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Manager Distribution Center / Plant manager

Work Experience

Interim assignment Project Manager, Distribution Healthcare
•Study storage and handling capacity of the warehouse for the next years.
•Develop a way of working to cope with the expected growth.
•Present proposals for improving efficiency and effectiveness.

Interim assignment Manager European Distribution Center/Plant manager Automotive business
• Optimizing the quality, cost and efficiency of the distribution center.
• Allocate and manage staff resources according to changing needs.
• Motivate the members of the team, decrease illness rate.
• Maintaining and setting both existing and new objectives.
• Reorganize the organization (staff reduction), negotiate terms & conditions with unions.
• Chair Safety comittee.

Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings
Logistics Manager Europe 1.05.2004 – 31.08.07
•Advise management on logistic subjects
•Get the country logistics managers realize an effective and adaptive organization and infrastructure.
Site Manager Breda (NL), Manager Distribution center Breda, Vilvoorde/Machelen (BE)
15/11/2000 – 30/04/2004
•Draw and get the financial budget approved.
•Manage the purchase of transport, IT, catering and other site-services.
•Manage the physical distribution teams and customer service teams.
•Manage the site’s Quality, Health, Safety and Environment.
•Ensure the corporate HR policies are implemented and applied.
•Focal point for local authorities.
•Discussion partner of the site’s works council
Manager Distribution Center Vilvoorde/Machelen (BE) 1/8/1997 – 14/11/2000
•Hire blue collar workers when necessary.
•Safety advisor Road Transport (ADR-regulation)
•Propose investments in equipment.
•Propose adaptations to the existing warehouses in order to improve the service to the customers and decrease the costs
Different functions in Vilvoorde/Machelen (BE) 1/8/1993 – 1/8/1997
•Design, in consultation with the future users, the functionalities for the flow of goods in raw material and packaging warehouses, production and finished goods warehouses.
•Translate these functionalities to the IT department.
•Guarantee the new master data is entered in time in the databases.
•Test the new programs and train the users.
•Assure the mutual understanding between the financial department and the production & logistics department.
•Responsible for the yearly stock count.

Education

• Commercial Engineer (K.U. Leuven)
• Courses of “Master in transport and Logistics”,
• Project Management
• Supervisory skills
• French
• Train the trainer
• Fundamentals of business management
• Team leadership
• Media training
• Coaching and giving feedback
• German
• Negotiation & Influencing skills

Skills

• Warehousing and distribution.
• Transport.
• Logistics & supply chain

Languages

Dutch: Mother tongue
French: good
English: good
German: basic

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