Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Managing an Export Customer Service team of 8 persons (former emerging countries) and a business of Sales generating 88 million euros in 2023.
- Team management: You are responsible for directly supervising, coaching, appraising, motivating & developing your team in order to achieve goals and targets.
- Goals management: setting up yearly goals for the team and individually, putting corrective plan of actions in place to ensure achievement of goals.
- Talent management: driving and developing talents in the team. Managing external team members. Recruitment, integration, training and coaching of new team members.
- Team wellbeing: ensuring team wellbeing by actively listening and ensuring each team member is engaged in the team and company.
- Process management: collaboration with processes in interaction to ensure smooth process for internal & external stakeholders.
- Customer management: ensuring customer satisfaction and managing complaints.
- Change management: expertise in change management, including strategic planning, effective communication, employee training, and outcome evaluation to ensure successful and sustainable transitions.
- ISO certification: ensure we meet the quality requirements, keep the certifications and increase our NPS score.
- On-going improvement: challenge existing processes, proceed with improvement initiatives, and seek new opportunities to increase customer satisfaction (internal & external via CSAT surveys).
- KPIs achievement: Regular monitoring Key Performance metrics to ensure the performance of the team by reaching agreed service level. Defining potential plan of action in case of need.
- Collaboration: builds and maintains strong and reliable collaboration with all relevant business partners, like Customers, Sales, Trade Compliance and Logistics.
- Strategy: contributes to define, maintain and implement the GEO strategy and drives the change accordingly.
- In charge of distributor business in India, Baltics, Israel and Africa with daily operational tasks processed in various IT-systems
- Handling Export documentation related to payment and shipping terms
- Creation of processes for specific SAP business on-boarding
- Continuous optimization of existing processes
- Creation and handling of the Export Scorecard
- Act as an interface between Sales, Logistics, Trade Compliance, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Legal.. and escalate requests and unresolved issues
- Build and cultivate strong business relationships with our external stakeholders
- Communicate and collaborate with collection specialists.
West Coast Swing : dance practice, teaching and competition.
Hiking : objective Tour du Mont Blanc (165km)