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Hong Kong

Hong Kong Sar

Location Hong Hong Kong Sar

• Coordinate all China sourcing activities for Altra (factories located in China, US and Europe) with teams located in Shanghai & Shenzhen • Build strong stakeholder engagement within Altra and the supplier base. • Create synergies between existing suppliers by nurturing cross-site and cross-platform supplier business development. • Consolidate supplier base. • Developed a Power BI supplier map during COVID to help sister companies understanding where supplier plants were located.

Hong Kong

•Coordinate all sourcing activities in China for the Electric Clutch & Brake division (Supplier identification, development, consolidation, negotiation….) • Build, deploy and adjust yearly commodity strategies.• Supplier base consolidation, payments terms improvement, savings funnel creation and management • Running and executing VAVE kaizens • Supplier Risk assessment and management through strategic action planning• Digitalization: Global Supplier visual mapping & Indirect goods efficient procure to pay solution

Hong Kong

• Establish Bauer’s first manufacturing lines in Asia.• Bring the German product and production standard in Mainland China for Bauer.• Initiate and develop the supply chain for all purchased components.• Set up a local design team to support supply chain localization projects.

The following bullet points sum up my main activities working for the Bosch Sales team:• Respond to automotive customer quotations regarding all aspects related to quality (20 quotations made for a wide range of engine components).• Negotiate with customers and Bosch factories to achieve common agreement on quality contracts.• Knowledge of customer specifications and application of those specifications to Bosch standards.• Facilitate and oversee Bosch plant audits in Germany, Brazil and Czech Republic conducted by customers.• Serial life and after-sales quality failures monitoring, solving and eradication.• Coordinate topics for French customers between South-America, Europe and China.

Following my first experience at Valeo, I was called back during the summer to help out the Valeo auditor, as 2 major projects were about to be launched in the UK and China. The aim was to make sure all the suppliers were meeting the expected Valeo (and final customer) quality standards.• Direct contact with 12 suppliers located in North-America, Europe and Asia to obtain quality files according to Valeo rules.• Reviewed quality files and provided suppliers with delivery acceptance for 2 new Valeo assembling factories in England and China.

I did an internship at the french car part manufacturer Valeo, where I was in charge of monitoring the supplier quality results and achieving the group targets:• Improved supplier quality results of 8 Valeo manufacturing sites through closer reportings, thorough analyses of root causes and creation of a best practise (reduction of open incidents by 50% to achieve Valeo objectives).• Implementations of new quality results monitoring tools.• Trained 12 Valeo employees located in 8 different sites worldwide to a new supplier development portal.

Master Of Science, Automotive Product Engineering

Engineering Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: UTC Football Team: University football championship