A highly successful hands-on Senior Management Professional, with a wide range of business expertise and a high degree of commercial acumen demonstrated through an outstanding record of achievement in turning failure into success. An adaptable, effective communicator with outstanding interpersonal skills, able to get to the core of issues and promote viable solutions to achieve significant results, is now seeking a new position that will prove to be both a professional and personal challenge.


CORE COMPETENCIES

Procurement • Supply Chain • Internal Communications • Supply Base Management
Strategic Procurement • Change Management • Organisational Restructuring
Business Management • Market Insight • Customer Service
Project Management • Production/ Manufacturing Management
Budget Control • Commercial Negotiation • Cost Reduction • Compliance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Jan 2012 to Feb 2014
Director Strategic sourcing & Compliance
ModusLink Corporate, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands - Designs and executes Supply Chain Management including Packaging, E-Business Solutions and Reverse Logistics - Solution Centres 30 (Asia, Europe and North America) - Turnover $875 Million - Employees 4000

Manage strategic sourcing an compliance globally - Total Spend $29 Million for Commodities and $28 Million for Services (Temps) - Dotted-line Reports 3 (China, Czech Republic and USA) - Ensure compliance with EICC (Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition Code of Conduct), Reach & RoHS, Conflict Minerals (Frank Dodd Act), Wood and Plant based compliance (Lacey Act), WEEE reporting and several Client based Environmental initiatives

• Took control Global on Compliance initiatives and reporting towards Clients
• Responsible for the EICC Compliance of all direct material suppliers, was leading a Global initiative with EICC members to create new Self Assessment Questionnaire
• Managed the Compliance portals for ModusLink Clients
• As part of a Global initiative working on the overhaul of all ISO procedures Globally and Regionally, including T&C’s, Contracts and translations
• Part of the Remediation project group to strengthen the internal controls and establishing new company policies to be compliant on the SEC 10k reporting


Jan 2007 to Dec 2011
Director Supply Base Europe
ModusLink Corporate, Brno, Czech Republic - Designs and executes Supply Chain Management including Packaging, E-Business Solutions and Reverse Logistics - Solution Centres 30 (Asia, Europe and North America) - Turnover $875 Million - Employees 4000

Manage the entire European Supply Base - Total Spend $29 Million for Commodities and $28 Million for Services (Temps) - Direct Reports 3 (Brno) - Dotted-line Reports 3 (Netherlands, France and Ireland) - Ensure compliance with EICC (Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition Code of Conduct)

• As part of the initiative to establish a Supply Base Management Department at the Brno Solution Centre to drive commodity cost down and achieve savings, consolidated the procurement of commodities and running quotation request through multiple European suppliers to get the best deal
• Reduced the amount of suppliers per commodity to a level that would drive down management effort and decrease cost - YoY, reduced spend by $3 Million on commodities and $500,000 on temp agencies
• Instigated a Regional Contract including all conditions and scorecard and a Volume Discount Programme with suppliers based on spend - Generated an additional saving of $1.5 Million pa

Jun 2005 to Dec 2007
Director - Business Management
ModusLink sro, Brno, Czech Republic

Oversaw the Business Management Department with Client Management and Sales Budget responsibility for $45 Million - Direct Reports 6 - Total Employees 30

• Managed the move of 4 Clients from the Apeldoorn (Netherlands) Solution Centre to a new Greenfield start-up in Brno (Czech Republic) - Sourced and recruited the first 200 employees and opened the new facility in June 2005 - Managed all Operations, Distribution and Business/Sales - New facility was operating with profit within 4 months
• Project managed the opening of another new facility next to the current, which included a warehouse and distribution function and also an Operations Department - Total Headcount 400 s - P&L Budget $70 Million

Jan 2003 to Jun 2005
Business Unit Manager
ModusLink bv, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

Client management and development of 3 major European accounts - Adobe (€5 Million), Iomega (€10 Million) and Navteq (€3 Million) - Sales Budget $18 million - Direct Reports 4 - Employees 50

• Implemented Iomega’s late customisation lines and a ‘just in time’ process for external hard drives which were formatted and assembled at customer demand in Apeldoorn - Achieved savings due through the reduction of stock and pulls from external hard disk companies - Iomega had $10 Million worth of sales and saved in the 1st year $2 Million on holding inventory costs

Apr 1999 to Dec 2002
Replication/Production/Manufacturing Manager
ModusLink bv, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

Managed the Kitting and Assembly Floor - Direct Reports 3 - Employees 200 (100 Temps) - Clients 20 - Additionally managed the Replication Department

• Instigated a major change and restructuring programme and transformed the Replication Department from loss-making into a profitable unit
• Implemented an Activity Based Cost Model, developed together with software partners, which allowed all departments to calculate cost and margin
• Working in partnership with Xerox, personally designed a marketing tool for Sony Dime, which became the first fully customised tool in the market that allowed for brochures to be tailored directly for the Sony’s customer

Apr 1995 to Dec 1999
Customer Service Manager/ EDP Manager
Moore Nederland bv, Amsterdam - A world leader in Print, Direct Mail and Book Publishing - Countries 38 - Employees 9000 - Turnover $10 Billion

Started on shop-floor and achieved several promotions to this role- Managed Customer Service, Planning IT, Prepress and Procurement - Direct Reports 3 - P&L $50 Million - Additionally oversaw the EDP and DTP Department

• Project Leader for ‘Organ Donation’ - Member a government steering committee creating a platform for mailing and registering 12 Million Dutch citizens to commit to Organ Donation
• Project Leader for ‘Imation’ - Creation of a software platform for direct invoicing and billing through the internet
• Worked with 5 data programmers and 3 DTP specialists to create marketing material for Offset and Digital print department - Project Manager for the creation of an automatic invoicing and archiving system for Imation in Europe

Customer service, Manager, Manufacturing Managr, Replication Manager, Operations Director, Business Director, (Brno, Czech - Director Business Management, Director Global supply base, Director strategic Sourcing and Compliance