BUSINESS CONSULTANT, with strong experiences in multiple sectors, in different types of organizations .
MY CORE COMPETENCES could be grouped in 6 pillars:
Programme/Project/Portfolio/PMO Management (incl. recovering failing projects and PM coaching)
Transformation/Change Management
IT Management, IT governance, CIO a.i./IT executive
Process Improvement/Quality Assurance Management
Risk Management/Audit/Security Policy Management
Sustainability, Corporate Governance, System thinking/systemic modelling, strategic foresight, Lecturer/training/Facilitator and sociocracy facilitator.
This combination of competences makes a full-stack/Swiss knife Interim Manager, with more than 25 years experience, able also to manage a crisis or post-crisis events, bringing back serenity.
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
Being your partner in solving your problems or implementing your strategy (related to organisation, processes, strategy , governance, compliancy, digitalisation, transformation and sustainability).
MY VALUES
Recover trust and serenity. Congruent & authentic Change hacker/by-nature coach Building trust relationship and shared vision Open-minded, clear vision, humanist, good listener, dutiful Curious/holistic/360° minded Team player Opale-thinker System thinker/systemic analytics Inter-discipline believer Sense mindset Governance ambidexter "Box" claustrophobia Digital savvy Post crisis manager/recovering failing projects
MY NEXT STEPS
Looking forwards to bring real added value in Advisory Boards or Boards of Directors in M/L Corporations.
Advocate sustainability (at any level including board level)
Be part of the next megatrend
Build the next step in your organization in PM maturity, through Project Management coaching
REFERENCES
I am pleased to provide plenty of references. But have already a look on my LinkedIn Profile (and the recommendations)
You can download this On-line CV in pdf version here below (right side) Full version of my resume is on: www.laurent-janssens.eu (updated on a regular way)
Set-up of joint venture; Establish service portfolio; Sell services; Provide coaching
Portfolio, Program & Project Expert
ETNIC
Since May 2022
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
Context: as part of a larger organizational maturity transformation programme, Portfolio, Program and Project Management (3PM) practices have to increase in maturity also
Lecturer
Ichec Entreprise
Since March 2019
Cooperative Education Work
Brussels
Belgium
In charge of the masterclass on systemic/strategic risk management course (DRM course)
In charge of the course "ESG risks", more particularly governance and societal/social themes
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
European Trade Union Confederation
Since June 2023
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
As Data Protection Officer, I help ETUC to improve their privacy footprint
Quality Systems & Reporting Interim Manager
Delhaize
November 2021
to May 2022
Freelancer
Asse
Belgium
Context: replacement a.i. of the Quality Systems & Reporting team lead, with purpose to establish a roadmap to improve technical and organizational capabilities inside the Quality department
Senior Project Manager
ORES
June 2021
to November 2021
Context: Ores aimed to hire a swiss-knife Project Manager ad interim, able to adapt & take-over any kind of projects
Projects in charge of:
BI reporting for public lighting
MIRO industrialisation (SAAS)
ATRIAS Monitoring & Alerting
Project Manager Service Now Implementation
Ypto
March 2021
to May 2021
Freelancer
Anderlecht
Belgium
Context: to support the process-driven strategy, Service Now platform has been selected.
Project Manager to reset-up Service Now (core data) & coordination of ITSM process definition & Implementation
Project Management coach/Process Owner
Ypto
March 2020
to March 2021
Freelancer
Anderlecht
Belgium
Context: Ypto aims to increase its maturity in Project Management in order to gain in predictability and improve trust with its partners and clients
Coaching to Project Managers
Process owner for "Project Initiating & Definition" process
IT audit consultant
RTBF
July 2020
to March 2021
Freelancer
Brussels
Perform a system audit on Human Resource Management process, required by Data Protection Officer (DPO)
IT Audit Manager ai
D'Ieteren
August 2019
to February 2020
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
Context: in audit plan 2019, Internal Audit has to assess the risks re client Data
Provide independent insight to Management & Board how to change towards a "Data-centric" organization and assess the digital transformation steps
Perform the audit plan following D'Ieteren audit methodology
CyberRisk Advisor
ERGO
December 2019
to January 2020
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
Context: an initiatie is ongoing to improve the maturity level on cybersecurity, for Ergo BE & DKV.
