Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
MSc, MBA. With broad experience in Supply Chain Operations, Procurement, Product Development and Program management, strong in setting strategic direction in line with business objectives. Change and Transformation manager, taking initiative and personal commitment, passionate to achieve sustainable business growth with and through the team. Result driven, focused on success. Team builder, bringing the team to top performance. International profile, lived and worked in differnt countries and cultures, experienced in doing business in Europe, Asia and North-America, in various industries, a.o. with focus on Biotechnology, Lifescience, Medical Devices, Energy management and professional office equipment.
SOLIPER specializes in building robust, cost-effective supply chains for the (high)-tech industry, enhancing operational performance and improving supplier capabilities to maximize value for your business. Our experts bring extensive experience in tech-driven industries, in all three areas of product engineering, procurement, and operations. Leveraging this expertise, our integrative approach combines a strong business and operational focus with the technical aspects of your products and processes, delivering results that go beyond traditional procurement strategies. In addition to excelling in all aspects of conventional procurement and supply chain management, we therefore can go a step further and help clients by implementing business opportunities and strategic initiatives that capitalize on our technical knowledge, such as cost reduction projects, capacity expansions, product transfers, reshoring and outsourcing, change management, and sustainability in both products and supply chains. We stand by our analyses and the opportunities we identify. Therefore, we offer both end-to-end implementation projects, as well as interim management. Additionally, we help you to develop, reposition or build your procurement team through tailored Procurement Transformation programs. At SOLIPER, our drive is to deliver tangible results—not just consultancy
responsible for full supply network, work over 1B€ storend. Leading the global organisation comprising all teams required to build and manage our supply network: Strategic Procurement, Supplier Quality and Freight & Distribution. Set-up greenfield new business function to build, develop and manage the full network of external suppliers and partners in EMEA, APAC and NA. Established this new global organisation and developed our external partnerbase during a period characterised by steep growth of our business and the pandemic; thus combining focus on short-term Business continuity with long-term strategic goals and major internal transformation program. Strongly increased the direct business contribution by having implemented Business Unit dedicated Procurement engineers, Supply base focused Category management and Supplier Quality and having built up underlying structure of FDA/GMP compliant processes, tools and data management & analytics. Doubled the output while realising successfully cost-out programs for double-digit M€.
Leading the Global Supply Chain Operations organization serving the 24 countries we are active in. This includes responsibility for Manufacturing (high and low volume), Supply Chain Planning, Procurement (Direct & indirect materials & services; strategic sourcing and operational procurement), SC Quality, Warehousing and Distribution and HSS. Headquartered in Essen, the team is spread over multiple sites in Germany and Asia. Restructured the full Supply Chain Operations set-up. Initiated and implemented successful Transformation Program to grow direct business contribution by increasing the professional maturity and performance of the organization. Set-up of the Health-, Safety and Sustainability organisation including governance structure, strategy and program execution.