Head of Taskforce Partner Sourcing

Infrastructure mega projects broadband / FTTH / fiber optics / telecommunications:

• Development and implementation of a procurement strategy for all required services and materials in civil engineering and cable construction

• Leadership and development of the procurement team, realignment of procurement across the value chain (planning – controlling – project management – rollout management)

• Awarding expansion projects: team responsibility for selecting, evaluating, and overseeing civil engineering contractors

• Scope changes and cost claims on ongoing projects: long-term contract design and renegotiations with suppliers and subcontractors

• Focus: relaunch of the procurement function and planning civil-engineering general contractors and construction companies for the Austria-wide expansion of FTTH and backbone infrastructure from 2025+ with a spend of over €0.25 bn p.a.

• Interim head of procurement as part of a turnaround (private equity deal)
• Reorganization, optimization, and maturity development of procurement
• From a purely operational setup to a powerful, cross-group, strategic procurement function
• Special machine construction in application-specific system solutions (pneumatics, hydraulics, hydro-pneumatics, valve technology, electromechanics, electronics)
• Companies: Drumag GmbH, EPH-Elektronik Produktions- und Handelsges. mbH, UNIPROD AG, SIRAG AG (PE: investment & growth)
• Focus: building and leading a professional and modern procurement organization

• Various corporate programs within M&A activities
• Reorganization and maturity development to increase business value contribution of procurement areas (industries: automotive, electronics, logistics)
• Centralization / relocation of procurement areas/functions
• Continuous increase of capex/opex savings
• Massive reduction of suppliers and building top and strategic suppliers / tenders / framework agreements
• Digitalization and automation of procurement processes (ERP systems, eCatalog, P2P, etc.)
• Reduction and adjustment of FTE, i.e., number of actual buyers
• Coaching: negotiation training, buyer development concepts
• Focus: supporting consulting teams as an expert and interface between consultants and the client organization (transformation)

• Leading B2B building materials distributor with about 55 branches
• Managing the target operating model for 16 workstreams and 37 scope projects (project portfolio) across all departments (e.g. software implementations, site concepts and closures, sales and purchasing reorganization, implementation of HR measures, stock reduction, etc.) with a team of 4 project managers in a project management office
• Team and project set-up for a business process excellence program
• Implementation of S/4HANA: program management & steering committee
• Turnaround: identifying, designing and implementing initiatives to increase long-term competitiveness
• Ongoing transparency and reporting on project status and critical dependencies to the management board of the group in the UK
• Monitoring targets and savings with corrective actions
• Risk management - mitigation measures and implementation monitoring
• Focus: turnaround and savings

• Investment strategies focused on sustainable cost optimization
• Potential analysis, action plans, and implementation
• Identification and execution of strategic procurement partnerships with other retail chains (purchasing alliance)
• Development of a basic structure for an effective strategic procurement function
• Audit of individual departments focusing on efficiency improvements and cost optimization
• Focus: performance improvement and raising maturity level

• Corporate merger Celesio <> McKesson
• Group-wide & strategic IT sourcing, consulting and services
• Vendor management of outsourcing partners
• Development and execution of procurement strategies
• Supplier management
• Cost optimization programs across the entire value chain
• Audit to harmonize and digitalize processes and controls
• Efficiency gains, transparency, cost reduction, compliance
• Restructuring & consolidation of the supplier portfolio
• Focus: As part of M&A activities, consolidation and realignment of strategic IT procurement with 8 employees

• Planning, organizing and running 3 supplier days with tactical negotiation rounds (EUR 200M volume, 70 suppliers)
• Strategy workshops and concrete measures
• Turning measures into immediate EBIT savings
• Coaching and negotiation training for strategic buyers
• Project team with 4 senior consultants
• Focus: Achieving immediate EBIT savings

• Project relaunch and crisis management
• Tendering, monitoring and controlling of service providers (network, data center, desktop services, software) in strategic sourcing
• Negotiation of framework agreements (IT outsourcing contracts, software licenses, including SAP)
• Monitoring service delivery for quality, cost and time
• Introduction of contract management
• Escalation point for several business units
• Renegotiation of existing framework agreements
• Focus: Commercial management of a large project in a high-tech environment with 17 employees

• High-tech startup company
• Introduced business organization, processes and structures
• Set up a Project Management Office
• Supported the CEO in all financial and project-related tasks
• Project management for several technology partners and suppliers (budget monitoring, liquidity control)
• Staff recruitment and involvement in market strategy positioning
• Controlling and reporting to the supervisory board and venture capital investors
• Focus: Making a technologically complex startup financially fit

• Project relaunch
• IT category strategies: hardware, software, services, consulting (including SAP licenses and SAP consulting)
• Potential analyses, procurement strategies and cost-saving levers
• Implementation: Project management, tendering and negotiation with existing and alternative suppliers
• Focus: Relaunch and finalization of a previously failed global procurement project

• Commodity group strategies for direct materials in plant engineering and project business
• Short-term material cost reductions and project renegotiations
• Adjusting the supplier portfolio and supplier management
• Developing and negotiating new framework agreements with all strategic suppliers
• Conducting supplier days with dedicated negotiation rounds
• Procurement training in strategic sourcing and coaching of buyers
• Focus: Reducing material and project costs under cost pressure in the automotive industry

• Supplier days / workshops
• Material cost reduction for direct and indirect materials
• Conducting dedicated negotiation rounds for direct materials worldwide
• Organizational and structural adjustments in purchasing
• Focus: Reducing material costs to meet corporate targets

• Duration: 6 months in 2007
• Process analysis and optimization of administrative processes (accounting, controlling, order processing, and IT)
• Implementation of OLA, a reporting system for monitoring internal services (productivity metrics system)
• Focus: Identifying process inefficiencies and related additional costs

• Founded in 2006: timacon | timmerbeil management consulting
• Roles as CPO, Head of / Director and Senior Executive
• International and national procurement mandates/projects
• Project Management Office & Transformation Program
• Senior expert as head of procurement and procurement manager, business partner and strategist, coach and negotiation trainer
• Setup, restructuring and reorganization (including procurement departments) with focus on strategy, organization and processes
• Business partner in M&A / post-merger activities and carve-outs
• Focus: cross-functional cost efficiency across the entire value chain (organization & processes)

• Project management in the IT service management environment
• Internal audits and reviews
• Company-wide IT strategies
• Industry focus: IT, financial services and manufacturing
• Methodical support for Siemens global accounts
• Professional and personnel leadership of 12 employees
• Focus: cost-efficient processes and organizations

• Apprenticeship as an insurance clerk