Dominic Rohr - Head of Purchasing

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Lachen, Switzerland

Experience

Jan 2023 - Present

2 years 7 months

Glarus Nord, Switzerland

Head of Purchasing

Guma AG

Restructuring & modernizing the purchasing department
Responsible for all purchasing activities in the company
Modernization & automation of the system environment
Designing & launching the purchasing strategy (including inventory optimization)
Sharpening the department’s profile & defining core processes.
3 staff – 1 management level

Jul 2022 - Dec 2023

1 year 6 months

Speyer, Germany

Interim Manager Global Operations Planning

PM International AG

Integration of newly founded Operations Planning department (supply & demand planning)
Implementation of a state-of-the-art S&OP process.
Responsible for all global planning matters & ensuring global supply.
Designing & presenting a new global planning strategy.
Building and coaching the current team and the designated successor.
6 staff, 2 management levels

Feb 2020 - May 2022

2 years 4 months

Neustadt, Germany

Head of Global Sourcing & Purchasing

Birkenstock Productions Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH

Overall management of the contract manufacturing division (operational & strategic).
Strategic leadership for raw material areas synthetics & leather (until 10.2020).
Personnel responsibility for 7 staff across two management levels, direct line to Managing Director.
Conducting sourcing projects & evolving the organizational structure in contract manufacturing. (procure to transport to pay processes)
Budget responsibility approx. €100 million.
7 staff, 2 management levels
Set up the first sourcing office in Hong Kong (including recruiting a Global Sourcing Manager).
Introduced an SOP for sourcing & onboarding global suppliers.
Successfully built a global sourcing strategy, including presenting & justifying it at C-level.
Doubled the supplier portfolio (synthetic raw material producers, tanneries, sock & shoe producers).
Increased on-time in-full supplier performance from 36% to 98% in contract manufacturing procurement.
Reduced time to market from six to four months.
Introduced “critical path” management for early detection of production bottlenecks & delays.
Product Owner in the cross-company SAP S/4HANA implementation project, using agile (Scrum).
Launched the “digital supply chain” in contract manufacturing: door-to-door solution with the logistics provider for full tracking.
Increased capacity for leather (100%), home shoes (300%), synthetics (150%) by sourcing strategy and portfolio expansion.
Improved leather OTIF from 29% (FY2018) to 91% (FY2020) via strategic supplier phase-outs while ensuring growth.
Introduced SAP supplier rating system across Birkenstock Sourcing & Purchasing and implemented a TCSC score (total cost of supply chain) to capture best value.
Designed & implemented a contract framework across Birkenstock’s purchasing.
Over 60 contract signings with “too big to fail” suppliers.
Achieved 100% framework contract coverage, the only purchasing division at Birkenstock.

Oct 2018 - Feb 2020

1 year 5 months

Neustadt, Germany

Head of Global Sourcing Upper

Birkenstock Productions Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH

Actively redesigned the purchasing organization & built the new department.
Strategic leadership for raw material areas synthetics & leather.
Responsible for a supplier portfolio of approx. 50 suppliers.
Introduced global sourcing & first-ever tenders in purchasing.
Budget responsibility approx. €80 million.
3 staff, 2 management levels
Set up the first sourcing office in Hong Kong (including recruiting a Global Sourcing Manager).
Introduced an SOP for sourcing & onboarding global suppliers.
Successfully built a global sourcing strategy, including presenting & justifying it at C-level.
Doubled the supplier portfolio (synthetic raw material producers, tanneries, sock & shoe producers).
Increased on-time in-full supplier performance from 36% to 98% in contract manufacturing procurement.
Reduced time to market from six to four months.
Introduced “critical path” management for early detection of production bottlenecks & delays.
Product Owner in the cross-company SAP S/4HANA implementation project, using agile (Scrum).
Launched the “digital supply chain” in contract manufacturing: door-to-door solution with the logistics provider for full tracking.
Increased capacity for leather (100%), home shoes (300%), synthetics (150%) by sourcing strategy and portfolio expansion.
Improved leather OTIF from 29% (FY2018) to 91% (FY2020) via strategic supplier phase-outs while ensuring growth.
Introduced SAP supplier rating system across Birkenstock Sourcing & Purchasing and implemented a TCSC score (total cost of supply chain) to capture best value.
Designed & implemented a contract framework across Birkenstock’s purchasing.
Over 60 contract signings with “too big to fail” suppliers.
Achieved 100% framework contract coverage, the only purchasing division at Birkenstock.

Feb 2016 - Sep 2018

2 years 8 months

Neustadt, Germany

Head of Contract Manufacturing

Birkenstock Productions Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH

Functional and disciplinary leadership of the procurement team for contract manufacturing (footwear, legwear & orthopedics).
Led the cross-functional team designing the sourcing strategy.
Responsible for operational supplier performance (OTIF) and meeting contribution margin targets.
Developed staff as know-how boosters for other purchasing areas.
Interim head of all operational purchasing.
Budget responsibility approx. €30 million.
7 staff, 2 management levels
Set up the first sourcing office in Hong Kong (including recruiting a Global Sourcing Manager).
Introduced an SOP for sourcing & onboarding global suppliers.
Successfully built a global sourcing strategy, including presenting & justifying it at C-level.
Doubled the supplier portfolio (synthetic raw material producers, tanneries, sock & shoe producers).
Increased on-time in-full supplier performance from 36% to 98% in contract manufacturing procurement.
Reduced time to market from six to four months.
Introduced “critical path” management for early detection of production bottlenecks & delays.
Product Owner in the cross-company SAP S/4HANA implementation project, using agile (Scrum).
Launched the “digital supply chain” in contract manufacturing: door-to-door solution with the logistics provider for full tracking.
Increased capacity for leather (100%), home shoes (300%), synthetics (150%) by sourcing strategy and portfolio expansion.
Improved leather OTIF from 29% (FY2018) to 91% (FY2020) via strategic supplier phase-outs while ensuring growth.
Introduced SAP supplier rating system across Birkenstock Sourcing & Purchasing and implemented a TCSC score (total cost of supply chain) to capture best value.
Designed & implemented a contract framework across Birkenstock’s purchasing.
Over 60 contract signings with “too big to fail” suppliers.
Achieved 100% framework contract coverage, the only purchasing division at Birkenstock.

Feb 2012 - Jan 2016

4 years

Uznach, Switzerland

Buyer Men’s Urban & Sports Lifestyle

Karl Vögele AG

Monitoring procurement markets, trends, innovations & competitor activities in purchasing.
Developing trends & models in purchasing.
Negotiating & setting purchase & sale prices.
Creating collections & planning, plus KPI reporting in procurement controlling.
Responsible trainer in the purchasing department.
2 staff

Aug 2006 - Jan 2012

5 years 6 months

Dietikon, Switzerland