Peter radiates calm and balance. His work shows the depth of his experience, insight and expertise. And above all he is someone genuinely interested in people, relationships and customers, and in what motivates them, the challenges they are facing and how he can support them.
He is also a man driven to succeed. Someone always looking for opportunities to devise practical and measurable solutions for making relationships and customers stronger, more successful and sustainable.
He is a good listener and can clearly communicate what he has seen and understood, while also clearly outlining his vision and ideas going forward. He is a man with an eye for detail, a highly professional approach and the finesse and sensitivity that go hand in hand with good taste, as the guests he invites to meals at his home can confirm. He enjoys spending Saturday afternoons finding all the right ingredients to make a delicious meal for his friends and family.
Peter is a highly experienced Business Development Director who is genuinely interested in his customers and relationships and the business challenges they face. He has a natural talent for quickly seeing the main outlines of and possible solutions for complex issues.
As a director he knows all the ins and outs of what his clients are dealing with. He has very wide-ranging experience at the intersection of logistics operations and commercial aspects of doing business internationally. The basis of this experience comes from his various logistics management roles in retail, supermarkets, FMCG businesses and international logistics service providers (Rhenus and APL Logistics).
In various European management positions (where he was responsible for the Benelux and EMEA) he devised and implemented international inbound Supply Chain solutions for customers in the retail, FMCG, DIY and manufacturing sectors, and so now has in-depth expertise in 3PL and 4PL solutions.
Although his calm and friendly character might suggest otherwise, he is highly driven and results-oriented. His ideal is to devise highly pragmatic solutions for inbound Supply Chains and that produce concrete results, such as structurally increasing supply certainty and product availability, reducing landed costs per product and improving clients’ Supply Chain visibility.
Connecting and collaborating with others are in his DNA. Having worked both for shippers and logistics service providers he is quick to spot opportunities for collaborating with related disciplines such as procurement, sales and Production so as to improve logistics supplier management and create opportunities for buyer consolidation. He also knows how to connect external partners such as government and sector organisations quickly and professionally to interesting projects contributing to social sustainability.
We see the results of these talents in the entrepreneurship he contributes to UC Group. His approach shows how he keeps a close eye on what his clients and their customers need, reflecting his firm belief that trying things out together and co-creation are the best way to establish optimal and sustainable Supply Chains.
His broad-ranging experience of logistics means Peter can obviously be deployed in many different areas. What particularly energises him is resolving challenging inbound Supply Chain issues to help his clients succeed in their markets.
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