I bring talent and capability planning to the highest competitive standards.
Strategical and hands on in performance and competence analyses, blue printing, talent buy-build-deploy planning, employer branding, leadership and talent-marketing, -sourcing, -deployment, -onboarding and -engagement . I connect business, HR, people and market insights. I am a pioneer; none of my roles were pre-existent. As an active listener and storyteller, I align people decisions across the matrix. I’m a role model for enhanced stakeholder-experience management and I propel modern people-management concepts.
Dutch citizen; lived in Belgium, France and Italy; managed projects in EMEA, NAM, LAM, APAC.
My expertise as former head-hunter covers numerous organisation models and industries.
Experience
Maersk
Jan 2017 – Present
Kopenhagen / The Hague
Global HR BP / strategic talent management (planning/sourcing)
- Organization design
I coach leaders in defining organisational and competence requirements for new performance
needs; I present market insights and organisational solutions.
Involved in employee experience, business finance, hyper growth, corporate venturing, front
line ownership, digital marketing, digital logistics and sustainable technology.
- Executive talent sourcing and leadership engagement (cost and quality competitive)
I drive executive searches for start-ups, joint ventures and ecosystems head-hunters and I
drive social media campaigns positioning Maersk for new capabilities and behaviours.
I propel a Transparent Competence Matrix elucidating development goals for individual talent
and enhancing buy in across the global matrix for people appointments.
- Agency partnership (executive search)
- Equitable background screening (compliance).
- I review HR projects: EVP, gamification of e-learning, GDPR, talent excellence, onboarding and
process automation to which I added the front-end user and stakeholder’s perspective.
APM Terminals (a Maersk brand)
Jan 2012 – Dec 2016
The Hague
General Manager global talent management and recruitment
Strategic Workforce Planning
- Steered talent build-and-buy strategy for the top 270 roles. Introduced evidence-base decision
making to match organizational and individual priorities.
- Business partner to establish the competence matrix for critical roles and for new capabilities.
- Introduced a SQL tool to analyse and leverage business, people and market data.
Head global recruitment (ca 2400 vacancies per annum)
- Established governance, processes, continuous monitoring and improvement by:
-> Lifting the skills of 7 remote experts (job add, interviewing, scenario planning, onboarding);
-> Introducing candidate centric marketing principles (pull targets actively from the market),
-> Optimising employer branding (collaboration with corporate communications).
- Drove quality competitive global executive searches (slashed cost by E 0,6 million per annum)
and market outperforming social media campaigns.
- Managed global contracts (LinkedIn and assessment providers).
Odgers Berndtson, Amsterdam
Dec 2000 – Jul 2012
Amsterdam
Line Manager Delivery (2002-2012) and Manager Business intelligence (2000-2012)
- Drove KPI and performance in line with established SLA’s on behalf of the two local brands,
delivered about 280 projects per annum.
- Steered service improvement by introducing continuous forward looking feed-back loops.
- Managed and developed professionals (team varied between 8 to 15ft) towards self-
monitoring and stronger lead-generation skills resulting in improved customer and employee
engagement. Contributed to the annual training of 100 European professionals.
- Delivered business planning information and upgraded the integrated ATS, CRM and MIS tool.
- Global executive researcher for: B2C (food, telecom, leisure, plastics, coatings, electronics, retail), e-business (B2C and B2B), B2B services (financial, strategic, actuarial, logistics, IT, marketing, technical, engineering, offshore, facilities), logistics (freight, passengers), trade (hard and soft commodities, flower bulbs, whole sale), industry (OEM, process, high tech, heavy equipment), infrastructure (energy, capex heavy), finance (PB, IB/IM, AM, pension funds, insurances), applied research (academic, commercial, semi-public), top clinical hospitals, biotech (start-up, scale-up, IPO, blue chips), pharma (OTC, medical, devices).