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Bavaria, Germany

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global PurchasingGlobal responsibility to provide structure, processes, performance reports, data analysis, IT systems, should costs analysis and to integrate sustainability in purchasingManagement of 50 experts global and regional (processes, controlling, IT-system, sustainability, cost engineers and business development) and the Purchasing Support Office (Hungary), responsible for all purchasing administrative tasksDesign and implementation of controlling activities (e.g. savings report, supplier classification, risk committees)Continuous improvement and training of global purchasing processesContinuous improvement and training of purchasing IT-systems (e.g. SAP MM, P4T, Softconcis, contract management)Organization and governance of all supplier decisions worldwide (Sourcing Boards) and price increase committeesSupport of Sales for negotiations to their customersIntegration of sustainability requirements into purchasing processes, including trainings (Supply Chain Act, CSRD, CBAM, Conflict Minerals,...)Development of CO2 reduction trajectory with SBTI target of -25% in 2030 and collection of secondary and primary data at suppliersDevelopment of a 5-years IT road-map incl. risk management (Prewave, Bitsight, Rapidratings), Celonis, Jaggaer, AI (Azure), S4 HANA Project leader for project of improvement of payment terms globally with creation of dashboards and concrete action plans (+ 2 days extra weighted payment terms achieved in 6 months in 2023)Trainer for negotiation events (supplier days / awarding days)

München, Bayern, De

Actively participated in 20+ customer acquisitions for projects on cost down, resilience and sustainabilityProcurement manager for ground segment procurement for satellite constellation projectProcurement expert for electronics components for a global manufacturer of communication systems and its EMS in South East AsiaCoach for OEM car maker to negotiate the upload by its suppliers of their BOM of electronics products in ERP systemProcurement expert in post-merger integration project of energy company to find synergies and savingsSourcing expert for a Tier-1 to near shore aluminum extrusion components to AmericasGuest speaker on n-Tier visibility at a global steel production manufacturer

Kongsberg, Buskerud, No

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global PurchasingGlobal responsibility: EMEA - North and South America - APACPurchasing volume: 450 Mio EUR; Number of suppliers: 1.200Responsible for 4 Global Category Directors and 1 Supplier Quality Delivery AssuranceSavings performance 2020 of 5,0% and forecast 2021 of 4,0%Set-up awarding days / virtual hotel room negotiations in each region (AMER, EMEA, APAC)Set-up supplier escalation scheme with weekly review and lessons learnedFire fighting (Electronic components, resins, metals,…) incl. customer escalation meetings (e.g. Stellantis, Scania, Volvo)Implemented a home-made training academy for the 55 category buyersImplemented raw material schemes contractsImplemented a price increase defense committeeSet up quarterly Webcasting information platform for suppliersSet-up of a Purchasing Support Office in Poland to manage the administrative tasksPurchasing expert responsible for the divestment of 2 Business UnitsSupport of Sales for negotiations of cost compensation with customers

Kongsberg, Buskerud, No

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global Purchasing Global responsibility: EMEA - North and South America - APACManagement of 5 experts (processes, controlling, IT-systems, sustainability)Executed the transformation of Purchasing organization into Category, Project and Support Functions within 2 monthsCreated Savings Guidelines and monthly savings performance reporting and budget processIncreased the discipline and the documentation of the Sourcing Boards Integrated sustainability in the purchasing processesImplemented PowerBI for better data visualization and Riskmethods/D&B Started the implementation of Jaggaer

München, Bayern, De

Supplier Development In addition to Governance and Business Development:Improved performance of existing suppliers continuously and developed new suppliers in line with the purchasing strategyVerified that supply base is compliant regarding quality-/ legal-/ customer-/ internal requirements and specificationsEvaluated supplier performance frequently and drive improvement actionsSet supplier quality targets globally and determined suppliers to prioritize for concluding a Quality-Delivery-AgreementSupported actively the Category Management with technical expertise in the Supplier Selection / Sourcing DecisionsAdapted and improved frequently the Supplier Quality Manual with the latest customer- and legal requirementsDrove Supplier Initiatives with Category Management based on yearly Supplier Performance EvaluationManaged and improved suppliers which are in highest quality escalation stagePlanned and executed Product Safety / VDA 6.3 and Technology Audits for new suppliers Optimized methods, standards, tools as part of supplier developmentDrove cross-functional and cross regional collaboration on supplier quality improvement initiatives

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global PurchasingNew position merging Governance Direct, Governance Indirect and Business DevelopmentGlobal responsibility to provide structure, processes, performance reports, data analysis and IT systems and to integrate sustainability in purchasingManagement of 20 experts (processes, controlling, IT-system, sustainability and business development) and the Purchasing Support Office (Hungary), responsible for all purchasing administrative tasksDesign and implementation of controlling activities (e.g. savings report, supplier classification, risk committees)Continuous improvement and training of global purchasing processesContinuous improvement and training of purchasing IT-systems (e.g. SAP MM, RfQs, contract management)Progressive integration of the sustainability requirements into our purchasing processes, including trainings (NQC assessments, Conflict Minerals)Organization and governance of all supplier decisions worldwide (Sourcing Boards)Negotiation of the travel policy with the unionsAlignment meetings with Controlling on Indirect Materials targets and resultsAnalysis of the IT Landscape incl. disruptions, costs and user satisfactionStrengthened Risk Management, Supplier Classification and Evaluation of indirect material suppliersIncreased discipline in Sourcing Boards: retroactive verifications and trainingsTraining calendars for Direct and Indirect materialsRolled out xECM (Contract Management in Indirect Materials) in all regions Implemented Controlling tool in all Rail locationsImplementation of Vendor Capacity Management process (in frame of IBP) within 3 weeksDrafted the sourcing boards for indirect materials and the purchasing guidelines Governance meeting direct and indirect materials to push the synergies between both departments GDPR project team member for implementation of GDPR in purchasing processesProject leader of purchasing for Quality Offensive incl. negotiations of recall cases

