Senior Commodity Buyer / Indirect Procurement

Senior Commodity Buyer- Indirect Procurement

• Commodity strategy development and supply base optimization according to strategy, implement blue print and actions to achieve year-over year cost savings and rebates
• Working closely with various internal customers i.e. engineering, operation, marketing department, etc, across organization managed around 30 entities (production plants and HQ offices)
• Support appropriate purchase-to-pay (PTP) process
• Support proactive cooperation with other divisions – seating, safety
• Identify solutions to leverage volumes and common supplier sourcing
• Improve working capital by negotiating optimum payment terms
• Responsible for managing RFQ and RFP, analyzing and negotiating supplier quotes, making sourcing recommendations and presenting on Sourcing Board
  • Negotiate Frame Agreements and Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Resolving supplier performance and commercial issues
• Develop in-depth understanding of supplier cost drivers, and total cost of procurement

Senior Buyer - Machine Commodity, Supply Chain Service Europe /

Senior Buyer - Machine Commodity, Supply Chain Service Europe (02/2015 – 02/2019)

• Sourcing production line and individual machines, managing all program purchasing while ensuring compliance with overall company objectives, strategy and procedures
• Control and approval of all Program Purchasing activities specified in Program launch system and decisions in line with customer demands and commodity strategies for plants
• Program team member for a project transfer production
• Daily communication between all included entities, supporting
• Operation Mangers to ensure smooth project launches
• Manage the Suppliers within the transfer project (RFQ, change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolutions etc.)
• Meeting China suppliers to understand processes in order to make possibility to have 70% Europe made content

Lead Officer Indirect Commodity (02/2014 – 02/2015)

• Fully responsible for strategic, change and performance management Indirect purchasing team
• Managing annual spend, ranging from 5 up to 20 million USD in plant built as new Greenfield investment. Establishing purchasing procedure and processes, sourcing and building new supplier footprint
• Achieve annual indirect targets and KPIs-savings, rebates, cost avoidance, credit notes and working capital. Implementation of new ERP
• Oracle transfer from ERP Movex. Providing procurement strategy, frameworks for variety request and all processes in Greenfield investment, act as business partner to all roles in the plant

Plant Buyer

Plant Buyer-remote location (10/2013 – 02/2014)

• Build supplier base in plant according to global procurement procedures
• Managing the sourcing process according to the plant needs and objectives set in terms of quality, cost and delivery
• Leading negotiation with suppliers and internal customers
• Check Purchase order content to ensure it fulfils necessary standards requirements.
• Communicate PO to supplier in order to have goods, services, licence. etc on time in place as agreed in Purchase order/ blanket order/master scheduling/ forecasting requirements.
• Support and monitoring Indirect Purchasing targets (savings, supplier count, payment terms, etc.) and ensure proper communications and execution in plants including ongoing projects.
• Negotiate and clarify delivery and service obligations with suppliers for commodities such as Car Rental, IT, Office Equipment & Supplies, Scrap & Waste Disposal, Energy & Utilities, Travel and Expenditure, Security Service, Cleaning Service, Insurance, Production machines and supporting servers, etc.

Purchasing Coordinator (01/2012 – 02/2014)

Insurance Agent

• Development and sales promotion of insurance products in the region, main activity car leasing and Casco insurance
• Acquisition of new customers and maintaining relationships with existing, collect consisting offer customers, developing products and creating strategy for new products launch, research and analyze the market.

The Faculty of Economics

Course: Assertive Communication

Course: Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Project Management

Course: Strategic Negotiation Issuing authority