Innovate. Transform. Deliver.

⭐ Hi, I am Coen Zweers, a seasoned and hands-on strategy and IT consultant with expertise in renewable energy, finance, and technology, I have helped numerous companies develop and implement effective strategies to drive growth and success.

📋 I have a proven track record of successfully managing cross-functional teams, ensuring that projects are delivered on time. Also my ability to carry out self-directed, comprehensive research plays a crucial part in this endeavour.

Available for freelancing in four specific ways:

(strategic) consultancy projects
Interim management roles (e.g. Head of Operations/Innovation)
Change Management
Agile transformation & Project Management workshops

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Client portfolio

ElipsLife

elipsLife is a specialized insurance company focusing on life, disability, and reinsurance products for corporate and institutional clients. Operating primarily as a B2B provider, it offers group life and disability solutions rather than individual retail policies. Its core business is built around partnerships with pension funds, insurers, and large employers, helping them manage risk and provide comprehensive employee benefit coverage across Europe and beyond.

Since 2019, elipsLife has been part of the Swiss Life Group, one of Europe’s leading life insurance and pension providers. This affiliation strengthens elipsLife’s financial foundation and expands its reach, while allowing it to leverage Swiss Life’s expertise in long-term savings, protection, and employee benefits.

Head of Business Services

Responsible for a team of seven business experts and project managers that are focussing on servicing the business, process mapping and development of new digital products.
IT Project management of a large ERP system that is implemented at elipsLife, collaborating with people from the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Poland. The goal was a successful go-live of the system and this is achieved and operational since 12th of May.
Project goal achieved with the go-live on 12th of May 2025
- - - A new core insurance platform for the employee benefit business of elipsLife,
    - A new finance application platform (FinanceHub and interface to SAP),
    - The replacement of the document generation systems (OMS) and archive system.
    - The entire portfolio from elipsLife Netherlands is successfully migrated to the new platform.
Strategic Project Management within elipsLife

KRAMP

Transformation Management Officer (a.i) - Supply Chain, Commerce & IT Transformation

Kramp Group is Europe’s largest specialist in spare parts and accessories for the agricultural industry. Kramp is the essential partner for its customers

and suppliers with over 500,000 products online available, 11 distribution centres and 24 sales offices spread over Europe.

Led Target Operating Model (TOM) transformation across supply chain and IT domains, aligning strategic goals with operational execution.
Preparing executive board meetings related to the organizational changes of the Target Operating Model program
Tracking progress of the program delivery across 15 workstreams and calculating the organizational cost-benefit analysis
Successfully delivering new ways of working, implementing a European cluster model and product model structure\
Managed cross-functional teams across NL, PL, and LU to deliver process harmonization and system integration.
Oversaw change management and stakeholder engagement across logistics, commerce, and IT.

Sunrock

Sunrock develops, realizes, finances, and manages large-scale solar parks on the roofs
of logistics and commercial real estate.

IT Product Manager & Product Owner – Sunrock – Innovation Department & IT

As a product manager, I'm responsible for the end-to-end creation and delivery of scalable customer facing digital products. Also advising the company and innovation strategy.

Led the project management, development and launch of a new digital web application, a customer portal, resulting in an increase in customer engagement and generating additional revenue.

Responsible for the change and communication plan

Directed the end-to-end product management and launch of a digital design tool for an optimal PV system that matches energy production of solar panels with energy consumption that also includes battery storage solutions and EV charging .

Developed and executed an innovation strategy, including budgeting, setting clear goals and milestones.

Managed the product backlog, prioritizing tasks and ensuring alignment with c-level strategies, resulting in on-time delivery of new features. Designed in Figma, managed projects in Jira and Confluence.

Conducted market research and customer interviews to identify key pain points and unmet needs, and redesigning the customer journey, leading to the development of a new product feature that increased customer satisfaction.

Collaborated with the development team to clarify requirements and provide ongoing support, resulting in reduction of development time for new features.

ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO is one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, headquartered in Amsterdam. It offers a full range of financial services including retail, private, and corporate banking as well as asset management. As of 2025, the bank remains a major player in the Dutch financial sector and is known for its focus on sustainability, digital innovation, and responsible banking practices.

Agile Coach & Scrum Master - ABN AMRO - Retail and Commercial Banking

Responsible for improving the way of working for three teams with a total of 25 members, including an infrastructure team and two analytics teams.
Responsible for change and communication across the scrum teams
Helped the teams transition towards a proactive, self-steering approach with an agile mindset by applying the full Scrum framework.
Contributed to providing structure, setting goals, refining work, and organizing planning sessions, stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and scrum of scrums events.
Replaced the three product owners' roles while they were out-of-office.
Coordinated a team in building a monitoring dashboard to reduce the meantime to detect and resolve issues as a side project.

Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company specializing in consulting, technology, and outsourcing. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, it operates in more than 120 countries and serves clients across virtually every industry. The company is known for helping organizations with digital transformation, cloud migration, cybersecurity, and strategy consulting. With a strong focus on innovation, sustainability, and emerging technologies, Accenture partners with leading tech firms to deliver solutions that drive business growth and efficiency.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting - Financial services

Accenture Consultant

IT Product Owner – Rabobank – Monitoring & AI Operations (IT)

Identified and prioritized 20+ potential use cases for AI Monitoring solutions, resulting in the development of targeted dashboards and alerting systems that reduced meantime to detect and resolve issues.
Collaborated with cross-functional team members to co-create a monitoring architecture that integrated with existing systems, enabling seamless data flow and increasing the accuracy of predictive modelling (using Splunk).
Inspired IT teams through engaging presentations on the benefits of proactive monitoring, leading to an increase in adoption of smart alerting features among developers.
Also performed business analyses for the Trade Commodity Finance department

Accenture Consultant

Strategy Consultant – Athlon - Car Leasing Company – Innovation department

Conducted extensive market research and competitor analysis across 11 European countries, identifying key customer segments and market trends, resulting in an increase in customer acquisition.
Developed a compelling value proposition for the ecommerce platform, highlighting unique features and benefits, resulting in an increase in customer conversion rate.
Led the prototyping and high-level solution architecture for the ecommerce platform, ensuring seamless user experience and scalability across all 11 countries, resulting in a decrease in website loading time.
Business Analyst – Rabobank - Trade Commodity Finance department
Led the successful implementation of API and RPA innovation projects, resulting in reduction of process time and a cost savings.
Developed and executed a new robotic operating model for the RPA practice, improving efficiency and increasing client satisfaction.
Established and trained a high-performing RPA team consisting of onshore and offshore Accenture colleagues (India), resulting in an increase in project completion rate.

Accenture Consultant

Product Owner – ING – IT department – RPA and AI automation team

Coordinated a team of 10 members to successfully deliver methodology for RPA and AI automation, resulting in the creation of 15 software robots and natural language processing (NLP) tools.
Performed comprehensive discoveries and created business cases, leading to a 30% increase in process efficiency across multiple departments.
Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams and subject matter experts in Slovakia, Poland, and the Philippines to implement an improved delivery methodology, resulting in a decrease of implementation costs.

Accenture Consultant

Business Analyst & Scrum Master – APG Pension Provider – Innovation department – Blockchain Based Pension Process

Developed and implemented a cutting-edge blockchain solution for the Dutch pension industry, resulting in a trusted and reliable pension infrastructure that reduces costs.
Mapped and documented the high-level architecture and business requirements for the blockchain project, providing clear guidance to technical teams throughout development process.
Collaborated with external pension providers to ensure successful integration of their systems into the blockchain ecosystem, resulting in seamless connectivity for all clients.

Accenture Consultant

Strategy Consultant – Nationale Nederlanden/Delta Lloyd Insurance & Bank - Mortgages department

Conducted comprehensive stakeholder interviews and data analysis to identify gaps in fraud frameworks between the bank and the acquired bank, resulting in a streamlined and integrated fraud department.
Quantified the workload and fraud models of both banks to determine optimal task allocation for the merged fraud department, leading to an increase in efficiency and accuracy of fraud detection within the mortgage department.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop a robust integrated fraud management system, reducing mortgage fraud incidents.

Accenture Consultant

Business Analyst – Athlon - Car leasing Company – Innovation department

Facilitated the agile-lean transformation for a car leasing configuration platform, coordinating and organizing Agile Scrum events.
Established and configured the Google Analytics environment, enabling the tracking of website buttons, goals, and demographics to gain valuable insights into online customer behaviours.
Leveraged analytical findings to optimize the platform and enhance the overall customer experience.

Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, operating mobile and fixed networks in many countries. Founded in the UK in 1984, it has grown into a global brand offering mobile, internet, and enterprise services. In the Netherlands, Vodafone merged with Ziggo in 2016 to form VodafoneZiggo, which combines mobile, broadband, and TV services. The company is known for its strong network coverage, innovative services, and recognizable red branding.

Data analyst - Vodafone HQ – Marketing Intelligence - Full time

Responsible for translating market research and business intelligence to actionable insight on market, customer and competitor strategies.
Simultaneously, writing my MSc Marketing Intelligence thesis, Consumer Preferences in the Telecom Market where I applied quantitative research methods like choice-based conjoint analysis and latent class analysis.
Identified consumer segments through probabilistic data analysis that supports new value propositions.

Toll Group
Toll Group is an Australian-based global logistics and transportation company, owned by Japan Post Holdings. It provides freight forwarding, road, rail, sea and air transport, warehousing, and customised supply chain solutions across more than 50 countries. In New Zealand, including Auckland, Toll Group offers intermodal transport, contract logistics, and tailored warehousing to support industries like retail and consumer goods.

Business Analyst - Supply Chain Department - Auckland - New-Zealand - Full time

Focused on supply chain management and operational excellence for their biggest client Nike inc.
Responsible for the optimisation of processes.
Executed data analyses to improve stock levels and consolidation.
This is realized by creating a new database that saved four hours of work each day.

Hooghoudt Jenever & Gin
Hooghoudt is a Dutch distillery based in Groningen, the Netherlands, founded in 1888. It’s best known for producing jenever (Dutch gin), bitters, and other spirits. The company combines traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques, offering a range of classic and innovative drinks. Hooghoudt’s jenever is often celebrated for its smooth, balanced flavor and its connection to Dutch drinking culture.

Business Analyst - Operations department - Groningen - Full time

Responsible for redesigning a production line to increase efficiency and flexibility.
The main activities were researching, designing (CAD), planning and implementation.
The production line is officially operational since February 2012 and is still running