Sylvain DUPUY

Sourcing Team Leader - Europe

Morges, Vaud, Switzerland

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Experience

  • Corteva Agriscience (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sourcing Team Leader - Europe
      Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

      - Team management - 6 Sourcing Managers located in various European locations. - Scope covering diverse categories directly supporting the European Seed Business Unit: External Manufacturing, Chemicals, Packaging, Energy, Equipment CAPEX and Leasing, Producer Services - Total approx. Spend 350mi USD

    • Sourcing Manager - Raw Materials, External Manufacturing Europe
      Dec 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • Strategic Sourcing Manager - Chemicals at Johnson & Johnson
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs

    - Global strategy development, implementation and execution for globally managed sub-categories: Actives and Naturals / Oleo Chemistry - Regional implementation of the global strategy for regional sub-categories directly managed: Thickeners, Sweeteners, Sunscreens, Vitamins. - Strategic relationship management with suppliers highly involved in JnJ upstream innovation and partnering with R&D. Close collaboration with R&D to identify areas of opportunities to establish long term agreements capturing benefits for JnJ margin improvement. - Coordination of supplier market engagement for sub-categories globally managed. Market engagement strategy definition, negotiation and results reporting to senior management. - Daily and tactical portfolio management involving claim and crisis management, commodity follow up, supplier legal framework and performances reporting to finance.

  • Syngenta (Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
    • Global procurement manager - Raw materials - Co Formulants
      Oct 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Onboarding of several key categories from regional to global negotiation leveraging business synergies. - Co-lead of innovation program with R&D and one strategic surfactant supplier to leverage homecare technology into agrochemical market. - Daily and tactical portfolio management involvement, crisis management, quarterly renegotiations and performances reporting to finance

    • Global procurement manager - Raw materials - Active ingredients
      Oct 2012 - Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Lead of procurement integration for a Syngenta new business acquisition (bio fermentation fungicide). - Management of business relationship with competitors in “under patent” molecules trade-off. - Ensure long term metal commodity supply at right price through hedging policy while capturing short term market opportunities. - Daily and tactical portfolio management involvement, crisis management, quarterly renegotiations and performances reporting to finance.

  • Project buyer at Ecolab
    Feb 2012 - Oct 2012 · 9 mos

    Project : Coordination of EMEA R&D center transfer to a new greenfield location. - Lead R&D center move by managing a team of 8 collaborators, designing end to end project time-line, budgets and resources allocations. - Co-design of new building structure according to internal R&D technical constraints.

  • Logistics buyer at Henkel
    Aug 2011 - Feb 2012 · 7 mos

    Project : Contribution in numerous key procurement projects within procurement logistic department. - Global transfer of non-strategic suppliers spend to core logistics suppliers targeting 20% supplier base reduction within 6 months timeframe. - Co-lead in coordinating switch from delivered supply model to a controlled inbound logistics for direct procured products. - Find and drive a back-up solution for a strategic warehouse provider.