Market driven Vision and Strategic leadership
• Developing Strategies for sustainable profitable growth
• Innovation as spearhead
Operational turn-arounds
• Change management
• Mergers & Acquisitions, Start-ups
• Value chain optimisation E2E
• Technologies-to-market
Organizational development
• People / team leadership
• Customer centric organisation
Corporate governance
• Board membership
• Holistic view all stakeholders
• Sustainability : social & environmental
Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) @ ASK Chemicals is a global, international company - part of US Rhone Capital private equity - specialized in Chemistry business (ao coatings and resins), with a turn-over in excess of € 500 mio.
Amongst global customers we find BMW automobiles, Caterpillar etc.
Global procurement spend exceeds € 300 mio, within a worldwide sourcing & plant network. From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Düsseldorf Area, GermanyProgram management (Pharma, B2B, B2C) @ • Pharma OTC R&D : Business strategy & development for international Pharma R&D company Pharmayeda Industries
• Competencies enhancement related to new game changers : Social Media, E-commerce, Digitalisation & NewTech in general From March 2014 to December 2014 (10 months) Chief Executive Officer @ Gourmand / Belpastry (frozen laminated dough products)
• Turn-over > € 60 million, exponential growth
• family owned company, member of Dossche group of companies
• active worldwide > 30 countries, retail & foodservice channels
• own plant in Belgium, state of the art technology, double capacity as per January 2014
• www.gourmand.be
• www.belpastry.com (US / Canada) From August 2013 to February 2014 (7 months) MouscronChief Executive Officer @ BerryAlloc (Hard Flooring: Laminate, Parquet, Vinyl, etc)
• CEO, Board member
• Turn-over € 175 million, active worldwide > 50 countries, residential & commercial channels
• 3 own plants (Belgium, France, Norway)
• Vision, Mission, 6 strategic axes
• Financial performance enhancement
• www.berryalloc.com From September 2010 to July 2013 (2 years 11 months) Strategy & Business Development consultant @ Pharma OTC : Business strategy & development for international Pharma R&D company From January 2010 to August 2010 (8 months) Head of Corporate Supply & IT @ • Global Group accountability “extended Supply chain & IT”
• Procurement, sourcing & planning
• 13 own (GMP) plants
• IT (SAP implementation)
• Logistics & Transport From April 2007 to November 2009 (2 years 8 months) Operations Director EMEA @ • Integration Dockers EMEA organization into Levi Strauss EMEA organization
• Closing Amsterdam headquarters From October 2004 to December 2005 (1 year 3 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsGroup Business Unit Manager / CEO @ • Acting CEO
• Implement strategic Vision & Strategy (Service value proposition)
• Sales, Trade Marketing, Consumer Marketing (B2B, B2C go-to-market strategy)
• For Brands like Tabasco, Barilla, Lindt, Canderel, Masterfoods etc From August 2002 to August 2004 (2 years 1 month) Director Organisation & Systems @ Supply chain Director GB-Group
• integration GB-Unic-Nopri (700 stores – Mc Kinsey project Mass Retail GB-group)
• 2.000 people accountability (blue & white collars)
Procurement & Sourcing Director Promodes / GB-group
• € 3.5 billion purchase budget Food & Non-Food
• Category management
• 220 buyers staff & admin
• Integration GB-group into Carrefour
Director Organisation & Systems
President GB-group workers council, CEO various operational companies From September 1996 to July 2002 (5 years 11 months) Supply Chain Director @ • SAP implementation : merger Jacobs Suchard / Cote d’Or and Kraft General Foods
• Materials Management Manager
• Supply Chain Director
• Trade Marketing Director From February 1988 to August 1996 (8 years 7 months) Project Leader @ • European project leader large accounts
• ao Philip Morris 9 months Lausanne; Honeywell Bull artificial intelligence : 1 year Paris From February 1985 to January 1988 (3 years)
Ghent university - Master of Science - Civil Engineer Carl Schulze is skilled in: FMCG, Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, Retail, Management Consulting, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Strategy, B2B, Supply Chain..., Mergers, Budgets, New Business Development, Change Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Strategy, CEO, Marketing strategy B2B..., Project Planning, Team Leadership, Leadership, CEOs, Sourcing, Organizational..., Integration, Sales, Negotiation, Key Account Management, Business Planning, Forecasting, Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, Marketing Management, Trade Marketing, Product Development, Cross-functional Team..., International Sales