Helen Sonneveld

Academic research in supply chain development opportunities for FloraHolland in 2020.

This research project is organized by, on competences and motivation selected students from the University of Groningen and is the largest project of its kind in the Netherlands. After a preliminary research in the Netherlands, all research members travelled to Brazil for 10 weeks to carry out the field research. Together with my research partner I conducted a market research for a medical accessories company. We interviewed several doctors, distributors and other experts in the Brazilian medical field for our research possible business opportunities for the company. The report was rated with an 8 (out of ten).

During this job, I trained young students on how they could develop effective study techniques and how they could set and achieve goals. In addition to this, I performed some acquisition activities for the recruitment of new trainings at various schools.

Together with a professor I designed and created the new course ‘Management Science.’ I was held responsible for the developments of the assignments and the computer seminars.

Based on the experiences of the students I provided feedback to the director of the BSc TM. I had mainly an advising role about improvements to the courses and the study programme.

During my second study year, I participated in the one week ESR project to Barcelona. A six week period prior to the trip prepared us for the research we did. Two professors accompanied every group of five participants to make the research in Barcelona successful.

As a member of the part-time board of seven motivated students we organized during the year several career related activities, such as 'Women at the Top,' 'Sollicitatie en Assessment Trainingen,' and 'the Career Week.' I was responsible for acquisition and the contact with the participative companies Winner of the ING award 2010-2011 of best performing Make a Move city in the Netherlands.

During a 12 weeks period of 4 hours a week English education in Sydney (AUS), I received the Certificate in Advanced English.

Relevant courses: - Performance & Decision Management - Advanced Operations Management - Purchasing & Supply Chain Management - Technology Change & Innovation Policy

After a period of 3,5 years I successfully finished this BSc degree in Technology Management. The optimisation of (business) processes considering efficiency, operations and human factors, were the driving factors to choose this degree. Activities and Societies: Year representative, Education Committee

After my bachelor degree I decided to continue in the area of Operations Management. In addition to this, also my interest grew in the 'bigger picture' of optimisation business processes. Therefore, the Dual Degree MSc programme in operations and supply chain was a perfect fit to my interests. Relevant courses: - Product & Service Development - Inventory Management - Asset Management - Product improvement & Quality Control - Behavioural Operations Management