After my career in RS Benelux, I moved to an exciting global secondment project, looking at process harmonisation between the regions and markets across end-to-end processes; this work will help to (amongst many others) eliminate complexities and maximise economies of scale.My role is to represent “the business” and supported by a team of subject matter experts I own a workstream around order create processes. In this role the project benefits from my >20 years of commercial and leadership experience in a market and my network within the commercial and operational part of the business.

In my role as Country Manager for the Benelux markets I was accountable for local P&L but most importantly driving the engagement and high performance culture of the local team. RS Benelux' revenue has almost threefolded in that decade and the employee engagement was amongst the highest in RS Group.

Responsible for the development and performance of the Sales team and sales growth in the Benelux market; working with a team of 25 FTE, (Key/Corporate) Account Managers and inside Sales team.Successfully transformed the sales department into a high performing team with a strong commercial attititude and a clear focus on sales performance.Continuously achieved double digit growth, exceeding forecasted sales levels.

As a member of the local Leadership team my responsibilities covered IT, Supply Chain, Facilities and Quality Management. Highlight was the succesful SAP implementation for the Benelux Branch for which I was the lead. The project was awarded with the IITT Silver Award for External Training Project of the Year.

Integrated front office and back office Sales teams, leading to more efficient and customer focussed teams.

In this role I was the manager of the team that built the (fibre) network of BT in the Netherlands.I this role I gained a lot of experience with large infrastructural projects.

Getronics Transaction & Card systems focussed mainly on Credit & Debit Card solutions (hardware, software, transaction processing & services), at a later stage the focus shifted to repetetive installation services mainly in the (booming) DSL market. My team existed of approx. 100 FTE covering planning, Field Service Engineers and customer service.

My role was to ensure the project to add "Chipknip" functionality at 20.000 EFT ternimals was managed on time and budget.