Daniel Humm Email & Phone Number

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Uk

• Established strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, creating revenue generating partnerships that have been instrumental in shaping and sustaining Seagate’s business (Commercial & Technical) – USA, Asia & Europe• Initiated interlocks to strengthen business relationships and align technology roadmaps with market leaders / initiators.• Managed key technology spends ~$125M (USD)• Negotiated, implemented and managed yearly cost reductions that were specifically tailored to maximise net profits to the business, $11M+• Led strategic decisions on key sourcing selections ensuring the ‘buy in’ from business cross-functional stakeholders and executive team, improving Seagate’s time-to-market by 6 months+• Successfully transitioned over 15 development programs through NPI & into production• Collaborated with the sales and marketing teams in winning significant new business with T1 customers, $250M+ revenue.• Recognised procurement subject matter expert (Strategic Silicon) with direct communication into T1 customers

• Managed cross-functional teams to develop strategies to optimise key commodities in terms of ‘total cost’ (price, NRE, technical support, design for cost and our future roadmap)• Led and implemented commodity strategies to enhance position within the market; market evaluation, supplier assessments, supplier selection, contract negotiations, supplier audits & supplier qualifications• Negotiated / implemented savings against a spend of ~$80M achieving ~7% saving• Developed supplier relationships to enhance the commercial position of the business• Successfully negotiated contracts with key suppliers that brought funding directly into the business for future engineering projects with associated savings• Increased flexibility by reducing suppliers lead-times by ~18%• Established and implemented supplier warranty terms to enable Seagate’s HPC business to effectively operate a warranty and support services aftercare business

• Successfully led & managed the PCBA commodity with multiple CEMs (Asia & USA). ~$80M USD growing to ~$150M• Achieved in excess of 8% savings per year by means of: - Cost Model – Direct negotiations, labor rates and value engineering. - Materials – Competitive bids, aggregating volumes, AVL expansion. - Packaging & Freight – Alt. materials, design efficiency, rate negotiations.• Implemented reporting metrics for internal / external customers that improved communication and specifically our external customer service

PCBA / Electronic Components / Mechanical / Electro Mechanical