2008 – until now Technical Strategic Buyer.
Activities:
- Investigates availability of suppliers and materials in the marketplace; implements Enterprice/Devision sourcing strategies and integrates suppliers,
- Leads and/or participates on multi-functional teams responsable for make vs buy decisions, resourcing activities, and developing and impementating sourcing strategies; supports the Engineering Change Management process so disign changes and product improvements are implemented in timely and cost effective manner,
- Maintains an ongoing relationship with assigned suppliers to monitor and improve supplier performance, messures the performance of the supplier and defines corrective actions; obtains assistance from other functional representatives as apropriate, may negotiate with suppliers in order to resolve short-term problems,
- Drives continuous improvement in terms of performence and lowest total cost with supply utilizing Achieving Excellence process/criteria and other appropriate supply managment tools,
- Leads continuous cost reduction/value improvement activity, focusing on shareholder Value Added; develops and implements communication plan to key stakeholders,
- Supports negotiation of sypply agreements with specific suppliers resulting in cost models, an implementation strategy and a documented agreemente, ensuring the Compagny meets its overall goals for cost, quality, continuity of supply, etc.,
- Develops and executes inventory plans to achieve inventory/asset management and material flow goals; resolves shipping, receiving, invoicing and payment problems to ensure prompt and accurate payments to suppliers,
- Responsible commodities: Weldments, Raw Material, Machining parts, Hardware, Castings, Friction Material, Forgings, Electr(on)ics.

2007 – 2008 Purchase Project Integrator.
Activities:
- Prepare RFQ packages for suppliers from the bidderslist for new projects,
- Control project planning at suppliers for BOM / BOT,
- Manage all relevant purchasing activities within the project team,
- Maintiain BOM / BOT budgets during project phase,
- Manage relationship during project phase between customer and supplier,
- Supplier timing management,
- Co-operation with: Commodity Buyers, SQD-engineers, Engineers, Suppliers, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Quality en Customer.

2006 - 2007 Purchaser.
Activities:
- Assist Purchase Manager,
- Support and steering the operational purchasers,
- Pro-active realising of cost decrease in the supply chain,
- Marked research,
- Judge and compare technical specifications,
- Article management,
- Invoice settlement,
- Relationship managment,
- Stock control,
- Professionalising from the compagny.

1997 - 2006 Purchaser
Activities:
- Purchasing of all parts en services that are not available by Defence, wiht contracts and on the local market,
- Thematic purchase / outsourcing,
- Quotiation where nessesarry,
- Contracting,
- Exhibition visits, market research,
- Ordercontrole, -handling en archiving,
- To be present at planning conferences,
- Host nation support,
- Archiving

1996 - 1997 Sales representative / Purchaser.
Activities:
- Sales in the field,
- Sales from the office,
- Purchase from sold parts.

1992 - 1996 Employe calculations- and planningsoffice
Activities:
- Maintain drawing files ( changes, development from new trailers ),
- Production planning (production building, warehouse, production, pre treatment department, planning zinc-plating and sawing department (wood)),
- Planning ( warehouse, production assembly department, production lighting, production pre treatment department, production sawing department en zinc-plating),
- Supply management,
- Purchase,
- Support and assistance from personal,
- Support and assistance Special Building department,
- Support and assistance from warehouse (supply control, routing etc.)
- Support and assistance from Sales representatives.

NEVI 1, MTS Mechanical Engineering with Commercial - Technical differentiation, MAVO.

Courses: FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), juridical aspects within Purchase (NEVI), Administration Systeem (incl. mug), Safteycommissioner (K.N.S.A.), Non-commissioned officers Education IMO-S, Salestraining, bearing technics, Truckdriver Certificate, CCV-B road haulage, Workpreparation and Planning.

Languages: Dutch, English and German.

Computerknowledge: Windows, Office; word- excel- powerpoint, Exact, BaaN, SAP.