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Tricht, The Netherlands

Netherlands

Tricht

Netherlands

Netherlands

Senior Purchasing and Contracts Engineer Consultant working in the Offshore and Oil and Gas.Strategic Technical Purchasing I Contract Management I Vendor selection I Estimating I RFI I RFQ Bid evaluation I Negotiations I Contracting I Project fulfillment

Gorinchem

Vendor selectiebeleid I Estimating I RFI I RFQ Bid evaluation I Negotiations I Contracting I Project fulfillment

Delft Area, Netherlands

Allseas Vessel Pieter Schelte now know as “Pioneering Spirit”• Market inquiry & tendering negotiations en contracting of Z-drive sub-packages, grand total 300 million $.• Responsible for the 48,000 tons lift capacity Z-drive deck crane(s) internals• Vendor selection, risk assessments, legal liaisons and contract finalization• Draft wording of all contracts and purchasing orders• Specify/address changes in liabilities and revised contractual exposure• Sub-contractor coordination and expediting• Liaison between participants (client, engineering, operations & subcontractors)

Groningen, Netherlands

N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie• Member core team of Gasunie Network Improvement Programme (GNIP: Gas infrastructure investment / renovation programme)• Project member of GOS (Gas receipt stations) installations project• Sr. contract engineer European EU tenders shutdown valves, heaters and filters• Tendering new metering stations and all rotating equipment• Delivery and installation of new metering station at Nuon Amsterdam

Harderwijk

As a senior member of the procurement team responsible for special- and large projects.Also managerial responsible for all contractor activities regarding fiberglass, coax cable and other telephone cables en installations.Special technical projects realized:- Tender for one national contract regarding drilling and pressing pipelines- ITT including negotiations and contracting and setting op a new process regarding soil contamination- Removing very old telephone cablesRenegotiating car lease contracts; reducing the amount of suppliers from 6 to 2. Which has lead togreater efficiency and costs reductions.Other tenders which were finalized were for new products and hiring external staff and services

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Several consultancy challenges.

Almere Stad Area, Netherlands

As senior purchaser responsible Facility, Customer Service Centre and IT related and other large Capex related investments. Special achievements:- ITT, negotiations and contracting for the training and education for all USG staff- Starting up new negotiations and re-contracting advertising sites- ITT and contracting new national maintenance scheme for all USG shop locations- Setting up new contract management tools and implementation of the processNext to the above together with management finding new ways of a greater and early procurement involvement which should lead to greater efficiency and costs reductions.

Wijster And Moerdijk

Senior Procurement Consultant, member of the procurement management team working at both locations in Wijster and MoerdijkAchievements:Changing the old way of purchasing into purchasing new style. This was only possible together and in close cooperation with the new plant management.This has resulted in a better and more effective way of communicating and the regular stops and emergency stops have been realized in less time and at lower costs.Responsible for purchasing plant and process related products and service and also NPR products e.g. buildings, accommodations, premises and site-management, transport and logistics, hotels and travel, facilities, security, HR, fleet management, contractors and IT.Also responsible for training of the new staff members which joined the procurement team on the location Moerdijk.

Atoomweg 100 Utrecht

- Managerial responsibility for all contractor activities e.g. fibreglass, coax cable, node- and telecom-buildings and lease-lines- Responsible for procurement process RFI and RFQ, negotiations, contracting en contract-management- Setting-up vendor management system

The Hague Area, Netherlands

As senior buyer networks involved in the tenders of tunneling, new inside repeaters and other network improvement projects and maintenance. This also includes the Belgium office.- Responsible for purchase of IT systems for fixed, GSM and UMTS network, maintenance and outsourcing projects- Setting up Improvement projects - Contract management

The Hague Area, Netherlands

The following is applicable:- Head of procurement responsible for the department within the divisions Infrastructure and Transport and Transportation;- Professionalizing the technical procurement process, introducing relationship management (internally and externally);- Successfully negotiated several large projects. Especially mentioning is the project that involves the reconstruction of 4 sluices in the province of Zeeland. Also contracting maintenance and support of this project on basis of TCO for a period of 15 years;- Contracting road-constructing companies for the reconstruction of motorways, airfields and traffic signalling in the Netherlands and also the contracting of services and maintenance and support agreements for example tunnelling, baggage handling at airport, railway crossings and airstrips.Next to this all I have started implementing new strategies and working methods and a new way of administrating procurement- and market information.

Working location: Shell Information Technology International and main OfficeProcurement packages: IT in general and hard- and software and peripherals and disaster recovery systems.As senior strategic buyer with global IT responsibilities in the purchase of hard- and software and peripherals. Projects e.g. Knowledge management tool, disaster recovery systems Australia and New Zealand, Global maintenance hardware and the roll-out of global printer usage and maintenance.Special mentioning is the purchase of a super dome computer for the analysis of the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico. This after the platform was struck by Hurricane Katrine.Project was completed within timelines and technically it was a great succes.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsibilities:Strategic purchasing, contract negotiation and contract management of PR and non-PR products goods and services.Examples are: The purchase of technical products and services regarding mobile network, transport and logistics and warehousing, real-estate, contracting companies, technical services, IT, marketing events, -products and –services and also the outsourcing of call centre, IT support, postal and facility services.Special mentioning of large technical projects: The building en rebuilding of telecom-housing, masts and fibreglass city rings.The last two years worked as Procurement Analyst with the responsibility of analyzing and drawing up the procurement processes. Next to this I have been appointed as a business expert in the procurement field, and participated as member of the “Process and Quality Board". I represent procurement, in the steering committee “project management” and was not only responsible for process improvements, efficiency and financial savings, but I was also accountable for the success that the procurement department fully passed the ISO audit. Main success is that >80% of all projects have early procurement involvement. Early involvements result in more efficiency and cost reductions in procurement process and also against minimal risks.