An outstanding executive with superb organizational and interpersonal skills. He consistently sets tough goals, communicates progress, and delivers commitments. He creates new processes to deliver cost savings which result in significantly broader and higher value than ever delivered before.
Jan Paul Van Der Velde
Active practicioner, procurement professional, specialist in turn-around. Currently Chief Procurement Officer at Akzo Nobel. His approach is no-nonsense, upgrading the organizational effectiveness, thinks procurement in terms of value for the company, not the function.
Jan Paul provides a unique perspective into what your buyers think and do. He helps you to understand how to manage different type of buyers in different situations, how your buyers play their positions and what key aspects they are looking for, how to manage pricing to different customers, and shows you which critical mistakes are not to be made in the negotiation and contract processes.
As SVP Procurement at one of the world leading ink companies, part of the Board of the company, he was responsible for over Euro 1.8bn. Next to being responsible for Procurement, Jan Paul is also in the board also responsible for IT and Regulatory.
As VP Procurement at one of Europe's leading manufacturer of flavors, fragrances, and active cosmetic ingredients, he was part of the management team responsible for all 3rd party spend (USD 700mio, 64 people globally)
At the famous global Dutch brewer, he was in charge of corporate purchasing, and globally responsible for all packaging materials.
At the world leader in salty snacks, part of PepsiCo, he was in charge of the entire European Procurement Operation (26 production units) in EMEA.