Switzerland
Global Procurement Manager with 14+ years of experience in strategic sourcing and category management within Chemical Industry. Proven track record in delivering strong cost saving, supply chain resilience and sustainable procurement solutions across multi-million portfolios in both dynamic masterbatch and highly regulated automotive and cosmetics industries.
• Developing and implementing global and regional sourcing strategies aligned with 3 business units for 16 countries globally. • Consistently among top performers savings and PCF reduction wise. • Cooperation with R&D, product development, marketing and sales on new product development, supplier base diversification, and single source elimination. • Procurement lead in strategic & cross category/BU/Function projects on margin improvement. • Diversified multiple business critical single sources, expanded from regional to global supplier base, resulting in significant savings. • Experience in working in highly regulated applications, like automotive, and convincing stakeholders on implementing changes, as well as representing procurement at audits. • Analyzing market and providing forecast to Business Units on strategic raw materials. • Procurement Lead for on sustainability initiatives resulting in significant PCF reduction. • Improved payment terms for multiple critical raw materials. • Led cross regional team on competitive landscape analysis and margin improvement for business-critical end products. • Ensuring security of supply under major regional and global disruptions (Covid, critical supplier's or internal Force Majeure, closure of supplier’s plant).
• Developing and implementing sourcing strategy for polymers and additives for 5 plants. • Dual direct reporting to VP of business and procurement. • Significantly expanding supplier base from mostly regional to global scale. • Ensuring security of supply under major regional and global disruptions (Covid, critical supplier or internal Force Majeure, closure of supplier’s plant). • Recovery steering team member on relief efforts after plant was devasted by flood and closed for a year, which included extensive procurement and supply chain efforts to ensure we continue to serve clients from other locations. • Market analysis and price forecasting for the business and function. • Close cooperation with product development, sales, logistics, planning, production and business. management to ensure security of supply, margins and market growth. • 3 awards for Excellence in recognition of achieving excellence and making a critical difference to Cabot corporation.
• Raw material sourcing for 3 Masterbatch sites in EMEA region. • Negotiations and contract management with the world leading chemical companies on regional and pan regional level. • Successful track record in decreasing price with sole and single source suppliers • Market analysis of polymers and additives, their underlying assets, end market application and general macroeconomics to identify opportunities and insure • Reducing supply risk and decreasing costs by means of supplier base increase and single source elimination. • analysis and implementation of cross-regional arbitrage possibilities. • forecasting and raw material inventory management to ensure security of supply and advantageous pricing.
• Portfolio management of major manufacturing clients in Latvia and Baltics which included world known names in FMCG. • FMCG market analysis for top clients, where client defines the topic of interest, and I provide analysis on product/category trend, competition level, possible causes of failure, nonperformance of the new brands, further niches to develop business in, and new product viability launch viability. • Selling FMCG databases that allows major manufacturers to understand brand/category development and their respective position in various retail chains. • Expanding the client base and increasing the scope of cooperation for the existing clients.
• Sales order creation and product flow management to clients; • Stock verification and coordination with planning and warehouse; • Accounts receivable transactions; • Clients’ complaint management; • Cooperation with sales and warehouse on promotional material distribution; • Cash collection.
• Responsible for multiple sites in EU and US on operational level; • Analysis of Procurement to Pay Process, identification of possible improvements • Analysis and identification of possible standardization in procurement procedures and process across various businesses and regions in scope of 1-Cytec initiative • Analysis of possible disruption of daily activities as the result of divesture of coating business now known as Allnex • Maintenance of raw material database on pricing and contracts for direct procurement • Order management for EU and US in various ERP systems SAP, Maximo and BAAN for Indirect Procurement. • Training of requesters in person and online in EU and US. • Training of new personnel. • Performing the proper follow up thus ensuring that orders placed are delivered in timely manner. • Managing invoice discrepancies for doc and non-doc suppliers.