Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Empathic, strategic leader with more than 25 years of global trading experience in purchasing, supply chain, pricing, sales, product, sourcing, planning, marketing and project management as well as innovative concept development. Experienced in: • Leading of multi-national purchasing teams for the entire European market • B2B, B2C and direct to consumer sales and retail management • Supplychain management, re-organization and optimisation • Project management to set up new business units and assortments • Acquisition of new business partners and introduction of additional cooperation models • Retail store concept development and process re-design • Handling fully vertical value chains • Development and support to identify and define corporate strategies • Full resposnibilty for Pricing and Planning across the whole value chain • ERP and CRM system transformations Focused on the transformation of organizations with the aim of constantly improv-ing the customer experience. Deep knowledge of critical factors that contribute to revenue and profit generation combined with a great passion for teamwork.
Transformating a start-up into a MSE, incl. M&A actvities and related business, processes and system integration - Strategic planning and operational process organisation & execution lead - A&Z supply chain management ownership and responsibility - Overall commercial and reporting responsibility - Transformation project lead - Owner & Leadership advisory
• Responsibility for pricing and margin mangement along the whole value chain • Supply chain and sourcing management in cooperation with product development and logistics • Coordination and organization of sales planning, incl. related planning of merchandise requirements • Assortment analysis, including category, supplier and profitability management • Range efficiency determination and development of NOS ranges • Transformation of the existing ERP and CRM systems into Microsoft Dynamics 365
Defining, developing and establishing new business strategies, services as well as new product ranges, new business parters and cooperation models in the ever changing market environments and consumer expectations.
Over 400 branches in 11 countries were renovated in just 4 years, whereby the concept continues to apply to all renovation activities and new openings - including the establishment of a minimum competence adjustment for all consumer realted experience worlds, in women, men, children and young fashion.
Overall responsibility for a multinational purchasing team in textiles with the scope of the entire European sales market, incl. a large category management project in global Sourcing supply, porttfolio and cost chain re-organisation and handling.