Ugur Yigit

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Purchasing Manager
Ugur Yigit's Location
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye, Turkey
About Ugur Yigit

Nineteen years of work experience in the food and retail sector with experience in multi-format retailing environments, including campus, restaurants, Hotels, hypermarkets, supermarkets, express stores and petrol filling stations. Experience in buying and procurement and category management of Fresh Foods and Non-food product groups. A track record of managing complex internal and external stakeholder relationships and intercultural and virtual team management, both as a team leader and team member. International work experience, based in the UK with involvement in projects in Central Europe and Far East (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, China, Malaysia and South Korea). Expert project management skills and wide experience of business improvement, deployment and optimization of processes, people structures, systems and tools.Highly driven and adaptable with strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving, communication, networking and change management skills. A sociable, competitive, innovative and passionate professional committed to learning and development.

Ugur Yigit's Current Company Details

Purchasing Manager
Ugur Yigit Work Experience Details
  • Divan
    Purchasing Manager For Divan Hotels
    Divan Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Reporting to General Manager and Purchasing Director within matrix organisational scheme,• Leading a team of 7 personel, 4 supervisors of Purchasing, 3 supervisors for depot management.• Responsible for buying all Food and Beverges an all non-food items and services as well as the technical stuff within all Divan Hotels (Five Hotels, two in İstanbul, one in Bodrum, one in Ankara, one in Bursa)• Leading the Business Development Projects for Buying Team as well as Change Management.• Managing the yearly budget/Capex and Opex, • Strategies of cost price Budget Plan• Working Closely with Executive Members, different sales operation• Agile Project Management Experience.
  • Divan
    Purchasing Manager For Divan, Production, Sales And Distribution
    Divan Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Reported to General Manager for Production, Sales and Distribution. • Responsible for buying all Food and Beverges an all non-food items and services for the factory, brasseries, bakery facilities.• Leading the Business Development Projects for Buying Team as well as Change Management.• Managing the yearly budget/Capex and Opex, • Strategies of cost price Budget Plan• Working Closely with Executive Members, different sales operations, Production Supplier, Finance and Marketing departments.• Team Management, both remote (during the Covit-19 pandemi) and on site.
  • Rammar
    Category Manager
    Rammar Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Reported to CEO.• Responsible for buying all Fresh Food (annual sales almost 90-100 million TL)• Leading the Business Development Projects for Buying Team as well as Change Management.• Strategies of Sales Price,Margin, Cost Price and Promotion and the Management of these strategies.• Budget Plan and Profit Plan • Worked Closely with Executive Members, Operations, Supplier, Finance and Marketing departments.• Team Management.
  • Soho House Istanbul
    Purchasing Manager
    Soho House Istanbul Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
    İstanbul Province
    • Reported to CFO.• Responsible for buying all Food and Beverges an all non-food items and services a hotel, club,3 restaurants, gym,spa requires.• Working Closely with different functions with all functions.• Managing the yearly budget/Capex and Opex.
  • Altunbilekler
    Category Buying Manager
    Altunbilekler Jan 2017 - May 2018
    Ankara
    • Reported to Trade Director.• Responsible for buying Confectionary, Grocery and Bakery (annual sales almost 110 million TL)• Strategies of Sales Price,Margin, Cost Price and Promotion and the Management of these strategies.• Budget Plan and Profit Plan (Margin% :2016-2017 +4%).• Worked Closely with Executive Members, Operations, Supplier, Finance and Marketing departments.• Leaded the Change Management and the Projects (Change) Deployments• Team Management.
  • Başyazıcı Center
    Head Of Buying
    Başyazıcı Center Nov 2015 - May 2016
    Kayseri, Turkey
    • Reported to General Manager• Responsible for the buying teams of Fresh Food, Grocery and Non-Food items (annual sales almost 50-60 million TL)• Strategies of Sales Price,Margin, Cost Price and Promotion and the Management of these strategies• Budget Plan and Profit Plan.• Worked Closely with Executive Members, Operations, Supplier, and Finance• Leaded the Change Management and the Projects (Change) Deployments• Team Management
  • Kipa
    Project Manager
    Kipa Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
    İzmir
    From April 2014 to March 2015 was responsible for Commercial Projects• Reported to the Trade Category Director for Fresh Foods. • Responsible for the Commercial Fresh Food category (Meat, Poultry, Produce, Dairy, Deli Meat) strategy development plan and execution (annual sales of almost 700 million TL).• Managed all Fresh Food Category projects to deliver the results defined by the Strategy Governance findings. Including Product Range Optimisation, Sales Improvement of 10 to 30%, Margin Improvement of up to 1%, Better Customer Offering including service experience and environment, and Waste and Loss reduction of 1 to 5%. • Linked targets to KPIs including timelines and budget in line with the expected return on investment.From December 2013 to April 2014 was responsible for Supply Chain Projects• Reported to the expariate Supply Chain Director. • Worked alongside internal business partners including commercial and supply chain team members and external partners and suppliers, including Tesco Kipa’s and Turkey’s Top 20 FMCG suppliers.• Agreed on requirements and benefits to shape the business roadmap to increase three KPIs: - supplier service level to the warehouse; service level from warehouses to stores; and availability of products on the shelves. • Execution of the plan involved managing cross functional issues and tasks to ensure execution and results delivered on time leading to an increase in overall Supplier Service Levels by 2%.
