Sven Mannens

Brand Experience and Growth inspirer @SENS

🔥 Startup Founder💸 Marketing✔️ ITBusiness Owner💼 C-level Executive👍 Sales & BizDev🧑‍🔬 Engineer🧨 Consulting🎥 Entertainment✨ Business OwnerBrand Marketing ManagerEvent ProducerChanel ManagerCustomer Success ManagerArtist ManagementProduct ManagerProject ManagerPartnerships ManagerHead of GrowthCommunity ManagerBusiness AnalystEngagement ManagerPartnerCEOAdvisorFounderProduct ConsultantComputer engineer

Full of Love Full on Energy Full in Life Full out Passion A thinker, creator and passionate. About total experience, vision, and people. Together, we can make your dream work. Whatever it takes for strategy, bus dev, partnerships, marketing or sales. We will create a way towards your goals! Creator of Soul Tribe and Soul Tribe festival @soultribefestival Creator of Weerslag events @weerslag_ House and techno DJ/Producer MANEZZ @manezzofficial Drummer and DJ on business events (Belgium): Tropical-, Ibiza-, Sunset themed. For bookings: info@manezz.com CEO of SENS. sven.mannens@yoursens.be I live, I work and I am by respecting following values: love, freedom, passion, unity, happiness, courage, honesty, loyalty, authenticity, inclusion, quality, creativity, collaboration, and sustainability. My network goes from event sector in Belgium, well-being and spirituality freelancers, and music or visual artists, to software development, technology consulting, and marketing resources. Preferred industries to work in: Entertainment Music Well-being

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Sales & BizDev

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Startup Founder

💸50%

Marketing

Geos

🇬🇧25%

United Kingdom

🇻🇳25%

Vietnam

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South Africa

Work Background

Blue. We ♡ Automation.Business & Partnership Development Executive

Mar. 2021Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, BelgiëThrough intelligent automation we make businesses run smoothly, fast, and as efficient as possible, while enabling great user experiences. We strongly believe in platforms and ecosystems to achieve desired values and targets. Implementing business value at our clients has become common sense, get the most out of our partnerships is the key to success.

DIGITAL INNOVATIONBusiness Development & Sales Associate DIGITAL INNOVATION BeNeLux

Apr. 2020BelgiëOur mindset drives us to constantly seek out innovative consumer-centric solutions that help our clients achieve their business goals. Digital Innovation is a powerful blend of management consultancy & digital expertise.

MANNENS, SvenSelf Employed

Apr. 2020Antwerpen en omgeving

Basic-FitTest Manager

Apr. 2020 - Sep. 2021Test manager for HR tool implementation in Europe. Equally responsible for data migration strategy and coordination.

KPMGSenior Advisor

Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020Brussel en omgeving, België- Lead of Project and Program Management Competence Center - Expertise in Project Management Office - Expertise in Digital transformation projects - Expert in Technology in the boardroom - governing digitized assets on board-level - Developing IT strategies to help protect information assets, manage information technology governance and performance, achieve effective project management, and manage IT outsourcing risk, business continuity, systems controls, and more - Managing quality assurance on software development - Addressing the broad range of issues related to information security, privacy, and the integrity and availability of IT-enabled business activities - Managing the challenges of an ever-changing business and regulatory & compliance environment - Obtaining the advantages promised by new business systems and emerging technologies - Identifying and managing the financial and operational risks embedded in business systems - Adopting a progressive performance-based approach to the management and governance of business systems

International Payment CompanyProgram Officer

Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020Brussel en omgevingProgram management officer on the ISO 20022 migration programme, responsible for customer adoption and partner management within the international payment industry. ISO 20022 is an increasingly established global language for payments messaging. Already used by payment systems in over 70 countries, in the coming years it will be the de facto standard for high-value payment systems of all reserve currencies, supporting 80% of global volumes and 87% of value of transactions worldwide. By creating a common language and model for payments data, ISO 20022 significantly improves the quality of data across the payments ecosystem. Richer, structured, meaningful data will enable new client experiences, while improving compliance and efficiency.

