Lausanne Metropolitan Area
Supplier Management professional with 20 years of experience in multiple global businesses and a successful track record of improving relationships with vendors and increasing supply chain performance and efficiency. Structured and result-oriented with the ability to adapt to different customers’ and company’s needs, cultures, sectors and environments. A problem-solving attitude which leads to reduced costs and increased revenue for multiple stakeholders. A tri-lingual qualified executive who will bring an organised and collaborative approach, exceptional leadership and development of teams which in turn delivers results for the business. Strong leadership skills to develop and execute supplier development plans to achieve world-class performance in the supply chain. Excellent manufacturing engineering and technical expertise, leadership and decision-making capabilities. Expert knowledge of continuous improvement and six sigma tools, sourcing and procurement methods, including ability to negotiate successfully with suppliers to reduce cost. Over the last 20 years I developed a strong vendor management background and cross-functional program management skills to develop new supply sources and to improve existing supplier capabilities. Specialties: organized, team player, self-managed, highly committed, able to work under pressure Languages: Italian, English, French.
• Product Focus Team Leader for the US region, part of the Supply Chain Organization for the Value Streams Trauma and Spine. Managing a Team of 5 Project Leaders in USA. • Life Cycle Management Project execution timeliness of 100%. Execution of key strategic transfers without causing business interruption. • Shape supplier Innovation for quality, capacity, and value Improvement; collaboration in the supplier selection for transfers through technical and capacity assessments. • Drive make vs buy decision, coordinate supplier capital budget process for technology, tooling, and resources. Support cost gap modelling to leverage stronger negotiations for optimal price. • Lead process development and improvement at suppliers. Support quality event resolution; evaluate and implement processes and programs to improve product quality and reduce cost at supplier.
• Interface with Supplier Quality, Global Sourcing and Site Integrated Supply Chain (Procurement / Quality / Manufacturing / Engineering) groups to develop and execute supplier development plans to achieve world-class performance in the supply chain. • Work in a team environment as a key technical resource for the Global Sourcing and Aero Manufacturing Engineering organization to develop new supply sources and to improve existing supplier capabilities through continuous improvement and Lean/Six Sigma methodologies. • Responsibilities include cross-functional program management to increase capacity, support systemic supplier improvement, and assessing suppliers to ensure process conformance. • Leverage in-depth technical expertise, manufacturing engineering experience, and comprehensive experience with problem-solving tools.
• Prime technical interface for the supplier and provide correlation with Site Quality, Global Sourcing and Supply Chain. Oversee supplier performance and capability to improve both delivery and quality. • EMEA Manufacturing Engineer Subject Matter Expert in the integration of new business divisions, ensuring the business model is aligned and consistent with the Cisco Direct Fulfillment Process. • Chaired the Value Engineering and strategic capacity initiative to engineer the relay-out of the production shop floor, resulting in 60% productivity increase and $250K/quarter cost reduction. • Site Technical Lead - Responsible for Process/Quality/Test of the Contract Manufacturer production lines (Leading the supplier Engineering Team). • Collaborate in the launch of new business units and product platforms in Europe, ensuring seamless project introduction into serial production and reached the volumes of 1M units/quarter. • Coordinated and executed global “green” initiatives resulting in a consistent decrease of paper documentation utilization and cost savings ($810k per year, paper savings 135k lb per year).
• Project Manager and Quality/Process Engineering responsible in the set-up of manufacturing lines of telecom and internet infrastructures at EMEA contract manufacturers in cooperation with a multinational Team.
• New Product Introduction Manufacturing Engineer supporting the prototype and sustaining production lines for optical internet platforms in Italy.
• Responsible for the Final Electrical Test, Visual Inspection and Packing and functionally managing the final control Team.