Yordi Van den Brande

Business Development Manager Belgium at Heylen Warehouses

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Business Development Manager Belgium at Heylen Warehouses. Responsible for land and property acquisitions and business development activities for our extensive logistics real estate portfolio in Belgium. Sourcing and developing new business opportunities targeting both local and international clients and sites. Advising, negotiating and preparing leases, sales, (re)developments, sale & lease backs, etc. Differentiating myself by applying my educational Business Engineering background with operational and process engineering experience in a world leading logistics company, combined with real estate experience from a world leading listed broker. This allows me to think along with our property occupiers' as well as aligning our operational and financial incentives as a landlord.

Experience

  • Business Development Manager Belgium at Heylen Warehouses
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Responsible for the acquisition of new sites in Belgium and France (greenfield / brownfield / sale & lease back / ...) for redevelopment. From prospecting, over tendering, calculating and negotiating up until deal closing. Responsible for the leasing of our Belgian portfolio with focus on Flanders. From prospecting, over negotiating up until deal closing. Heylen Warehouses is a company that invests in and develops state-of-the-art logistics real estate. Warehousing is essential to maintain an efficient flow of materials and goods from source to point of use. We apply a strong ‘hold’ strategy, high quality standards and a long term vision to help build a promising future for the logistics industry across Europe. Just like the ancient builders of cathedrals, our vision is to build for the future, for the next generation. We develop, rent and manage future-proof warehouses, used by leading industrial brands. www.heylenwarehouses.com

  • Owner at Ypsilon Group BV
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Management & Consulting

  • Real Estate Consultant Industrial & Logistics at JLL Belgium
    Jul 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

    JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $16.6 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 91,000 as of December 31, 2020. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.

  • Kuehne+Nagel (BeNeLux)
    • Customer Solutions Engineer BeNeLux | Management Trainee
      Nov 2021 - Jul 2022 · 9 mos

      * 2-100Mio EUR Tender preparation, submission and presentation * Data analysis and data crunching * Warehouse lay-out design 10.000-20.000m2 * Analysis and (re-)design of logistic processes and full option supply chains * Automation design and analysis * In-dept use of Global Calculation Tool (GCT)

    • Operations Manager | Management Trainee
      Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 · 3 mos

      * 150 FTE Management * KPI & Client Management

    • Project Manager Customer Implementation | Management Trainee
      Apr 2021 - Sep 2021 · 6 mos

      * Lead UAT Testing * BCP Design * Process Design & Optimization * CTI Management

  • Owner and Founder at BÜRMAN
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Premium clothing brand. 100% Made in Belgium. Focused on optimizing sustainability over the full supply chain whilst guaranteeing cost-competitiveness.