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Gordon K

Customer | Leadership | Change | Organisation

About Me

Dynamic senior manager with over 20 years of experience in leadership and change positions across diverse sectors including finance, retail, telecom, travel and customer experience. Proven track record in managing P&L for operations exceeding €300 million, leading organisational change and implementing new business channels. Successfully optimised team structures and enhanced service delivery, directly contributing to significant revenue growth. Adept at aligning strategic objectives with operational excellence, ready to deliver impactful results for future employers. A strong believer in empowerment and shared responsibilities within the teams and creating common goals to achieve long lasting success for an organisation.

Jurisdiction

Netherlands

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Manager Change, D&R en CIM
2024 - 2025

✓ Contributed as a leadership MT member in Risk Management, overseeing the Change Management, Data & Reporting, and Corporate Insurance Management divisions. ✓ Redesigned the reporting structure for the Executive Board and regulators using PowerBI. ✓ Executed the replacement of the Risk Management tool through a comprehensive RFP process.

Manager Customer Experience
2019 - 2021

✓ Redesigned the management model and KPIs for the Customer Service department. ✓ Established and implemented a Sales Support department within the Customer Contact Centre. ✓ Executed NPS - driven initiatives across the organisation. ✓ Introduced customer - driven optimisation of internal chain processes in collaboration with logistics, online services, and sales.

Director of Sales
2021 - 2024

✓ Directed Retail channels for both B2C and B2B operations. ✓ Accountable for P&L, KPIs, and budget management for a turnover exceeding €300 million, overseeing 1,500 staff across 120 stores in the Netherlands and Belgium. ✓ Implemented a new B2C sales channel, Kwantum aan Huis. ✓ Optimised Work Force Management, Learning and Development, and regional governance. ✓ Served as Change Lead for Sales on behalf of HFG for Kwantum and Leen Bakker, designing a refreshed Total Operating Model and organisational structure.

Owner / Consultant
2018 - 2019

✓ Interim COO at Web1on1, a scale - up in the automotive sector. ✓ Facilitated a merger and acquisition process within a healthcare organisation.

- COO 03
2014 - 2018

✓ P&L, KPI, and budget responsable for a multi - site BPO operation, leading a management team overseeing Operations, Client Service Management, Support, ICT, HRM, and Learning & Development. ✓ Achieved ISO, WFT, and AVG certifications, implementing updated HR, ICT, and time registration systems. ✓ Professionalised the service contact centre, enhancing staffing levels from 600 to 1,100 FTE for B2B and B2C clients in Sales and Service. ✓ Developed and managed commercial campaigns for B2C / B2B clients. ✓ Managed the development and expansion of client relationships.

- Owner / Consultant
2006 - 2014

✓ Executed various consultancy assignments within the customer contact domain, including projects for Custom Connect, Siza, Simyo, Florius.nl, Cendris, OHRA, Unamic / HCN, Lotto, UWV, TNT, and Tele2. ✓ Performed tasks such as strategy development, organisational design, process improvements, facilitation of RFP processes, and programme / project management. As an interim I performed the following activities:

Manager KCC
2005 - 2006

✓ Responsible for all remote customer contacts in the areas of (Inbound and Outbound) Sales, After Sales and Service, including back office, subscription process and mail center. ✓ Managing the operation through an operational management team with 260 FTEs and a budget responsibility of €9.8 million per year

Senior Consultant
2004 - 2005

✓ For various companies consultancy and interim management in the field of setting up customer - driven organizations ✓ Supervising RFP - processes, setting up business forecasting models, selecting ICT hardware, setting up MI structure

Senior Business Consultant
1999 - 2004

✓ Managing a BPO multidisciplinary account management team ✓ Establishment of greenfield business unit SNT E - center, focused on the development of CRM methodologies and the design of multichannel customer contact ✓ Forming and managing an ICT project team, focused on application development

Project controller
1995 - 1998

✓ Drawing up and managing project budgets.

Education

Degree of Bachelor of EconomicsHaagse Hogeschool
1994 - 1999

Skills

Core skills0
Languages2

Languages

English
Dutch