Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Procurement and engineering professional with 10+ years of cross-industry experience – combining technical insight, project execution, and supplier collaboration. I’ve worked across automotive, intralogistics, and machinery sectors, supporting product ramp-ups, driving cost-down initiatives, and building cross-functional alignment. Known as a pragmatic connector between development, purchasing, and supply chain teams – focused on stable, cost-efficient outcomes. 🔹 Focus areas: – Technical Procurement & Supplier Management – Ramp-Up Support & Project Coordination – Cost Optimization & Risk Mitigation – KPI Transparency & Collaboration
Responsible for the procurement and material management of the wheel loader product line from prototype to zero series. Key responsibilities and achievements: • Full ownership of BOM-driven procurement and supplier coordination for prototype and zero series • Functional lead of two ramp-up managers and escalation manager for all critical supply issues • Close collaboration with category management to analyze costs, benchmark reference products, and identify sourcing and cost optimization opportunities • Led several RFQs independently, including supplier onboarding and approvals • Successfully introduced new suppliers for critical components (e.g. mechanical machining) to improve ramp-up supply stability • Strategic tracking and analysis of KPIs including: o released vs. delayed items from engineering and purchasing o Deviation from target vs. actual product costs o Material availability • Trusted escalation lead: Resolved high-risk bottlenecks by coordinating between suppliers, engineering, and production – including activating competitor support to avoid production shutdowns • Proactive contributor to continuous improvement in supply chain coordination and cost structure
Responsible for the protoype purchasing & new product implementations - procurement project lead to implement new products into manufacturing to ensure supply chain readiness and cost achievement - drive the design to cost initiatives during the design development phase - initiate, evaluate and communicate product cost analysis involving data transparency - purchasing for R&D prototypes like metal fabrication, machining, plastic parts & electrical components - implementation from the purchase procedures for R&D Europe - strategic procurement for the R&D Europe - implementation & automatization for the KPI reporting to improve efficency and transparency by implementing PowerBi - continuous optimization for the global purchasing procedure - supplier base development & improvement to achieve fast prototype orders and reduce cost - Setup the R&D supplier Benchmark database and Evaluation method
Product development & project management Customer: Sono Motors || May/ 2021 - Oct/2022 - guiding product optimization (stiffness, performance, fatigue, weight) - concept development and benchmarking - design optimization for manufacturing - result verification from supplier - support for hiring engineering professionals - provide guidance for CAE methods - support on supplier management - escalation to Chassis Lead for potentail risks in product performance or project timing
Leading the industrialization of BiW parts with technical leadership for 20 people. - Optimization from project management procedures to improve efficiency and minimize risks sucessfully implement a new quote & logistic process or optimized the financial and quality reporting - Financial project controlling, time planning, tracking, reporting, presenting - Engaging the customer through constant communication and site visits - Coordinating international suppliers (tool shops) from Korea, Taiwan & China to ensure on time delivery and high quality of parts - Coordinating external service suppliers - Support of matching process at customer (Assembly line build) - leading the change management process - drawing reviews, reporting and alignement (internal & external) - work out actions plans to minimize impact from deviations - Manage international logistics (import & export) - Optimization from project management procedures to improve efficiency and minimize risks (Quote process, Logistic, financial reporting, quality reports) Customer: DAF Truck N.V. Scope: tool manufacturing for Body in White parts (structural and class-A parts)
Managing product development projects to meet customer needs. - Developing and presenting solutions from concept phase to serial implementation until end of production for the customer - Project target setting (specification book) - setup budget & monitoring - status reporting - problem-solving and optimizing the design in line with requirements and best practice - support customer with technical problems outside scope of work - Technical leadership for internal teams (<15) from US, Mexico, Korea, India, Poland Products: subframes, cradles, link arms, crash management systems & ladderframe Customers: Ineos Automotive, Ford, VW, BMW, Opel
Taking responsibility for the technical leadership in the CAE team(12). - Supporting the CAE manager in resource & budget planning, recruiting & onboarding to meet project sourcing requirements. - Initiating projects to improve efficiency like automating pre-and post-processing to execute in 5 minutes -> Usage of Excel VBA, Shell Scripts & Python -> global roll out for Magna CAE - Being the first point of contact for employees. - Initiating new topology optimization software Abaqus TOSCA & Altair HyperStudy - Implementing Robust Analysis procedure with Altair HyperStudy (DOE & Stochastic) - advanced test loadcase development from RLD to single- & multichannel test) - advanced root cause analysis for test correlation (Stiffness, buckling & fatigue)
Optimization of methods to improve standards and increase speed of service. - Insourcing forming simulation tasks and training the team to provide data ad hoc with HyperForm 1 Step Solver - Reducing manual design loops by 70% through optimization analysis with HyperStudy - Delivering structural analysis - test correlation (Stiffness, buckling & fatigue) - adivser for bachelor student - Fatigue Anaylsis with Femfat & Designlife - Structural analyis (non linear & linear) - Stiffness anaylsis - MKS analysis using Abaqus (Connector Elements) - detailed strucutral analysis using 3D elements & contact definitions