Garwoliński, Mazowieckie, Poland
Experience gained in the international FMCG company. Working almost 15 years in Avon, I had the opportunity to broaden my skills and get to know processes in various departments of Supply Chain: Planning, New Projects and Procurement. I am passionate about sourcing of external subcontractors.
• Categories: various products across different categories: color, fragrance, face & care. • Ensuring the efficiency, professionalism and cost of the Avon Turnkey purchasing process to provide a competitive advantage. • Preparing of regional/global strategies for the purchase of finished products. • Leading Tenders and RFQ process for different categories. • Co-operation within cross-functional teams to achieve the set goals in cost reduction, while maintaining the reliability of vendors and implementation of the required innovation plans. • Leading the process of mediation and solving problems related to suppliers, timeliness and interpretation of contracts / agreements. • Supervision, coordination and admin of long-term contracts for organization as per DoA. • Collaborating with other divisions and suppliers to identify ways to strategically sourcing new products. Preliminary selection of suppliers to support the process of NPD. • Preparing business continuity plans and back-up solutions. • Assessing potential of suppliers and ensuring the sources of new technologies. • Responsibility for the supplier management process, selection and development. • Conducting procurement projects in order to optimize the scope of activities and reduce costs. • Leading Savings projects (Value Engineering) for managed portfolio of goods and vendors.
• Categories: aerosols, make-up, creams, body powders, sticks, treatments, wipes. • Supporting the development of Global strategy for the CM Procurement category. • Coordinating, evaluating and recommend vendor selection based on competitive bidding of products and services through a formal RFP process or leveraged negotiations. • Supporting the supplier management process: selection, rating, development, reduction and supplier performance evaluation. • Forecasting price, market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power. • Ensure the timely negotiation of all agreements and that commercial contracts are in place. • Managing work of various functions (Planning, QA, Finance) in multiple countries. • Supporting strategy development and execution for the EMEA & LATAM regions. • Responsible for tender process, results presentation & recommendation to senior stakeholders. Performing cost and scenario analysis by benchmarking • Tracking KPI’s to assure appropriate service level of vendors performance.
• Categories: aerosols, bar soaps, hair colorants, wet wipes, bath bombs, co-packing. • Savings contribution for business by: leading SSI, cost drivers analysis & improving PT. • Ensuring EMEA CM Sourcing achieve yearly overheads plan against established budget. • Presenting and agreeing commodity strategies on a quarterly basis. • Providing active contribution to NPD projects and collaboration with Matrix partners. • Leading new suppliers on-boarding and due diligence process to support business needs • Evaluating supplier capabilities and managing relationships by monitor KPIs & driving S&OP discussion, negotiating service level agreements. • Supporting organization of supplier Productivity and Innovation workshop. • Running tenders (RFP), portfolio benchmarking and packs standardization to achieve best value for money within category. • Monitoring market trends and analysis of key cost drivers for category.
• Working with Planning to maintain best service level and inventory for EMEA new projects. • Execution of agreed Stage Gate strategies with NPD, Marketing, Sourcing & Planning to implement upcoming launches by ensure supply chain readiness. • Collecting information about upcoming re-brands and presenting to category leadership team. In alignment with business partners establish brand phase-in & phase-out strategies. • Leading Newness Risk Review meetings with Clusters and matrix partners and focus on new products introduction by strategy alignment and balance service & inventory risks. • Monitoring 1st production execution and readiness of internal and external partners to execute key development milestones on time. Working on mitigation of any potential risk. • Opportunities identification to reduce category complexity: number of language versions, MOQ thresholds, colors, business manufacturing allocation, long LTs, capacity constraints.
•• Responsibility for different categories of raw materials: silicones, oleochem, colorants, premium, ethanol, SLS/SLES (high volume - tank farms). • Ensuring materials availability on time for fixed production plan. • Managing RI inventory levels in conformance to production plan, mitigation of excess and expired inventory generation in volatile and dynamic environment. • Leading regular vendors performance meetings and KPI’s tracking (OTIF, Quality). • Supporting production transfer from German to Polish factory. • Controlling, optimization and strategy execution for all RI’s safety stocks (Project ‘Agility’).
• Collaboration with Contract Manufacturers producing make-up products. • Responsible for achieving and maintaining the maximum level of color products availability within the EMEA supply chain, while optimizing costs, inventory & excess. • Strategy building with New Product Implementation team to introduce project in accordance to timelines. Collaboration with Marketing to ensure end-of-life product recall strategy. • Products distribution and long term production planning for oversea vendors. • Identifying threats & limitations in make-up products supply chain and cooperation with other SC functions to eliminate those.
• Responsibility for: creams, gif-sets, loose powders, hot fills, packed goods. • Distributing finished goods in order to achieve maximum availability level within EMEA region and co-operation with distribution markets based on agreed strategies. • Co-operation with Third Parties to assure required components delivery for production on-time. Continuous monitoring of inventory level at warehouse and replenishment.
• Supplying Finish Ingredients and components from external warehouse to Processing. • Deliveries receiving and goods verification in accordance to purchase orders. • Checking stocks and re-solving discrepancies in delivery from componentry vendors.