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Clara Van Der Marel

Portfolio Manager Change

€1,000/day
Rijnsburg, NL
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Clara

Gedreven door de overtuiging dat echte verandering alleen plaatsvindt wanneer mensen en een gedeeld doel samenkomen, breng ik helderheid, verbinding en structuur in complexe organisatievraagstukken. Ik gedij in omgevingen waar verschillende belangen samenkomen en waar het opbouwen van vertrouwen en het creëren van alignment essentieel is om vooruit te komen.

Bekend om mijn toegankelijke en samenwerkingsgerichte stijl combineer ik een rustige, maar daadkrachtige aanpak om stakeholders op alle niveaus te betrekken, de juiste vragen te stellen en de structuur te creëren die nodig is om verandering concreet en duurzaam te maken.

Met 20 jaar ervaring in een internationale corporate omgeving, in rollen binnen HR, transformatie en portfoliomanagement, weet ik zowel de strategische als operationele lagen van een organisatie te navigeren.

Als ervaren programmamanager neem ik eigenaarschap over veranderinitiatieven en realiseer ik meetbare impact door een goede balans te houden tussen tijd, kosten en kwaliteit — altijd met de mens centraal in het proces.
  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Rijnsburg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ING – Global HR
    Portfolio Manager Change
    January 2022 - January 2025 (3 years)
    • • Leading a team of international Project Managers, including building and managing the Manila-based team, focusing on coaching, performance steering (KPIs), and recruitment.
    • • Managing the full Global HR change portfolio (10–15 annual projects across 43 countries), ensuring strategic alignment, risk mitigation, and seamless execution. Impacting 80.000 internal and external employees.
    • • Acting as key liaison between CHRO, senior management, and global functions (e.g., Tech, Procurement, Legal), ensuring portfolio visibility, alignment and informed decision-making.
    • • Driving annual portfolio planning, aligning cross-functional priorities, resource capacity, timelines, and financial outlook.
    • • Overseeing management reporting to CHRO level, ensuring transparency, scenario planning, and decision support.
    • • Securing alignment across countries and business units on critical HR change initiatives, maintaining coherence between global ambition and local execution.
    • • Acting as lead Project Manager on high-impact topics including:
    ◦ o Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) – S1 workstream
    ◦ o Variable Remuneration (VR) Targets – design and implementation
  • ING – Global HR
    Senior Project Manager
    January 2021 - January 2022 (1 year)
    • • Acting as strategic sparring partner to the Global HR Portfolio Manager, coordinating multiple global change initiatives.
    • • Managing end-to-end project delivery for topics such as:
    ◦ o Global Variable Remuneration Targets
    ◦ o Implementation of a global digital learning solution
    ◦ o Rollout of an integrated learning ecosystem
    • • Ensuring successful international rollouts across 43 countries, managing complexity and cultural nuances with sensitivity and structure.
    • • Taking ownership of stakeholder engagement, executive reporting (up to CHRO level), and structured communication management.
    • • Delivering projects on time and within budget while safeguarding quality and long-term impact.
    Results
    ✓ Resolved a critical go-live impasse by orchestrating cross-level stakeholder dialogue and escalation, resulting in a revised implementation plan that preserved the global standard, limited impact to a three-month delay, and ensured full cost accountability by the dissenting country.
  • ING – Global HR
    Chief of Staff
    January 2014 - January 2021 (7 years)
    • • Supporting three executive HR leaders across Global HR, COO/CTO Change & Growth Markets in driving strategic people and change agendas.
    • • Acting as trusted advisor and operational extension of the director, taking ownership for project execution, budget control, and day-to-day business.
    • • Leading strategic alignment across teams and regions, translating vision into actionable roadmaps and concrete delivery.
    • • Representing the director in senior-level meetings, driving decisions, and securing alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
    • • Preparing key communication materials including executive presentations, internal updates, and external positioning.
    • • Coaching fellow Business Managers, fostering a collaborative, high performance culture within the leadership office.

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Education

  • Bachelor of Business Administration
    NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
    2005
    Bachelor of Business Administration
  • PMP
    Firebrand
    PMP

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