Bertine Beckeringh

Executive assistant to the Global VP Manufacturing Operations and to the (Senior) Directors of Global Supply Chain & Excellence, Director Global Quality, Director Global Sustainability and their Dutch based team members. Furthermore I am the first point of contact for the Global Manufacturing Operations team members, who are based in various countries all over the world (Europe, Latam and APAC). My main tasks are taking care of the complicated and busy calendars of the Vice President GMO and 4 Directors. Arranging and booking world wide business trips (sorting out options, booking flight tickets, arranging visa, hotels, local transport). Organising and taking care of communication for larger meetings and workshops. Preparing meeting agendas, taking care of expense reports in Concur, processing PR/PO's and invoices in SAP. Working together with management assistants at our Schiphol location as well as online with colleagues & suppliers world wide, using all Office 365 applications (Outlook, Teams calls/Teams meetings, Sharepoint, OneDrive). Negotiating annual hotel contracts with several hotels in the Netherlands (negotiations, half year reviews and keeping colleagues informed). Hybrid working at home and in our office at Schiphol, on location point of contact for guests, colleagues and for office management tasks during absences of the office manager. The corporate language within Orbia B&I Wavin is English and (on location) also Dutch ;-).

Management assistant to the 2 Directors of all HEMA Stores in the Netherlands and their direct reports. Main tasks: arranging and preparing meetings/appointments, prepare the annual communication calendar, taking care of agenda and minutes of weekly meetings, invoices, declarations, contact person for all Store Managers Netherlands. Organisation of the annual HEMA Store Managers meeting in cooperation with Manager Own stores (for 190 persons). Replacing Executive secretary CFO/CPO during maternity leave for 6 months. Additional function during 3 years: taking minutes of the monthly Projectmeeting for the General Sales Director BM.

Taking care of the in store promotion of all Office Centre shops in cooperation with the Purchasing department and an external advertising agency. Composing the 2-weekly Office Centre leaflet for customers, contactperson Office Centre shops concerning in store promotion, member of the editorial team of the staff magazine.

After moving from Groningen to Amsterdam, I wanted to know what kind of work and companies would be a good match, so I choose to first take on temporary jobs in different areas and with different company sizes, starting in Advertising in a small company (15 employees) with a temporary project due to extra workload on some projects of one of the Account Managers: arranging assignments for customers in cooperation with the Account Manager and Studio, taking care of tenders and invoicing, quality control (lay-out, spelling etc.) of leaflets, brochures and advertisements, presenting to and meetings with clients concerning new brochures/ideas.

Executive assistant to the BU Director RD&I Domestic Applicances and the BU Controller and their direct reports based in the Netherlnds. Main tasks: taking care of appointments, meetings, mails, phone calls, visitors, declarations. Furthermore, arranging intercontinental business trips, organising departmental meetings. Additional functions/activities: member of organisation team of the annual Philips DAP day (for 300 employees), taking care of internal sales of Philips products, member of the entertainment team in the annual year-end event (for 300 employees). The corporate language is English.

Several student jobs next to studying, especially in administration, catering and F&B in and near the city Groningen. Furthermore during summer holidays working abroad in the South of France (catering at a small holiday resort) and for 7 months working at a bar&restaurant on the Greek island Samos.