Rob Kooij Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

Supervise Procurement staff at the Rotterdam Technology Center. Responsible for managing all procurement activities on site, including Lab Operations, IT, HR, Facility Management, Maintenance, Construction, Engineering, Design, Warehousing & Shipping. Member of the Operational Leadership Team.

Baarn, The Netherlands

Lar Kukala is a Procurement Services Provider, helping organizations to identify and realize savings across all spend categories and procurement levers. I work closely with your team to build organizational capabilities to sustain procurement gains over the long-term.

Luanda, Angola

Contract Advisor of high spend contracts. Also managed a team of senior contract advisors (expats) and contract administrators (Angolan nationals) supporting the plant critical categories (production, maintenance, shutdowns, security, marine, warehousing, logistics) for the LNG Plant located in Soyo, Angola with combined annual spend of ~$1B. Process advisor on supply chain processes and procedures, procurement ethics, integrity and compliance. Main responsibilities: the development of category strategies, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, contract administration.

Ghent - Belgium

Contract Advisor for the Lubricant logistics (bulk, drums, transport, warehousing) and Indirect spend (e.g. IT, lab, HR, facility services, special projects) categories for the European region. Supervised a category specialist in the UK. Main responsibilities: the development of category strategies, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, contract administration.

San Ramon, California, United States

Managed the Retail Facility (construction and maintenance) category on a global basis. Contract Advisor of high spend contracts, category management, contracting, contract administration, supplier management, strategic sourcing, development of global category strategies and optimizing inter-category synergies by overseeing and providing guidance for all contracts that were managed by the regional contract advisors who supported this category.

Concord, California, United States

In a Managerial capacity led the design and implementation of a common global design for Chevron’s enterprise resource planning system around the world. Responsible for the implementation within Downstream Europe for standardized Procurement systems, associated processes, master data cleansing & maintenance.

Ghent, Belgium

Managed the Retail Facility (construction, maintenance, HES and security) category on a Regional (Europe) Basis. Main responsibilities: the development of category strategies, strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier management, contract administration.

Brussels, Belgium

Facilitated Strategic Sourcing Process to selected categories and commodities with high value spend in Europe to reduce the total cost of ownership of materials and services. Served as lead negotiator and applied appropriate negotiation tactics during negotiations.

Brussels, Belgium

Supervised procurement staff in the Benelux region. Responsible for the procurement of service station materials and services and purchase to pay related purchases (general services; advertising & sales promotion; cars & trucks; IT). Responsible for the Centralization of all Procurement activities for materials and services within the Benelux region and France (research of decentralized procurement structure; research of the change in workload within the departments; set up of a new procurement structure with tasks, responsibilities, procedures, procurement strategy and procurement planning).