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Co-founder of TippTopp, a start-up dedicated to building a creativity hub for children, adults and families alike, with a focus on artistic activities - for example art workshops, art camps, children's birthday parties, ladies' painting nights, corporate events and more.TippTopp offers its services in two unique spaces: its Pop-Up Art Studio in the heart of Luxembourg City and in its one-of-a kind mobile studio, the Art Bus.For more information, check out our website: www.tipptopp.lu or our Facebook page www.facebook.com/tipptopp.lu

Led global procurement process improvements to support Category Management and Site Fulfilment teams across the global Amazon footprint.Drove the transformation of strategic processes with global suppliers optimising engagement and accountability for Amazon’s long-term growth and partnership.Developed new global standards related to procurement processes, supplier relationship management, innovation, KPIs and risk metrics for strategic programmes.

Led major commercial procurement negotiations for strategic multi-year IT transformation programmes.Delivered large scale multi-year enterprise licence agreements (worth several-hundred million Euro) with major suppliers covering 26 Vodafone markets worldwide and extensive bills of materials i.e. Oracle, Amdocs, IBM, SAP.Responsible for delivering innovative commercial models, securing project delivery, ensuring yearly savings and agreed value-add targets are met, contributing to the category supplier roadmap within IT areas including Billing, CRM, Enterprise Applications, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.Leadership of multiple cross-functional teams, coaching and mentoring, educating external local markets teams and training internal teams throughout supplier negotiations.Managed global relationships with key suppliers, internal stakeholders in the local markets and Group and ensuring alignment of the category strategy with the overall Group Technology strategy.Domain expert of managed services and outsourcing contract renewals with suppliers, across local markets.Monitored global suppliers performance, resolving all commercial conflicts ranging from cloud, support SLAs to key deliverable failures requiring claims and litigation management.

Headed the Technology Supply Chain Management including IT, Network and Logistics teams.Managed Vodafone’s several-hundred million Euro portfolio and delivered significant YoY savings, developing and implementing the overall strategy and operational management of the Technology Procurement and Logistics within Vodafone.Responsible for all procurement activities within IT, Network and Logistics teams, managing and building advanced relationships up to senior stakeholder level.Managed all warehouses for Network, Parts and IT office equipment, coaching and mentoring individuals, developing policy procedures for logistic processes to ensure optimisation and compliance with the established Supply Chain standards and regulations.Acted as an advisor in the bridging process between Technology, Finance and Legal departments when negotiating products and services.Instrumental for major billing transformation and a country-wide network equipment replacement projects, negotiating commercial and contractual terms, to save the business millions in cost.Managed relationships with key suppliers and coordinated the Supplier Performance Management process for strategic Technology suppliers.

Managed the IT Procurement team. Responsible for sourcing and management of all Professional Services, Software and Infrastructure including related support & maintenance.

Managed the Technology Logistics team. Responsible for all warehouses for Network, IT and Spare Parts equipment. Oversaw the network in terms of assets inventory, cash flow and KPIs.

Managed the Inventory and Warehouse teams. Developed and implemented the inventory procedures and related stock control databases, and managed all Technology warehousing activities.

Managed the Inventory team and responsible for ordering and monitoring of the food products and related materials. Supervised all restaurants' inventories for McDonald’s Romania.