Experience

Ajinomoto NaturalSpecialities

• Belgium
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Sales and Application Development NaturalSpecialities

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Head of Sales NaturalSpecialities

  • Apr 2016 - Mar 2021

  As leader of the NaturalSpecialities sales team the main responsibilities are:- Develop and implement the marketing, business development and commercial strategy in the different market segments on a global scale (beer, wine, food and technical applications).- Project Management: Manage and coordinate application projects at the customer side from prospection to recurrent sales.- Business Management: Manage the existing customer portfolio (price negotiation, forecast, order management) - Distributor Management: Manage the performance of existing distributors and identify suitable partners to increase the global coverage across the different market segments.- Identify new markets and product opportunities.



Ajinomoto OmniChem

• Belgium
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Application and Market Manager Natural Specialities

  • Jun 2013 - Mar 2016

  The application of tannic acid in the brewing industry is my main focus. In this market segment my main responsabilities are:- Develop and implement the marketing, business development and commercial strategy- Define, coordinate technical support for new product/applications in respective market segments.- Portfolio Management: Manage and drive application projects at customer side from prospection to sales- Execute, coordinate and develop commercial and technical activities within this market segment to achieve the Business Line objectives- Gatekeeping and introduction of new technologies in order to maintain and increase our technical capabilities as well as application understanding

• R&D Natural Specialties Application and Development Engineer

  • Oct 2012 - May 2013

  Responsible for:- Technical support of application projects in the brewing and food industry- Development of new products/applications in the food and beverage industry- Gatekeeping and introduction of new technologies in order to maintain and increase the technical capabilities as well as application understanding- Portfolio management of R&D and application projects

• Operational Excellence Manager

  • Aug 2010 - Sep 2012

  Responsible for:- Guidance and support of the organisation towards a lean culture- The introduction of lean (reduction of waste) and 6 sigma (reduction of variation) tools in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the company's efforts- Facilitation of improvements projects based on a structured approach (PDCA / DMAIC)

• Research Chemist Natural Specialties

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2010

  Responsible for:- Process Development for the extraction and purification of botanicals- The introduction, development and support of new technologies used in the purification and valorisation of botanical extracts (mainly prep HPLC and formulation technology)