Barbara Smet

Background

About Barbara Smet

My passion is to make a difference in organisations through and with people. This is reflected through clear setting of goals, direction and purpose with my clients and my partners. I listen and try to understand where 'it hurts' and find the solution together to achieve their goals and purposes in any way that matters to them. If my clients and their customers are successful, I feel sincerely accomplished. My ambition is to continue to make a difference to companies and organisations that contribute and take up its social responsibility. My strengths: • Forward looking with the passion to seek opportunities and challenge the status quo • Extensive experience in life sciences industry, • Analytical and conceptual thinking, combined with the power to translate financial and operational data into understandable and actionable information [do-attitude] • Strong leadership skills with ability to lead cross-functional teams in a multicultural matrix environment • Ethical behavior characterized by core values: mutual respect, personal responsibility, excellence in what we do what is right, strong feeling of justice. • Fluent in 4 languages, Dutch, English, French and German My qualifications: • Infatuated by diversity of people. • Entrepreneurial as in flexible, motivated and enthusiastic. • Energetic and confident approach with sense for initiative. • Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills. • Demonstrated proven capability to work with all levels both in and across the organization and with customers at the highest levels. • Strong customer focus, building trust and collaboration. • Action and result oriented with proven ability to deliver results in a highly competitive market. • Demonstrated a thorough understanding of value-added consultative, solution selling techniques. • Demonstrated commercial acumen and strategic agility. • Extensive experience in business acquisitions and integration within the Diagnostic market.