1-8-05 / 1-1-05 Contracts Manager
• Pre/Post Award Contract activities.
• Preparing contract documents, proof reading contract documentation, compilation of reports and analyses relating to various types of contracts.
• Develop and maintain Project Supply Management Schedules.
• Negotiating with international suppliers and contractors.
• Initiator and chairman of Progress Meetings, writing and issuing minutes of meeting
Key Projects & Achievements
• Post Award Contracting activities for Upgrade Project Paper Machine 1 and 2 (Voith Paper, Germany)
• Pre and Post Award Contracting activities for new Gas Turbine Power Plant CVG. (General Electric, US)
• Post Award Contracting activities for Project Color Coating Kitchen (Metso Paper, Norway)
• Purchasing of temporary site huts and company kitchen to accommodate 210 contractor workers.
• Due to multiple sourcing purchasing strategy achieved a cost saving of € 42.000,=.
• Negotiated and prepared Umbrella Contract for services with company Siemens and KEMA.

1-1-02 / 1-6-05 Purchasing & Projects Manager
• Contractor Management, develop and maintain worldwide relations on strategic and tactical level.
• Managed personnel (3) of his section and coordinated the activities.
• Improvement / synergy project European Procurement and Supplier management.
• Identified areas of improvement, developed and managed key performance indicators.
• Identification and assessment of appropriate sourcing and suppliers.
• Generated contingency plans for business critical suppliers and services.
• Responsible for the realization, quality and completion of the Clinical projects.
• Develop and maintain contracts and maintain contractor information
• Responsible for Purchasing (Portfolio of 50 million Euro) and executing audits (vendor evaluations).
Key Projects & Achievements
• Outsourced the complete production (labeling & packaging) of Cardioxane to manufacturing site in Belgium and Proleukin to packaging contractor in Zoetermeer within expected time line of 6 month.
• Relocated Warehousing to external warehousing company within expected time line of 2 months
• Outsourced packaging components related purchasing activities to packaging contractors.
• Mentioned outsourcing projects resulted in reduction of 7 FTE’s and cost saving of € 500.000,=
• Negotiated all-in price per produced product. Resulted in an extra cost saving of the external manufacturing costs of €80.000,= (per year)

1992 - 1999 Purchasing Associate
• Purchasing of goods and services (Capital investments, ICT products & services, Raw materials, Promotional material, Packaging material, etc.) Portfolio of 50 million Euro
• Managed personnel (2)of his section and coordinated the activities
• Developed Standard Operation Procedures.
• Selection of suppliers and negotiated contracts.
Key Projects & Achievements
• Initiated and managed successfully, the retrieval of a double blind clinical study. Selected a qualified and flexible company, installed retrieval procedure, check lists and communication plan within 3 days for product to be returned, within 4 weeks from 120 sites in 11 European countries within Europe to USA.
• Wrote plan for Pan European Purchasing of Chiron organization to set up centralized purchasing through Flexible Cross Functional Purchasing Teams. Implementation time within 1 year with an estimated cost saving of 10 million Euro.
• Negotiated Pan European lease agreement for desktop computers and lab tops for all European sites which resulted in saving of € 35.000,= and 115 man hours due to outsourcing installation of desktop image.

1988 - 1991 Purchasing Agent
• Purchasing of goods and services, like: Capital Investments, ICT products, Raw materials, Production and Laboratory equipment and supplies, Packaging material, Leasing, Facility services and goods, etc.
• Coordination of packaging development

1987 - 1988 Junior Programmer

1985 - 1987 Several jobs through employment agency
- Assistant Human Resource Officer
- Market research assistant
- Administration assistant
- Assistant design/documentation
- Help-desk

1984 - 1985 Planner / Departmental assistant.

NEVI-1, Computer & Information Science, M.A.V.O., L.E.A.O, S.B.B.O, L.T.S, Leadership, Financial Management for non-financial Managers, GMP – Good Manufacturing Practice Module 1, 2 & 3, Creative Commercial Negotiation Techniques, Project management (NIVE Management), Winning Negotiating 1 & 2 , GDP - Good Distribution Practice, Materials Management en Good Manufacturing Practice, Negotiating, DataFlex Macro-programming and Pascal Source & Library, Nevi Purchasing Academy, TRAIL/EGSC, CKC, MK Leads, NCATB Groep

Software Knowledge: SAP R3 4.6c, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Atlas EDMS, Navision, MS Excel, MS Project, ACT! 6.0, MFG/PRO, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes

Languages: Dutch, English, German