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Israel

• Senior Purchasing Director at ALPHA, a new Procuring division that serves three companies: Pelephone, Bezeq International and YES. • Rreporting directly to the ALPHA CFO.• Working closely with the VP'S and group CEO. Presenting long-term and short-term strategic plans. • Responsible for creating a new and synergistic organizational structure, building a strategy and processes tailored to each company’s individual needs as well as the three, combined. • Successfully changed vendors and suppliers’ perception, saving tens of millions of dollars by presenting a unified front and creating a purchasing power.• Manage 3 departments , and set up a new management team in my division, overcoming objections and building trust.• Involved in budget planning and control, maximizing the budget by NIS 1 billion per year by setting efficiency goals for each company.• Decision-making under time and budget constraints, sourcing for suppliers, leading complex negotiations on cost and SLA, and managing budget-intensive procurement projects in-line with the organizational and project strategy. ✭ Achievement ✭: initiated, planned and carried out the strategic decision to establish the ALPHA procurement entity, a decision which proved effective and created cost savings in the millions of dollars.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Extended Board Member reporting directly to the CPO; lead a team of buyers and managers.Overall responsibility for all purchasing needs of the company (excluding cellphones) in hundreds of millions of NIS per year: • √ Strategic procurement contracts for systems and services f or the technology divisions, • √ Contractors' price lists, network maintenance agreements etc.• √ Administrative procurement: leasing, building maintenance, catering, and property constructionDefined processes and approvals hierarchy in the ERP system for the entire supply chain.✭ Achievement ✭: led to significant savings, creating trust with managers and repositioning the purchasing body as significant contributor in the organization and a partner in strategic and on-going business processes.

Responsibility for technological procurement for the Engineering and Information Systems Division. Professional management of 4 employees.Managed maintenance contracts of critical systems including negotiating SLA and payment terms. Led negotiations with senior executives (local and foreign suppliers and internal customers).✭ Achievement ✭: Led a significant cost reduction by re-negotiating all systems maintenance agreements.

Managed the Supply Chain and all aspects of Engineering end2end - . Held technical and business meetings with a diversity of suppliers and contractors. Responsible for cross-divisional budget control. Managed warranty and inventory, and procurement requirements for each engineering division. My main project during this time was managing the logistics and procurement for a huge a umts Network deployment in hundreds of millions of dollars (2010-2011)✭ Achievements ✭: Won the Outstanding Manager Award for 2008Reduced procurement costs and technology systems maintenance by tens of millions of dollars by negotiating with the world's largest hardware and software manufacturers.

Managed a team of five control and logistics professionals and responsible for budget management, and accounting with Pelephone’s network contractors.Defined Supply Chain tools and processes in Oracle's ERP system and managed cross-organizational projects. ✭ Achievements ✭: The optimization proposal I submitted as a member of the Efficiency Committee, resulted in an annual saving of NIS 2 million for which I won the CEO Award. I also won the Engineering Division Outstanding Employee Award of the years 2003 and 2007