Brussels Metropolitan Area
Performance driven, engagement and sustainability focused leader with over 25 years’ corporate experience in global consumer goods corporations and service industries. Strong track record of consistently delivering exceptional transformation based results across Procurement, General Management, and Sales & Marketing functions. Extensive experience in M&A due diligence synergy planning and execution, as well as ZBB (Zero Based Budgeting) implementation. Proven agility, with strong interpersonal skills and ability to successfully negotiate with and influence a diverse range of stakeholders. Comprehensive experience in championing breakthrough Sustainability initiatives.
Company board member, reporting into Group CEO. Responsible for implementing Europe-wide strategic plan to deliver 10M€ over 5 years. Accountable for 500M€ of spend covering Direct & Indirect materials/services. Recruited, developed & coordinated a matrix organisation of 15 managers/buyers across 6 countries. Digital transformation of the function through deployment of market leading S2P platform. Functional lead for M&A due diligence synergy assessment & integration planning/execution. Commodity hedging policy development/execution delivering 1.6M€ benefit in 2022. Co-ordinated functional action plan for company’s B Corp certification initiative. Initiated fleet electrification and ‘green’ electricity initiatives.
$3.5bn spend accountability covering Packaging, Raw Materials, Logistics & Indirect Services. Led functional team of 150 talents located across several European locations. 100% KPI (financial & non-financial ) target achievement: $75mn annual Opex savings (equating to 100-350% CPI offset annually), 15mn annual Capex savings, cashflow improvement of $100mn over 3 years. Strategic vision development (covering People, Productivity, Value Creation, SRM/SPM, Sustainability) Co-sponsored offshoring and integration of European/African shared service centres to deliver $30mn synergy savings, operational excellence and people pipeline Championed multiple breakthrough Sustainability initiatives: solar power supply partnership, accelerator program, electric trucks.
Developed and managed strategic sourcing initiatives for Marketing, Sales and Technology categories with combined annual spend of $5bn. Conducted negotiations oncross-functional project to outsource $500m of media spend for in-house media operations in the USA, delivering $130mn of savings and $30mn in cashflow improvement. Led a team of 8 global category directors and managers, while also coordinating the network of indirect reports across all ABI operating regions
Head of Global JV delivering a range of strategic sourcing solutions for non-industry specific materials and services, achieving year-on-year over-performances against financial KPIs for both shareholder organisations. Spend accountability of $3bn. Responsible for recruitment, development and day-to-day management of a team of 45 managers/buyers.