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Transformation & Restructuring Director | M&A / PMI Leader | Interim CHRO
Wemmel, Belgium
Belgium +1
Business Degree in Human Resources Managementinfo: Belgium, Netherlands
About me
CHRO and Transformation Director with 15 years of international experience and 40 acquisitions and integrations. I build HR functions, reshape organisations and lead business transformation across people, processes and systems.
Business TransformationTransition ManagementHR TransformationOrganization Transformation
HR & Business Transformation Leadership
15 years of experience building and transforming organisations across startups, scaleups and international groups. Combine CHRO expertise with hands-on business transformation, from assessment and priorities to implementation.
M&A & Post-Merger Integration
Experience across approximately 40 acquisitions and integrations, including the Quintiles–IMS merger. Lead cross-functional PMI programs across organisation, people, processes and systems, with clear governance and ownership.
HR Function Build & Professionalisation
Build and strengthen multi-country HR functions, teams and service delivery across recruitment, onboarding, performance, talent, L&D, compensation, payroll and employee relations. Embed practical processes, systems and data.
Organisation Design & Operating Models
Design organisation structures, roles, accountabilities and scalable operating models. Translate business priorities into workforce requirements and ways of working, including offshoring, nearshoring and outsourcing.
Restructuring & Collective Dismissal
Lead multi-country restructuring programs, including Belgian social consultation and collective dismissal procedures. Manage workforce planning, employee impact, consultation, communications and operational continuity.
Transformation Governance & Execution
Develop business cases and integrated plans across multiple workstreams. Manage budgets, capacity, risks and dependencies; establish clear decision-making and reporting; and drive delivery.
Performance, Talent & Leadership Development
Design performance management, talent reviews, succession planning and leadership development. Coach leaders and HR teams to strengthen ownership. Delivered initiatives reducing voluntary attrition from 20% to 8%.
HR Technology, Data & Process Improvement
Experience with Workday implementation across 25 countries and broader HR systems transformation. Improve workflows, data quality, reporting, automation and service delivery.
Cross-Functional Systems Integration
Lead business coordination and governance for systems initiatives, including NetSuite and Payhawk. Align scope, process design, dependencies, adoption and operational readiness.
Offshoring, Nearshoring & Outsourcing
Design and execute transitions, including engineering nearshoring to Tunis and customer support outsourcing. Establish capability requirements, knowledge transfer and transition plans to maintain service continuity.
AI-Enabled Transformation
Coordinate Data Mesh initiatives supporting group AI strategies and develop AI-enabled operating models. Connect business priorities, data foundations, workflows and human accountability.
Compensation & Workforce Planning
Lead compensation optimisation and strategic workforce planning. Align skills, headcount, personnel costs and capacity with business priorities and financial constraints.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2023
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchFluentDutchFluent
Project history
Lead a portfolio of strategic transformation initiatives and a confidential project across the group, reporting into executive leadership. Delivered the outsourcing of a Customer Support department, led an entity merger and cross-functional integration, drove key systems integrations including NetSuite and Payhawk, and ran the Data Mesh set-up underpinning the group AI strategy.
Advise CEOs, leadership teams and investors on transformation, M&A, organisation design and complex people change. Lead restructuring and integration programs from business case and target operating model through governance, execution and change. Bring together business, operational and people considerations to deliver sustainable change without losing sight of cost, risk or employee impact.
Joined with an immediate restructuring mandate and prepared a ~30-person reorganisation within three weeks, from business rationale and organisation design through employee-impact planning and execution readiness. Partnered with leadership to validate the business case and led the broader People agenda during the transition.