Arjen Vossen is a Dutch national with a B.A.Sc. in Business Logistics & Economics from HAN University of Applied Sciences. He has over 15 years of experience in purchasing and supply chain roles in the healthcare industry, most recently as Group Purchasing- and Sourcing Manager at Hoogstraten Packaging BV and previously as Senior Buyer at Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital and Regional Hospital Queen Beatrix, where he was responsible for purchasing portfolios exceeding €15-25 million annually. He also has management experience from roles at Goebertus Medical Group BV and MediNova NV.

1. Résumé
Name
Nationality
Education
Languages
Residence
Date of birth
Arjen Vossen
Dutch
B.A.Sc. in Business Logistics & Economics @ HAN University of Applied
Sciences, (2002)
Dutch, English, German
Oosterbeek
1977
2013 – 2013
Hoogstraten Packaging BV (Gorinchem), Group Purchasing- and Sourcing Manager
• Responsible for tactical and strategic purchasing & international sourcing.
• Responsible for international trade procurement and the purchasing of capital goods,
MRO and services.
• Responsible for monitoring agreements, supplier management and vendor rating.
• Responsible for an annual purchasing spend exceeding 20mio.
• Responsible for analysing spend and identifying savings possibilities.
• Hierarchically directing 1 purchaser.
• Member MT.
• Reporting to Managing Director.
• As a result of the financial state of the company the employment was terminated at the
end of the two month trial period. Nevertheless, several goals where accomplished and
others where set in motion during this period.
2012 – 2013
Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital (Nijmegen), Senior Buyer
• Responsible for tactical and strategic purchasing.
• Responsible for the (international) purchasing of medical supplies, capital goods, MRO,
services and the 2012 operation theatre renovation & digitization.
• Responsible for monitoring agreements, supplier management and vendor rating.
• Responsible for an annual purchasing spend exceeding 25mio.
• Responsible for analysing spend and identifying savings possibilities.
• Acting as a business partner to the budget holders.
• Ensuring purchasing dep. is part of the team from the very start of a project and directing
the purchasing process within each project.
• Co-directing 3 junior purchasers and 6 operational purchasers, overseeing the procure to
pay process.
• Reporting to Purchasing Manager
2009 – 2012
Regional Hospital Queen Beatrix (Winterswijk), Senior Buyer
• Responsible for tactical and strategic purchasing.
• Responsible for the (international) purchasing of medical supplies, capital goods, MRO,
utilities, services, IT, building maintenance and the 2010 operation theatre renovation &
digitization.
• Responsible for monitoring agreements, supplier management and vendor rating.
• Lead Buyer Medical Gases for the IAZ (Purchasing Alliance formed by 11 Dutch Hospitals).
• Responsible for an annual purchasing spend exceeding 15mio.
• Responsible for analysing spend and identifying savings possibilities.
• Acting as a business partner to the budget holders.
• Ensuring purchasing dep. is part of the team from the very start of a project and directing
the purchasing process within each project.
• Co-directing 2 junior purchasers and 3 operational purchasers, overseeing the procure to
pay process.

2. 2006 – 2009
• Reporting to Facility Manager.
Goebertus Medical Group BV (Amsterdam), Operations Manager
• Responsible for professionalization of the business processes during a hectic period
(company turnover grew from 500k in 2005 to 2,2mio in 2009).
• Responsible for operations, inside sales, purchasing and quality management.
• Responsible for preparing quotations for tenders concerning large technical projects.
• Responsible for supplier management and successfully obtaining and retaining exclusive
distributorships from international suppliers. Responsible for visiting international
suppliers.
• Responsible for successfully obtaining and retaining the ISO 9001-2000 certification.
• Co-directing 5 technicians.
• Reporting to company owners.
2003 – 2006
MediNova NV (Rozendaal), Purchasing Manager
• Responsible for successfully implementing a central led purchasing department for 5
medical clinics. Reducing supplier amount with > 50% and purchasing spend with > 20%.
• Responsible for operational, tactical and strategic purchasing, implementing and
overseeing the procure to pay process.
• Responsible for the (international) purchasing of medical supplies, capital goods, MRO,
services and building maintenance.
• Responsible for supplier management and vendor rating.
• Responsible for analysing spend and identifying savings possibilities.
• Acting as a business partner to the budget holders.
• Ensuring purchasing dep. is part of the team from the very start of a project and directing
the purchasing process within each project.
• Member Holding MT.
• Reporting to CEO.
2002 – 2003
Kliniek Klein Rosendael BV (Rozendaal), Surgery Planner
• Responsible for optimal surgery planning across 3 operation theatres.
• Responsible for analysing and optimizing logistic processes.
• Responsible for generating management information regarding occupancy and efficiency.
• Reporting to Manager Medical Affairs.
2001 – 2001
Quantore BV (Beuningen), B.A.Sc. Graduate
• Graduated with a thesis on purchasing and vendor rating.
• Responsible for developing a methodology for vendor rating and operationalization to a
working assessment program in Excel, including manual and implementation instructions.
• Gaining experience and knowledge of ERP-system for optimal vendor rating system input.
• Reporting to Logistics Manager.
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Financial Management (MBA level), TSM Business School (2008-2009), completed.
NEVI 2, NEVI Purchasing Academy (2005-2006), partial exemption, not completed.
NEVI 1, NEVI Purchasing Academy (2005-2006), partial exemption, graduated in 2006.