Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Global Procurement and hands-on Leader with global experience driving strategic sourcing, category and people management, procurement transformations across Indirect, MRO, IT, Logistics and manfuacturing. Experienced in global negotiations, complex contracts and projects, delivered multi-million-euro savings while aligning procurement with global business objectives. Notable achievements: - €11M savings in MRO across EMEA by vendor consolidations and global frameworks negotaitions, - Extended vendor payment terms from 30 to 120 days, improving cash flow - Reduced IT contractor rates by 40% in the UK, cutting response times by 20% in IT - Led digital transformation, reduced costs up to 40% - I have conducted global RFQs and eAuctions for mechanical, electrical spare parts and manintenencae services achived significant lower cost. - I negotiated with Vice presidents for greater benefits for my employers. - Reduced cost of non-used software licenses, adaded longer free of charge updates and new station users Background: Executive MBA, MSc in Engineering, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Effective Manager
I led strategy and procurement transformation for MRO and Indirect categories across 65 sites, 90 categories, 350 stakeholders in EMEA, managed multi-million-euro spend and achieved up to 20% cost savings through RFQs, eAuctions, and supplier consolidation delivered improvements in cost efficiency, compliance, and supplier performance. - I created strategy, sourcing, and negotiated+executed global agreements with european RFQs to reduce prices, vendors by increasing contract coverage by more than 200%. - I led and developed managers, specialists, coaching them in advanced sourcing and contract governance. - Partnered with global directors, plant managers, and hub leaders to align procurement strategies with business needs and drive operational excellence on european level in all indirect categorises. - I championed IT digital procurement initiatives(european online catalogues, cloud) with AI-based market intelligence tools, achieving 20% cost savings with price reductions, transparency in mechanical, electrical and services categories. - Actively used Al with https://www.beroeinc.com/ for sourcing activity and negotiations. - I keept strong governance, compliance, and ESG standards, ensuring that procurement supported long-term business sustainability. Key Achievements: - I have been awarded for digitalization accross EMEA and IT contracts integration with online catalogues, achieved 15% cost reductions. - I reduced cleaning service costs for uniforms across EMEA by 15% for plants. - I organized and prepared necessery required Tranings for MRO maintenance teams accross Europe with new SLAs. - Improved vendor management solution system in Europoort with major suppliers for spare parts, cutting costs by 20% with payment term extension to 90 days with totaly new sigend Supplier Level Agremeent and KPIs. - I have organized, signed long terms Agreements for Protection Equipment with lower costs, better transparency . I led a team of 4 members during digitalization.
I led procurement operations across Europe for Opex, CapEx within indirect categories, managing multi-million-euro annual spend and driving cost optimization, strategy creation, supplier innovation, and strong contract governance with stakeholders, suppliers and Mid-C level input. - I built and negotiated complex framework agreements included SLAs, SOWs, FATs with GEA, AZO Liquids GmbH, Alfa Laval, Toyota, and many others. - Searched avaiability of semiconductors for a new equipments. - I reduced significantly a cost for singed leas contract with Toyota for fofklifts with visibility of every single device. - I have cretaed category strategies, governance, and digital procurement excellence within MRO categories. - I have negotiated European energy contracts for gas and electricity included green certificates, biomass with lower margin. - I have negotiated logistics contracts achieving between 15–20% savings through optimized SLAs and implemented new KPIs. - I have delivered €1M savings on complex CapEx projects included civil work(reconstruction) of 30m high building(4 floors) with new contracts among others GEA, Sidel, AZO Liquids GmbH and many others in total of 30 companies - I have integrated within Agreements digital controls and free software codes access for connected devices. - I have been responsible for european RFQs and eAuctions for mechanical, electrical spare parts and equipments with great cost reductions between 10-20%. - I have been responsible for hardware RFQs with lower price for devices and delivery door to door.. - Oversaw modernization of warehouse and ERP systems, enhancing automation, cost transparency, and operational performance across multiple plants. - Partnered with business and finance to introduce rebate programs, extended payment terms, and sustainability frameworks. - I cooperated with EcoVadis and Sedex for sustainability through our Suppliers. Led a team of 6 members.
I managed and negotiated IT service contracts across the EMEA region, overseeing multi-million-euro annual spend to ensure operational excellence and supplier performance. - I directed sourcing strategies and contracting for IT services, maintaining strong vendor relationships and securing competitive pricing and service-level agreements. - Streamlined the RFQ process for IT logistics and spare parts, improving cost efficiency and response times. - Led vendor management and contract governance to support reliable, cost-effective IT operations across multiple countries. Key Achievements: - Reduced IT contractor rates by 40% in the UK, significantly improving cost efficiency. - I developed a new network installation frameworks and reduced network instalation in Airport lounges, cutting response cost by 20%. - I have achieved by 30% cost reduction through strategic RFQs and eAuctions for hardware, software and spare parts. - Strengthened supplier collaboration and performance across break-fix and IT service contracts. - I have cretaed break fix contracts for company IT devices by 25% - I negotiated EULA licenses and softwares for our Customers. Led a team of 2 members.
Led European strategic sourcing initiatives(Opex, Capex) across 50 sites and 160 categories (€110M spend), partnering with category managers and regional directors to deliver measurable cost savings and efficiency gains. - Negotiated multi-year supplier contracts and service agreements that improved maintenance performance, reduced downtime, and generated over €3M in total savings through eAuctions and process optimization. - Achieved 20% cost savings through the integration of laboratory services and products under consolidated agreements. - Led a cross-functional team(strategy sourcing) to cut product costs by 40% via RFQs and eAuctions, extending payment terms and strengthening supplier relationships. - I led and negotiated full security system with online access, CCTV, cloud, software for ADM Antwerp. - Reduced and terminated non- used IT licenses for software.
Leading IT procurement projects of 100M GBP with contracts negotiations, by using RFQ with e-auction for hardware and software. Led cybersecurity procurement contracts and systems to mitigate attacks of hackers, phishing and malwares . Migrated UK IT Procurement to Poland. Reduced IT infrestracture wifi costs by 100k GBP for BA Singapore Lounge. During negotations of Iberia project online website for customers I have achived 4M EUR cost reduction. Developed property contracts for Heathrow BA office with reduction of 15%. Led international team of 6 members.