Steven Vandamme

Chief Information Officer @ mateco IT

About

I have +30 years of professional experience with senior leadership roles in business engineering and transformation, enabled by IT / Digital. I first worked for Accenture (1990-2004) where I shaped and implemented succesfully IT/digital enabled transformation programs for Clients, of which Barry Callebaut. At Accenture, I gained multi-industry experience. From 2004-2024 I worked for Barry Callebaut, started as manager Business Process Manager and appointed to Chief Information Officer in November 2007. As of December 2024, Chief Information Officer of mateco group. Summary of professional experience : - Define IT strategy to support the business strategy - Identify business value creation opportunities, initiate and manage large IT enabled business transformation programs, accelerate digitalization - Manage daily IT services, optimize IT service and cost, IT budget responsibility of 100 mio CHF - People leader of global and multi-cultural teams (300 internal staff, high people retention) - Manage an "extended organization", with large multi-year strategic outsourcing agreements - Govern the business & IT relationship at ExCo and BoD level

Country

Belgium

City

Koksijde

Industry

Retail

Skill

IT Strategy, Business Process, ERP, Strategy, Change Management, SAP, Program Management, Business Strategy, Process Improvement, Management Consulting, Business Analysis, Leadership, IT Management, Project Portfolio Management, SAP R/3, Business Process Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Outsourcing

Experience

Chief Information Officer

mateco IT

2024-12 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Waregem

CIO for mateco group and CEO of mateco IT NV

Chief Information Officer

Barry Callebaut Group

2007-10 - 2024-3 · 16 yrs 6 mos

Zurich (Switzerland) and Wieze (Belgium)

As CIO of Barry Callebaut, provide global Information Management Services : 1. develop IT strategy to suppor the business strategy 2. demand planning / business governance (project portfolio management) 3. application-enabled project and program delivery (growth through M&A and greenfields, integrated existing Barry Callebaut entities, Improvement & Digital Projects) 4. service desk, global application support and maintenance 5. enabling global IT Infrastructure services (global data center, global WAN/MPLS, desktop services, telecom) 6. cyber security services Main achievements as CIO in 2007 to-date period : 1. establish a more "Demand Driven" organization (project portfolio management, business governance) 2. increased coverage from global ERP/SAP backbone from 60% (2007) to 95% (2021) of the global BC business, whilest supporting a yearly 8-10% topline growth through M&A and greenfields, globally +6.000 SAP users 3. Digital First strategy, eg introducing Digital (SaaS/Cloud) solutions to increase speed of collaboration with Business Partners and mobilize the knowledge worker (SalesForce.com, SAP HR SuccessFactors, Concur, Google, ....) 4. strenghtened the global IT Infrastructure backbone (global smart SD-WAN, hybrid cloud global Data Center) 5. raised cyber security maturity levels in line with Digital First strategy 6. reduced TCO of IT at Barry Callebaut from 1,3% of worldwide operating expenses to +/- 0,9 % through ERP backbone harmonization and consolidation, prior re-investing TCO/cost in digitalization (1,4% of worldwide operating expenses)

Manager BPM (Business Process Management)

Barry Callebaut Group

2004-10 - 2007-10 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Improve business accumen and orientation of the IT department, ao introducing a global Business Process Framework and more Process oriented team structures. Introduced "Business Integration Methodology".

Senior Manager

Accenture

1990-9 - 2004-9 · 14 yrs 1 mo

Shaped and implemented succesfully IT enabled transformation programs for Clients, of which Barry Callebaut. Gaining multi-sector experience in the Food & Retail industry (Albert Heijn, Vandemoortele, AB Inbev) next to Bekaert, DSM, Belgacom and Electrabel (Engie).