Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
An enthusiastic, results driven Procurement professional with experience in leading International Procurement projects, categories and teams globally. Passionate about challenging the status quo and driving improvement across the Procurement value chain and, specifically, in creating new global initiatives that add value to different regions in innovative ways.
Leading the Corporate Services categories of spend at a global level within Roche Diabetes Care (~90million€ per annum), main responsibilities include: -Global category strategy definition -Lead optimization initiatives worldwide across affiliates and sites -Global savings and commercial targets delivery -Supplier relationship management Main categories included in the Corporate Services cluster are: -Travel -Fleet -Temporary Labour -HR Recruitment & Training services -Office supplies & materials
Responsibility for the Procurement Department at Roche Diabetes Care Spain, leading a team of 3 direct reports and a spend of ~10million €. Main focus is on category management strategies, policy and processes design/implementation. Key deliverables include strategic sourcing, contract and supplier management, as well as ownership of the purchase to pay process to deliver best value to the Spanish affiliate and other global Roche functions based in Spain.
Responsible for managing local teams, category strategies and designing policies for the Latin America region (with a Procurement spend of ~40million €). Main tasks included leading regional category management projects, policy definition/implementation, as well as processes enhancement. Main achievements included design, leadership and implementation of Regional RFP processes such as for Telecom, Travel OBT deployment in various countries & new policy establishments for General Procurement, Fleet, Travel & Telecom. This position reported directly into both the divisional managing directors and the group's CPO.
Initially as part of a University work experience programme (8 months), this role included coordinating International Procurement standardization (Reporting in BI, Systems & Master data) and SAP MM&SRM projects from the company’s Global HQ, with support from the Group’s CPO. Furthermore, coordination of regional/local supplier agreement implementations and RFx processes for M.East & LATAM countries. Finally, responsible for savings consolidation and reporting for the Applus+ Group.