Erik Speeckaert

Being part of the Management Team holding P&L responsability for the Benelux Salesteam, Industrial Division at tesa. Located in Brussels & Hilversum, tesa is part of tesa SE, one of the world's leading manufactureres of self adhesives for industrial, commercial and domestic use. tesa products are well known for their functionality, innovative design and top quality.

- Leading & upgrading sales & service organization (60 HC) in Benelux Full P&L responsability - Driving cross-divisional sales initiatives

- Headed Multi-ivisional & functional SAP implementation team - Prepared the Belgian organization for SAP implementation (change management) - Assured readiness for organization, processes and infrastructure - Headed continuous Improvement team to recover from important Go-Live collapse in NL - Regained committment and motivation from management team and all associates , resulting in business stabilization & recovery

- Lead the execution of pre-SAP implementation project in EMEA - Assured master data readiness of finished goods before SAP Go-Live; - important reduction & optimization of product programs - Headed EMEA project team of +60 associates

- Headed global Area Mgr Team - Contribution & implementation of 5y growth strategy - Identified & installed new potential strategic business partners - Maintained & expanded business with existing partners - Contributed to the implementation of the global marketing concepts