
Senior Support Professional
Brussels Area, Belgium

Senior Support Professional
Brussels Area, Belgium
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; AVT; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Support to Operations and Finance on European level
Personal Assistance:
- Agenda management, travel management, filing, correspondance, expense reports, preparation of presentations, weekly debriefing in absence of VP's
- Monthly reporting key performance indicators operations department
- Organizing meetings, workshops/trainings (location, utilities, lunch/dinner, social/teambuilding events, hotel and ground transport participants) and conference calls
Office Management:
- Office supplies (incl. printing)
- Insurances and maintenance office building
- Contract management hotels and catering
- Coordination of the company fleet (35 cars in leasing with 3 leasing companies)
- Coordination of the cell phone policy and contract management
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
July 2006 — November 2006 (5 months)
(temporary contract)
- Administrative support (correspondance, calendar management, filing, taking care of visitors, expense reports, organizing and attending meetings, travelmanagement internal and for press events together with external communication agency, handling translations French-Dutch and French-English, proofreading publications)
- Elaborating statistical models and presenting them at the weekly general management meeting
- Organization of events (drawing up of the budget, programme, invitations, follow-up): Millésia Cup Vittel, Agadir Golf Cup, Marakech Golf Cup
- Support HR on recruitement and selection of new employees (wording advert, placing advert, follow-up selection process, inviting candidates)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 8 months)
- Responsible for gathering support from national and regional television stations to broadcast TV and radio commercials within the framework of the fundraising campaigns 2004 to 2006
- Administrative assistance to the coalition ‘Congo wil stemmen’, sensibilisation of (Belgian) national politics on the transition and election process in Democratic Republic Congo (drawing up, sending out and follow up of invitations, minutes, contacting members of the Belgian Federal and Regional Parliaments)
- Writing of several publications (magazine for sponsors and volunteers)
- Fundraising: Inventorising the foundations that already or could possibly support the projects of BD. Addressing foundations with project proposals
- (Co-)Organizing press conferences and exhibitions
- Conducting research on website quality (questionnaire, processing results, deducting recommendations)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; International Affairs industry)
April 2002 — November 2002 (8 months)
(temporary contract)
Association of CEO's of European companies of American parentage.
- Organization of plenary and preperatory EAIC meetings (organizing venue, accomodation members, drawing up and sending out invitations, contacting cabinet EU Commissioner, drawing up agenda, gathering of documentation, minutes, follow-up of decisions)
- Editing quarterly newsletter and keeping the website content up to date-- Office management (follow-up subscriptions, member contributions, building website)
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Affairs industry)
April 2002 — November 2002 (8 months)
(Temporary contract)
Supporting of two subcommittees:
- Policy Group (organizing venue, drawing up and sending out invitations, drawing up agenda, gathering of documentation, minutes, follow-up of decisions) and
- Presidency Subcommittee (organizing venue, drawing up and sending out invitations, drawing up agenda, gathering of documentation, minutes, follow-up of decisions, editing a halfyearly publication on the stand of the American industry in Europe to the EU presidency)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
November 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 6 months)
(Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the EC, umbrella organization of the European leather industry)
- Elaborating statistical models (Eurostat) and interpretation of the information as support to lobby activities
- Editing monthly newsletter and keeping the website content up to date
- Supporting the promotion of intrests towards the European Commission (attending meetings organized by the European Parliamet or European Commission and report back)
- General administrative support (correspondance, calendar management, filing, taking care of visitors, expense sheets, organizing and attending meetings, arranging travel)
(Medical Devices industry)
July 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 5 months)
Coordination and support of two Subcommittees of the Dutch national association of producers, importers and traders of medical devices.
- Regulatory Affairs Committee
- Environmental Affairs Committee
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
September 1992 — November 2000 (8 years 3 months)
Promotion of intrests of the employers in the Dutch leather industry.
- Elaborating statistical models and interpretation of the information as support to lobby activities
- Supporting the (bi-) annual wage negociations (CAO Lederindustrie) (preperatory research, minutes, prepare press release, editing and printing and distribution of the booklet)
- Editing monthly newsletter and keeping the website content up to date
- Organisation training programme shop floor workers (programme, speakers/teachers, venue, sending and follow-up of invitations, printing materials, closure ceremony)
- Organizing meetings (venue, invitations, agenda, preparing documentation, minutes, follow-up of decisions)
- Organizing joint participation in international trade fairs
- General administrative support (correspondance, filing, calendar management, arranging travel)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)
September 1990 — September 1992 (2 years 1 month)
- Support to the marketing departement (elaborating brochures, pricelists)
- Sale of industrial dockingsystems in the Netherlands and protective welding equipement in Belgium, France and the UK
- Attending fairs (building stand, distribution of leaflets, giving information)
Marketing Communication 2001 — 2002
BA , Economics & Languages , 1993 — 1997