Establish at Policy level the Cybersecurity Policy, the threat model, the risk appetite statement and the governance
IT Risk & Audit Director
Crowe Be
January 2019
to October 2019
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
Context: head of IT Services
Develop & maintain a portfolio of services
In charge of P&L for IT services
Perform Audit of IT organisations, IT systems, process maturity
Sign off audit reports
Audit Manager a.i.
Sodexo BRS
January 2019
to September 2019
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Internal Audit Manager was on pregnancy leave
Follow-up of Group audit action plans
Identify business risks and validate control measures for any new project
Establish updated DRP plan
IT audit Manager (a.i)
D'Ieteren
August 2018
to February 2019
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
Context: In its yearly audit plan, Internal Audit of D'Ieteren Auto has planned several assignments to audit the IT department and IT processes to provide reasonable assurance regarding the right processing of the margin.
Manage the IT Audit assignments
GDPR Senior consultant (Part-time)
Cochlear
July 2018
to April 2019
Consultant
Mechelen
Belgium
Context: following territorality rules of GDPR, Cochlear BENELUX & CTV have to be compliant with the EU Global Data Protection Regulation
Provide advisory on privacy programme
GDPR Program Director/DPO a.i.
Croix Rouge de Belgique
November 2017
to September 2018
Consultant
Namur
Belgium
Context: CRB has to be compliant with the EU Global Data Protection Regulation as from May, 2018.
Steer and manage the GDPR programme for CRB (Blood transfusion and Humanitorian Direction)
Induce change for employees and volunteers through Prosci/Adkar on processes, systems, behaviors
CIO a.i. (IT Director ad Interim)
Croix Rouge de Belgique
March 2017
to November 2017
Freelancer
Namur
Belgium
Context: The CRB faced serious IT outages during a long period, with complete loss and withdrawal of IT management team as consequence; I intervened as CIO a.i in a crisis mode.
On the other side, in its strategic plan, the CRB expects to take the hype of the digital transformation
My role as CIO a.i was:
to gain back acceptable level of trust (inside IT team but all across the organisation)
to make the IT shop runs
to establish an improvement roadbook and start implementing it
Select the new CIO
I was also busy with projects like:
GDPR
Digital transformation (aka learning solutions)
upgrade of windows infrastructure (DC, Exchange, WIFI)
Stabilisation of Sharepoint platform
Setting QlickView (BI) in place
Selecting strategic suppliers as partners
Implement practices and processes like Project Management, Portfolio management and service management
Steam Programme Manager
M-team
November 2016
to February 2017
Freelancer
Anderlecht
Belgium
Context: MLOZ/m-team (Health Insurance provider) implemented the IDIT package (Sapiens) and was preparing its roll-out plan
Align with business operational readiness activities
Report to Steering Committee the weekly status
Solve faced problems (technical but also at organizational level)
Motivate teams in challenging environment
Instill acceptable level of confidence across stakeholders
Be an escalation point with issues with the vendor
Steer different teams (BI, package implementation, template design, scanning, Infrastructure, release management, vendor) to stick within agreed-upon plan (circa 60 people)
Coordinate integration with eCommerce frame
Document the pre-mortem analysis
Programme Manager "Tools, Process, Project" in transformation programme
WorldLine
February 2016
to November 2016
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
The "Merchant Customer services" (CS) department faced several challenges. To solved them, the transformation programme "Butterfly" had for objectives to:
Reduce OPEX
Increase customer satisfaction
Increase employee pride
Perform cross/up-selling sales
Coordinate the operational readiness activities inside CS for sales strategy (i.e., repricing, smartpay, etc...) or strategic programmes like VAT optin & Anti Money Laundering;
Manage a portfolio of 15 concurrent digital transformation initiatives, from definition to implementation and deployment across CS organisation (incl. Selfcare solution, call center platform migration, outsourcing of supply chain element, operational readiness of CRM implementation, ...)
