in Public-private partnerships. BAM’s European home markets are the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. Furthermore the Group delivers projects in Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The Group has a widespread network of offices, close to its clients. BAM has approximately 20,000 employees and is a listed company at Euronext Amsterdam. Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist for Corporate HQ roles (HR, Legal, Finance, Management) and Corporate IT department
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 75 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 211,500 employees as of December 31, 2014, Cognizant is a management consulting firm, member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Covering all aspects of the recruitment cycle from building relationships with hiring managers, taking detailed briefs, managing the end-to-end recruitment process, including conducting interviews and finding the most appropriate recruitment methods. Responsible for Benelux roles ( experienced hires ), but also recruiting for some European roles as part of the Continental Europe Recruitment team, working from Amsterdam Zuidas / WTC This is a role in a constantly changing and fast-paced organisation with great entrepreneurial spirit. ATS: Taleo