After more than 20 years in business procurement positions you now move into consultancy. WHY?
Firstly, I belief that my 20+ years in procurement leadership roles at different companies and across several industries has helped me to develop a clear view on the roles and added values that procurement consulting services can have for an organization. And belief me, I have seen both the good and bad versions! Moving into consultancy now myself with my background in procurement leadership roles will enable me to get well connected with CPO’s and provides me the opportunity to deliver consulting services that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
Furthermore this step is also driven by a strong personal desire to continuously develop my talents, as well as to gain new skills and competences. I will enjoy new experiences as well as being intellectually challenged. Running a consultancy business with P&L responsibility, while building upon my two decades in procurement, satisfies all these needs and creates a lot of excitement, drive and energy with me.
Finally, the emphasize of Buy.O’s offering on strategies and transformations fits perfectly well with what I have always enjoyed most in my procurement career so far. Joining Buy.O simply means to me that I can now spent more of my time on what I like and do best.

WHY did you join Buy.O Group?
There are lots of reasons why Buy.O and myself are such a great fit, but the two most important ones are - Meeting of Minds, we share the same vision on the value add of procurement consultancy services and how it should be delivered most effectively; and on a personal level we get along very well, there is clear click between us. It is really great to work with the Buy.O team.
Furthermore Buy.O Group provides me with an extremely rich Intellectual Property and strong Brand. We can face really any challenge of a CPO. That in combination with our Delivery Model sets us really apart us from other procurement consulting companies and makes us a very valuable party for Customers to work with. Irrespective whether you are a multinational, a medium sized enterprise or an organization in the (semi-) public sector.

WHAT will you bring to your Customers in the Benelux?
We will go there together. Our participative, peer-to-peer delivery format is executed by highly skilled, experienced and motivated consultants. This combination ensures a most effective and sustainable performance improvement of the procurement function of our Customers.  Highly satisfied Customers are essential for the growth of Buy.O in the Benelux and will be measured after each project we deliver. It is my personal commitment to achieve and maintain a high level of Customer Satisfaction.