Doreen Thomas Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Mh, In

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Head of Global Sourcing team - General Mills India Centre*Heading the Global sourcing Solutions team based in the GIC center in India, supporting all the global procurement offices of General Mills. Leading the sourcing team of 43 team members based out of India Centre in Mumbai.*Responsible for the delivery of Source to Pay frame work & procurement operations .*Leading all the COE's based in India - Should Cost Modelling , Coupa Sourcing , Sustainability ,Indirect Category buying , Supplier Mangement , Responsible sourcing , Regenerative Agriculture & Buyer support services.*Heading a team of Category buyers supporting NA across Capex , MRO, Corp services ,ISIT, Energy & Facilities*Responsible for managing 3 third party companies globally comprising of 75 team members across Brazil , China , India & Europe , managing the procurement operations & eSourcing

Vevey, Ch

• Globally responsible for the spend of promotional items category, spend of CHF 210M• Leading a team of 5 Procurement Managers- (3 Regional Procurement Managers and 2 Junior Procurement Mangers/Buyer ) globally in 3 hubs. Enabling a transformation in way of sourcing promo items from market level to promo agency model• Delivered best in class strategy globally that drive sales, Speed to market, Sustainable & Digitalfocused promo campaigns globally• Collaborated with quality teams, globally managed business & manufacturers in Asia to ensurecompliance to deliver cost efficient promo items that is quality complaint & safe to consumers• Increased speed to market by expanding the sourcing origin from Global- China to regional creating sourcing hubs in Europe, LATAM, ASEAN & Middle East region• Designed a digital shopping site that lists all promo items bought globally for stakeholders enabling standardization, visibility & opportunity to do collective purchase globally.• Delivered savings of 26M Global Annually with 5M which is cost reduction. Delivered 35% average cost savings by aggregating projects globally vs market level redefining way of buying promo items.

Vevey, Ch

• Responsible for Middle East, China, Hong Kong & Taiwan market managing send of 50M CHF. • Managed spend of Creative agencies, Digital agencies & Media production. Negotiate high value TV Commercials across & Celebrity contracts - Deepika Padukone, Li Yi Feng, William Chan, Priyanka Chopra • Negotiated with all globally aligned agencies or local agencies the fees and close the scope. • Responsible to implement Adstream & Getty images in all markets in AOA & Middle East • Monitored the performance of Media production consultants for the markets in close coordination with market media, communication & procurement stakeholders • Negotiated a savings of approx CHF 2M for Middle East which is 23% savings & implemented content studio in 3 markets ME, Morocco & Egypt within house content creation facilities.

Vevey, Ch

• Responsible for managing all Asia Oceania Africa & Middle East Region. Approx spend 80 MCHF. • Implemented Global Media Production strategy for traditional and digital media in all markets and countries, including decoupling models for post houses and if required low value productions.• Planned & managed global RFP on media production consultants across all 3 zones in coordination with communication directors and local procurement.• Led the implementation of Media production all markets in AOA & Middle East, additionally monitoring implementation globally in 3 zones through my team as global project lead. • Negotiated with high value celebrities & directors for TVC commercials or digital media for AOA & Middle East. Delivered a savings of 6M CHF globally through several initiatives.

Vevey, Ch

• Managing 13 countries in Middle East based in Dubai. • Responsible for all ATL Categories regionally- Advertising agency fees, CRM services, Digital Media, Media Agency Service fees, Sampling, Media Buying Channel, Packaging Agency, Creative design Agency as well as oversee POS/Merchandising & Sampling. Approximate spend responsibility $85 million annually. • Led the first time achievement of Media buying savings of $10 million for NME in 2015. Implemented media production consultant in NME achieving 15 to 17% cost efficiency & quality improvement. • Delivered $ 4 million savings in global advertising agency fees . Reduced risk of negative content on CRM agencies (social media) with stringent performance KPI’s with Agencies. • Implemented media production consultant in NME achieving 15 to 17% cost efficiency & quality improvement. Coach & Lead one dedicated resource managing POS/merchandising and Sampling.

Vevey, Ch

• Managing 13 countries in Middle East based in Dubai.• Responsible of managing 7 spend categories mainly POS/merchandising, Sampling, Public relations, Creative agencies, Commercial print, Promotional items and Event marketing agency with a total spend of typically $20m to $25m. • Lead sourcing strategy for 7 spend categories to reduce business risk and increase cost /time efficiency. • Partner with 9 business units to foresee their supply and innovation requirements to deliver it smoothly. • Led the 1st time achievement of NME to win 2 POPAI awards Paris in 2015 and shortlisted for 2016 . • Created an innovation day in NME which addressed key business challenges in POS. • Successfully developed & implemented sourcing strategy for sampling & event marketing agencies in 8 complex countries. UAE, Iraq, KSA, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Oman.