Implement lean practices to remove 11 customer frustrations
Be part of the priority board (aka rainbow) programme
Provide reporting on the progress for the butterfly programme
Be part of the CS management team
Be people manager of 4 team members,
Infrastructure service manager
UCB
July 2014
to January 2016
Freelancer
Braine-l'Alleud
Belgium
Context: prior to implement the applicative solutions, it requires to design and prepare the infrastructure components
Serves as point of contact for Application Owners regarding IT infrastructure work packages (for Technology Operations and Finance/SAP)
Identify the infrastructure services to deliver as solution
Establish the infrastructure budget as part of the project charter
Coordinate, track and monitor the delivery of IT Infrastructure workpackages, performed by Bengalore colleagues
Ensure the transition to operations teams goes smoothly
Manage end-to-end IT infrastructure projects (Bomgar, MIR3)
Act as transformation/improvement agent (including KPI, Configuration Management DB, service management role, transition)
Asset Quality Review (AQR) Programme Manager
ING
February 2014
to June 2014
Freelancer
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: ECB – in his new model of supervision of pan european banks as decided by EU in November 2013 – set-up the Asset Quality Review (AQR) framework as pre-requisites for stress tests (published in Oct 14)
Coordinate the different tracks of the project (plan – monitor & control)
Identify stakeholders and engage with them (other bank departments): in total about 350 employees were involved in the AQR
Manage communication with different stakeholders
Define the governance model (SteerCo) et provide weekly progress reports to SteerCo
Establish the process to collect end-to-end the credit File review data to auditors mandated by BNB/ECB
Manage issues/identify risks and mitigation plans
Set-up dataroom (based on sharepoint) to share files with mandated auditors
Coordinate developments to provide information to operational units (coversheet, T4a pre-filled)
Manage cross-border data
Organise Lessons Learned and consolidate them to present to SteerCo
Risk Manager
Delta LLoyd Bank
December 2013
to January 2014
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
Context: As financial institution, DLB has to report the state of its internal control to the Belgian National Bank, to be compliant with the Belgian Banking Law
Organise the self-assessments of the Internal Control System to fill-in by department heads in the context of the Belgian Banking Law (Art 20)
Challenge with these department heads the collected self-assessments (completeness, consistency, status of prior defined actions)
Provide recommendations to the head of risk management regarding improvement suggestions for the complete process
Summarise findings and analysis
Present findings to senior management
Elaborate Management Summary to be presented to the Audit Committee, Board and BNB
Process Manager
Ogone
May 2013
to November 2013
Freelancer
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Ogone expected to professionalize its business processes and required to establish and deploy Incident/Service Request /Problem/Change Management processes
Assess the As-Is situation regarding Incident/Problem/Change Management (based on ITIL framework) and present it to stakeholders
Establish the roadmap of Incident/Problem/Change Management processes
Develop the processes and its reference documents (flow, tool requirements, Roles & Responsibilities, Metric plan/KPI)
Facilitate workshops to define these processes
Pilot processes
Perform behaviour change (based on ADKAR) to deploy the processes
Prepare the training packages related on those processes and provide training to teams of customer care;
Set-up governance of the roadmap of review processes
Coach junior project coordinators of deployment/roll-out projects of Incident Management Tool (Efficy) Act as expert on process management for other processes
Program Manager a.i. (Utilities)
Tecteo
August 2012
to March 2013
Freelancer
Liège
Belgium
As Program Risk Manager of the project Héraclès (at Tectéo- Utilities), identify and monitor the risks, with mitigation action plan to track
Act interim as crisis Manager/program manager to get programme back on track (SAP one in Utilities sector: PP, PM, IZU)
Context: NRB expected to increase its portfolio of customers and for this, required to professionalize some management practices in engineering and project management.
Main objectives: reduce bugs in production and improve predictability
Define the Quality Assurance (QA) process with supporting tools
Define deployment plan for Process Improvement initiatives;
As Program Risk Manager of the project Héraclès (at Tectéo- Utilities), identify and monitor the risks, with mitigation action plan to track
Being the project risk process owner for the whole organisation: defining the process, piloting it and deploying it
Act interim crisis Management to get projects back on track (SAP one in Utilities sector)
Set-up project reporting for the portfolio of projects of the practice Utilities
Set-up QA reporting for the projects whereon QA activities are performed
Set-up and deploy milestone review process
Set-up and deploy lessons learned process
Ensure improvements are identified and prioritised,by process owners Organise self-assessment surveys based on sharepoint
Facilitate problem solving sessions
Be the reviewer and validator of key project deliverables
Provide coaching to project teams for any new improvement
Based on QA assessments, provide insights on project compliancy towards defined methodology
Cost Process Manager
Euroclear
October 2010
to May 2011
Freelancer
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: due to the fail of the large programmes, the Board required an audit. Therein, it was stated that the Financial department had to be a challenger and to enforce its oversight role. My role was to propose this improvement plan on behalf of the head of Financial Reporting
Establish a roadmap of initiatives for improvements (control environment, project monitoring and portfolio oversight)
Coordinate the changes/transformation for the financial project reporting (direct expenses instead of ABC model)
Perform gap analysis (AS-IS/To-Be) of end-to-end process for outsourcing
Ensure compliance with Belgian Banking Law (CBFA Art 20)
Provide advice on IT Governance issues (benefit management, portfolio management).