  • Kipa
    Buying Manager
    Kipa Jun 2012 - Dec 2013
    Izmir, Turkey
    • Reported to the Category Buying Manager.• Responsible for buying ultra fresh products such as poultry and red meat (annual sales budget of over 110 milion TL).• Managed the retail price strategy including the switch to private label lines resulting in a 1.5% margin improvement.• Creation and successful launch of a variety of new products, including Free Range Chicken and Loose Chicken products which led to an overall increas in sales of 25% within 6 months.• Achieved of the budget plan and profit plan.• Worked closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, Operations Support, Finance.• Contributed to management of change projects, lead the change to new ways of working successfully in commercial department, such as poultry barcoding project, loose chicken launch.• Developed a reputation for being the key “go to” person for structural and process changes.• Acted as “Promotion Manager” reporting to Trade Category Director for Fresh Foods for five months in Commercial Department, was responsible for product selection, pricing and order & delivery in coordination with marketing and supply chain.
  • Tesco Plc
    Project Manager
    Tesco Plc May 2011 - May 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    • Worked with Business & Information Technology teams to deliver information systems solutions, support business changes and increase competitive advantage; and define and deliver project success criteria to deliver benefits for a better customer offering. • Initiated and prepared detailed deployment programme plans to align the timelines and resources across all countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, China, Malaysia and South Korea).• Ensured issues and risks identified and escalated and managed cross functionally.• Delivered to financial targets and manage programme on project level budgets.• Leaded, mentored and developed the project teams in the countries.• Leaded and developed a team of 2 Deployment Analysts (initially based in India) to relocate to other countries (Thailand, Malaysia) and support country plans.• Communicated programme/project work and progress to the executive board.
  • Kipa
    Project Manager
    Kipa Aug 2009 - May 2011
    Izmir, Turkey
    • Assisted or initiated and prepared detailed task / resource plans for business development projects.• Contributed to the best practices of Tesco in Turkey as a pilot which was unique among all organized retailers in Turkey.• Delivered to financial targets and managed project budgets.• Leaded and managed the projects to deliver goals.• Ensured issues and risks identified and escalated and managed cross functionally.• Leaded, mentored and developed the project team.• Worked with relevant stakeholders and teams to deliver customer focused projects on time.Projects : Space Range and Display; Promotion; Produce, Space Range and Display Deployment Projects.
  • Kipa
    Senior Business Analyst
    Kipa Jun 2005 - Jul 2009
    Izmir, Turkey
    • Initiated, scoped and designed business development projects of business solutions meets specific business needs.• Defined business processes, designed solutions and worked with IT to progress development and strategic direction.• Leaded, coached and assisted other project team members and managers through the cross functional teams.• Leaded projects or streams of work as project manager/lead when required.Projects: Space Range and Display, Commercial Operating Model, Club card, Express Format, Petrol Filling Stations.
  • Kipa
    Operations Group Manager
    Kipa Sep 2004 - Jun 2005
    Izmir, Turkey
    Leaded the Fresh Food department chiefs and Fresh food staff (such as Ready to Eat, Bakery, Fish and Poultry, Dairy, and Meat departments) in the hyper stores in terms of Stock, order, waste management and sales management.
  • Tezel Gıda
    Production Chief
    Tezel Gıda Mar 2004 - Jun 2004
    Manisa, Turkey
    Led and support the production teams, assure quality in terms of customer requirements and also hygienic conditions.
  • Ant Gıda A.Ş. Fora Zeytinleri
    Quality Assurance Engineer
    Ant Gıda A.Ş. Fora Zeytinleri Mar 2003 - Feb 2004
    Balikesir, Turkey
    Worked as Quality Assurance Engineer in olive production units.

Ugur Yigit Skills

Management Change Management Project Planning Retail Project Management Team Management Supply Chain Fmcg Procurement Supplier Development Merchandising Strategy Business Strategy Cross Functional Team Leadership Retail Buying Retail Category Management Negotiation Purchasing Budgeting Business Planning Analysis Project Delivery Team Leadership Process Improvement Pricing Strategy Supplier Management Supplier Negotiation Operations Management Supply Chain Management Collaboration Intercultural Skills Virtual Teams System Deployment Solution Implementation Stakeholder Management Performance Management Multi Channel Retail Process Optimization Product Promotion Purchase Price Allocation Forecasting Sales Management Business Development Sales Leadership Marketing

Ugur Yigit Education Details

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Ugur Yigit's current role is Purchasing Manager.

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Ugur Yigit attended Middle East Technical University, Manisa Fatih Anatolian High School.

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Ugur Yigit has interest in Social Services, Children, Jogging, Economic Empowerment, Environment, Reading, Science And Technology, Tango, Human Rights.

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Ugur Yigit has skills like Management, Change Management, Project Planning, Retail, Project Management, Team Management, Supply Chain, Fmcg, Procurement, Supplier Development, Merchandising, Strategy.

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