rik van houtum

Booking.com, part of the Priceline Group, is the planet's #1 accommodation site. Headquartered on a beautiful canal in Amsterdam, Booking.com has more than 184 offices worldwide. Our humble, talented staff of over 13,000 drives us forward every day. We love travel, and we work hard to make it easier to book great accommodations in more than 200 destinations. Since its foundation in 1996, Booking.com has been one of the travel sector's best-kept secrets. Today we've got some serious numbers to our name: over a billion guest nights booked and counting, 1,100,000 room nights booked every 24 hours, 42 languages available and over 1,000,000 bookable accommodations. We attribute our success to never losing sight of our customer's needs and remaining true to our mission: to help leisure and business travellers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy the world's best places to stay.

* Member of the core team that realized a full scale Workday implementation for 8000+ employees in 61 countries, in a period of 6 months * Responsible for Security design and configuration, and Core HCM configuration * Phase 2 implementation: lead rollout and configuration of Advanced Compensation and Performance & Talent modules * Topic owner for Core HCM, Compensation, Talent & Performance, plus several smaller projects, e.g. set up of integration Workday * Greenhouse (Recruitment tool)

Courses in Euroculture, Spanish language and History through the Erasmus programme.

With a Minor in Environmental Studies (2006)