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Johan Vandermeulen

Leadership and Career Coach

Can work in or around Aarschot

  • 50.9857
  • 4.83583
  • Suggested rate 800 € / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Part-time, 3 days per week

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Location and workplace preferences

Location
Aarschot, België
Can work onsite in your office in
  • around Aarschot and 50km

Preferences

Project length
  • ≤ 1 month
  • Between 1-3 months
  • ≥ 6 months
Business sector
  • Biotech
  • Digital & IT
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Tech
  • Human Resources
+15 other
Company size
  • 50 - 249 people
  • 250 - 999 people

Verifications

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Verified email

Languages

  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

Categories

Skills (12)

Johan in a few words


I’m a leadership and career coach offering my experience to professionals and companies to guide them towards positive change. I’m passionate to help people grow from their strengths.
I have broad (30+ years) business and IT experience in a multinational environment in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. I have led large transition programs in both technology and organization. My strength is building and motivating high performant teams from a focus on people and their talents. I’m accredited career coach for AIHP Business ( VDAB certified career center ). I’m working together with Life in Balance Careers and integrate their performance coaching and personal growth concepts and programs in my portfolio.

Key Skills
• Talent Management
• Business/Team Leadership
• Cross-cultural collaboration
• Personal growth and development
• Communication skills • Professional Coach
• Performance Management
• Program / Project Management
• IT Strategy
• IT Service Delivery

Core Capabilities
People Leadership: The ability to attract, motivate and empower high calibre people, setting challenging objectives, coaching and empowering team members to develop their talents
Performance Coaching and Mentoring : Supporting people to be the best version of themselves, to have the best year of their live so far.
Executive Leadership: A decisive and collaborative business and IT Leader with readiness to challenge the status quo
Organizational Change Management: Strong management of organizational change, leading people thru mergers, new operating models and new ways of working.
Operational Management: Accustomed to working across business units in large multi-national organizations, cutting through complexities and silos, providing clear direction and coordinating multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams.
Stakeholder Management: Engages effectively with stakeholders and customers, winning credibility quickly and gaining ‘buy-in’ for shared goals.

Experience

JVDM & Noble

Consulting & Audits

Leadership and Career Coach

Aarschot, België

July 2019 - Today (3 years and 8 months)

I’m a leadership and career coach offering my experience to professionals and companies to guide them towards positive change. I’m passionate to help people grow from their strengths.
I have broad (30+ years) business and IT experience in a multinational environment in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. I have led large transition programs in both technology and organization. My strength is building and motivating high performant teams from a focus on people and their talents. I’m accredited career coach for AIHP Business ( VDAB certified career center ). I’m working together with Life in Balance Careers and integrate their performance coaching and personal growth concepts and programs in my portfolio.

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

Senior IT Director End Usr and Site Delivery

Beerse, België

August 2016 - December 2018 (2 years and 4 months)

Leading team of 70 employees and 100+ contractors in EMEA : Commercial Site Delivery Services, Supply Chain LMDW(Lab Manufacturing Distribution and Warehouse) Field Services and End User Services : end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure services:
• JET Program ( J&J End User Transformation ) : new model for Global Service Desk and Desk Side Support for end-users and technologies to drive automation and self-service.
• Integration of acquired companies (Actelion, Surgical Vision,..).
• Optimized site delivery model across the commercial and LMDW teams

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

Senior Director IT Infrastructure Service Delivery

Beerse, België

June 2013 - December 2017 (4 years and 6 months)

Leading the EMEA ‘BUILD & RUN’ team ( 80 employees : engineering, deployment, operations of network, end user , business platform, core technologies )
First half of 2016 : ad interim regional leader of GTS EMEA, until a new VP was on-boarded.
I led major organizational changes :
• Acquisition Synthes IT : Infrastructure team integration into GTS
• Optimization of contractor population ( hired 10 critical roles and consolidating 40 contractors into managed service offering )
• Integration of Site delivery teams) into GTS : adding 50 employees to the team (>40% growth).
Key programs delivered in the region:
• SDDC : deployment of internal cloud services, migrating application platforms from legacy ( included set-up of ‘Co-Lo’ enterprise datacenters and consolidating datacenters)
• Network Services transition to a new managed service provider
• Office consolidations (Prague, Stockholm, Umkirch, Moscow)
• Deployment of new business analytics platforms (Teradata, Tableau, Spotfire)
• Major SAP platform improvement and lifecycle mgmt. programs

