Erik Wijnoogst

Senior Business Transformation & Programme Director delivering complex international change across operations, supply chain and digital. Experienced in leading large, multi-workstream programmes from strategy to execution, with strong focus on governance, operating model change, benefits realisation and sustainable adoption.

Leadership through people: building, motivating and guiding teams through complex change, combining agile ways of working with operational discipline.

Focus areas: programme leadership & governance, business transformation, operating model change, value & benefits realisation, process harmonisation, data & master data, ERP-enabled transformation, post-merger integration.

Manager Digital and Projects at De Stiho Groep (2024-05 – Present)

Building materials wholesale and distribution

• Led the business group-wide transformation and digital project portfolio
• Established portfolio governance and decision structure
• Drove alignment between business leaders, operations and enabling functions, with IT positioned as an enabler of business change
• Member of the strategy team, aligning transformation roadmap with business priorities
• Restructured and led the digital teams to support scalable execution

Transformation leader and IT director reporting to CEO and Board of Directors at Ardo (2020-07 – 2023-01)

Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Hired via own company.

• Led the enterprise-wide transformation programme
• Led the Ardo IT and Master Data organisation as part of the transformation programme
• Redefined and executed on Ardo IT strategy
• Set up Ardo portfolio management and governance model

Vice-president IT EMEA reporting to president EMEA and dotted to corporate CIO at Zimmerbiomet (2015-06 – 2020-06)

Medical Devices

• Defined and executed EMEA IT strategy
• Led the IT organisation in EMEA and participated in global IT leadership
• Established portfolio management and a governance model
• Accountable for the EMEA integration roadmap
• Drove synergy programme across the region

IT director reporting to president EMEA at Biomet Emea (2011-05 – 2015-06)

Medical Devices

• Delivered an EMEA integration roadmap
• Set up a shared service center for the European & Asian SAP
• Reshaped IT financial management for EMEA IT (28% cost reduction realized)
• Drove for EMEA standardisation across applications and process solutions
• Developed IT portfolio management and a governance model
• Defined and implemented IT strategy and roadmap

CIO Cheese & Butter Frieslandcampina at FrieslandCampina (2009-04 – 2011-04)

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

• Responsible for the new IT organization in the Business Group Cheese & Butter
• Principal of Process Integration Program within Cheese & Butter and one carve-out
• Steering committee member in the operational excellence program
• Led the global S&OP team being one of the 3 strategic pillars for FrieslandCampina
• Led the global MES discipline within FrieslandCampina

CIO at Campina (2006-09 – 2009-04)

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

• IT Leader to prepare the merger with Friesland Foods
• Defined a Campina IT strategy including roadmap (2008 – 2010)
• Centralisation of IT and execute IT cost reduction program

ERP director at Schneider Electric BV (2002-10 – 2006-08)

Manufacturing and electrical distribution

• Responsible for setting up shared IT services for 8 European countries
• Participated in the steering committee for outsourcing of all European IT (600 fte)
• Principal IT governance in Western Europe after IT-outsourcing
• Program manager for a worldwide implementation of sap
• Chairman of the business process owner team for the region

Project manager / Program manager at IBM Global Services (1998-09 – 2002-09)

Several assignments at Hollandsche Beton Groep, Kodak Polychrome, Sharp, Piaggio and Essent

Manager IT at Betonson BV (1994-10 – 1998-08)

Management trainee in the Division for Foreign Payments at ABN AMRO (1994-06 – 1994-09)

Systems engineer and application development at Technical University Eindhoven (1992-08 – 1994-05)

Executive leadership program – University of Notre Dame (2012 – 2012)

HEAO in Business Information Systems – HEAO Eindhoven (1987-09 – 1993-03)

MEAO in Commercial – MEAO Roermond (1984-09 – 1987-06)

HAVO – Amsterdam and Roermond (1984-06 – 1987-06)