I am Procurement Manager and Purchasing specialist focused on NPR costs. I am also Contract Management specialist. I do help companies & organisations to manage their NPR costs better through a Contract Management System. I also make major savings in NPR costs for companies through benchmarking. All this on a No Cure No Pay basis and an avarage result in savings of 20%. This being direct bottom-line profits for these companies. I am also Interim Manager with extensive experiences as General Manager and Commercial Manager e.g. with franchise concepts; linking pin between Group Head Office and the local operational organisation. Pragmatic, strategic and people manager with helicopter-view; long experience in the Automotive Industry. Retail and Franchise experience in an international environment. Also experience in a B2B manufacturer environment. Hands-on teamplayer, who develops his team to a higher level through appropriate coaching. Constant drive for reaching the targets and results. Previous positions in general-, commercial- and marketing management.I am also a networker and member of the BNI global network through my chapter BNI Pluto in Veenendaal, NL.