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Shanghai Suburb, China

• Sourcing Strategy: formulated local sourcing strategy regarding MRO and capital investments < 5 Mio EUR projects (EPC or EPCm) by aligned with global guidelines, business development objectives, and local conditions, streamlined the procurement process to improve efficiency and ensure business requirements are met.• Procurement: spearheaded all site service procurement activities, developed pricing model and optimized cost structure, controlled sourcing costs and mitigated purchasing risks through competitive bidding, e-Sourcing, etc. Played an instrumental role in business growth and profit increase. Analysis the contract in additional cost by different categories of changes (e.g. site instructions, change orders, scope change orders), received claims vs final negotiated amount, received change order amount vs final negotiated amount.• Supplier Development and Management: developed and maintained 20 strategic suppliers, managed the supplier database and supplier evaluation system, carried out regular supplier performance evaluation from the aspects of capacity, stability, quality, services, prices, etc.

Shanghai Suburb, China

• Contractor Management:- Led the Covestro Manufacturing Site Contractor Management Council, formulated, developed and implemented contractor strategy, worked closely with procurement team and technical council as the key contact for strategic contractor management topics, ensured the smooth implementation of all MRO and S or M project construction work. - Maintaining systematic and healthy working relationships with counterparts in Germany and USA in support of global consistency of approved work process, sharing best practices, ensuring engineering procedures and work processes are followed in the MRO and Project execution. - Successfully developed and implemented a contractor service ordering process with the "four eyes principle" embedded in daily maintenance, outage, and shutdown of the running plants. - Managed and led cross-functional teams involved in supplier discovery, audit, and technical evaluation. - Ensured compliance by maintenance contractor team regarding local regulations, industry standards, and Covestro guidelines.• Technical Management: actively led the discipline documents preparation, evaluation, tailored for CISS Scaffolding Procedure, Lifting Procedure, Welding management Procedure, Greenery management Procedure, and Painting Procedure. Led the National and CISS technical requirement enforcement regarding Welding, Painting, Scaffolding, Insulation, Lifting, CSA, MEP, On-line leak sealing under pressure, Industry Cleaning, and other maintenance disciplines which required during the plant running. And also prepared the unit rate catalog for maintenance work bidding and daily utilization afterwards. • Procurement: partnered closely with procurement team and took the lead in formulating bidding documents, unit rate catalog, framework agreements, and contracts. As the key member of Technical Council and HSEQ Council, managed technical evaluations. Explored ways to reduce costs.

• Team Management: developed and optimized workflow, set up team KPIs, assigned team members tasks, managed 26 team members and provided necessary guidance and training to team members, inspired and energized the team to outperform targets.• Project Management: successfully completed multiple projects at site, including all small or medium projects (less than 5 Mio EUR) construction in 20 living plants at Covestro Integrated Site Shanghai (CISS), MCF (Maintenance Contractor Facility) project, POLE (Performance Optimization Leads to Efficiency) project, etc.• Stakeholder Management: identified Contractor Management risks, opportunities and provide a central approach covering Contractor Management Strategy alignment, and roll out to all stakeholders. Developed and implemented communication plans to all stakeholders. Developed stakeholders training needs analysis, developed role-based communication and training materials for targeted user groups to gain the stakeholders effective engagement. Managed communication efficacy, training results and mitigate the gaps wherein.

Hangzhou

• Supported Project Development activities to ensure on time delivery of project deliverables and competitive bids with high quality line by line estimates, scope definitions and execution strategy.• Managed the project cost within budget, ensured the completion of project milestone while achieving critical success factors of safety, cost, schedule, quality, and reliability.• Be the interface of local design institute and managed the engineering progress.• Ensured adequate and effective communication within the project team to accomplish project goals and ensure sharing of best practices, lessons learned, and feedback.• Managed the project change process, ensured all changes to the baseline are identified and logged in project Baseline Change Database, and approved all necessary changes.• Maintained customer relationship, acted as the interface of Air Liquide Engineering, from bids through project completion by meeting with Customers to provide regular updates, resolved issues or problems, and ensured customer needs are good taken care of.

Jilin City, Jilin Province

• Successfully completed multiple projects, including CSPC LDPE Project, Jilin 600K t/y Fuel-Ethanol Project, Qatar NGL-4 Project, Turkmenistan 90K t/y Polypropylene & Utility Project, Changshan Chemical Fertilizer Plant 15-25 Alteration Project, etc.