Zürich Metropolitan Area
25+ years experience in SCM in international/global organizations in increasing leadership roles, with hands on experience in leading change management and business transformation projects, MSc degree, fluent English and conversational German, SAP/MS office expert knowledge, analytical skills, strategic thinker and action driven, enthusiastic and passionate about new challenges. Key Skills: Transformation & Change Management Sourcing/Purchasing/Procurement/Vendor Management. Program & Project Mgmt Demand & Supply Planning, Business Planning, Analysis & Controlling, Commercial Planning & Admin. International Marketing Market Research
Lead and motivate a team of 10 individuals located in multiple locations internationally. Definition and management of End-To-End Development & Sourcing process map, RACI, Milestones and timelines for packaging materials on a global basis. Supplier base rationalization to ensure global presence, proximity, agility and flexibility, social compliance, risk mitigation and cost effectiveness. Sustainable cost saving across all material categories in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders (5-7% of total spend year-on-year) Implement standard KPI’s / Scorecard / Reports to monitor, control and improve performance (effectiveness & efficiency). Design, development and implementation of standardized templates and processes for vendor evaluation, vendor selection, master supply agreements, vendor compliance declaration, and others. Actively participate and support the company’s Transformation projects and Change Management initiatives (eg. new DNO and Production blueprint implementation) Successful delivery of cross-functional strategic projects as cost saving/business generation/complexity reduction and enable other transformation projects (eg. Packaging & EAN/Categories Harmonization)
Lead and motivate a team of 12 individuals located in multiple locations internationally. Sustainable cost saving across all material categories in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders (5-7% of total spend year-on-year) Supplier base rationalization to ensure global presence, proximity, agility and flexibility, social compliance, risk mitigation and cost effectiveness. Definition and management of End-To-End Development & Sourcing process map, RACI, Milestones and timelines for packaging materials on a global basis. Implement standard KPI’s / Scorecard / Reports to monitor, control and improve performance (effectiveness & efficiency). Design, development and implementation of standardized templates and processes for vendor evaluation, vendor selection, master supply agreements, vendor compliance declaration, and others. Successful delivery of cross-functional strategic projects as cost saving/business generation/complexity reduction and enable other transformation projects.
Set up and lead the Corporate Demand Management (DM) department in the head quarter acting as interface between the countries and central supply planning. Consolidate, analyse, validate, release and confirm forecasts on country level aggregated into corporate level. Definition standard operating procedures and definitions for the local demand planning and central demand management processes. Definition and implementation of central DM KPI`s and Reports to enable the Supply Chain Organization (SCO) improve on time and in full deliveries (SCO scorecard). Led initiatives, tools and processes resulting in an improved countries demand forecasting accuracy (+10-20%). Set up and process owner of the monthly Executive S&OP. Program Manager of Supply Chain – SAP priority projects. Successful delivery of pilot for Supply Network Planning to move from AS400 to SAP covering from Demand Forecasting to Delivery to DCs processes.
Demand planning at SKU level of all the company brands portfolio with the support of a team of 3 demand planners. Definition and implementation of the new Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Planning models for Puig España. Design and configuration of Manugistics according to the agreed models. Optimization of stock levels and improved availability of products.
Led the design of tools and processes to effectively gather and analyse relevant & accurate sales revenue focused information with a team of 4 business analysts. Business Planning &Optimization: Provide sales input to Annual Operating Plans & ISP processes, Account Planning & Targets setting by customer, forecast and situation analysis on a timely manner. Local Asset Management: accurate maintenance of account/door classification models, brand retail segmentation model, customer and finish good databases, Account Tracking: analysis and communication of monthly P&L, sell-in, sell-thru, inventory data and service performance at door level for selected accounts (Insight). Led the local implementation of the Insight project for both Levi's® and Dockers® .
Cross-functional drive to establish foundations, tools and processes to deliver multi-brand strategic performance visibility. Co-ordination and Analysis of pan-European multi-brand Account Classification model, Account Plans and Assortment Plans. Delivery of “Insight” business approach “train the trainer” package as part of the faculty to more than 250 people across Europe.
Implementation of the new Forecasting Process for the EU product assortment. Deliver “MANUGISTICS: Demand Planning module” set-up and implementation. Monthly Inventory/Production/Sales reviews with the markets.