2009-present Head of Business Categories and Strategic Relations (Energy Company).
I am heading up the global indirect procurement department. Main focus: implementing strategic sourcing processes, set up category management for all indirect spend categories, like IT, Travel, Legal, Time Hire, etc, negotiating global master agreements and set up the Supplier Relationship Management program for strategic suppliers (both direct and indirect spend).

2005 - 2008 Global Sourcing Manager.
Responsible for IT communications.
• Global responsibility of managing large Network and Telecom providers
• Development of IT strategy and Telecom with Corporate IT
• Track lead Vendor Management
• Responsible for the development and deployment of Supplier Relationship Management with key strategic suppliers. I am responsible for the relationship (including top management level) for the Non-Product Related (NPR) Suppliers.
• Project leader

2003 - 2005 Senior Management Consultant.
I was specialized in the realization of major IT contracts (commercial and legal) and the (re)designing of procurement departments.
• European tender mobile telephony: 12.000 connections including hardware
• European tender software for document management, record management and workflow management: max. 70.000 licenses
• European tender System Integrator for the implementation of the software mentioned above
• Tender Telephony for the Dutch government: fixed and mobile telephony
• Realization of major IT-contracts with internal supplier (migration tot Windows XP, insourcing workplace management services)
• Implementation of vendor management (based on the Kraljic approach)

2001 – 2003 Director (IT).
• Responsible for the set-up and leading of the company.
• Design of training program
• Recruitment of management trainees
• Acquisition of suitable projects
• Supervising the performance of the management trainees

2001 Senior Consultant/Director (IT).
• Conducting European tenders
• Outsourcing studies
• Implementation of contract management
• Development of purchasing terms
• (Re-) negotiating large IT-contracts
• Set-up and leading the Procure-IT Academy: business unit specialized in training IT-procurement professionals

1999 - 2001 Senior Consultant.
Executing consultancy assignments within large organizations in order to improve their procurement function.
• Conducting European tenders such as telephony, software and services
• Organizing the procurement function
• Development and execution of the open course Tactical Purchasing
• Development of the open course Strategic Purchasing Management
• Development and execution of several in-company trainings
• Set up of financial administration
• Implementation of worked hours registration

1997- 2000 University, Economic Institute - Lecturer

Executive MBA Programme, European Institute of Purchasing Management, Postmasters in didactics for university Lecturers, Economics (University)

Courses/Trainings: on purchasing and IT-procurement, managerial skills, sales & acquisition and didactics, Driving World Class Excellence, Intercultural Awareness, Managing a Cross Functional team, Insourcing-Outsourcing, Managing Strategic Relations, Advanced Strategic Relationship Management, strategic sourcing, Advanced Negotiations, International Petroleum Management.

Languages: Dutch, English, German and French.