Experience & Expertise

 

 Stork 

Regional Director Human Resources Continental Europe 2013-2019

Responsible for Human Resources in Continental Europe, covering 4,000 permanent employees and 1,500 flexible staff. Responsible for HR business partners, the resourcing department and HR centers of excellence, including recruitment, academy, compensation and benefits and the HR shared service center, with a total team of 40 employees. Reported to the SVP Continental Europe. Member of the Continental Europe management team and the Stork HR Board.

·         Optimized the HR department based on the Ulrich model, strengthening HR performance, business partnering and stakeholder satisfaction while reducing total HR costs by EUR 1.5 million.

·         Implemented employee potential, succession planning and leadership development processes, improving hiring, promotion and development decisions while increasing internal career opportunities.

·         Managed several organizational change projects, resulting in a more delayered, customer-focused organization and annualized overhead savings of EUR 8.5 million.

·         Redesigned and refocused the recruitment department and recruitment process, increasing annual hires to up to 300 and reducing the recruitment budget by EUR 700,000 annually.

·         Designed and implemented HR dashboards and reporting, resulting in a more analytical, fact-based HR approach with KPIs and monthly progress reports on topics such as absenteeism, retention, recruitment, training and development.

·         Developed and implemented a new resource strategy in response to changing market circumstances and entry into new markets. This resulted in a detailed resource strategy, including processes and reporting for the short, medium and long term.

 Stork Europe, USA, UK,  2011 - 2013

Human Resource Director Solutions and Asset Integrity

Responsible for Human Resources for all Specialist Services units and Asset Integrity, covering 1,500 permanent employees and 400 flexible staff across companies in the Netherlands, Germany, the US and the UK. Part of the management board of Stork Solutions and Asset Integrity and a member of the German management team.

·         Integrated the HR departments in Germany into one HR department serving all German companies. This increased performance and resulted in an HR department working as one team and delivering better services to the German companies.

·         Implemented a new compensation and benefits package in Germany and the US, including a new appraisal and salary system. This resulted in a more controlled and transparent performance-related reward strategy.

·         Led an overall cost reduction program focused on overhead costs, resulting in annualized savings of EUR 3 million.

Logica / CGI The Netherlands 2008 - 2011

HR Director Consultancy & Professional Services (C&PS).

Company active in the IT industry. Responsible for Human Resource Area for all Consulting & Professional Services activities within Logica NL (4200 employees) In this position Member of the management board of Consulting & Professional Service unit and reporting to SVP of the region.

·          Led the restructuring of the C&PS organization from four market-oriented divisions into one simplified division, clarifying roles and responsibilities and reducing overhead by 100 employees.

·          Strengthened recruitment process and forecasting mechanism. This has led to an effective recruiting and hiring process for around 800 employees a year, with accurate forecasting of new hires four months ahead.

·          Led the “Way We Work” program to strengthen consultant engagement. Together with consultants, developed a range of initiatives to increase engagement with Logica, resulting in a 10% improvement in retention.

·          Repositioned HR as a more business-oriented support function, simplifying processes and coaching the HR team to operate as stronger HR business partners.

Stork     Europe, USA, UK 2006 - 2008 

HR Manager Stork Power Services

Companies active in power generation installations. HR responsibility for four companies in the Netherlands, one company in the USA and two companies in Germany, covering approximately 1,150 FTE. Member of the management team of Stork Power Services.

·         Involved in several HR-related due diligence processes to acquire new companies that could strengthen the Power Services portfolio.

·         Led integration projects covering culture, systems and processes for newly acquired companies into the Stork organization.

·         Transformed standalone HR departments into a more coherent and collaborative HR organization.

Strukton / Stork Worksphere   The Netherlands 2002 - 2006 

HR Manager

As HR manager responsible for several regions of the Worksphere company (800 employees). Member of the management team. I gave steering to several HR Officers, HR administrators and recruiters.

 ·     Introduced a Shared Service Approach and helped with the introduction of several new HR processes.

·     Involved in several Due Diligences (HR Related) and integration projects to insource activities from customers

Proces Management & Control The Netherlands 2000 - 2002 

HR Manager / Fieldmanager

During my study Strategy and organization Sciences worked as P & O Coordinator for 3.5 day up to 4 days a week. In this role I was responsible for all HR related topics within PMC. Special projects were: development of a 360 degree field management system, implementation of competence-based reviewing, implementing training plans for all employees. Also responsible for Field management, meeting with consultants and customers to evaluate assignments and contract extension.