Tom van Schingen

About Tom van Schingen

Experienced Industrial Psychologist with broad international Project and Operational…

Experience

1. COO

   Bavsound

   Apr 2015 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Currently working as COO for Bavsound, LLC. Key areas of responsibilty include translating company strategy into priorities for me and my team, leading (international) growth projects and optimizing systems and processes.Increased revenue 20% by establishing avenues for international distribution, including leading negotiations with potential partners and implementing systems for international parcel shipments without any negative impact to current operations.Reduced operations overhead by 10% by roadmapping and transitioning corporate operations to a fully remote work environment.Grew revenue 30% and 25% in consecutive years by leveraging influencers and by hiring and overseeing a team of external marketing partners to manage paid social, paid search and email advertising.Led end-to-end supply chain operations for 70+ SKUs with varied run rates, optimizing procurement from China (6-month horizon) and balancing air/sea logistics to reduce stockouts while maintaining just-in-time inventory efficiency.Addressed website downtime issues and reduced rework to customer facing teams by 18% by spearheading the re-platforming of the e-commerce website to the Shopify platform Reduced ad hoc meetings by 70% by introducing project management culture (Asana/Slack/OKR) to improve team collaboration and improve successful project completion ratePeople management: Direct both internal team and external partners. Manage hiring, onboarding, employee benefits, performance management and other HR related processes for an internal team of up to 10 people.

Education

• KU Leuven

  Master’s Degree, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  2006 — 2011

Skills

• Coaching
• HR Consulting
• Employee Training
• Training
• Employer Branding
• Human Resources
• Internal Communications
• Management
• Change Management
• Recruiting