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

Janssen R&D IT , Director Solutions Delivery

Beerse, België

April 2011 - May 2013 (2 years and 1 month)

Leading global team (16 employees and 20+ contractors), responsible for analysing, selecting, designing, implementing and maintaining I/T solutions for R&D. Focus in 3 area’s :
Technology Delivery: sharepoint/web , external collaboration, mobility, storage, apps DBA
Project Delivery: Drive enterprise programs (e.g Oracle dbase upgrades, W7 End User and W7 Lab Systems ) and R&D wide programs (Crucell acquisition; lead a PM Community of Practice
Service Delivery. implement change and release management process improvements

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

IT Director Application Management Office

April 2010 - March 2011 (11 months)

J&J , Medical Devices&Diagnostics : Lead Commercial Application Management Team : 8 employees across the globe : introduced of ITIL processes for consistent solution delivery for the Commercial CoE. Introduced standard Change and Release Management processes across all MD&D . Build application inventory to drive application portfolio and lifcecycle management.

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

EMEA IT Director LifeScan / Diabetes Care Franchise

Beerse, België

August 2004 - April 2010 (5 years and 8 months)

Build out and lead teams of 15 in Inverness, Scotland, 5 in Zug, Switzerland and 6 in Beerse, Belgium. Based in Beerse Belgium, commuting to Inverness Scotland. Member of the LFS EMEA Leadership Team (commercial ) and the Inverness Leadership Team (manufacturing and R&D) .
Delivered/supported multiple business enabling projects :
Order-to-Cash ERP on JDE : a US$ 6MM project delivered on-time/on budget to 7 countries.
SFE : low-cost Lotus Notes platform deployed to 500+ sales people in 24 countries
Cognos reporting/analytics solutions supporting supply chain, finance and commercial teams
CRM/Siebel solution for consumer marketing and customer care (patient database)
Web platform to deliver multiple websites for the EMEA commercial teams
LFS Scotland (mid 2004 – mid 2007 ): Enhanced and integrated bespoke manufacturing systems; Improved LAN/WAN infrastructure; Solved SOX compliance challenges; Deployed Maximo engineering/facilities

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

Executive IT Director Global Infrastructure Programs

Beerse, België

December 2000 - July 2004 (3 years and 7 months)

Based in Beerse, Belgium and commuting to Raritan, New Jersey. Managed a global team of project managers and delivery engineers.
Business Infrastructure Program: ownership of a US $ 220 MM program to standardize all file&print servers and all pc’s/laptops for J&J . I led a global team that deployed Windows 2000 servers to 400+ locations and W2000/Off2000 pc’s to 100,000 users. Program was delivered on-time and within budget.
Led global team that deployed a $100 MM investment in e-business infrastructure

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

IT Director NCS EMEA Customer Services

Beerse, België

October 1998 - December 2000 (2 years and 2 months)

Establishing and leading a team of 6 account managers to build and sustain relations with IT teams across EMEA: project intake and planning for all IT infrastructure projects in EMEA; build-out of service catalogue, service level agreements, pricing methodologies for NCS services.

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

IT Director Global Messaging

Raritan, Verenigde Staten van Amerika

May 1997 - September 1998 (1 year and 4 months)

Overall program ownership of a US $ 20 MM program to harmonize all e-mail systems globally into a MS Exchange solution. Led a global team that deployed e-mail servers to 400+ locations and Outlook e-mail clients to 70,000 users . Program was delivered on-time and within budget.

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

IT Manager Customer Services NCS EMEA

Beerse, België

July 1994 - April 1997 (2 years and 9 months)

Start-up of the Customer Services Function, interfacing with IT teams across the region. Defined processes for project intake, proposals with pricing, timelines and support service levels
Expanded network and e-mail services to Asia Pacific and supported the start-up of NCS Aspac.

Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson

Medical

Telecom Specialist

Beerse, België

March 1992 - June 1994 (2 years and 3 months)

Janssen Pharmaceutica : Support of LAN environment on Beerse campus (3000 users).
Build out first IP Wide Area Network across EMEA (50 locations)

telindus NV

Telecommunications

Research & Development Engineer

Haasrode, België

October 1989 - January 1992 (2 years and 3 months)

Digital Signal Processing, Design of Telecom Devices

imec

Research

Scientific Researcher

Heverlee, België

August 1986 - August 1998 (12 years)

Research in micro-electronics, integrated circuits

Education

Certifications