Antonio C.
Interim Commodity Manager, Electric Motors, Drives and Components
Experience
Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
3 monthsGermany
Interim Commodity Manager, Electric Motors, Drives and Components
Elevator manufacturer with approx. 1,000 employees
- Restructuring of the commodity category
- Development of strategic measures in the category
- Development of market analyses
- Development of new suppliers
- Managing tenders
- International collaboration with the group
- Negotiation
- Contract management
- Support in new product developments
- Introduction of a cost structure analysis (pilot projects)
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
5 monthsGermany
Interim Project Manager, concept for implementing a Procure to Pay platform (P2P)
Film production company with approx. 300 employees
- Defining goals, focus areas and interfaces
- Working on IT interfaces and systems
- Conducting category analysis in purchasing
- Working on purchasing structure and process
- Developing spend analysis
- Market analysis of software platform providers
- Evaluation and selection of suitable platform providers
- Building an overall concept for implementing the P2P platform
- Preparing a decision paper
May 2023 - Aug 2023
4 monthsGöttingen, Germany
Interim Commodity Manager subcontractor services
Telecommunications provider FTTH, FFTX fiber connection with more than 200 employees
- Restructuring of the commodity category
- Operational and strategic tasks
- Development of new suppliers
- Managing tenders
- Negotiation
- Contract management according to VOB
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
4 monthsDüsseldorf, Germany
Interim Head of Purchasing
Real estate and property developer with more than 1,000 employees
- Leading the construction and existing assets purchasing function, both technically and disciplinarily
- Optimizing procurement processes
- Harmonizing existing assets and construction purchasing
- Contract management (HOAI, VOB and BGB)
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
10 monthsGermany
Interim Category Manager, purchasing responsibility for machinery and equipment (CAPEX) and spare parts, services (OPEX)
Steel and pipe manufacturer with approx. 3,000 employees
- Leading category teams and ensuring operational performance and supply: technical and disciplinary team management for machinery and equipment, drawing-based parts, spare parts and services, temporary staffing, external coating and other services
- Implementing and advancing strategic measures: consolidation actions, supplier reduction, continuous use and development of the COUPA procurement tool in the P2P process, process optimization
- Leading transformation and digitalization of procurement and logistics and establishing strategic purchasing: project leadership, project plan creation, stakeholder analysis, progress reporting, development and compensation plan, training plans for strategic buyers
- Converting parts of maintenance services into planned services and reducing maintenance costs by 8%
- Successful transformation rollout
- Establishing a strategic purchasing function
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
9 monthsGermany
Interim Purchasing Manager, development of a supplier strategy for materials and alternative power generation (photovoltaics)
Real estate and property developer with more than 1,000 employees
- Sourcing service providers for EV charging stations, wallboxes and photovoltaic services
- Drafting service and work contracts
- Including technical building equipment in the material strategy
- Developing the strategy concept
- Project planning and team setup
- Running beauty contests for supplier selection
- Conducting supplier negotiations
- Creating a consolidation and standardization strategy
- Building a material catalog for specifications and purchasing
- Defining supplier access to the material platform
- Negotiating contracts and individual terms
- Defining the execution process
- Advancing material standardization
- Achieving 16% savings in electrical technology
- Achieving 14% savings in heating/sanitary
- Ensuring price stability and sustainability
- Setting up rebate agreements
- Separate subcontractor agreements
Jan 2021 - Present
4 years 8 monthsHürth, Germany
Independent consultant for purchasing and supply chain
Conte Consulting
- Interim management, strategic and operational buyer
- Purchasing leadership
- Transformation and process optimization
- Introduction of new tools and methods
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
4 yearsDüsseldorf, Germany
Head of Technical Purchasing and Business Partner for the telecommunications industry
ISS Facility Services Holding Deutschland GmbH
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
1 year 2 monthsGermany
HybridInterim Program Manager for the development of an electric mild hybrid drive
Company with approx. 2,000 employees, Business Unit 'Vehicle Construction'
- Creating and proactively managing the program schedule
- Implementing project management
- Setting up and monitoring costs, performance and timelines
- Preparing product cost calculations and customer price indications
- Conducting make-or-buy analyses for prototype manufacturing
- Actively supporting customer care
- Preparing customer quotes for prototypes
- Assisting with patent processing
- Procuring prototype and drawing-based parts
- Aligning spare parts supply in the customer’s spare parts management process
- Negotiating procurement parts and supplier contracts
