05/04 - now Senior Procurement Manager
Responsible for sourcing & contracting of all materials and services.
• Responsible for management and development of materials organization
• Customer interface for materials related activities. (several worldwide operating OEM’s)
• Budget holder of department budget.
• Accountable for purchasing price variances, cost reduction programs, freight profitability, planning of space, human resources and material handling equipment.
• Member of global Materials Management team
• Responsible for managing key supplier relationships to ensure delivery of the right products, at the right price, balancing quality, services and costs.
• Owner of the overall procurement process for qualifying, selecting and managing suppliers.
• Partner with internal clients to develop supplier management strategy;
• Coordinate and lead the sourcing, selection & contracting process;
• Evaluate supplier proposals and document selection of the most competitive supplier;
• Lead Business reviews with key suppliers;
• Maintain and report project savings and supplier performance reports;
• Manage contracts in accordance with procurement & legal standards.

Consultant (Temporary position) 1/04 - 3/04
Quick scan of existing purchasing functionality including suggestions for the future structure of the purchasing organization for a trading company.
• Plan for structure and development of new purchasing organization presented and accepted by contractor within agreed deadline.

Manager Logistics & Purchasing 01/93 -12/03.
Tasks / Responsibilities:
• Management of purchasing portfolio (portfolio > € 25 Million)
• Development and monitoring of a yearly purchasing and logistics action plan
• Management of the purchasing- and logistics department 25 persons (Purchasing - Planning - Warehouse - Facility Management - Commercial back office)
• Budget holder of departments budget
• Globalization of procurement functions within the company.
• Looking for synergy benefits within the company
• Implementation and maintenance of an automated system of “Vendor Quality Rating “.
• Reduction of stock levels and work in process.
• Reduction of “ time to market” lead times

Group leader Planning 01/90 - 12/92.
• Material-, Production- and Distribution planning
• Managing a group of four persons
• Managing the realization of the total logistics planning

Group leader Marketing Support 01/88 - 12/89.
• Contract administration, quotations, after sales service
• Managing a group of eight persons divided in three functional areas
• Contract administration for customer contracts, delivery schedules, production schedules and expediting.
• Sales quotations for spare parts.

Commercial Employee 01/85 - 12/87.
• Contract administration.

Financial Employee 01/83 - 12/84
• Budget administration.

HAVO 5 , MEAO CE-Richting, HEAO CE-Richting Avondstudie, Purchasing and Procurement Management (Universiteit Thales - Parijs)

Purchasing and Procurement Management,HEAO,MEAO,HAVO

COMPUTER EXPERTISE
MS Office, Baan V (ERP Software), ATLAS (Warehouse Management System), MFG/PRO (ERP Software), CORVU (Business Intelligence Software).
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Dutch, English, German, French