Kars Rotteveel

Senior Product Manager @ QWIC

About

Experienced Product/Project manager in the field of E-Mobility. Started my career at a startup company growing from 20-150 employees. Broadening my skills at a consultancy through a wide variety of projects and a broad network of clients. Doing what I can to make a liveable world for my children, and I feel that the energy transition is how I can best support that goal. Strong working affinity for; • Product Management • Researching the target market, creating customer journeys and identifying the perfect person/product fit • Roadmap thinking • Data analysis • BOM management • NPI / LCM project management • Compliancy

Country

Netherlands

City

Gouda

Industry

Consumer Goods

Skill

Productmanagement, NPI Management, Bill of Materials (BOM) Development, Productlancering, Concept Design, Master Data Management, Technical Product Training, Reliability Engineering, Quality Control, User Personas, Bill of Materials (BOM) Creation, Product Management, Customer Journeys, Portfoliomanagement, Product Design, Sketching, Interaction Design, Craft, User-centered Design, CAD

Experience

Senior Product Manager

QWIC

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Senior Projectmanager / Concept engineer

VROEGH

2022-1 - 2025-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

Guide mobility projects / solutions from concept to launch

Project Manager

Urban Arrow

2024-1 - 2024-12 · 1 yr

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Supported the Urban Arrow team a.i. ; - Project Lead for in-time delivery of the next generation Urban Arrow FamilyNext cargo bike; https://urbanarrow.com/family-bikes/familynext/ - Product Management Support - Project Manager for several internal project

Sabbatical

Daddydaycare

2021-5 - 2021-12 · 8 mos

Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Product Manager In-Market

QWIC

2018-6 - 2021-7 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Amsterdam, Provincie Noord-Holland, Nederland

What, why and for who? New product introduction, Category management, product management, project management, life cycle management, BOM/spec/(e)bikegeek

Technical Service Engineer

QWIC

2015-3 - 2018-6 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Amsterdam

Quality tracking, reliability solutions, offline and online trainings, RMA process, Masterdata, Issue response, knowledge base

Owner

Karrot

2012-4 - 2021-4 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Motorcycle enthusiast/fully custom builds/motorcycle rebuilds

Graduate Student

QWIC

2014-4 - 2014-10 · 7 mos

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Graduation project developing an 125cc equivelant electric motorcycle Built full technical prototype with a topspeed of 110km/h to validate power calculations and comfortability of the newly developed suspension system. Graduation mark; 8

Employee

Studio Libertiny

2012-5 - 2012-7 · 3 mos

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Helped the artist Tomas Libertiny in building and finishing his sculpture; 'The agreement'. The sculpture was later placed on the exhibition road show during the London's Olympics 2012. http://exhibitionroadshow.co.uk/programme/commissions/tomas-libertiny

Formgiver

John's Phone, Phone at the Supermarket

2011-11 - 2012-2 · 4 mos

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Provided the company with a description of concepts. A booklet was provided which served as the company's roadmap for 2012. Fitted products to John's form language.