Zürich Metropolitan Area
Adept at streamlining operations, eliminating redundancies, and maximizing assets use. Remarkable efficiency in providing customer centric supply chain management and exceptional people leadership to improve productivity and profitability. Transformational leader with repeated success creating bottom line impacts through targeted supply chain, logistics, project management, and sales initiatives aligned with innovative business strategies, while developing and leading high-performing teams. Proven ability to lead, train, and mentor cross-functional teams for completing assigned projects within time and budget constraints, while ensuring delivery of best-in-class services to elevate customer satisfaction. Demonstrated success in defining/ executing standard operating procedures across all supply chain, logistics, and procurement operations as well as developing roadmaps and managing operations to meet corporate objectives. Consummate communicator with tracked history of cultivating collaborative partnerships with colleagues, senior management, and key stakeholders to realise strategic business goals.
Implement best practices to develop manufacturing designs strategies for packing division across 200+ manufacturing sites in Europe. Design and execute Sales and Operation Planning process for packaging division while analysing monthly supply demand. Conduct meetings with production teams and senior management to detect and resolve complex issues and create innovative solutions. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to drive supply chain IT roadmap with a 300K€ budget by identifying needs and sourcing IT solutions. Formulate and execute standards / KPI to boost supply chain activities. Lead and manage various teams and overall resources in a complex matrix structure with a keen focus on accomplishing targeted goals. • Boosted OTIF from 92% to 95% by devising and executing robust strategies. • Slashed 15M£ by creating and implementing strategic supply chains plans as well as leading cross-functional teams. • Acquired 22% key account customer’s growth by establishing tailor made supply chains and bridging sales, operations and finance requirements. • Enhanced ROI and maintain investments priorities by endorsing CAPEX strategies.
Spearheaded the analysis of manufacturing and logistic footprint at group, regional, and local level by creating and implementing optimization solutions. Planned, established, and steered execution of day-to-day operational processes aimed at eliminating hurdles and increasing productivity. Created, delivered, and executed Sales and Operation Process for BAU in 2 sites of Germany to ensure business growth. Managed various projects from inception to completion, while ensuring delivery of projects within time, scope, and budgetary constraints. • Decreased 500K£ logistics cost in UK region by improving products flows, stock keeping, warehouse, and logistics management. • Achieved production and cost targets by providing advisory services for manufacturing strategy group. • Endorsed 2 new Greenfield plants of 100M£ cost by augmenting CAPEX spending’s. • Improved 10% production rate by designing and inducting Digital Twin Factory program at 5 different sites.
Delivered exceptional performance in developing processes and structures for R&D strategy group to achieve desired results; bringing DS Smith market perception as “Innovator”. Directed multiple projects by coordinating with supply chain, sales, and marketing teams with a keen focus on innovative and cost-effective solutions for sale forces. Collaborated with European sales team to fill innovative R&D projects pipeline by conducting strategic analysis of market trends, gaps, customer needs, and challenges. Performed various tasks comprising supplier management, project management, supply chain management, and overall teams’ performance management. • Accomplished strategical laboratory partnership for testing and product certification through strategic analysis, planning, and execution. • Facilitated the flow of information by supporting the R&D strategy and structuring the R&D community. • Proactive cross-divisionl approach to break business units silos and deliver benefits at the corporate level
Provided excellent supply chain consultancy services for a variety of potential clients. Devised and deployed robust plans for Airbus, Safran, and Dassault Aviation with keen focus on defining and migrating sourcing supply chain processes into a cooperative sourcing platform. • Led overall processes from time horizon breakdown to calculation for the definition and standardisation of Airbus material purchasing Forecasting process.
- Part time apprentice while student at Grenoble INP University (1 month at the University, 1 month at the company) - Co- led the development of a new de-inking cell for recycled paper making :conception, process use and marketing. (machine price: ca 5M€) - Process and quality audits for clients all over the world - Oversaw customers trials at the R&D center