Head Of Costing And Delivery, Mea And Apac
Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl
Leading several teams with 12 Direct reports, I was appointed to manage and lead the teams to deliver and install the service meeting the given KPIs as well as managing the suppliers in meeting the cost reduction goals. My responsibilities include alliance management and overseeing the end-to-end cost management contributing to cost reduction objectives for the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa regions as well as overseeing service delivery in more than 100+ countries. I was responsible for leading the team to fulfil the completion of service request quotations, including checking feasibility with our local suppliers spread across the regions covered. I lead the teams to provide fit-for-purpose regional operational guidelines, standards, processes and be responsible for sourcing in-country provider pricing, achieving significant results and breakthrough.Additionally, I drive impact linked to Major Sales opportunities working closely with the Sales teams in meeting overall selling/bid price and align sourcing strategy for the geographical regions.In my time here, I successfully established operational capabilities in the APAC region as well as achieved and lead the team to reduce pricing by more than 50% across all products covering APAC, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East regions.In this role, I drove and led the team to bring additional profit margins of more than half a million Euros on orders received year on year.I successfully onboarded a lot more competitive suppliers covering the APAC, Middle East and Eastern Europe region.In addition, I received an excellent testimonial from Kees Bos (CEO/Co-founder) as well as received excellent feedback from customers such as General Motors and America Express.
