Dec 2006 – Present Director of Procurement Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Market leader in the industrial sanitizing, cleaning and detergent industry.
• Responsible for the re-organisation, re-location and centralization of the Purchasing organisation.
• Team of 11 Corporate Purchase Managers (direct reports), 1 Financial Analyst (direct report) and 16 Plant Purchase Managers (indirect reports)
• Responsible for all sourcing activities of Europe, including:
• Chemicals (spend ~$300 mio., petrochemical, oleo chemical, inorganic & organic),- 3 Purchase Managers
• Contract Manufacturing (spend ~$120 mio.), - 2 Purchase Managers
• Packaging (spend ~$60 mio., plastics and cardboard/paper), - 2 Purchase Managers
• Indirect Materials (spend ~$200 mio., includes fleet, travel, communications, print etc) - 2 Purchase Managers
• Equipment (spend ~$70 mio. includes engineering projects). - 2 Purchase Managers
• Member of the Supply Chain Management team.
• Upgrading the effectiveness and relevance of the Purchasing organisation by Setting up of complete forecasting process, Introducing basic- and advanced tools such as Supplier Information Network, Feedstock Monitoring System,
Cost Saving project tracking, Supplier ‘SMART’ auditing etc.
• Implementation of strategic sourcing activities (Strategy formation, Value Chain analysis, TCO modelling, Product Life Cycle management, Supplier KPI’s and Score-carding etc.)
• Initiating, developing and staffing of the Indirect Materials procurement function and organisation.
• Initiating and safeguarding strategic sourcing alliances with the Top 15 suppliers.
• Initiating and co-ordinating projects for improving quality and efficiency of the sourcing process.
• Developed cross-functional co-operation with key stake-holders and internal customers (R&D, Marketing, Operations, Quality and Finance).

Dec 1996 – Nov 2006 Diverse Functies.
Market leader in the Pressure Sensitive Industry.
Dec 2003 – Nov 2006 Senior Group Purchasing Manager – Paper & Silicones.
• Responsible for the sourcing strategies of the Industrial Paper & Silicone segments – total purchase-spend 400 million Euro.
• Member of the Strategic Business Line Team Industrial Paper.
• Managing a pan-European team of four Speciality Purchasers in France, Netherlands, Luxembourg and England, one Chemical purchase manager and one Silicone Purchase Manager in the Netherlands.
• Initiating and safeguarding strategic alliances with suppliers worldwide.
• Initiating and co-ordinating projects for improving quality and efficiency of the sourcing process, worldwide.
July 2002 to Dec 2003 Product Integration Team Leader.
• Responsible for the integration of the product lines of three companies.
• Leading a team of 30+ professionals and project managers situated in 9 different European locations from all departments within the organisation (Production, Finance, Procurement, R&D, Service & Logistics and Marketing).
• Responsible for all aspects of the integration including product line composition, production location and efficiency analysis, raw material consolidation, service programme inclusion, capacity balancing, profitability analysis and marketing communication.
• Reporting to a corporate Steering Committee jointly based in the Netherlands and the USA.
• Achieved total of 30.000.000 Euros in savings at the end of the two-year project, including the closure of two production facilities.
July 1999 – June 2002 Senior Purchase Manager Plastics & Global Strategy Owner
• Responsible for the sourcing strategies of the Industrial Plastic Film segments for each of the 5 Fasson Roll Worldwide divisions and the Graphics division – total purchase-spend 225 million Euros.
Fasson Roll Worldwide is composed of 5 divisions: North America, Europe, South America, Asia Pacific and South Africa.
• Member of the Fasson Strategic Business Line Teams Films and Specialty and the Graphics Business Teams Corporate Graphics and Signage.
• Managing a pan-European team of four Speciality Purchasers in France, Netherlands, Luxembourg and England.
• Managing three Purchase managers worldwide (North America, South Africa and Latin America), and liaising with two Purchase Directors (Asia Pacific and North America).
• Initiating and safeguarding strategic alliances with suppliers worldwide.
• Initiating and co-ordinating projects for improving quality and efficiency of the sourcing process, worldwide.
Dec 1996- Dec 1999 European Purchase Manager Plastics.
• Responsible for the sourcing strategies of the Industrial Plastic Films segment – total purchase-spend 40 million Euro.
• Member of the Strategic Business Team Industrial Films.
• Initiating and safeguarding strategic alliances with suppliers.
• Initiating and co-ordinating projects for improving quality and efficiency of the sourcing process.
• In close collaboration with the Product Manager Films, defining product concepts and translating these into technical- and commercial sourcing specifications.
• Setting up market analysis systems and utilising these tools to track market developments.
• Succeeded in lowering average material costs by 15% through a three-year period. Successfully applied eSourcing tools.

Jan 1995 – Dec 1996 Marketing & Dealer Formula Manager.
Digital printing.
• General responsibility for all aspects of the dealer formula related to marketing, communication, and acquisition.
• In close collaboration with the General Manager defining new product/service concepts for the Offset and Small Office printing market.
• Jointly responsible for all initiating all marketing-related activities.
• Regional dealer account responsibility for all South Netherlands accounts (40+ dealers).
• Succeeded in growing the dealer portfolio from 80+ to 130+ (90% national coverage)
• Developed concepts for the successful introduction of the first digital printer in the Netherlands.

Oct 1993 – Jan 1995 Sales & Marketing Manager.
Dutch printing company.
• Responsible for the acquisition of new accounts.
• Responsible for all Marketing based activities for the svenPrinters group.
• Drawing up and executing the annual Marketing and Communication plans.
• All PR and Marketing activities such as Direct Mailing, Data Warehousing, Copy-writing, Customer Service management, Telephone acquisition.
• Responsible for organisation of Trade Show participation.

Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Master of Management (IMM), Young Managers Programme, NIMA-B, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) HEAO-CE.

Languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish.

Computer skills: Good to Excellent for all standard programmes such as Excel, Powerpoint, Word, SAP