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Tönisvorst, Nrw, De

• Leading the Global Packaging and IT procurement activities from the overall procurement strategydevelopment through the purchase process over 16 sites and 200 Mio. of spend• Building strong value-added relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders• Ensure continuous supply of indirect goods and services while reducing costs through synergies, economies of scale, and maintaining the necessary levels of quality and service.• Drive procurement productivity globally

Bingen Am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

teaching project management at the University in Bingen (master class)

• Leading the Global Packaging, MRO and Services procurement activities from the overall procurement strategydevelopment through the purchase process over 8 sites and 100 Mio. of spend• Building strong value-added relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders• Ensure continuous supply of indirect goods and services while reducing costs through synergies, economies of scale, and maintaining the necessary levels of quality and service.• Drive procurement productivity globally

Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

• Development of the corporate strategy and selection of the appropriate methods and tools so that this strategy can be implemented• Responsible for Germany and Spain sites and global projects (e.g. Best Practise implementation)• Creating a global standard for root cause analysis• Saving up to five millions in schedule M, MOM and Growth

Frankfurt Am Main Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Redesign of supply chains in various industries, e.g. aircraft assembly regarding the theory of constraints (Drum-Buffer-Rope) and decreasing the lead time by 30 days.• Introduction of agile project management and supervision of implementation (using Scrum + SAFe logic)• Subject matter expert for Shopfloormanagement, Digitalization (data analytics) and Health & Safety

• Implementing a Replenishment Pull System in the Steel, Aluminium and Foaming industry and decreasing the lead time by 20%• Developing a forecast-tool for all product with reducing the pricing cost and increase the contribution• Reducing the complexity by 30% of pre-material specifications in various companies e.g. steel, aluminium, paint manufacturing, foaming• Full transformation of a recycling company• Increasing the production and visual management with international projects e.g. Foaming Company +10% Yield / +20% Capacity on the constraint• Digital transformation with the use of MiniTab, Tableau, Igrafx• Developing & facilitating Black Belt Training in English and German• Concepting of workshops with team-building of cross-functional teams

Krefeld

• Assessing of all production sites and all level of organization (America, Mexico, Avesta, Nyby, Degerfors, Terneuzen, Krefeld, Dillenburg, Dahlerbrück) with regard to the Lean / Continuous Improvement Process• Increasing the production and visual management with international projects e.g. Avesta Performance Loss project + 10% capacity plant Dillenburg & Krefeld (60 Mio. EBIT)• Concepting & execution of workshops with team building of crossfunctional teams

Krefeld

Implementing of a Replenishment Pull System in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) and decreasing the lead time by 20%• Reducing of the complexity by 30% of pre-material specifications in the production and SCM• Concepting & execution of workshops with team building of cross functional teams

Krefeld

Master-thesis „Setup and production optimization according tothe Six Sigma Methodology - discussed with the example of acold rolling mill of Outokumpu“Outokumpu (Grade: ø 1,4)Bachelor-thesis „Expansion of the energy managementsystem in order to meet product-specific resource consumptionrequirements at an annealing and pickling line in the Krefeldcold mill of Outokumpu“Outokumpu (Grade: ø 1,6)Various projects to reduce the volume of current inventoryand increased performance

Master'S Degree, Wirtschaftsingenieur, 1,5

Cooperation with Outokumpu Master-thesis „Setup and production optimization according to the Six Sigma Methodology - discussed.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 2,1

Duales Bachelorstudium mit einer Ausbildung zu einem Industriemechaniker Bachelor-thesis „Expansion of the energy management system.