KPMG Technology SolutionsQuality Assurance Manager

Jul. 2019 - Oct. 2019Hasselt, Vlaanderen, BelgiëTest framework and management for an HR management tool. • Define test framework for an employee benefit and compensation management tool, including test strategy and test approach • Define test scenario’s and test sample data definition • Provide guidance and act as a sounding board during test execution sprints • Lead the test feedback cycles of Integration and User Acceptance Testing to development • Perform test reporting and represent quality assurance during go/no-go decision making • Educate test team on software development lifecycle and quality assurance in a traditional and agile

Banking sectorStream Lead - IT Vendor management

Mar. 2019 - Jun. 2019Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, BelgiëStream lead of IT vendor management assessment in context of M&A: • Alignment between work streams to analyse the as-is of the Bank’s IT environment • Analysis of vendor management practices and contracts with the objective to identify optimization opportunities • Support as PMO towards IT project manager of acquisition • Status reporting towards management board including recommendations on decision making for acquisition

International manufacturing companyProject Lead

Dec. 2018 - Mar. 2019Oostende, Vlaanderen, BelgiëGDPR Control framework and organization integration • Define the Risk and Control matrix for GDPR compliance • Define Test strategy and approach to embed GDPR into the organization • Construct test scenario’s and test sample definition for legal and business monitoring

Major Belgian companies in Financial, Manufacturing and Media IndustriesGDPR Project Management Officer

Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2018Brussel en omgevingOn GDPR implementation programmes: • Assessing the impact of legal privacy requirements on current business processes and related IT systems; • Setup programme work breakdown structure and plan in accordance with scope, time, budget and in collaboration with involved stakeholders; • Setup scope change processes and ensuring continuous alignment of requested changes with business strategy and value creation; • Challenging of inputs received from stream leads and gathering of information to enable appropriate prioritization and decision making; • Keeping track of project progress, organized and conducted status update meetings, status reporting on tactical/ operational and strategic level

Energy trading and Shipping companySoftware Quality Assurance Tester

Feb. 2016 - Dec. 2016Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België• Acting as a business analyst and tester during the integration, regression and user acceptance testing phase. • Support and respond to business issues during UAT Phase and Contribute to the Early Life Support phase

University of AntwerpStudent

Jan. 2009 - Sep. 2015AntwerpMaster of Science in Business Information Systems

SINC vzwEventmanager

Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015SINC, Student 4 Innovation & Co-operation, is een Antwerpse studentenvereniging opgericht voor en door studenten. Onze visie is kort maar krachtig: Wij willen leven in een wereld waar studenten een vernieuwde kijk hebben op ondernemen. Deze visie willen we vervullen door studenten te inspireren, informeren en te activeren omtrent ondernemen.

KPMG BelgiumInternship

Feb. 2014 - Jul. 2014IT Advisory - ERP Projects

Atlas Copco AirpowerIT Auditor (Project)

Mar. 2014 - Jun. 2014Wilrijk

IMBITPeter

Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2014

Johnson & JohnsonERP Consultant (project)

Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2013

IMBITSport

Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2013De functie 'Sport' houdt in dat men verantwoordelijk is voor de organisatie en het uitbouwen van sportieve activiteiten, zowel intern als extern met de verschillende studentenverenigingen. Verder ondersteund men ook de dagelijkse activiteiten.

TOPdeskPresales Representative

Aug. 2012 - Apr. 2013B2B Presales

IMBITHR

Sep. 2011 - Jun. 2012In deze studentenvereniging is HR mijn verantwoordelijkheid. Communicatie naar de leden toe, zorgen voor een samenhangende cultuur binnen de vereniging en het ondersteunen van de activiteiten. IMBIT vzw is een studentenvereniging verbonden aan de studierichting Handelsingenieur in de Beleidsinformatica (HIB) aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. IMBIT vzw geeft studenten de mogelijkheid tot het nemen van verantwoordelijkheid en het tonen van ondernemerszin. Naast het organiseren van verschillende studentikoze events, biedt IMBIT vzw ook verschillende content activiteiten aan die de studenten zal helpen bij het uitbouwen van hun verdere carrière.