1. CV Bart Vanderkerken
CURRICULUM VITAE SENIOR ALLROUND HR EXECUTIVE
BART VANDERKERKEN
+32 495/595352
famvanderkerken@hotmail.com
Wijnstraat 31 D, 9170 Sint-Pauwels-Waas
° 06/09/1961
Married, 1 son (°1989) and 1 daughter (°1991)
HR GENERALIST WITH MORE THAN 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS KEY
HR LEADERSHIP ROLES IN A-LISTED GLOBAL COMPANIES. (KRAFT, COLGATE-
PALMOLIVE, CAMPBELL’S SOUP)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: CHANGE MANAGEMENT, HIGH PERFORMANCE
ORGANISATIONS, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, LABOR RELATIONS, EMPLOYEE
RELATIONS, TALENT MANAGEMENT, EXECUTIVE COACHING AND LEADERSHIP,
ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE, HR STRATEGIES AND MISSION STATEMENTS
Professional Career
Self employed HR Advisor and Free-lancer 2014-­‐2015
CAMPBELL
SOUP
COMPANY
2012-­‐2014
http://www.campbellsoup.com
VP HR Greater Europe (1,5 B € turnover), HR team: 39
Campbell divested its European division to a private equity company in October 2013.
Achievements:
- Restored visibility and credibility of HR, upgraded/changed team, developed strategy and shared
objectives for the function
- Compliance program for Campbell’s Belgium and France
- Intensive talent reviews and initiatives for upgrading quality of sales and marketing functions across
Europe
- Organizational re-design Campbell’s Germany
- Restored organizational discipline on key HR processes
- Multiple due diligence processes for potential buyers
- Led divestiture of European business to external buyer

2. CV Bart Vanderkerken
COLGATE
PALMOLIVE
EUROPE
2001-­‐2012
(based
in
Paris,
France
and
as
from
2004
in
Geneva,
CH)
Turnover
Colgate
Europe:
5.0
B
USD,
HR
Team:
8
direct
reports,
23
with
indirects.
http://www.colgatepalmolive.com
HR Director Supply Chain Europe and Change Management 01/2009 - 02/2012
Role was extended with South-Pacific (4 plants) untill June 2010.
HR Director Supply Chain Europe and Change Management 01/2008 – 12/2008
HR Director Labor Relations and Change Management Europe 01/2007 – 12/2007
HR Director Supply Chain Europe and Labor Relations 02/2001 – 12/2006
Reporting to VP HR Europe and VP Supply Chain Europe
Achievements:
- Multiple downsizings, restructurings, outsourcings, consolidation of European Supply Chain network
- Implemented strategic negotiations process for labor relations, supervised all negotiations (also beyond
SC) in Europe and conducted myself all dealings with EWC and major negotiations in Belgium, France,
UK, Denmark, Italy, Romania and Gaba Germany. Restored management credibility
- Change management: acted as Change Management Expert for Colgate Europe entirely (not just SC).
Led multiple company wide projects of behavioural change (eg E-Buy: change in procurement
procedures affecting mainly marketing and sales), was HR lead for creation of finance shared service
center in Poland and for Project Optima (implementation of Limited Risk Distribution model for
Colgate Europe, with establishment of Principal Company in Geneva, move of HQ from Paris to
Geneva and split of all national companies into 3 separate legal entities (Production, Commercial,
Shared Services). Was HR lead for acquisitions of Sanex (2012) and Gaba (2008)
- Co-developed global company wide change management methodology and acted as its owner and main
practitioner for the entire European division (see above)
- Master trainer for leadership development programmes (“Business integrity”; “Implementing
Commercial Practices with Excellence in Action”, “Valuing Colgate People”, “Managing with
Respect”, “Driving Engagement through Positive Employee Relations”, “Effective Change
Management”) mandatory for all Colgate leaders across functions/geographies
- Acted as executive coach/mentor for some GM’s and marketing directors in Europe
- Led investigations in non-European businesses as part of Colgate’s Ethics and Compliance Programme
C
&
A
EUROPE
GCV,
headquarter
1998
-­‐
2000
http://www.c-and-a.com
Head of Human Resources Europe for C & A.
C & A Europe is a privately held fashion retail company. It operated 580 stores in 13 European
countries. It was headquartered in Brussels, and employed about 42.000 people ( 37500 FTE).
Turnover: 8.1 B USD, HR Team: 15 (central European HR team)
Achievements:
- Defined HR Mission and Strategy (not existing before)
- Upgraded HR function
- Introducion of “Competency management”
- Introduction of Pay for Performance practices (management by objectives, incentive programmes)
- Introduction of Performance Appraisal Process
- Guidelines and process for organizational design, recruitment and staffing
- Creation of C&A Academy: platform for development and implementation of leadership and functional
technical training programs (focusing mainly on marketing and GM high potentials)

