Adrian (Pawel) B.

Professional Scrum Master I

Poland

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Co-Founder; Project Manager

Chip Electronics

  • Gathering requirements from customers to make sure product meets market requirements

  • Conducting PDCA loops to improve product

  • Serving as central point of contact for 2 people coding team to deliver right product

  • Creating business case to assure profitability of the project

  • 15+ customers among which are: Fiege Logistics, Rossmann Polska, Ikea, Ruukki and some other industrial/governmental entities

  • Profit generated in 1st year of activity

  • Project management skills

  • Co-developing HW product to increase attractiveness of the offering

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Semiconductor Management Expert

KION Group

  • Identifying and setting up regular reviews with manufacturers to understand their business needs

  • Presenting KION as interesting partner to work with to technological partners

  • Aligning needs with KION internal stakeholders like Procurement and R&D

  • Established relationship with 16 key manufacturers and distributors global group

  • Strategy development to align semiconductors with overall corporate strategy

  • Regular business reviews and suppliers days to keep regular knowledge exchange

  • Building supplier relationship management for global group

  • Strategy development

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year

Semiconductor Management Expert

KION Group

  • Suggesting SiliconExpert as data source for most of required information

  • Active participating in PowerBI dashboard shaping with cooperation with 3 person technical team

  • Encouraging Tier-1 suppliers to share more transparency in return for market information

  • Mapping semiconductor 500+ production location with Tier-1 suppliers

  • Establishing regular monthly system of informing Tier-1 suppliers about semiconductor risks

  • Improved data quality allowing early prediction of lifecycle changes in advance

  • Identifying weak points in the processes and developing solutions according to business need

  • Execution of reshaping current process in 6 months

Dec 2023 - Present
1 year 9 months

Co-Founder; Project Manager

Chip Electronics

  • Gathering requirements from customers how the product should look like and what functions should have

  • Sales activities supporting promotion of the solution

  • Serving as central point of contact for 2 people coding team to deliver right product

  • 15+ customers among which are: Fiege Logistics, Rossmann Polska, Ikea, Ruukki and some other industrial/governmental entities

  • Profit generated in 1st year of activity

  • Project management skills

  • Co-developing SW product to increase attractiveness of the offering

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year

Category Manager - Semiconductors

Aptiv

  • Negotiation lead on category level

  • Preparation of RFI, RFP and RFQ process

  • Facilitating design-to-cost meetings with the 4 person technical team

  • Regular communication to suppliers on targets

  • Preparing sourcing recommendation to Executive

  • 2.5% short-term savings negotiated as part of price increase mitigation analysis

  • BOM cost reduction on power components by 45% via design-to-cost activity

  • Fully mapped supply chain for all components sourced

  • Fast pace sourcing project with full cost function

  • Leveraging supplier innovation to drive cost down

  • Supplier relationship development

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year

Category Manager - Semiconductors

Aptiv

  • Running benchmark activities with several suppliers

  • Facilitating technical discussions to initiate VAVE activity for product with global platform engineering team (3 people)

  • Keeping pricing on market level

  • Keeping alternative supplier engagement into process

  • Full price increase cancellation by the original supplier

  • Market overview prepared for new generation radar

  • Leveraging VAVE activity in price negotiation process

  • Negotiation in cross-functional team engaging category management, supplier lead function, sourcing process project management and advanced sourcing

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
1 year
On-site

Category Manager - Semiconductors

Aptiv

  • Coordination of sourcing activity within category, purchasing and engineering team (15 person)

  • Onsite auction process coordinator closing the deal

  • Assure component selection according to category commitment given to BU strategy

  • 2% short term saving spread across two years

  • Stretch target met

  • LTA agreement signed

  • Organization of onsite auction negotiation process

  • Coordination of 10-digit $ value sourcing process

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year

Senior Commodity Segment Leader - Electronics

Varroc Lighting

  • Negotiating T&C and other legal documents in cooperation with legal department

  • Negotiation of commercial terms acceptance

  • Assurance supplier meets company technical requirements

  • Frame commercial terms acceptance (Incoterms, payment terms, business bonus)

  • 6 suppliers accepted shape of legal documents (with deviations included)

  • Another 2 supplier process started

  • Fixed commercial terms

  • Leveraging new business to drive short-term saving (2% of category spend)

  • Contract negotiations, including legal aspects

  • Supplier audit with Supplier Quality team

  • PCB production process understanding

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 year

Product Line Purchasing Leader

Aptiv

  • Coordination of the saving activities with project management, engineering and category management (15 person team)

  • Saving idea generation

  • Introduction of new memory supplier improving BOM cost by 3.5% on 40% of variants

  • Driving purchasing activities on the high exposure project to executive team

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years

Product Line Purchasing Leader

Aptiv

  • Acting in the cross-functional, 30 person team including business, project management and SCM

  • Coordination of VAVE activities on memories in all BU projects across the globe

  • Driving implementation activities helping acquire cost savings

  • Increase margin of business unit by 40%

  • Financial health improvement recognized by the company board

  • Driving purchasing activities focused on the overall result of the company

  • Coordination of activities in 6 project across glove simultaneously

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
1 year

Product Line Purchasing Leader

Aptiv

  • Coordination of LOA signatures with all suppliers present on the bill of material

  • Assure all production approvals are in place

  • Support Logistics team to get material on time

  • All projects in EMEA region launched successfully

  • 90% of LOA signed by suppliers

  • Understanding of production outsourcing process from SCM perspective

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years

Indirect Process Center Supervisor

Mahle

  • Acting as team leader of ex. Delphi people making sure operations are continued (4 person team)

  • Advisory to the new company on legacy Delphi systems

  • Supporting IT activities on SAP and other system level

  • New plants fully merged by May 2016

  • Unification of two separate purchasing systems on IT and process level

  • Team management

Summary

I am a procurement expert with extensive experience in the electronics and automotive industries. I specialize in procurement strategy, negotiations, risk management, cost optimization, and global market analysis. I have over 12 years of professional experience, including working with international teams across Europe, Asia, and North America. I have served as a global category leader for semiconductors and have conducted industry workshops and training sessions. In 2024, I co-founded EnviSensor, a brand focused on delivering equipment for monitoring climate conditions.

I have diverse procurement background across automotive and electronics, specializing in hi-tech materials, risk management, and cost optimization, provides a unique business perspective. I hold strong business acumen with a helicopter-view approach, strategic approach, focused on delivering measurable value. I am team-player with a result-driven mindset, fostering partnerships to achieve success internally and externally.

Data-driven business decisions based on a structured top-down analysis. Iterative approach with continuous feedback loops to ensure results meet business expectations. Collaborated across teams, leveraging expertise from different departments to improve cooperation and efficiency.

Expertise in negotiation, category management, strategy development, and sourcing of direct materials. Supplier relationship management and supply chain mapping. Automotive and electronics industries, with a focus on semiconductor market. Project management skills, demonstrated by leading purchasing projects and overseeing the development of an electronics product.

Languages

Polish
Native
English
Advanced
Russian
Elementary

Education

Cracow University Of Economics

International Business, Foreign Trade · International Business - Foreign Trade · Kraków, Poland

Cracow University Of Economics

International Business, Foreign Trade · International Business - Foreign Trade · Kraków, Poland

Certifications & licenses

Prince2 Foundation

PEOPLECERT

Prince2 Practitioner

PEOPLECERT

Category Management

BIGFISH

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

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