Establish a measurement plan to assess portfolio oversight
Write Lean Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for team
Practice Leader "IT Governance"
ALTRAN
December 2004
to February 2011
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Altran aimed to develop a portfolio of services, wherein IT governance was one of the premium offerings. This required team up competencies in this area
Establish the vision regarding IT governance
Develop and implement the IT governance practice plan, agreed with CEO and senior consultants
Develop the service offerings related to “IT Governance” (alignment, outsourcing strategy, compliancy/IT risk management, value management)
Participate in events (Isaca round table) as speaker
Facilitate workshops with customers/prospects in pre-sales;
Respond to bids, pre-sales activities
Provide training on COBIT and Audit approach
Increase competences in IT governance (for consultants and business managers)
Senior Quality Assurance Consultant/Coach PM
Euroclear
April 2009
to September 2010
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
Perform Quality Assurance assessments for strategic programmes and Legacy projects (packages, infrastructure, business applications, etc);
Report results to Programme managers and Programme Sponsorship Committees;
Collect Lessons Learned as input for process improvement programme;
Review Statements of Work for outsourced (offshored) projects ;
Set-up and deploy the Quality Management System
Work in close collaboration with Risk Management and Audit, to get aligned with findings and recommendations
COBIT expert
Euroclear
April 2009
to March 2010
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Euroclear had to be compliant with Belgian Banking law (Art. 20)
Provide training on COBIT
Perform gap analysis between COBIT control objectives and organisation practices, through workshops and interviews
Assess current maturity level
Define key control objectives
Participate in CMMi implementation, to leverage the two initiatives
Own the COBIT implementation plan
Business Programme Manager
Euroclear
November 2008
to April 2009
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Make sure 1,500 clients world-wide (major Financial Institutions) are ready to deploy strategic Programmes (CCI)
Plan and coordinate cross-activities for major business teams (marketing, legal, Customer services, ...) to ensure client readiness
Coordinate between involved departments readiness activities for major milestones
Identify issues and resolve them, tracking until closure, with appropriate governance
Governance advisor and IT management coach
VPK Packaging
December 2007
to December 2008
Consultant
Aalst
Belgium
Context: VPK Packaging group expected to dubble its turnover by 200% in the coming years (green field/M&A)
How will the IT organization be ready to support this consequent growth? Has the IT to be central or decentral?
Perform As-is analysis based on COBIT, P Weill framework
Facilitate workshops to identify which appropriate governance bodies are needed
Describe the governance processes
Develop the RACI and Terms of Reference for major actors
Coach IT managers for all IT management processes (reporting, configuration mgt, communication with stakeholders, etc)
Portfolio Manager/PMO responsible
Delta Lloyd Life
March 2008
to September 2008
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: Due to the M&A with Swiss Life Belgium, IT manager had to free up her time for preparing a smooth integration
As owner of the Project Management Methodology, propose and implement improvements and deploy them
Participation in task forces for Integration of projects after acquisition (SLB)
Consolidate states of projects and present findings to the Corporate steering chaired by Executives
Provide coaching to Project leaders and application managers (estimation process)
Review and final checkpoint of business cases
Set-up the SEPA initiative
Senior Quality Assurance Consultant/Coach PM
Euroclear
January 2007
to March 2008
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
Perform Quality Assurance assessments for strategic programmes and Legacy projects (packages, infrastructure, business applications, etc);
Report results to Programme managers and Programme Sponsorship Committees;
Collect Lessons Learned as input for process improvement programme;
Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) Project Manager
AXA
January 2006
to December 2006
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: AXA was quoted to the NY Stock Exchange and as such, had to be compliant with SoX act (S 404).
