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PROFILE CANDIDATE Code K100139INT
Sex: M
Year of birth: 63
Education:
1982 – 1987 Bachelor level diploma in Horticulture
Higher Agricultural College
Den Bosch, the Netherlands
Driving license: car
Computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite
Languages (according to the candidate)
Dutch: mother tongue
Spanish: spoken proficient, written good
English: spoken very good, written very good
French: spoken very good, written good
German: spoken very good, written good
Working experience:
Our candidate is a result oriented person with a strong commercial feeling who ‘smells’ market opportunities. He considers himself a good Grower who enjoys getting the best results with his crops. Candidate has a profound knowledge of all aspects concerning growing like plant physiology, fertilizing/fertilizing products and methods, as well as climate management and other crop-technical aspects. He furthermore has specific knowledge of and experience with the propagation of young plants.
As manager of an Agricultural division in Central America and later as independent owner of his own strawberry production company in Colombia, he acquired much experience in organizing the business in general, operating with and in teams and the management and coaching of people. During his years in these areas, his improvisational skills appeared very useful.
Candidate’s style of leadership is characterized by steering on motivation of the employees by creating a pleasant working atmosphere and an informal culture, whereby he prefers to regard himself as being a member of a team, rather than above the team. In terms of communication his style is ‘to-the-point’, not wasting time with small talk.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2006 - present F
Company: Strawberry producer, Colombia
Function: Farm & General Manager (and Owner)
Responsibilities:
All daily activities of a strawberry production company (production, sales, HR, administration, etc.). Note: Candidate is forced to terminate this (own) company in view of the
continuous drought (12 months by now already) and the financial set backs because of that.
2005 - 2006
Company: DLV Plant bv
Function: Senior Consultant Strawberries
Responsibilities:
Workarea Netherlands, Belgium and UK
2001 - 2004
Company: Hoogendoorn (Horticulture) Automation, Spain
Function: Office Manager
Responsibilities:
Daily activities at the office (Sales, accountmanagement, etc). Note: Employment ended as the Dutch head office decided to cease its operations in Spain.
1998 - 2001
Company: Holland Chemical International, Costa Rica
Function: Technical Director, Agricultural Division, Central America (Fertilizer)
Responsibilities:
Responsible for the Fertilizer Sales force & results in Central America. Note: Candidate left this employment in view of over-excessive travel involved with this position.
1994 - 1998
Company: Holland Chemical International, Colombia
Function: Sales Representative / Consultant
(Fertilizer and propagation equipment)
Responsibilities:
Sales of Fertilizer and other propagation materials in Colombia.
1989 - 1994
Company: Terra Nigra, de Kwakel, the Netherlands (Propagation Material
Function: Sales Representative (producer for Gerbera & Roses)
Responsibilities:
Sales Areas Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Middle East
1987 - 1989
Company: Institute for Horticultural Extension services, Netherlands
Function: Crop Adviser Greenhouse vegetables production
Responsibilities:
Crops: Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Bell Pepper/Capsicum
Personality:
Our candidate is a serious, thoughtful, driven and result oriented personality with a good sense of humor. Administration is not his favourite activity, but over the last years he improved and has become more patient in that respect. He furthermore is no person who deals well with peers who are over-accurate and get lost in details and loose the focus on the main goal.
Description of the new challenge:
Our candidate is searching for a position in the horticultural sector and preferably a function whereby he is made responsible for growing crop, or a challenge in sales management.