Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany Experience
Jan 2022 - Present
3 years 7 months
- Establishing new production sites for clients
- Tendering and acquiring land
- Tendering and executing construction services
- Procuring production machines and equipment
- Purchasing all relevant services
- Setting up procurement departments
- Training and coaching internal staff
- Reassigning responsibilities
- Building teams and departments across all business areas
- Identifying and implementing cost reductions
- Analyzing technical standards and requirements
- Strategic sourcing
- Developing and implementing sourcing strategies
- Closely aligned with the product category and market situation
- Introducing new software like ERP systems & traceability tools
- Process analyses
- Employee trainings
- Workshops with suppliers and clients before rollout
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
11 months
- Restructuring
- Setting up procurement departments
- Identifying and implementing cost reductions
- Developing and implementing strategies
- Establishing sourcing strategies
- Realigning raw material procurement for €130M
- Revising and implementing purchasing strategies for two subsidiaries
- Implementing Onventis in procurement for one subsidiary
- Quick-win cost reductions for five subsidiaries
- Developing a sale-and-leaseback concept for industrial trucks
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 10 months
- Project management leadership
- In-house consulting
- Category management for indirect procurement areas
- Temporary staffing and service contracts
- Energy
- Procurement of machinery and maintenance
- Setting up procurement departments
- Developing category strategies
- Cross-functional handling of procurement categories for all projects
- Creating a cross-project category strategy
- Using cross-selling effects to reduce costs
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
5 months
- Procurement consulting within projects for cost optimization
- Setting up procurement departments
- Developing product categories
- Sustainable reduction of procurement costs
- Establishing indirect procurement for a frozen baked goods manufacturer
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 10 months
- Setting up central procurement
- Developing procurement guidelines
- Creating standardized contracts for various areas
- Establishing and maintaining supplier evaluations
- Preparing and conducting audits by official bodies and clients
- Networking decentralized colleagues handling procurement topics in branches
- Procuring temporary staff
- Managing investments in real estate and technical building equipment
- Company-wide energy purchasing
- Fleet procurement
- Developing and managing framework agreements for group-wide needs
- Preparing and reviewing investment proposals
- Creating procurement forecasts
- Planning procurement budgets
- Standardized and uniform purchase of temporary staff based on factors
- Legally solid framework agreement for temporary staffing
- Implementing equal pay and equal treatment in temporary staffing without significant cost increase, including training all relevant departments
- Implementing professional e-shop solutions in workwear and car rental categories
- Developing and implementing a new concept for workwear: standardized, cost-optimized, eco-friendly
- Automation concept for a logistics terminal with 16,000 pallet spaces in high-bay storage, AGV/FTS and conveyor technology
Jul 2012 - Dec 2015
3 years 6 months
- Project management for key clients
- Project controlling
- International support of client plants
- Standardization of equipment
- New client acquisition
- Offer calculation
- Purchasing services and materials
- Standardized door assembly for Daimler AG international BR 205 & model mix
- Standardized installation of trunk lids for Daimler AG international BR 205
- New wiring harness insertion process for Daimler AG Bremen BR 205 & model mix
- New roof assembly line for Volvo Chengdu XC60
- New front-end assembly line for VW AG Hanover T6
Aug 2011 - Jun 2012
11 months
- Project management for key clients
- Project controlling
- International support of client plants
- Change order calculation
- Purchasing services and materials
- Equipment relocation of two sealing lines and integration of robots for AUDI AG Neckarsulm, series B9, C6/C7, D4
- New foam center for AUDI AG Neckarsulm, series B9, C6/C7, D4
- Developing the first global cell for panoramic roof assembly at GM/Opel Eisenach, models ADAM and CORSA, awarded "GM Plant of the Month"
Jun 2008 - Jul 2011
3 years 2 months
- Operational project procurement
- Project controlling
- Change order calculation
- Purchasing services and materials
- Creating significant savings by continuously procuring qualified and technically equivalent alternatives
- Project control through weekly project controlling
- Negotiating national framework agreements to secure uniform conditions
- Establishing preliminary negotiations with subcontractors and suppliers during costing phase
- Setting up framework supply contracts for production
- Implementing consignment stocking
- Planning and overseeing precast concrete installations
- Offer calculation
- Purchasing subcontractors, services and materials
- Reducing manufacturing and installation costs
- Reducing error rates
- Improving supplier liability
Feb 2007 - Oct 2007
9 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Inventory management and warehouse administration
- Monitoring and controlling goods receipts and issues
- Team leadership
- Structuring and reorganizing existing warehouse areas
- Reducing error rates
Sep 2000 - Jan 2007
6 years 5 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Picking goods
- Inventory management
- Team leadership
- Optimizing flow of batch pick tours per shift cycle
- Reducing error rates
Aug 1998 - May 2008
9 years 10 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Purchasing stock and commission goods
- Inventory and turnover analyses
- Invoice verification
- Developing an analysis system and establishing KPIs
Aug 1998 - Aug 2000
2 years 1 monthGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Picking goods
- Inventory management
- Best German young skilled worker of 2000