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Sara Home srls is a company involved in facility and property management located in the Brescia area.

Indirect Purchasing Manager for CF Gomma Unipersonale SpA (now DTR VMS) - Passirano (BS). Coordination, according to the corporate regulation, of the order placement concerning CAPEX, machines, services maintenance, spare parts, MRO, general services of the 3 Italian plants (Passirano, Grezzago,Venaria Reale) and, as far as international cooperation is concerned, of the foreign plants (Poland and Brazil). Management of a direct collaborator. Setting up, implementation, drawing up and negotiation of national and international contracts with the Group suppliers. Reporting and management of the relations with internal customers and corporate decision makers. Drawing up of the monthly, three-monthly, six-monthly and annual budgets and drawing up the KPIs of my team.

Purchasing Manager and Asset and Service Manager for Ies Italiana Energia e Servizi, a refinery in Mantua belonging to the Hungarian multinational corporation MOL.Purchasing Manager: the team (11 members) bought all the necessary goods through national and international awards of contracts, both with purchase orders and framework agreements. All processes were regulated by national or group procedures, that were being incorporated at that time. The corporate ERP was SAP. I was in charge of the team management and the office organization, the purchasing strategy and marketing definition, the reporting to the Italian and Hungarian EB, the internal customer management and the interaction with all the company BUs, the budget drawing up and the negotiation of strategic contracts, as well as the critical review of processes and contracts, together with the legal department.Asset and Service Manager: I was in charge of managing the non-technological, stock and corporate mail and security assets, thanks to a support team of 12 members:Definition of the rent/buy/sell policies of real estate and non-technological IES funds.Management and use of NT spaces and assets, ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of NT properties, fleet.Management of:-corporate furniture and supplies (RDA, assignment, replacement, transfer, record);-removals and staff and asset handling;-rents/leases of employees;-storage;-mail service;-canteen service;-reception service;Creation of archives with the documentation of NT assets.Customization and implementation of MOL procedures concerning Assets & Services.Management of the transfer services from/to IES.Creation of the annual and triennial CAPEX budgets for NT assets.Reporting to Italian and Hungarian managers and functions.Creation and implementation of improvement plans together with the other corporate functions.Management of my team and drawing up of the corresponding KPIs.

I worked in the Central Procurement department of Leaf International (now Cloetta), a Dutch multinational corporation (HQ in Oosterhout- Holland) in the field of sweeteners, candies, seasonal sweets, with 12 manufacturing plants in Europe, whose Italian head office is in Cremona (Sperlari), as Category Manager, European Purchasing Manager for the following product sectors: MRO, energy, gas, fuels, indirect production costs, CAPEX. I was in charge of:Ensuring planning and reporting, drawing up “Purchasing/Partnership Agreement” and framework contracts for pertaining goods and services all over Europe;Coordinating the purchases of the twelve European factories through the harmonization of the purchase procedures;Reducing the NWC (Working Capital) through the adoption of suitable terms of payment with the suppliers and/or the introduction of the Consignment stock and the reduction of lead times. Contributing to the definition of the purchasing and “Make or Buy” policies for pertaining goods and services.Completing the implementation of a common tool for the purchase order management in the twelve European factories.Keeping and strengthening the relations with suppliers, coproducers and partners to develop pertaining programmes/products, to implement and adopt “cost reduction”, “performance improvement” and “collaborative improvement” policies.Defining and proposing improvement plans internationally.Defining annual and five-year budgets for the pertaining product sectors.Checking the budget compliance with the spending trends.

Plant, Machinery and Service Purchasing Manager for Alenia Aermacchi SpA, part of Finmeccanica group (Now Leonardo) Purchasing Department – Venegono (VA), as a production department support. Coordination and management of 9 buyers covering the following product sectors: engineering services, general services, transport, laboratory equipment, production and special machines, civil works and underground utilities, civil and technical maintenance, hw, sw, office supplies.I was in charge of:Ensuring planning and reporting, drawing up “Purchasing/Partnership Agreement” and framework contracts, issuing the purchase orders for goods and services not provided for in the Contract, ensuring their suitability from a legal point of view and their compliance with the purchasing policies, the corporate requirements and the Customer and/or Partner requirements.Managing framework contracts, participating, from the programme/product development and industrialization, to the definition and the planning of the pertaining materials supplied, according to the criteria and the methods of “concurrent engineering”, contributing to the definition of the purchasing and “Make or Buy” policies and to the qualification of pertaining suppliers.Keeping and strengthening the relations with suppliers, coproducers and partners to develop pertaining programmes/products, to implement and adopt “cost reduction”, “performance improvement” and “collaborative improvement” policies.Contributing to the “vendor rating”, to the definition of the budgeting elements and to support the identification and the transposition of industrial clearing obligations for pertaining goods, services and suppliers.Monitoring the trend of the Corporate Improvement Plans.Issuing reports, managing relations with the Corporate, implementing the e-procurement tools, issuing the function monitoring schedules, defining and developing the function KPIs to support the Purchasing Manager, together with the other Area Managers.