2008- 2009 Interim Procurement Director
• Span of control: budget of € 500 Mio and leading 10 team members
• Leading several tenders/RFP of € 10 Mio up to € 300 Mio
• Cost savings/avoidances of € 50 Mio per year
• Setting up strategic procurement plan and category plans
• Improve drastically risk management within procurement
• Setting up new procurement team (up skilling and enhancing the damaged group dynamics)

2007-2008 Strategic consultant European procurement Indirect spend.
• From scratch set up of aligned European Strategic procurement plan for the indirect spend inclusive strategy ,organization set-up, communication and change plan , strategy tool box, trainings,…

2007-2008 Consultant/Solution provider Procurement Postal services
• Project leader procurement of postal services providers in new liberalized post market
• Realized saving of € 1 Mio on total spend of € 8 Mio
• Enhanced quality, contracts and service level agreements

2007-2008 Consultant/Solution provider project “Off balancing 800 company cars”
• Set up business case inclusive sales and lease back and set up new financial organization 2007-2008

2006-2007 Consultant/Solution provider project “Printing contracts”
• Full tender set-up till final compliance
• Saving of € 1.4 Mio on total spend of € 11.6 Mio
• Enhanced control on supply chain
• Avoiding lock in on supplier market
• Coaching new buyer during process

2007-2008 Consultant/Solution provider Re-engineering purchase and facility department
• Full analysis and report of “as-is” situation
• Set up “to-be” situation
• Preparation of aligned strategic and action plan
• Search and coaching temporally interim manager for 12 months
• Search and training definitively Purchase and Facility Manager

2005-2006 Consultant Strategic Investment plan of € 130 Mio.
• Project leader on investment analysis of press equipment
• Calculation operational costs actual sites
• Proposal of different scenario’s from “business as usual” to full Greenfield operation (strategic plan + operational work-out)
• Support and preparation of final investment plan (inclusive NPV analysis)

2004-2005 Consultant/Solution provider Re-engineering procurement department.
• Project leader on cost optimizing program
• Cost reduction program of € 1.3 Mio
• Long term value enhancements

2004 Consultant/Solution provider before sale to private equity
• Important cost reduction programs (€ 5 Mio per year)
• Saving of 25% realized with enhanced quality
• Important time compression in the supply chain
• Set up of contingency plan and other risk mitigations
• Set up of full TCO model to make all costs fully transparent
• Enhancing customer’s value by using suppliers innovation

2004-2005 Consultant/Solution provider Outsourcing of clients production facility
• Assistance in outsourcing company’s production facility to third party
• Difficult negotiations leading to transparent contract with a € 5Mio/Y OPEX saving

2002-2003 Consultant/Solution Centralizing diversified East Europe Spend
• Centralizing the very diversified spend within Central Europe affiliates of Company
• Realizing important benefits
• Training programs, exchange of best practices , …

2002-2004 Different projects, Belgium
Consultant/Solution Different projects
• International school book publisher
• Large world top-5 pharmaceutical company
• Electrical hardware producer
• International fast food restaurant companies

Experience in pay roll functions
1999-2003 Buying and facility manager (International publisher).
• Span of control: € 90 Mio /Y , leading 20 people
• Complete re-engineering, leading different cost saving operations
• Set-up of central purchasing organization (project leader)

1992-1999 Head of purchase, inventory and facilities (Newspaper).
• Span of control: € 20 Mio /Y, leading 4 people
• Different savings programs

1989-1992 Purchase manager electronic and mechanical components

Masterclass in Corporate Finance, Master in Strategic Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Bachelor in Applied Economics (French studies), Master in solid state physics.

Courses: Professional buyer BIPS-VIB Antwerp, Advanced negotiation trainings, Quality control, Fleet and telecom management, advanced procurement trainings, Project Management.

Languages: Dutch, French, English and German

Computer skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Oracle PO.