business lead and resume

Dorpsstraat 9 1396KG Baambrugge NL phone +31-(0)6-15081043 email [email protected]

Frank J. Ebbers Dorpsstraat 9

1396KG Baambrugge NL

mobile +31-(0)6-15081043

email [email protected]

Introduction Letter

Baambrugge, April 19th, 2016

Subject: projects and job opportunities

Dear madam, sir,

I am boundless, hungry, curious, responsive, ambitious, foolish, love people and think it is possible to lift others.

I contact you to offer my vast expertise and find out job or business opportunities.

Are you pairing your supply chain, product and profit in a sustainable manner?

I can support you to make a difference in;

- Analysing and optimizing the business model

- Strategical planning

- Sustainable sourcing & production

- Buying & supply chain planning

- Product development & open costing

- Quality Management

- ERP and BI development

Interested? Please continue to read my resume and call me for a cup of coffee. I am happy to share ideas and opportunities with you.

Kind regards,

Frank Ebbers

• Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a

day in your life (Confusius)• Intelligence without ambition

is a bird without wings (Dali)• It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intel-

ligent, but the ones most re-sponsive to change (Darwin)• A clever person solves a

problem a wise person avoids it (Einstein)

• If they say it’s impossible, remember it is impossible for

them, not for you (Wolf of Wall-street)

• People were created to be loved and things to be used.

The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are be-ing loved and people are being

used (Dalai Lama)• The more boundless your vision the more real you are

(Deepak Chopra)• Stay hungry, stay foolish

(Jobs)• We rise by lifting others (In-

gersoll)

Product/field Engineer, WE Fashion (Utrecht NL)Intermediary between buying and CMT factories - Responsible for product/fit development, sampling, quality and costing.

Product Manager, Pumpkin (Utrecht)Buying-, product- and sourcing manager for a start-up in Children’s wear. - Responsible for product/fit development, sampling, buying and sourcing.

Buying Manager Men’s Department, Kien (Vendex Fashion Group) (Utrecht NL)Manager of Men’s buying team; 2 buyers, merchandiser, planner, designer (1993-1999)Senior buyer of Men’s wear assortment (1991-1994)- Responsible for vision, strategy, budgets, sales, margins, stock levels and stock turn.

Senior Buyer Men’s Casuals, Vroom & Dreesmann (Amsterdam NL)Senior buyer of casual private labels; Westbound and Trend Studio.- Responsible for vision, strategy, budgets, sales, margins, stock levels and stock turn.

Buying Manager Fashion, Intersport (Hoevelaken NL)Manager of fashion team (3 FTE).- Responsible for vision, strategy, budgets, sales, margins, stock levels and stock turn.

Buying Manager D5 Fashion V.o.f. (Amstelveen NL)Manager of buying team and overseas offices in China, Indonesia and Bangladesh (9 FTE). - Responsible for planning, margins, buying, sourcing, QA, compliance and C&A account

Frank J. Ebbers mobile +31-(0)6-15081043

email [email protected]

• Born March 1st 1965 in Amsterdam, married and father of two young adults. I am;

• an expert manager and hands-on coach who takes initiatives, care and thoughtful decisions under pressure in the ever chal-

lenging and changing FMCG environment

• a craftsman pur sang, a practical and curious product manager with passion for quality and details

• a calm strategical sparring-partner who pairs intuition, analy-sis, structure, ethics and profit in a sustainable manner

• a tough negotiator with vast expertise

Career19

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Product/field Engineer - We InternationalProduct Manager - PumpkinBuying Manager - KienSenior Buyer - Vroom & DreesmannBuying Manager - IntersportBuying Manager - D5 Fashion V.o.f.


Skills• Extensive range- and product development skills.

• Genuine leadership skills; collaborative leader, coach and motivator• Strong interpersonal, communication and influential skills.

• Pro-active, dynamic and problem solving attitude, sense of urgency.• Well developed sense of the Asian market and business culture.

• Excellent analytical, mathematical skills and financial acumen.• Profound knowledge of and/or affinity with software programs and systems, like; (Mac, Windows) Office, Filemaker, Qlikview, Exact, various planning programs, etc.

• Language skills; native in Dutch, fluent in English, reasonable in German, • understanding of French.

Character, Interests & Activities• Calm, open, intuitive, creative, ambitious and accountable

• Modest, loyal, commited, determined and impatient• Golf, wine, food, cooking, traveling, shopping, design, running, mindfulness


Experience & Competences• Develop and execute vision and strategy for men’s fashion categories.

• Develop and execute assortment-, marketing-, buying- and sourcing plans.

• Leading and coaching buying and merchandising teams.

• Watch and translate market developments and trends in commercial category plans, collections and products in collaboration with designers.

• Develop products, fit/patterns, fabrics, trims and packaging.

• Managing seasonal budgets, sales, margins, stock levels, OTB and stock turn.

• Develop and execute strategies for sustainable supply chain management, sourcing, supplier selection and corrective action plans.

• Managing operational buying, merchandising and production process; purchase orders, samples, trims, deliveries.

• Calculate cost prices; consumptions, fabrics, trims, CMT.

• Negotiate contracts, orders, prices and business solutions with vendors.

• Develop and manage QA standards and manuals.

• Organise and execute QC in production units.

• Develop and manage custom made ERP/budgetting systems in Excel and Filemaker.

Education & Cources

HTS v.d Confectie-Industrie (aka AMFI) Amsterdam 1983-1987 (Bsc degree)

Time management, Presentation techniques, Team building 1991-1999

Management training "Motivation Quality Management” - Krauthammer 1997-1998

Core-User delegate, financial planning project "Plan-it" - (Vendex Fashion) 1998-1999

Mindfulness 2016

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