Villars-sous-Yens, Vaud, Switzerland
Procurement leader with 25+ years of experience building, transforming, and scaling world-class procurement functions, from strategy to execution. I specialise in turning procurement from a transactional function into a strategic driver of business value. My track record spans organisations managing up to $ 3B in spend and 280-person teams, delivering measurable results across cost, compliance, sustainability, and process excellence. At Givaudan, I held two senior leadership mandates. Most recently as Head of Procurement & Sustainability Excellence, I drove a full-scale transformation across simplification, digitalisation, best practices, and controls managing a CHF 9M budget and achieving a 20% FTE reduction through smarter delivery models. Prior to that, as GBS Solution Owner for Source-to-Pay, I built the function from the ground up, establishing delivery centres in Budapest, Buenos Aires, and Kuala Lumpur, processing 400K+ transactions annually across S2P, Accounts Payable, and Helpdesk; consistently hitting >92% OTIF. Beyond Givaudan, I bring broad international experience across industries including Philip Morris International and others, covering the full procurement and supply chain spectrum. My core expertise includes: • Category management across direct and indirect spend • Procure-to-Pay transformation (SAP, SRM, Ariba, Jaggaer) • Scope 3 & supplier sustainability programmes (TfS – Together for Sustainability) • GBS / Shared Services design and leadership • Building and developing high-performing global teams I combine strong analytical thinking with hands-on leadership — always focused on the next level of performance, not just maintaining the status quo. 📍 Based in Switzerland | French national, C permit | Fluent in French, English & German | Conversational Spanish #CPO #VPProcurement #ProcurementTransformation
Lead the Procurement & Sustainability Excellence Team (35 people) Drive Procurement transformation in line with 2025 strategy on 4 pillars: Simplification, Digitalization, Best practices & training, and Controls. Lead the Ariba Suite implementation project (CHF 9m budget, 20% reduction on transactional procurement FTE). Lead the development of the 2030 procurement strategy (CHF 3B spend, 300 people organisation). Manage team of Procurement support in charge of content management, sourcing support and Business & Market Intelligence. Lead GHG emission scope 3 data exchange work stream within TFS (Together for Sustainability) - 10k materials and 3000 vendors for Givaudan
Lead implementation and management of the Source To Pay (STP) functions in GBS Set-up, recruit and manage a team of up to 280 people in 3 delivery centres in Budapest, Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur managing 400k transactions for chf 3B annually. Manage implementation teams for the transfer of activities to the GBS centres. Management of Raw Materials and Indirect PTP function, including Request to Fulfilment, Accounts Payables and Helpdesk and Source to Contract value services and achieving high satisfaction, OTIF >92% and Ready for payment from 90 to 95 %.
Manage Procurement processes, systems, and Shared Service Centres. Global review of procurement processes Implementation and management of 2 procurement Service centres in Bangalore and Bratislava Global Set-up and roll out of SAP SRM 7.1 over a 2 years’ period. Business owner of the Global SAP set-up for Procurement (Raw material & Indirect) Development & Implementation of Tools for Contract Compliance and Monitoring, spend analysis, Vendor performance management, strategic material and vendor segmentation, risk management etc. Management of a team of 3 people in 3 different countries and 2 outsourced shared service centres (+/- 50 People) Lead Source to Pay Stream of GBS design and implementation project (as of 2015)
Creation of a European purchasing structure for Geneva and London offices Spend 70% IT, 25% Facility management and Travel, 5% others Optimization of purchasing processes Cost reduction programs delivering CHF 1.2 Mio P&L savings while keeping service and quality levels Promotion of a cost awareness mind-set Management of a team of 2 people in 2 different locations
Implementation of procurement systems aiming at - Increasing spend visibility across Philip Morris affiliates (Emptoris solution) - Ensuring thorough Vendor Data management in SAP - Creation and implementation of procurement taxonomies for Indirect (material groups) - Ensuring implementation of standard procurement processes in respect of the new procurement policy Management of 2 project teams of 2 and 5 people.
Participation to the Procurement reorganization project. Evaluation and building of sourcing strategies for indirect Material and Services categories. Evaluation of potential saving opportunities by centralizing procurement functions. Developments of standard procurement processes, Global procurement policy, procedures and best practices
International procurement supervision on Car fleet (9000 cars worldwide, car manufacturers, car leasing, fuel and insurance), Energy, Industrial Gas. Revision of the car sourcing strategy in order to combine global leverage benefits and specifics of local market’s dynamics such as local taxation, local brand image, specific model residual values. Switch from purchase price approach to Total Cost of ownership / Value for money approach.
Industrial company in REIMS (TO: 12.5M€, 100 persons) Responsibility of the whole procurement function. Creation of an IS purchasing application (Access based) Reorganization of the purchasing process