Thorsten Pister
Freelance subcontract - claim manager - project purchaser
Experience
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 2 months Hamburg, Germany
Freelance subcontract - claim manager - project purchaser
Exyte Europe GmbH
- On site in Hamburg, factory refurbishment, contract claims and change order management as well as project purchasing for the CSA work packages - HVAC, electrical and automation (12 suppliers with 15 contracts, volume approx. €55M).
- Corporate language English.
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
8 months Germany
Freelance strategic project purchaser
KASTO Maschinenbau GmbH
- Strategic project purchasing including SAP processing of all project requirements.
- International procurement of steel welded assemblies (Eastern Europe), complete warehousing, electronics, services tenders - award negotiations - processing.
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
7 months Frankfurt, Germany
Strategic purchaser
Mainova AG
- Temporary employment contract via Constaff HD.
- Tenders (Sectoral Regulation - EU) – negotiations – contract management – operational SAP processing of orders and scheduling agreements - civil engineering – HOAI planning services – power plant projects.
- Negotiation success: 6.3% on approx. €15M negotiated volume.
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
2 years 4 months Germany
Freelance project manager real estate
Private investor (Immotrade 021 GmbH)
- Working for a private investor (Immotrade 021 GmbH).
- Development of demolition sites, construction of one multi-family house with 22 apartments and six townhouses.
- Full profit and loss responsibility.
- HOAI tendering – individual contracts with construction companies and craftsmen.
- Contract and claim management.
Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
3 years Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany
Head of purchasing
Kardex Mlog
- Strategic and disciplinary leadership (5 employees).
- Purchasing volume approx. €43M in machinery and plant engineering.
- Department restructuring.
- Introduction of product groups and KPI system.
- Initiation and implementation of measures for sustainable cost reductions.
- Achieved savings approx. €1.2M.
Aug 2012 - Jan 2014
1 year 6 months Germany
Project manager real estate
RS Haus GmbH
- Introduction of internet marketing for planned single and multi-family houses.
- Purchasing of land and individual trades.
- Contract and change order management - project management.
Aug 2010 - Jun 2012
1 year 11 months Germany
Head of purchasing
ACO Guss GmbH
- Head of purchasing for two foundry production sites.
- Purchasing volume approx. €40M, 4 employees.
- Management of various investment projects and construction measures.
- Introduction of global sourcing for raw materials and finished products.
- Development of suppliers in Turkey, Bulgaria and Vietnam.
- In 2011 conducted on-site talks with government representatives in Cameroon for establishing a pig iron production (project not realized).
- Participation in a €60M preliminary project for the construction of a central foundry.
Apr 2004 - Jul 2010
6 years 4 months Bamberg, Germany
Head of materials management
CML Technologies GmbH & Co.KG
- Management of two sites: Bad Dürkheim industrial applications and LED distribution (6 employees); Bamberg automotive lighting systems (5 employees).
- Organizational restructuring.
- Partial relocation of production to Eastern Europe.
- Management of various investment projects (approx. €15M).
- Introduction of strategic purchasing organization (networking with US HQ).
- Cost savings of approx. €1.7M.
- Functioned as global commodity manager electronics.
Oct 1993 - Mar 2004
10 years 6 months Germany
Managing director - owner
TRP Elektronik GmbH and Internet Electronics
- Import-export wholesale of electronic components.
- Project business with German industrial clients and foreign importers.
- Original goal to develop Internet Electronics as a startup global B2B platform; at that time no opportunity to secure venture capital.
- Due to the New Economy crisis and insolvency of several clients, companies were dissolved in 2004.
Oct 1989 - Sep 1993
4 years Frankenthal, Germany
Purchaser – line manager
Gleichmann & Co. Electronics
- Purchaser and line manager for electronic components.
- Support of international clients, biannual stays at the purchasing office in Hong Kong.
Jun 1989 - Sep 1989
4 months France
Sales assistant (internship as part of an EU program)
Hardware store
- In France as part of an EU program.
- 6 weeks intensive language course.
- 10 weeks working as a sales assistant in a hardware store.
Jul 1988 - May 1989
11 months Ludwigshafen, Germany
Purchaser
Otto – Hoffmann Men’s Underwear Factories
- After training as an industrial clerk, taken on as purchaser.
- Operational and technical purchasing of production materials.
Aug 1986 - Jun 1988
1 year 11 months Ludwigshafen, Germany
Training as industrial clerk
Otto – Hoffmann Men’s Underwear Factories
- Chamber of Industry and Commerce final grade 1.8.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate
Spanish
Intermediate
Education
Aug 1986 - Jun 1988
Otto-Hoffmann Men’s Underwear Factories
Industrial Clerk · Ludwigshafen, Germany · 1.8
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Secondary Education · 1.1
Certifications & licenses
Training as industrial clerk
Chamber of Industry and Commerce
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