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Antwerp, Be

Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België

Overseeing our Strategy services in Belgium & Luxembourg and helping clients to achieve profitable growth through effective commercial strategies, business-led enterprise transformations as well as strategic planning.

Helping clients in Products and Financial Services in their distribution and growth strategies

Brussels

Large Belgian Insurer - Commercial and distribution strategyTranslating their overall vision in a clear distribution strategy from a business & IT perspective, including client interaction model and journey design, capability requirement prioritization, business case and roadmap set-upFinancial Service Provider – Segment analysis and value proposition designSupporting the client in the go-to-market of their new business offering by detailing a value proposition and proof points fitted to multiple customer segments within payments and capital markets through a structured methodology, industry insights and customer validation. Belgian insurance company - Bring to market a new business offeringProject manager of a 8+ team in order to successfully bring to market a new business offering. Activities are related to branding, distribution / go-to-market strategy, service design and development, operating modelling and partnership development. Main responsibilities were to coordinate the distribution channel & marketing approach, large scale quantitative study, distribution representative interviews and customer testing.

Brussels

Belgian insurance company – Detail & test new service designAim was to confirm the need, target segments, value proposition, business viability and ecosystem design of a new product offering through rapid prototyping and customer testing. Main responsibilities are related to go-to-market & distribution strategy, business plan and ecosystem design. Dutch mortgage company – Data Privacy Program managementLeading a Data Privacy program to comply with existing and GDPR regulation by capturing detailed requirements, translating requirements to detailed impact analysis and action plans, providing the required program management support to execute the different activities within the underlying projects. Belgian Insurance company – Interaction cost modelDeveloping a model to simulate and monitor the expected evolution in client interactions and costing model based on the newly developed distribution and client segmentation strategy.Belgian Insurance company – Vision impact analysisAssessing the organizational readiness to implement changes related to their current business plan & the potential impact of new evolutions within the market (analytics, robotics, IoT, …).Belgian Payment Services provider – Strategic PlanningReviewing current business model as well as analyzing market trends to determine strategic options for growthBelgian Insurance company – Strategic Cost AssessmentAssessing activity scope, operational effectiveness and related cost structure to identify potential cost savings and (ir)relevant activities given their target distribution strategy.

Brussels

Belgian bank-insurer – Prestudy Life InsuranceIT & Process landscape scan for life insurance to assess if current systems and way of working fit the strategic growth ambitions. Main responsibilities were related to business process assessment, scenario documentation and business case building.Belgian Financial Institution - Strategic assessment- Assessing current operations, IT systems & commercial capabilities - Assessing the market potential - Identifying the potential scenarios for future growthBelgian Major Insurance company – Service Organization AssessmentAnalysis and assessment of current servicing organization to gain an insight in how clients find their way directly to the company, why they contact them and how the organization responds to these interactions today. Recommendations included quick wins and longer term initiatives.Belgian Major Insurance company – IT transformationPlanning and coordination of analysis deliverables, part of a large IT transformation program related to ‘Knowing your customer’ whereby main responsibilities were related to business requirements and process (impact) analysis.Belgian Major insurance company – Online solution for brokers in SME sales & service Assessment of a new proposition aimed to support intermediaries in their servicing of small enterprises and independents including business case development and IT effort analysisGovernment Agency – Market entry assessmentEuropean market-entry study for leading Chinese chemicals companies. The analysis included a chemicals value chain analysis, adaptation of the structure of the value chain to match new clients’ needs and synergy identification.

Applied Economics Sciences

Bachelor and master specialisation: Finance (Major) & Strategy (Minor)

Economics-Mathematics, A-Levels

Activities and Societies: Business management qualification

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