DS Smith PLC: Global leader in corrugated packaging, turnover: £6,8bManaging >£500m supplier spend. Driving procurement excellence agenda, improving Procure to Pay and governance plus implementing global strategies in over 17 countries with an international team of experts, reporting to Global Procurement Director.Key Achievements:• Successful partnering with central category teams to execute savings in EE region delivering >£20m.• Implement standard way of sub-regional logistic tendering ensuring cost, process and governance control resulting in a step-up in capabilities and setting pace for future fuel hedging.• Integration of colleagues joining the business after M&A activities, fully delivering on synergy objectives during acid test via leading negotiation with key paper supplier.• Strengthening governance by improving master vendor data quality through region whilst consolidating SAP supplier base by 40%.• Ensuring x-functional alignment over global priorities via hosting regional town halls, building a community across 90 people into the east.• Influencing key senior-stakeholders ensuring buy in on beneficial processes via presentation on extended regional leadership team meetings.• Increasing compliance on Global Supplier Standards up to >95% via leading group wide improve project whilst creating improved visibility on spend through Procurement Spend Analytics project mapping suppliers and spend, knowing pain points and enable future key initiatives.

Contract & stakeholder management on local, regional & group level implementing and forming global strategy on energy risk management reporting to Global Head of Energy.Key-achievements:• Commodity supply contract negotiation in 19 countries with local and pan-European businesses ensuring successful implementation of global strategy whilst providing >£7m savings during hights of the energy crisis.• Price mitigation during energy crisis by setting up and implementing an electricity hedging portfolio in south-east European markets.• Mitigation of penalties paid via f2f negotiations after seizure of operations.• Influencing procurement community in Germany and Eastern Europe driving energy efficiency projects, like heat recovery and air leakage audits during on-site visits.• Leading negotiations for long term energy supply contracts with external partners in waste to energy business, ensuring to set site up for future success and achieving CO2 reduction objectives by 2030.

Energie AG Oberösterreich: Austrian leader in energy services, turnover: £3,5bSteering of commodity portfolios like electricity, gas, gas storage and certificates. Planning, purchasing and optimising and controlling long- and short-term forecasts, negotiating cross-company price forward curves and fees reporting to Head of Procurement.Key achievements:• Automatization of transfer pricing via R Studio leading to reduced manual workload of price imports from central databases.• Step up in quality and capabilities of gas procurement organization via digitalization of processes in SAP EPM (Energy Portfolio Management)• Leading hand in hand with trading department the procurement workstream of a cross divisional software tender for an energy portfolio management software, including on site partner hearings.• Owning, successfully held, specification workshops on process documentation with senior colleagues for a future tendering process.

LINZ AG, Local utility provider, turnover: £1,2b,Steering of gas portfolio for household and business customers optimising, adapting and controlling long- and short-term forecasts reporting to Head of Sales business.Key achievements:• Executing procurement strategy for retail customers ensuring price stability and solid cost forecasting via dedicated buying model.• Developing tailor shaped product strategies for business customers supporting market share gain >1 GWh gas and heat segment.• Supporting retail sales department with blended renewable products up to 60%, negotiated face-to-face with biomethane producers in eastern Austria.• Attending monthly trading meetings with energy counsel representing sales function, updating on most recent volume forecast and customer trends to senior leadership.