Vincent BRÉMOND

Head of Specialties - Global Category Procurement

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

* Engineering Master Degree with option “Management and Production Engineer” – graduated in 2010 * Purchasing Master Degree (CIPS French equivalent) at Master Achats Internationaux (MAI – Bordeaux) – graduated in 2011 * Supply Chain professional with 8 years’ experience working in Global organizations across procurement, lean manufacturing, change management and general supply chain. * Key competencies in supplier relationship management, cost reduction achievement, commodity procurement, strategy development, sustainability roadmap creation, stakeholder engagement and market data analysis. * A highly motivated, work pressure resilient, dealing with high tolerance for ambiguous situations, rational risk taker, hard-working and committed professional with a proven track record of delivering results in a global environment. Results driven, action orientated with Customer focus with the aim to learn from new experiences and lead by example.

Experience

  • FrieslandCampina (10 yrs 9 mos)
    • Procurement Excellence Director
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Leading - Tactical procurement department to increase Procurement operation efficiency while unlocking procurement front office for strategic activities - Excellence team to drive best-in-class Procurement, including riding the digital transformation wave - Design-to-Value core team, enabling top line growth and bottom line improvement - Market analytic team to translate data into insights - Risk and compliance management

    • Head of Category Procurement - Specialties Ingredients
      Dec 2020 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for all non-commodity ingredients - leading a global team of 6 Category Procurement Managers – €500m+ portfolio Team Manager: • Drive development & execution of category strategies in alignment with Business to drive value • 3-year value pipeline (2023-2025) via Redesign to cost, Design to value and negotiation • Enhance value creation via partnership with key and strategic suppliers Side assignments and other experiences: • Transformation Lead for Category Procurement Direct for department transformation program • Global Process Owner for CP Direct and first point of contact for QA/SQM and R&D • SRM Lead for Category Procurement

    • Global Sr Category Manager
      Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Global sourcing responsibility for secondary carton packaging & tinplate: €220m+ portfolio across all FrieslandCampina Business Groups Drive 2 global category strategies: creation & execution Carton category: €120m+ portfolio, across Europe, Asia & Africa Develop comprehensive cost model for corrugated carton TCO analysis to optimize combination of primary & secondary packaging, inc. carton design and CAPEX technology Create Global sourcing guidelines/templates for local Procurement teams to uniform how to source corrugated carton globally with best practices Establish the “Zero deforestation from Paper based packaging” sustainability policy Redesign-to-cost roadmap to enhance top & bottom line impact Tinplate category: €100m+ portfolio, across Europe, & Asia Steel commodity management Validation of new low cost sources Other: Contribute to the internal development of best practices for "Procurement category strategies for FrieslandCampina" Personal development in lean start up thinking to improve FrieslandCampina Source to Pay process

  • Rolls-Royce (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Global Buyer - Titanium
      Aug 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Accountable for R-R key Titanium supplier (Rolls-Royce TOP 5 supplier) within Rolls-Royce Raw Material Purchasing Department Commodity: Titanium - Responsible for a portfolio of £160m - Supplier relationship management - QCDMT - Important year on year cost reductions delivered - Accountable for new technology introduction & contracting (20 years +) - Creation of commodity strategy for short/middle term - Very high value contract/project negotiations & Stakeholder management - Contract law exposure - Reporting

    • Raw Material Buyer: Revert And Bronze
      Feb 2012 - Aug 2012 · 7 mos

      Permanent contract Metal waste recycling/valorization: Responsible for capturing metal waste in Rolls-Royce Supply Chain for recycling purpose (close-loop) TCO analysis, service scope & fees negotiation with service providers Bronze commodity as global buyer for Rolls-Royce - Marine Business. Raw material strategy creation Stakeholder engagement and supplier relationship management

    • Buyer Supply Chain Revert - Raw Material Purchasing Department, Rolls-Royce Plc
      Jul 2011 - Jan 2012 · 7 mos

      6 Months Contract Raw Material Purchasing Department - Rolls-Royce Plc - Derby - UK Core Business: global power systems company for: aerospace (Civil and military), marine and energy sectors. Buyer responsible for Supply Chain Revert (metal waste recycling) collection management: - Valuing Supply Chain revert opportunity - Negotiation with suppliers across all Rolls-Royce Supply Chain in order to collect scrap coming from expensive alloys - Internal engagement/negotiation with contract Buyers for capturing revert opportunity - Service scope & fees negotiation with service providers - Revert impact in raw material suppliers' costings: Experience in complex cost models

  • Maintenance Department: Purchasing Strategy at Atlantique Alimentaire
    Jan 2010 - Jul 2010 · 7 mos

    2010, 7 months contract (internship) ATLANTIQUE ALIMENTAIRE - La Rochelle, France - Development and implementation of preventive maintenance/lean manufacturing - management of 15 people (4 teams) - Creation of purchasing strategy for MRO, suppliers rationalization and inventory reduction

  • Airbus (2 mos)
    • Quality Auditor
      Oct 2009 - Nov 2009 · 2 mos

      Audit: Quality controle in the assembly workshop

    • Lean Manufacturing trainee
      Oct 2009 - Nov 2009 · 2 mos

      Lean manufacturing: the A340 facility - Active listening: collect the will of the direction, formulate requirements & expectations of the operators - Implementation: propositions of solutions, setting-up and accompaniment of the reserved solution

  • Purchasing assistant at Alstom Transport
    May 2009 - Aug 2009 · 4 mos

    2009, 3 months Contract (Internship) ALSTOM (Sourcing department) Purchasing assistant Internship - La Rochelle, France Phase of preproduction: rationalization of a purchasing portfolio (€ 30M): forming groupings of supplies (link between logistics department and purchasing department) - Classification of references by typology to facilitate consultations with suppliers LLCC - Treatment of purchasing process - Training in E-Sourcing (ALTES) and familiar with SAP (ERP)