Vevey, Ch

• Strategic planning and management of marketing and administrative projects to ensure cost effective procurement and on time delivery without compromising on the payment terms and quality of goods.• Working closely with Nestle Coffee team and Nestle professional team other than the various brands handled to ensure solving issues that arise with GR- IR discrepancies.• First audit to purchase requisitions created by brand teams to control and check the compliance before proceeding with purchase order creation.• New supplier creation audit and control check by researching on details of supplier’s to ensure audit compliance and proceed with the efficient vendor creation in the system,• Managing of the vendor cleansing project initiated in March 2010 by the Finance director under the leader ship of the Head of purchasing of Nestle ;-1. By managing 14 countries and cleaning the data base 4000 suppliers and reducing them to 2000 .2. By managing team 4 efficient employees for a time period of 4 months to ensure selection of the best quality and efficient suppliers and discarding the others.

Vevey, Ch

Assignment of a project which was initiated due to the transfer of tasks , roles and responsibilities from the finance department to the supply chain department to assign the tasks to the right department and remove the High priority SOD cases for the same, as well as to increase the efficiency in certain business process.Goals and objectives of the project.• Transfer of pricing procedure, maintenance and control from finance to supply chain division ensuring that the efficiency is maintained.• Solving all the issues arising due to price discrepancy on the orders created by the customer service to ensure maximum accomplishment of the monthly targets.• Transfer of Rebate agreements from finance to supply chain division, ensuring that the customer rebates are maintained in the system in accuracy.• Month End Manual Analysis, Comparison and Accrual of all customer Rebates.• Centralize Vendor Creation , Extension and Change for the whole middle east region to ensure that duplication of vendors is nil in the market and there by increase the KPI for the middle east market• Accomplishment of the vendor creation in 3 working days, extension and change in 2 working days to ensure the efficiency in the business and abandon the concept of one time vendors as soon as possible.

Vevey, Ch

1 Booking of invoices in SAP issued by NME FZE on the affiliated companies within the Middle East Market in the books of all the 13 operating concerns(branches of nestle )The invoice is different for each company according to the external environmental rules and regulations, government policies , exchange difference etc. 2 Maintain prices of all the products in the system for all the branches of nestle Middle East on a daily basis. 3 Evaluate the changes in prices and discounts in the form of o General price discount o General price allowance o Tender price discount o Tender price allowanceDiscounts are calculated for different types of suppliers, in different percentages in different forms. SAP system configures a vast variety of discounts which can be chosen from1 Calculate tax rebates and D.D.P charges for the following process. Tax rebate is calculated for countries that require the tax deduction2 Maintain prices separate for agents. Different prices are provided to the agents, it’s a discounted price which again differs according to the type of country, customer product and agent.3 Maintain inter-company prices.4 Undertake reconciliation between inter-companies during the end of the month to ensure that the balance tally. During the end of every month the balances have to betweens the receivable and payables of countries, this performed in the form of inter-company reconciliation5 Maintain finance documents in SAP. Financial documents like cost centre hierarchy, customer master data and material master data which are categorized to be critical.

Vevey, Ch

Providing administrative support to the finance team for the implementation of SAP module in a critical Project named Globe in 13 countries and their branches of nestle throughout the Middle East region.• It included analyzing the business scenarios of different countries and how the finance procedures are different from one country to the other and implementing it in Sap.• Double checked the work of the finance team, which consisted of the best seven finance specialists from different nestle branches all around the world selected for the Sap implementation project, by testing the business scenarios, and checking the conformity of work procedures of finance on SAP in the main stages of the project Cycle 1 and cycle 2.• We were guided and given on the job training by Sap specialist from NESTLE SYDNEY.• Assisted the best selected core team in creating global documents in a program called NESTOOL created exclusively for nestle, which acts as a reference documents for the tested documents like test scripts test references, test scenarios, etc by which all the companies of Nestle throughout the world can refer and understand the work done by Globe project in the middle east.. • Created Master Data at Global and Market level on Sap fro Cost centers, Profit centers, sales values,and Roles for different streams• Went through 3 weeks of core training with super users (best selected users of each stream from the branches of 13 Middle East regions) on SAP software so as to conduct the finance procedures on SAP.

Mclean, Va, Us

Performed complete review of HR policy manual with senior HR generalist culminating in a report to senior management with recommendations on outdated policies and those affected by new HR laws • Performed Compensation study on the compensation benefits of the employees by conducting performance appraisal on a weekly basis for all the employees• Assisted in Recruitment of competent individuals by conducting, general knowledge tests, and psychometric tests and analyzing the capability of the individual and his adaptability to the specified job profile.• Assisted the Hr manager by conducting interviews with the job aspirants and analyzing their communication skills, their confidence, their knowledge of the company and the job, their adaptability to the job with the guidelines of the hr manager.• Assisted the Hr team in conducting various cricket tournaments, chess tournaments, table tennis tournaments.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelors In Business Management, Marketing