- Planning small-series manufacturing and cost calculation with production volume variants
- Supporting the business plan
- Coordinating with senior management and executives
- Completing development tasks
- Achieving targets for emission reduction and fuel consumption
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
6 monthsGermany
Interim – Purchasing management telecommunications, operational procurement of technical services IT and engineering
Company with approx. 1,000 employees
- Optimizing maintenance contracts in engineering and IT
- Renegotiating maintenance contracts
- Creating and implementing a rate card for purchasing temporary staff and staffing services
- Conducting market and supplier analysis
- Carrying out price and qualification comparisons
- Supporting tender setup and execution
- Assisting with introduction of a personnel tendering tool
- Purchasing and negotiating with external staffing providers
- Achieving approx. 10% savings in maintenance contracts
- Introducing early payment discounts (approx. €100k savings)
- Achieving approx. 5% savings in staffing and temporary labor
- Optimizing requirement and approval processes
Jan 2012 - Dec 2015
4 yearsDüsseldorf, Germany
Head of Lead Buyer Management Indirect Spend
Metro AG
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
7 monthsGermany
Interim Manager as Head of Lead Buyer Management Indirect Spend in Technical Procurement
Retail group with approx. 250,000 employees
- Building the Lead Buyer Management Indirect Spend department
- Technical and disciplinary team leadership
- Developing a new strategic direction
- Adjusting business processes
- Creating a sourcing strategy for material and service procurement for CAPEX and OPEX measures
- Establishing an internal consulting team for group-wide Metro Group projects
- Introducing new methods
- Conducting service cost analysis
- Performing cost and value analysis for products
- Ensuring supplier transparency
- Coaching and training purchasing staff
- Negotiating contracts, prices and terms
- Centralizing measures through department setup
- Achieving consolidation savings
- Optimizing procurement processes
- Saving approx. 20% in internal IT consulting and approx. 10% in marketing
- Breaking monopolies and achieving 10–15% savings through value analysis
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
4 monthsGermany
Interim – Purchasing management in plant engineering and facility management
Company with approx. 2,000 employees
- Designing and developing a catalog management system and project plan
- Establishing a sourcing strategy
- Creating a requirements catalog for implementing the catalog management system
- Designing a P2P process from requisition to invoice payment
- Establishing an approval process
- Designing a supplier onboarding process
- Coordinating with suppliers on catalog content, processes, terms, deliveries, contracts, IT integration, and data maintenance
- Involving branch offices
- Testing and rollout
- Implementing a catalog management system
- Optimizing internal processes
- Ensuring transparency of terms
Feb 2010 - Jul 2010
6 monthsGermany
Interim – Purchasing management, harmonization of external technical service rates across the group
Energy supply company with approx. 70,000 employees
- Taking over project coordination and subproject leadership
- Analyzing individual group units and external framework contract partners
- Reviewing contract contents and terms
- Updating and comparing requirements and terms
- Creating a resource matrix
- Training purchasing staff on using the cost analysis tool PVS (personnel billing and hourly rates)
- Conducting supplier negotiations
- Project monitoring and presenting status in the steering committee
- Achieving consolidation effects and supplier reduction
- Reducing hourly rates by approx. 20%
- Setting up bonus arrangements for revenue growth by the client
Jan 2009 - Dec 2012
4 yearsHürth, Germany
Independent consultant for purchasing and supply chain
Conte Consulting
- Interim management, strategic and operational buyer
- Leading purchasing department
- Transformation and process optimization
- Introduction of new tools and methods
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 yearsCologne, Germany
Head of Purchasing Cost Performance
SQS (Software Quality System)
Jan 2000 - Dec 2008
9 yearsBonn, Germany
Head of Procurement Cost Management
T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH
Jan 1995 - Dec 1999
5 yearsBonn, Germany
Purchasing Manager mobile boxes and IT licenses
T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH
Jan 1992 - Dec 1995
4 yearsCologne, Germany
Head of Purchasing production materials for wiring harnesses
United Technologies Automotive GmbH
Jan 1991 - Dec 1992
2 yearsMunich, Germany
Commercial Manager
Hofer Fertigungstechnik GmbH
Jan 1989 - Dec 1991
3 yearsMunich, Germany
Head of Materials Management for special machines and precision mechanics
Hofer Ingenieurtechnik GmbH
Jan 1988 - Dec 1989
2 yearsBergisch Gladbach, Germany
Purchasing and Sales Clerk
Stahlhandel Jacob Kierdorf GmbH
Jan 1985 - Dec 1987
3 yearsCologne, Germany
Sales Clerk and IT Administrator
ErgoDesk System GmbH
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedItalian
ElementaryEducation
Oct 1982 - Jun 1985
Pickhardt & Siebert GmbH & Co. KG
Apprenticeship as industrial clerk · Industrial clerk · Gummersbach, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Business Economist IHK
IHK zu Bonn
Industrial Specialist IHK
IHK zu Köln
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