After having gained several years of experience from production perspective in office & 3D printing consumables, Lyreco has given me the opportunity to offer full workplace solutions, focussed on both Corporate and Mid-market companies. I am responsible for New Business Development in the Netherlands with the aim of helping organizations to reduce costs through supplier consolidation and jointly making procurement processes more efficient. Among 16.000 stocked products, 16 product categories from office furniture, catering & hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), office & IT supplies, packaging and personalised products, Lyreco offers a comprehensive range of products and services to facilitate your entire organization.Are you open to saving time and money by consolidating your office supplies sources and making your supply chain more sustainable? Do not hesitate to contact me! ✉ erik.henstra@lyreco.com ☏ +316-24692688LYRECO GROUP ACTIVITIEShttps://group.lyreco.com/gbr/

Business Unit "Armor New Techs": worked in the Armor 3D team as Business Development Manager in charge of Benelux & Nordic regions. Goal: set-up strategy and build the market in the designated areas by promoting the Kimya Materials offer to 3D printer manufacturers and distributors, as well as the Kimya Lab offer to industrial end-users willing to integrate Additive Manufacturing in their finished goods’ production process, for tools manufacturing or rapid prototyping. ARMOR is the world leader in Thermal Transfer ribbon and European leader in remanufacturing of Inkjet, Laser, Copier and Large Format printer consumables, composed of 3 Business Units: Armor Industrial Coding & Printing (AICP), reducing the environmental footprint of printing by offering ingenious and responsible consumables with Armor Office Printing (AOP) and Armor New Techs. About the New Techs:★ Increase the safety, performance and lifespan of batteries with En 'Safe® current collectors;★ Provide solar energy to a maximum number of people via ASCA© third-generation photovoltaic films;★ Boost Additive Manufacturing in the industry with Kimya; technical 3D materials for FDM technology;★ Conceive innovative inks for digital printing with Armor Industrial Inks Lab;★ Develop innovative industrial inks to meet the new needs of manufacturers (Armor Advanced Coating).ARMOR is an industrial company that places societal innovation at the heart of its development model, to provide effective responses to society’s challenges.This French medium-sized company supports its development on a strategy of co-industrialization and sustainable innovation. Its 1850 employees are located in 26 industrial and logistics sites on 4 continents in the world, including 850 in France.

Business Unit "Armor Office Printing": worked as Account Manager responsible for reducing the environmental footprint of printing by offering ingenious and responsible remanufactured printer consumables to both Retail and B2B distributors in the Benelux market. This involved private labels (Quantore, Bruna, Primera) and own brands (weCare and OWA) for consumer and office printing.

Hoffmann B.V. stopped activities due to economic reasons. Quantore handled wholesale, purchasing and distribution of office, IT and printing supplies for Hoffmann. I was approached by Quantore for a temporary (project based) role, responsible for coordination and integration of Hoffmann activities under a entity of Quantore, with the aim of maintaining market share. In the meantime I was in contact with ARMOR, manufacturer of (private label) printer comsumables, such as Quantore brand.

Worked as Sales Manager responsible for all retail activities (sales team Dissit) and B2B activities for end-users, key-accounts and independent dealers in the Benelux. Finished the study Industrial Engineering & Management (Bachelor of Engineering).

Despec moved to Den Bosch and after to Belgium. I was approached by Dissit (trading under the name of Hoffmann B.V.) and recieved a proposal to start as Account Manager, responsible for all retail activities (office, it- and stationary segments) in region North-East of the Netherlands. At the same time I started the study "Industrial Engineering & Management" (on own initiative and by own financing) to enhance my knowledge about business processes, among other things.

I started living together with my wife and wanted to start studying again. So, I moved back to Friesland and got the opportunity to work as Junior Account Manager, responsible for creating new-business in the Dutch retail market (office, it and stationary segment). It was an in-house job, however after one month I gained my first experience with customer visits and store design. In the meantime I was thinking about which study I wanted to start with.

After completing my second study, I wanted to travel but at the same time gain work experience. I have always found flying fascinating and got this opportunity with Transavia, after which I moved to Amsterdam and started working as Cabin Attendant on board the Boeing 737-700 and 737-800. ★ Basic Cabin Crew training completed (CA/1) ★ Course Aviation Security completed (KMar)★ Transition traning completed (CA/2)

Worked as commercial employee in-house during Marketing & Communication study with the goal to enhance my business communication and commercial skills.

Worked as sales employee during Retail study. combination of working and learning (four days of practice, one day of theory).