Thorsten Pister

Freelance subcontract - claim manager - project purchaser

Impflingen, Germany

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