Frederic Impens Email & Phone Number

Burgess Hill, Gb

London, England, Gb

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

I’m responsible for sourcing all the A&CP spend activities for the UK& Ireland working with many brands such as Gucci, Tiffany, Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss, Rimmel, Max Factor, Wella and many more.

I'm responsible for sourcing all services related to Clinical trials for UK, Benelux and Global projects working closely with the DPL and Head of global clinical buyers to align the strategies with the business requirements in a heavily regulated environment.I'm leading and conducting RFP process with business partner support using approved vendors. My role involves negotiating and challenging suppliers to be as cost effective as possible, ensuring minimal risk to the company while reducing overall cost to the company and alleviating business risk.

Irving, Tx, Us

My responsibilities include sourcing for various categories within the Kimberly Clark Professional business where I manage 60-70 suppliers in my portfolio with a spend between $50-100m- Maintain continuity of supply of all materials- Develop and present category strategies.- Supplier relationship management - Supplier evaluations.- Maximise cost savings for all materials to improve KC’s levels of profitability- Maintain close, co-operative relationship with key customers, including operations and P&TD- Forecast the costs of all materials in line with sector needs- Maintain co-operative relationships with colleagues in the new global procurement team and other regional teams. Leverage these relationships to drive value for the European business and to support the needs of other regions- Help to drive the adoption of lean within the procurement team, and work with customers on their lean initiatives- Lead the adoption of category strategy reviews and the tools and techniques delivered as part of the global procurement academy- Ensure that internal control requirements are met in an efficient and effective manner.- SME for Supply Chain Finance program.The categories I source for are:- Dispensers- Apparel- Gloves- Welding- Paper converting- Formulated products- Co Packing

Irving, Tx, Us

Duties:- Prepare and communicate monthly sales reports for the region.- Analyse and approve/reject price proposals in the Price approval system.- Assist with the implementation of any price increase in the system in order to avoid price queries from distributors.- Create trackers to monitor customer performance against volume rebate targets and recommend accrual adjustments where necessary.- Provide sales volume forecasts on a monthly basis for production planning purposes.- Create reports to identify pricing trends, profitability analysis and communicate any findings and suggest recommendations.- Update any customer master data changes.- Update price index trackers on a regular basis to monitor price movements for price increase justifications.- Assist with tender process for new or renewal of contracts.- Monitor price increase realisation & profitability on chargebacks.

Irving, Tx, Us

Duties:- Prepare and communicate monthly sales reports.- Support the primary systems that provide management information to the business.- Monitor and report the progress of the European Sales incentive scheme on a monthly basis.- Provide price support to the European Key accounts team to enable them to create progressive price proposals for the business- Providing Ad-hoc price support in terms of data checking, price analysis, sales base, etc.- Assisting with the implementation of KCP into Turkey.- Supporting the transition of our reporting systems to CRM BW system. Validating the data in the new system to ensure reliable figures are being shown.- Provide Training on BW to the business analyst and be the key user for any issues relating to the system or data.

Irving, Tx, Us

Duties:- Submit government returns such as VAT, Intrastat, bank reports and green dot.- Complete part of the account reconciliation process ensuring compliance with SOX requirements.- ABBA (A Better Business Approach) adjustment postings.- Calculation of corporate taxes and associated reporting.- Manage all payroll postings and associated reconciliations- Month-end reporting process.- Assist in submission of annual financial statements- Providing hand-over to outsourcing company.- Provide 2 weeks support based at outsourcing company in India.

Irving, Tx, Us

Duties:- Reconcile accounts for crucial vendors.- Reconcile PO’s to clear up GR/IR issues- Provide training to all new starters and provide support to all current members.- Provide internal control expertise and ensure that the A/P Team adheres to the written procedures.- Backup for Team leader when he/she is on holiday/training. - Host customer visits.- Visit sectors in Europe to maintain good working relationships.- Review and action ageing balances.- Develop and implement process improvements- Project Work- Analyse AP stats to identify trends, issues and improvements.- Set up project to clear up all outstanding/overdue items in system- Liaising with reporting department to review accounts.

Irving, Tx, Us

Responsibilities: - Receive, batch and process all invoices for various locations in Europe (Salamanca, Madrid, Duffel, Copenhagen & Villanovetta.)(Approx 350 invoices/week) - Posting invoices and reconciling vendor accounts - Ensure invoices without PO are adequately authorized- Assisting Team Members with queries- Check VAT codes!- Writing training documents for new team members on how to use SAP for Accounts Payable- Answer & resolve vendor’s queries.- I have posted invoice for every country in our department (including Italy, with complicated Tax laws)

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Accounting And Finance

A Levels

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