Pricing Consultant
The Consultants
Total years of experience :9 years, 2 Months
The reason of our existence and mission is to catapult your business performance and unlock the value of your products and services.
TheConsultants BVBA is a management consulting company that specializes in pricing strategy, commercial excellence, business transformation and Lean Six Sigma. We help our customers to improve their profit margins, revenues, structure and processes.
Our services span mainly in the European space and we have established headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium. Our range of services can be delivered as interim managers or consultants. We approach with equal dedication long term projects and short-term needs of expertise and support. The expert profiles at TheConsultants BVBA range from PhDs with scientific background to consultants with more than a decade of industry polished experience. We work in, English, Dutch and French.
* Modelled Business Processes of customer journeys within customer information department in BE
- Modelled and improved flows of updating processes of customer data (incl. making flows RoPA compliant)
- Consulted on and implemented innovative solutions for Digital Outreach to Retail customers
* Conducted trendwatching in TMT and Utilities as business development in BE
- Analysed trends & challenges for active clients and market actors
- Presented during a workshop for client partners
* Strategic cost optimisation: €30M savings delivery and follow-up over 3 years on direct and indirect spend at DIY retailer (BE&NL)
* Transitory cost savings project for pet food manufacturer (UK): €1.5M cost savings in direct spend
* Implementing spend visibility and cost control across various indirect cost categories
* Business process optimisation: definition of to-be process design, marketing and business development
* Reached probably the biggest portfolio in Europe (on service parts for air compressors)
* Designed, launched and developed purchasing department: strategy, visioning, road-map shaping, design of operating model, developing in-house purchasing tools
* Performed suppliers development in Europe and abroad, by tenders and new contracts negotiation
* Successfully closed improvement projects in supply chain and IT: planning & manufacturing process optimization, implementing logistics initiatives
Intensive 7 week SAP Logistics training with specializations in SD/MM/LE
SAP Competencies
• Global, technical and financial overview
• From master data overview to customizing level in the majors functions of the SD, MM and LE modules
• Implementation of SAP solutions
Soft skills
• Project overview & methodology
• Workshop management
Business process training in purchasing, logistics, sales
• Main data, functions & KPIs
• Business Cases
• Contributing on proposals for banc assurance, resource industry, and consumer goods clients
• BD on sustainability assets matching to top clients
• Strategy analysis, problem solving and research methods training
• Detecting and structuring research data
-Survey analysis in Excel with Pivot table
-Writing Point of View about insurance prospects and opportunities in English and Dutch
• Creating and fine-tuning presentation
-QPT, Think Cell
-PowerPoint training on issue tree and storyline
Consulted two ngo's on strategy and marketing as part of curriculum; Summer School program in China in summer 2012; Exchange program in Germany in autumn 2012; Founder of a wrestling club in Antwerp, and a specific student association across Belgium
Sep 2012 - Jan 2013, Univ. of Mannheim Erasmus exchange program
Jul 2012, Univ. of International Business and Economics
2008 - 2011, Univ. of Antwerp Business Administration and Technology