3. CV Bart Vanderkerken
KRAFT
JACOBS
SUCHARD
N.V.
(now
“Mondelez”)
1990
-­‐
1998
http://www.mondelezinternational.com
Benelux Human Resources Director 09/1993 – 05/1998
HR Manager Business Unit and Co-ordination Centre 06/1992 – 08/1993
Assistant HR Manager IMC Herentals 11/1990 – 05/1992
Kraft Jacobs Suchard was the European food company of Philip Morris Inc.
PM first acquired Kraft and General Foods, and later, in 1990, Jacobs Suchard. Both companies merged in
September 1993. Turnover KJS Benelux: 1.0 B USD, HR Team: 11
Main achievements:
- Restored visibility and credibility of HR in commercial business unit’s
- Vision and Values program
- Diverse harmonisation projects after multiple M&A’s (policies, benefits, tools)
- Internal merger Kraft/Jacobs Suchard after acquisition by Philip Morris
- Implementation of Corporate HR Processes (PM&D, Succession Planning, C&B)
- Sales force merger and talent upgrade programme for Sales
- Campus recruitment program for marketing talents, development plans for marketing high potentials
FOOD
MACHINERY
EUROPE
N.V.,
Sint-­‐Niklaas
(Belgium)
1988
-­‐
1990
http://www.fmc.com
Assistant Personnel Manager
HR Team: 2 direct reports
FME is part of a Chicago based multinational corporation with a wide range of activities in the area of special
vehicles and equipment. The operations in Sint-Niklaas manufacture 'fillers and closers' (equipment for filling
and closing beer and soft drink cans) and 'cookers and coolers' (equipment to sterilise canned food products).
Accountabilities: payroll, labor code compliance, social security compliance and reportings, internal
communication, health and safety committee, recruitment and selection.
DAF
TRUCKS
N.V.,
Oevel-­‐Westerlo
1985
-­‐
1988
http://www.daf.eu
Responsible P.R. and internal communication. 11/1987 – 10/1988
Personnel Manager Cab Factory. 11/1985 – 10/1987
DAF: truck manufacturing company, based in Eindhoven (The Netherlands).
At Oevel-Westerlo, DAF had an assembly plant for cabs and axles. The plant employed about 1500 blue collar
workers.
Accountabilities: internal communication, guided plant tours, training for operators, manpower planning, social
reporting.

4. CV Bart Vanderkerken
Education
Master (Lic) in Philosophy: 1985
Master (Lic) in Social Sciences (Communicatiewetenschappen) : 1984
Both K.U. Leuven and with greatest distinction.
Secondary school: Latin-Greek, Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie, Sint-Niklaas
Complementary training- and education programmes:
- HR Management, Antwerp Management School, Belgium
- Flexibiliteit van de arbeid, Stichting Innovatie en Arbeid, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
- Money Matters : Finance for non-finance, New York, US
- Gaining Organisational Leadership through Development (GOLD), Switzerland
- Leadership Assertiveness Training, CCL Belgium
- Colgate Corporate Training Programmes:
Note: was a corporate Master Trainer myself at Colgate and conducted several TTT-sessions for most of the
above mentionned Corporate programmes.
Currently I occasionally serve as faculty on Labor Relations programmes for Sociale Hogeschool Leuven en
Brussels Diplomatic Academy.