Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany Experience
Jan 2022 - Present
3 years 10 months
- Setting up new production sites for clients
- Tendering and procurement of land
- Tendering and execution of construction services
- Sourcing production machinery and equipment
- Purchasing all relevant services
- Building procurement departments
- Training and development of own employees
- Reallocating roles and responsibilities
- Building teams and departments across all business areas
- Developing and implementing cost reductions
- Analyzing technical standards and requirements
- Strategic sourcing
- Developing and implementing sourcing strategies
- Closely aligned with the product group and market situation
- Introducing new software like ERP systems & traceability tools
- Process analyses
- Employee training
- Workshops with suppliers and clients before implementation
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
11 months
- Restructuring
- Building procurement departments
- Developing and implementing cost reductions
- Developing and implementing strategies
- Building sourcing strategies
- Realigning raw material procurement for €130 million
- Revamping and implementing procurement strategies for two subsidiaries
- Implementing Onventis in the procurement department of a subsidiary
- Quick-win cost reductions for five subsidiary companies
- Developing a sale-and-leaseback concept for industrial trucks
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 10 months
- Project management
- In-house consulting
- Category management of indirect procurement areas
- Temporary staffing and service contracts
- Energy
- Procurement of machinery and maintenance services
- Setting up procurement departments
- Developing category strategies
- Cross-functional handling of procurement areas across all projects
- Establishing a cross-project category strategy
- Leveraging cross-selling effects to reduce costs
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
5 months
- Procurement consulting in projects for cost optimization
- Building procurement departments
- Establishing product categories
- Sustainable reduction of procurement costs
- Setting up the indirect procurement department at a frozen baked goods manufacturer
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 10 months
- Establishing the central purchasing department
- Developing purchasing guidelines
- Creating standardized contracts for various divisions
- Setting up and maintaining supplier evaluations
- Preparing and conducting audits by official bodies and customers
- Networking decentralized colleagues responsible for procurement tasks in branch offices
- Procuring temporary staff
- Managing investments in real estate and building services
- Group-wide energy procurement
- Fleet procurement
- Developing and maintaining framework agreements for group-wide requirements
- Preparing and reviewing investment proposals
- Creating procurement forecasts
- Planning procurement budgets
- Standardized, uniform procurement of temporary staff on a factor basis
- Legally robust framework agreement for temporary staffing
- Implementing equal pay and equal treatment in temporary staffing without major cost increases, including instruction of all affected departments
- Implementing professional e-shop solutions in the workwear and rental car categories
- Developing and implementing a new concept for workwear: standardized, cost-optimized, environmentally conscious
- Automation concept for a logistics terminal with 16,000 high-bay pallet locations, AGVs / FTS, and conveyor systems
Jul 2012 - Dec 2015
3 years 6 months
- Project management for regular clients
- Project controlling
- International support for production sites
- Standardization of machines
- New customer acquisition
- Quotation calculation
- Procurement of services and materials
- Standardized door installation Daimler AG international BR 205 & mixed models
- Standardized trunk lid adjustment Daimler AG international BR 205
- New process for inserting wiring harness Daimler AG Bremen BR 205 & mixed models
- New assembly line roof Volvo Chengdu XC60
- New assembly line front end VW AG Hanover T6
Aug 2011 - Jun 2012
11 months
- Project management for regular clients
- Project controlling
- International support for production sites
- Additional cost calculation
- Procurement of services and materials
- Relocation of two seam sealing lines and integration of robots AUDI AG Neckarsulm, series B9, C6/C7, D4
- New foaming center AUDI AG Neckarsulm, series B9, C6/C7, D4
- Development of the first global cell for glass roof installation 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
- Additional cost calculation
- Procurement of services and materials
- Achieved significant savings by continuously developing qualified and technically equivalent alternatives
- Project management through weekly project controlling
- Negotiation of national framework agreements to secure uniform conditions
- Establishing pre-negotiations with subcontractors and suppliers during the calculation phase
- Establishing framework supply contracts for production
- Setting up consignment storage
- Planning and supervising precast concrete installations
- Quotation calculation
- Procurement of subcontractors, services, and materials
- Reducing production and installation costs
- Lowering error rates
- Improving supplier liability
Feb 2007 - Oct 2007
9 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Warehouse management and administration
- Monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing goods
- Team leadership
- Structuring and reorganizing existing warehouse areas
- Reducing error rates
Sep 2000 - Jan 2007
6 years 5 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Order picking
- Warehouse management
- Team leadership
- Optimizing the flow of pick tours in shift cycles
- Reducing error rates
Aug 1998 - May 2008
9 years 10 monthsGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Purchasing stock and consignment goods
- Inventory and turnover analyses
- Invoice checking
- Built an analysis framework and determined key metrics
Aug 1998 - Aug 2000
2 years 1 monthGroßpostwitz/O.L., Germany
- Picking goods
- Inventory management
- Best young skilled worker in Germany in 2000