Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
International procurement and logistics professional with 25 years of experience in internationally producing companies in the manufacturing industry • End-to-end product and cost optimization by development of procurement towards an integrated value creation partner • Competitive advantage by best-in-class category and supplier management with sustainable annual improvements of procurement performance • Management of procurement targets with consistent KPI-frameworks and standardized reportings • Ensuring succes of innovative international projects with lighthouse character • Distinctive ability to identify and activate unused potential in the Supply Chain • SCM including Kanban and Shopfloor-Management • Ensuring supply by anticipatory risk management • Optimization and digitalization of processes and e-procurement • Development of sustainable relationships by communication at eye level, intercultural competence aided by 5 foreign languages • Formation of highly qualified, heterogeneous and effective procurement teams • Negotiation and contract law professional with vast international experience • Motivating and empathetic leader with a proactive and imaginative leadership style,a dynamic way of working with excellent communication and judgement skills
Responsibility for procurement and supplier development for the product company Cologne. Management responsibility for 23 employees with 6 direct reports. Reporting line: CEO Manufacturer of vacuum pumps
Responsibility for group procurement (Germany and China), 20 disciplinary reports and 5 functional reports, purchasing volume 120 Mio. Euro, reporting line: CEO Manufacturer of filtration solutions for industrial applications, revenue appr. 200 Mio. €, 1.000 employees worldwide Major cost reductions • Complete compensation of cost incresases in 2023 by design and implementation of a cross-functional cost reduction program • Ebit-contribution of several million euros by parallel ramp-up of two supply chains for membrane skids and ballast water filters within less than half a year • 7 digit savings >20% by means of elimination of long-term technology-based single sourcing situations via cross-functional cost-reduction workshops • Headcount reduction by 20% via process optimizations, digitalization projects & flat hierarchies during simultaneous doubling of purchasing spend Strategy in structural and procedural organization • Management of real net output ratio in order to optimize cost and delivery reliability using consequent make or buy analysis • Creation of an international procurement network via installation of a sourcing hub in India and utilization of synergies with the chinese production site´s supplier base • Generation of significant sustainable savings with professional contract management through reduction of maverick buying due to creation of awareness for indirect costs e.g. services, investments and energy • Drastic reduction of time to market by inclusion of procurement in the product development process (advanced procurement) Controlling by KPIs • Stock reduction with simultaneous supply optimization by KPI-based material planning concept • Binding saving targets by establishment of a detailed top-down/bottom-up planning • Development of a yearly forecast of material price developments to support sales price calculation • Implementation of a Power-BI-based reporting facilitating the generation of reports and dashboards
Responsibility for procurement and logistics, 50 direct reports, 30 HC in logistics, 20 HC in procurement, purchasing volume 50 Mio. Euro Achievements: • OTD-improvement and sustainable savings by reorganization of procurement and logistics • Procurement management by introduction of detailed KPI-system • Minimization of supply bottlenecks via material planning tool
Global stragic purchasing responsibility for Auxiliary Systems and Retail & Taylor Made Valves, Procurement volume > 100 Mio. Euro, lead of virtual global commodity teams Manufacturer of turbines and compressors, Revenue 4 Mrd. €, 20.000 employees at 18 global sites Achievements: • Yearly savings > 15% by design-to-cost projects and multi-site bundlings • Supplier portfolio optimization • Maximization of LCC-potential by interdisciplinary project for approval of asian makes in the engineering industry
Strategic and operational procurement for HQ Oberhausen, spend >90 Mio. € Employees: 8 functional reports (cross-functional) Manufacturer of turbines and compressors, revenue appr. 1,5 Mrd. €, 6.000 employees at 6 global sites
Strategic and operational group procurement, spend 90 Mio. € Employees: 3 functional reports
Procurement for HQ Oberhausen, spend 30 Mio. €
Procurement of steel fabrications for the site in Metz, France Manufacturer of agricultural machinery, Revenue appr. 5 Mrd. €, 12.000 employees at 6 global sites
Group procurement of coatings and travel services