This regulation had a strong impact on the IT department, through the compliancy of IT General Controls and IT Entity level Controls as part of the Management practices
Establish SOX Key Controls, linked to the stage to be applied the latest in the Project Life cycle
Define SOX Test Strategy
Establish and maintain SOX documentation (SOX control objectives)
Train the SOX auditors (members of QA team) to the SOX tests to perform
Consolidate reports for IT Executives & Axa SOX Prgoramme Manager,
Track deficiencies, till closure
Act as single point of contact with external auditors
Make complete IT department aware of SOX impact and Key Controls.
Integrate the SOX controls in IT management processes (CMMI & Project Management)
Quality manager for Architecture department
AXA
September 2005
to December 2005
Consultant
Brussels
Belgium
Context: each IT department had an assigned quality manager to implement CMMi model
Plan and organise the activities of the Quality Assurance coordinators
Provide support and coaching for architecture teams with regard to process improvement (integration with Togaf framework)
Act on behalf of the IT department Quality Manager and participate on the QA staff meeting
CMMI/QA Auditors Coach
AXA
February 2005
to August 2005
Consultant
Bruxelles
Belgium
Context: AXA expected to get Level 2 of CMMI by applying the practices of the level 2 process areas (including Product & Process Qaulity Assurance)
Following CMMi framework, organise quality audit assessments (gathering information, kick off, field work, reporting, closure)
Coach junior internal auditors to improve their QA audit skills to be compliant with PPQA process area
Deploy Process & Product Quality Assurance Process (PPQA)
Review process and practices, defined by the process engineers
Ensure process and practices are applied in projects and portfolio of applications
Report structural issues and recommendations to IT department Managers
Act as Quality coordinator for BI/DWH and Financial projects/portfolio of applications
Group IT Director
SOFICOM (Eiffage)
August 2001
to October 2004
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
Context: Soficom aimed to create a "shared service" for IT from skratch
Ensure IT alignment between holding and subsidiaries
Negociate ICT decisions in front of holding’s Executive Committee
Define ICT strategy on the level of the holding and deploy it
Define ICT policies
Manage ICT resources :
Steer development and deployment of home-made applications and IT infrastructure
Final IT decision maker for acquiring a package and deploying solutions
Act as architect
“Technology wake-up”
Security Policy Programme Manager
Banksys (Now Wordline)
October 2000
to July 2001
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
Context: Banksys, as leader of the Secured Electronic Fund Transferts aimed to ensure all employees applied secured practices in their daily activities
Put in place a local security organisation following ISO TR 154xx (Security Charter)
Development of a working methodology (security charter and Project plan);
Writing the corporate IS Security Policies (based on BS 7799 and ISF) and obtaining approval of the Executive Management;
Deployment: awareness, discussion with the labour unions, start-up of IT projects impacted by the policies, etc
Participation in the CrossPm workgroup (Project Management Initiative compliant with PMI) to add the security impacts on projects;
Representative on the technical committee for standardisation JTC1/SC27/WG1 (see IBN)
Audit Manager
Banksys
January 2000
to October 2000
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
Context: Banksys - as a subsidiary of a consortium of Financial Institutions had to have an independant audit
Establish and obtain commitment on the Audit charter;
Manage team (2 direct reports)
Establish the yearly audit plan with heads of departments based on risk assessment
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Tecteo, Vivaqua, SWDE, ORES. Knwoledge of Atrias & Public Lightings
Good
Healthcare Institutions
Good
Non Governmental Organizations
International Federation; Rescue management; Training Institute; Help to refugiees; Blood Management, Restoring Family Links; Humanitorian activities
Good
Transport
Railway
Advanced
Construction/Real Estate
Real Estate; General building project management; Timely associations; large infrastructure building
Good
Public sector
Etnic, RTBF, Ores
Advanced
Manufacturing
Pharma site; Packaging
Good
Medical devices
Hearing loss
Intermediate
Audit office
Crowe Be
Good
Retail
D'Ieteren
Intermediate
Education
Good
Media
Good
Transformation
Change Management
ADKAR, Change Conscious Leader, .. Used since 2001 as Security Officer but gained richful experiences all across later assignments (QA coach at Axa, SOX implementation, CLient readiness at euroclear, QA mgr at NRB, Programme manager at Wordline, Ogone, Process manager at Euroclear, GDPR programme mgr, ...
Advanced
System Thinking
Under mentorship by Jos de Neve and board member of the Cognitive Knowledge Lab