Marlene Nygaard Email & Phone Number

Region Of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Roskilde Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark

South Denmark, Denmark

Passionate about driving procurement, supplier management, change management and team management from an operational to a strategic level through supply chain. Enthusiastic about an exciting journey of innovation and growth.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.Ambitious self-driven mindset.Skilled people manager.Structured, ambitious and capable of setting goals.Can-do approach working well with simultaneous tasks running in a cross organizational environment.

Odense, Syddanmark, Danmark

Results:Established a close relationship with suppliers and thereby achieved transparency in cost calculations. Implemented contract management with major suppliers and framework agreements, ensuring availability in the value chain, as it is a project-based business. Generally organized and established supplier relationship management for the top 20 suppliers. Set up meetings with stakeholders to ensure progress in the flow of project management.Conducted crisis management with success towards suppliers in substantial breach of contract.

Danmark

Results:Established inbound EDI exchange with warehouse to ensure real-time updates of inventory. Showing all data of each pallet, carton, batch, production date, and supplier. Developed and implemented order management tools for visibility of batches in stock vs order rotation.Increasing turnover of inventory and ensured compliance with KPIs through order management tools. Turned around of inventory, ensured lower capital binding in stock from 40 to 12 mio DKKR. Implemented ongoing meetings with finance regarding measurements of capital binding. Conducted and implemented continuous process optimization in replenishment and raw material procurement processes.Implemented forecasting at the raw material level and data exchange with suppliers regarding FC and call off. Developed and implemented forecast tool with the project group for the total global product range. Conducted ongoing meetings with global marketing aligning listings, delisting, changes, and deeper dialogue on business case level. Established ongoing meetings with the procurement department to ensure alignment of product availability. Initiated supplier relations management from replenishment and operational teams to ensure availability of goods and better coordination with suppliers.Established ongoing management of the team (10 EMP), conducted 1-1 meetings, performance appraisals, and ongoing coaching and development discussions. Developed competencies within the team and ensured rotation of tasks by 2-3 team members to avoid having a weak link in the procurement process. Increased use of digitization in the team thereby optimized use of competences.Established meetings with the IT department to promote higher digitization of tasks and ensure better use of current tools and IT resources. Substantially increased employee satisfaction in the department and optained the highest satisfaction rating in the company, moving from the lowest to the highest.

Langeskov - Fyn

Results:Established a higher rotation of inventory, thereby ensuring a lower capital binding. Continuously developed own categories in category management. Implemented ongoing supplier relationship management meetings and phone conversations to increase the availability of goods, ensuring a better negotiating position, and fostering a stronger relationship with the supplier. Improved the process optimization of order rotation. Instituted regular meetings with IT to enhance the use of digitization and IT tools. Ensured a better supplier mix in the product categories, resulting in increased turnover and the number of buying customers in other categories as well. Secured new suppliers for the selected product category after having experienced a collapse in the market from the former trading region.

Rynkeby

Results:Increased productivity in the aseptic process line through effective communication with the QA department by challenging the production sequence. Implemented long-term planning to enhance production rates and anticipate risks associated with production challenges.Ensured lower capital binding of inventory turnover. Facilitated cross organizational communication with the global marketing team regarding listings, delisting, and changes to ensure a smooth transition. Introduced a weekly measurement of forecast accuracy against inventory turnover and coordinated interdisciplinary efforts around forecasting with the sales team. Established regular weekly communication with sales regarding the sale of non-rotated items from inventory and set up a process for how items are rotated to avoid waste.Initiated monthly supplier relationship management phoneconversations and meetings to ensure availability, process optimization, and improvement of the purchasing strategy with suppliers.

Odense Area, Denmark

Results:Conducted close customer management for the Scandinavian customer in every department on a monthly basis.

Ørbæk, Fyn, Danmark

Results:Increased production capacity in processing lines which I have been responsible for simultaneously ensuring a low capital binding of finished goods.Established a procurement strategy for raw materials and achieved a low capital binding of raw materials.Initiated an improved process for quota acquisition of raw materials from non-EU countries via VITAS, thereby ensuring the availability of raw materials - rice and cerealia.Ensured the continuous improvement of secondary materials, thereby achieved a substantial cost reduction.

Odense Area, Denmark

Kolding Area, Denmark

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Supply Chain Costing, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Practical Seminar, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Project Management, Hd 2

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Supply Chain Analytics Hd 2

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Change Management, Hd 2

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Supply Chain Design, Hd 2

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Operations And Supply Chain Management

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Socio Economics

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Research Methods, Hd 2

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Forhandlingsteknik, Hd

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Business/Managerial Economics

Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Data Analysis

Bachelor, French And English

Bachelor in English and French

Hhx, English, French And International Business

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