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Paris, Île-de-France, France

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Responsible for designing strategic growth plans, turnarounds and business unit assessments; Advising the Europe management team on country growth, optimization strategies and investment proposalsKey achievements.
• Delivering a sub-regional 3-year strategy plan for growing the EBIT by +€5mn and +8% ROCE
• Restructuring a loss-making key entity from -€14mn to break-even within 18 months, through restructuring the organization, appointing new leadership and building a new financial structure
• Assessing the performance of a wind on-shore unit during declining periods. Implementing operational excellence to improve the EBIT by +€0.5mn, divesting loss-making assets (+€0.3mn) and upgrading future-proof assets.
• Creating a yearly strategic review process for assessing smaller units in highly competitive segments for ease of decision making about scaling up, keeping or disbanding
• Delivering an asset optimization plan for a key business unit to enable future growth and streamline the footprint which resulted in freeing up €3.7mn of cash-flow and reducing yearly costs by €1.2mn

Casablanca

Advising internal investment team of OCP on a three-month full-time project to define go-to-market strategies for the battery market

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Responsible for the entire supply chain of the largest instant coffee factory from beans delivery to finished product on customer’s shelf on time in fullKey achievements include:
• Leading the supply planning of a unionized factory with multiple complex bottlenecks during six transition periods including internal labor reorganization, Brexit, COVID 19 and production line replacements while.
• Developing new weekly and monthly cycle standards and tools set to improve visibility, ease and speed of decision making by 50%
• Identifying synergies across resources; reducing inventory by four days, total portfolio by 55% across six production units and yield by 8% on freeze dryers

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Responsible for the supply chain and outsourcing throughout a €45mn investment facility upgrade during 9 months. Portfolio of 300 articles changed across 4 levels of manufacturing processes and supplying 20+ countries.
• Maintaining service levels at 99.6% above target of 98.5% during the entire transition
• Initiating cross network back up support rhythm for semi-finished goods, avoiding short term €4mn outsourcing costs
• Eliminating obsolescence risk across the manufacturing chain, avoiding €0.6mn write-off costs

Utrecht, Netherlands

• Responsible for the performance improvement on existing ready-to-drink co-manufacturer and integrating four new ones into the instant coffee factory networkKey achievements include:
• Implementing four new co-manufacturers, processes, sales and operations planning cycles, service level agreements and ways of working
• Improving service performance levels on existing co-manufacturers from 76 to 99% vs previous year
• Launching three new products in six countries, increasing revenues by 10% the first year
• Designing and implementing production clusters and cycles to absorb +20% yearly growing demand

Région De Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

• Responsible for the entire supply chain of a highly complex instant coffee manufacturing plant while preparing stock builds and contingency plans for merger between the Douwe Egberts and Mondelez coffee branchKey.
• Implementing new standards and root-cause analysis for production line performance resulting in +12% output
• Convincing Operations Director to purchase €4mn spot processed component coffee to avoid 5 week-out of stock (approx. €5.5mn revenue) in most profitable market
• Maintaining service levels at 98.5% and inventory on target during 4 month-shadowing period after merger

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Responsible for supply planning of two sprit brands’ production lines (Smirnoff Vodka for Europe and Johnnie Walker Black for the world) and one main market’s entire portfolio (South Africa)Key achievements include:
• Leading monthly tactical performance reviews with demand planning and commercial teams in the market to increase on time in fill service level by 7% while decreasing working capital by 11%
• Guiding three redesigns for phase in-phase out in 30+ markets with no obsolete write-off costs
• Training and coaching two interns, managing and allocating weekly workloads

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Responsible for all aspects of supply chain for a portfolio of key clients in the North America/Caribbean free trade zone. Joined nine months before a department transfer to Panama and SingaporeKey achievements include:
• Creating three new reporting tools for inventory, billing, and shipment plans with roll out to a team of 5
• Optimizing all aspects of customer service resulting in service delivery +16% on time in full, -11% orders overdue billing
• Training up three new employees on processes and portfolio with a shadowing of two months

Montreal, Canada Area

Ireland

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: - MBA consultant to a Top 100 Swiss start-up on its business set up strategy and execution

Master Degree, International Business

Exchange Program

Master Degree, Engineering