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global PurchasingGlobal responsibility: EMEA - North and South America - APACPurchasing volume: 1.500 Mio EUR; Number of suppliers: 1.400Management of 7 Global Category Directors and 1 Supplier Delivery Assurance ManagerInterim assignment with priority on reaching the savings targets 2018 in the last 3 months and to prepare 2019 savings pipelineImmediate set-up of an action plan to close the gap, workshops to boost the creativity and team spirit of the buyers and explore new savings potentials (e.g Xrate)Reduction of the provisions 2018 (1 Mio EUR)"First time ever" organisation of "hotel room" awarding days, resulting in 25% price reductionsChairman of Sourcing Boards and Purchasing Representative in all Board MeetingsElimination / reduction of production capacities issues at critical suppliers for 2018 and 2019Strong contribution to the compensation of capacity costs at the customers

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Global PurchasingNew strategic position responsible to define and implement transformations to increase efficiencyProject lead of post-merger integrations of 2 EU and 1 Japanase companies incl. supplier days set-up 4-8 months after day 1Purchasing expert contributing to all due diligence projects for mergers and acquisitionsOrganization and follow-up of the quarterly Purchasing Management Team Meetings Organization of the monthly Purchasing Town Halls and Purchasing NewslettersProject lead to increase LCC share resulting in increase from 35% in 2016 to 45% in 2019Creation of first global purchasing career path incl. job descriptions, Hay grades, skills matrixRe-vamp of Global Purchasing Business Plan coming with more impactful endeavors and KPIsAnalysis of used raw materials and standardization of raw material schemesMentor of 3 purchasing professionals

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Vice President Global PurchasingFirst Global Category Manager Plastics after the transformation in Category ManagementGlobal responsibility: EMEA - North and South America - APACPurchasing volume: 45 Mio EUR; Number of suppliers: 100Savings of 4,0% in 2015; 7,3% in 2016 and 4,3% in 2017Management of 6 Regional Category Managers and 1 global supplier quality engineerImplementation of global negotiation and global resourcing plansSynergies between the regions in terms of negotiations and resourcingSelection of 15 global future strategic suppliers and negotiations of long-term agreements"First time ever" negotiations with US resin suppliers and global resin suppliersEuropa: Focus on benchmark RfQs and re-negotiations, resourcingUSA: Focus on closing Long Term Agreements LTA with the 3 largest suppliers (75% of spend)China: Scouting of suppliers for local and export business. 15 suppliers visited and opening of 3.India: Phase out of suppliers with unacceptable quality issues, scouting of suppliers, opening of 2.Brazil: Phase out of suppliers with insolvency risks and opening of 2Implementation of Business Review meetings with largest suppliersLean Manufacturing workshops performed at 2 suppliers resulting in cost avoidance and reductionsGlobal e-auction on key part number with awarding of a newly open Chinese supplier

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to Manager Global Category PlasticsPurchasing volume: 30 Mio EUR; Number of suppliers: 50Savings of 2,7% in 2013; 6,0% in 2014 Second Regional Category Manager after implementation of the Category OrganizationRe-organized the team of 4 European buyers and 1 supplier quality engineer to achieve best resultsUnlocked the supplier portfolio from 3 awardable suppliers to 20+Defined 10 strategic suppliers and worked diligently to ensure awardabilityOpened Low Cost Country Suppliers in Hungary, Czech Republic, SloveniaImplemented resourcing, dual sourcing and relocation projectsNegotiated Master Supply Agreement and Long Term pricing agreements"Never done before" negotiations directly with resin suppliers, resulting in significant savingsManaged inherited risks of the supplier base (insolvency, monopoly, price increase, capacity issues)Responsible for supplier selection, evaluation, optimization and commercial trade-offsMonitoring and improvement of the quality and delivery performance of the suppliers

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Center of Competence Purchasing ManagerPurchasing volume: 5 Mio EUR, projects tooling budget: 3 Mio EURFocus commodities: Aluminum, mechatronics, rubber, plastics, stamped and turned partsProject customers: Daimler, Renault, Volvo, DAF, MAN, HyundaiSourcing and negotiations all new BOM parts on time and below costs/tooling targetsReverse Engineering to track critical path for sourcing and fix priorities to R&DStrong drive towards the strategic buyers to integrate prices of new parts in Long Term Agreements Project reviews with the suppliers from RfQ phase till start of production and hand-over to seriesProject team member in VA/VE projects and cost-down workshops with suppliersCoaching of 3 project buyers for preparation of supplier negotiations

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Vice President Central Function QualityDevelopment and continuous improvement of group quality and environmental management systemStepwise implementation of group management system in the new locations in India and ChinaSuccessful ISO TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certifications and re-certifications in the new locationsProject lead of the succesfull fusion of the management systems of Knorr-Bremse and BendixConception and implementation of a Balanced Scorecard in cooperation with the Executive Board MembersFunctional responsible of the 15 local management system managers (EU, USA, Brasil, China, India, Russia)

München, Bayern, De

Reporting to the Director QualityImplementation and continuous improvement of the management systemSuccessful ISO TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certifications and re-certificationsManagement of the internal audits and functional leadership on the auditorsManager of the measurement department with two employees

Bachelor Professional Of Materials Procurement And Logistics (Industrie Und Handelskammer)

Education record

Master, Environmental Sciences

Master, Chemistry