An Vandenberghe

Experienced Commercial Support, Marketing and Projects Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Life Science industry. Highly skilled in people management, people development, change management and a strong experience in M&A integration activities. Strong tri-lingual professional with an MBA and a Master in Chemistry. 

Merck Life ScienceMerck Life Science 

Director, Head of Marketing Operations, BioMonitoringDirector, Head of Marketing Operations, BioMonitoring

Responsible for the development and implementation of processes, tools, metrics, initiatives
that will support and facilitate the execution of the business’ strategy.

Main responsibilities:
- Management of 10 Global Operational Product Managers located over France, Germany, USA & India
- Budgeting and planning
- Support marketing strategic activities & initiatives (company acquisition & integration, rebranding activities, ERP implementation, etc...)
- Master Data & Pricing management
- Project Management support
- E-commerce development & support
- Organizational benchmarking and assessments
- Performance measurement and reporting
- Integrated Business Management: Strategic planning, Supply Chain optimization, Portfolio Optimization, Distribution improvement projects,...
- Talent and skills development
- Processes workflow development and improvement
- Regulatory Marketing supportResponsible for the development and implementation of processes, tools, metrics, initiatives that will support and facilitate the execution of the business’ strategy. Main responsibilities: - Management of 10 Global Operational Product Managers located over France, Germany, USA & India - Budgeting and planning - Support marketing strategic activities & initiatives (company acquisition & integration, rebranding activities, ERP implementation, etc...) - Master Data & Pricing management - Project Management support - E-commerce development & support - Organizational benchmarking and assessments - Performance measurement and reporting - Integrated Business Management: Strategic planning, Supply Chain optimization, Portfolio Optimization, Distribution improvement projects,... - Talent and skills development - Processes workflow development and improvement - Regulatory Marketing support

Director, Head of Strategic Initiatives & Project ManagementDirector, Head of Strategic Initiatives & Project Management

Leading the integration and closure of local office following the M&A of small medium sized company. Lead a multidisciplinary global and remote project team with representatives from commercial, distribution, operations, finance, HR, customer excellence, marketing to ensure the timely and successful completion of the project. 
Represent the business, commercial and our customers in key strategic projects as production site transfers, new ERP roll-out.
Leading the integration and closure of local office following the M&A of small medium sized company. Lead a multidisciplinary global and remote project team with representatives from commercial, distribution, operations, finance, HR, customer excellence, marketing to ensure the timely and successful completion of the project. Represent the business, commercial and our customers in key strategic projects as production site transfers, new ERP roll-out.

Director Global Marketing Operations & Services, BioMonitoringDirector Global Marketing Operations & Services, BioMonitoring

Creation of the Marketing Operations department as a completely new function within BioM within the complexity of a new organizational landscape covering 3 different legacies with different processes and tools. Team of 6 people across 3 different sites covering operational marketing, pricing and master data management across a non-harmonized IT landscape.
Services Franchise Owner defining the BioM Services Strategy, implementation, acceptance and execution by commercial. Yearly double digit growth.
Creation of the Marketing Operations department as a completely new function within BioM within the complexity of a new organizational landscape covering 3 different legacies with different processes and tools. Team of 6 people across 3 different sites covering operational marketing, pricing and master data management across a non-harmonized IT landscape. Services Franchise Owner defining the BioM Services Strategy, implementation, acceptance and execution by commercial. Yearly double digit growth.

European Sales Support Manager, BioMonitoringEuropean Sales Support Manager, BioMonitoring

Organization of 30 people - 8 direct reports

Function with high degree of complexity, interfacing with external customers and most internal functions to solve problems by providing solutions and information through a multitude of different processes and systems. Mixture of local and remote people across W-EU and supporting the W-EU customers and commercial organization. Administrative and scientific profiles covering different activities (sales support, hardware repair &maintenance coordination, complaint management, inhouse sales,…).
Defining together with the leadership team the strategy of the sales/sales support organization and ensure successful implementation. Decision maker in the initiation, design and implementation of the processes and policies in the sales support structure to align with the overall strategy, needs, resources and capabilities of the organization. 
Part of the M&A integration teams to ensure that the commercial support functions, tools and processes are correctly integrated (3 M&A’s).

• The Open University Business School London: Business Administration and Management, General
• Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende - Chemistry