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Tobias (Mba) Német

Interim Manager and Independent Consultant

Tobias Német
Traiskirchen, Austria

Experience

Oct 2016 - Present
9 years 4 months
Traiskirchen, Austria

Interim Manager and Independent Consultant

Tobias Német, Management Consulting

  • Leading organizations through change with a focus on procurement and supply chain management, as well as excellence across the value chain
  • Project KraussMaffei (2022-04-01 to 2024-03-31): Head of Global Procurement Direct, interim management, restructuring and leading the global procurement for production materials with a purchasing volume of approximately €650 million; cost management; consolidating and leading the purchasing team (16 staff locally + 20 staff globally); process management
  • Project Office Depot (2021-04-01 to 2022-03-31): Group Procurement Manager with a purchasing volume of approximately €400 million; leading procurement activities and training buyers after a restructuring; building and implementing a group procurement function after a merger, achieving significant savings
  • Project Raylase (2021-01-01 to 2021-03-31): Head of procurement and support for the ERP implementation
  • Project Simacek (2019-01-01 to 2019-06-30): Procurement, warehouse, and process management during a restructuring phase
  • Project Raylase: Purchasing excellence; supply chain management with consulting on the full implementation of S&OP (sales, planning, and disposition)
  • Project Speech Processing Solutions: cost reduction in procurement
  • Project EVN: cost reduction through efficiency improvements (organizational development and process management)
  • Project Diehl: establishing a transfer pricing regime in line with OECD guidelines
Jan 2012 - Sep 2016
4 years 9 months
Vienna, Austria

Managing Director Austria

ROI Management Consulting GmbH

  • Reporting to the Group's board in Munich
  • Leading five employees
  • Responsible for client acquisition, finance, HR, and as lead partner for projects in purchasing and operational excellence, lean management, and various supply chain management topics including business IT alignment
  • Project Kärcher: designing the global purchasing footprint (4 continents)
  • Project EagleBurgmann: cost optimization
  • Project Knorr-Bremse: industrialization, purchasing excellence
  • Project EVN: efficiency in the sales organization (lean office)
  • Project Schindler Escalator: operational excellence, lean management
  • Project Schott: optimization of the Eastern Europe purchasing office
  • Project WEBASTO: project management
May 2008 - Dec 2011
3 years 8 months
Vienna, Austria

Partner

Kerkhoff Consulting

  • Reporting to the local management in Vienna
  • Leading project team members (up to 13)
  • Responsible for leading optimization projects in the fields of mechanical engineering, construction conglomerates, chemicals, food, building materials & process industries, and the public sector
  • Conducting studies with the University of St. Gallen on working capital management and supply chain financing
  • Project Bilfinger Berger: establishing central supplier management and defining the related IT solution (SAP SLC)
  • Project Austrian Post: setting up and implementing centralized procurement
  • Project GoodMills: purchasing excellence, setting up a central procurement function and stock management (8 countries in Europe)
  • Project Pipelife: purchasing excellence and optimization of indirect procurement (12 European countries)
  • Project Asamer: purchasing excellence with setting up group procurement and cost optimization (Austria, Slovakia, Bosnia, Libya)
Dec 2006 - May 2008
1 year 6 months
Warsaw, Poland

Senior Area Manager, Head of Warsaw Office

Kerkhoff Consulting Eastern Europe

  • Reporting to the management of Kerkhoff Consulting Group
  • Managing and supervising 25 employees
  • Responsible for projects and outcomes of activities in Eastern Europe
  • Restructuring the organization as well as building and developing the team, including a local successor
  • Project Sourcing Support: KTM coolers, SieMatic, HÜLSTA, Agrana, Schüco
Apr 2006 - Nov 2006
8 months
Vienna, Austria

Principal

Kerkhoff Consulting

  • Reporting to the local management in Vienna
  • Leading team members in projects
  • Executing optimization projects in procurement
  • Project Straßen NRW: improving procurement performance by professionalizing the central procurement function
  • Project AGRANA Fruit: cost optimization in procurement and establishing a central procurement company
  • Project SCHÜCO: improving procurement performance
  • Project MCE: purchasing excellence
Dec 1997 - Mar 2006
8 years 4 months
Vienna, Austria

Strategic Buyer in Corporate Procurement

Semperit AG Holding

  • Reported to the head of purchasing, with direct reporting to the CEO
  • Functional leadership of buyers in the global procurement organizations (Europe, North America, Asia)
  • Corporate responsibility (costs, availability, working capital) for the product categories Chemicals, Packaging and Plastics with a purchasing volume of €110 million
  • Successful integration (incl. M&A) and leadership of global procurement activities, and optimization of the procurement structure (processes, reporting, ratio projects, bundling activities) across eight sites in Europe, Asia and North America
  • SAP key user for the implementation of SAP MM
Mar 1996 - Nov 1997
1 year 9 months
Vienna, Austria

Strategic Buyer, Senior Buyer

Philips Business Electronics

  • Reported to the head of purchasing
  • Strategic buyer for assembled and bare printed circuit boards and electromechanical assemblies
  • Responsible for supplier selection (global sourcing), price negotiations and supplier management
Mar 1994 - Feb 1996
2 years
Vienna, Austria

Group Leader Series Purchasing / Procurement

Philips Business Electronics

  • Reported to the head of Material Management
  • Functional and disciplinary management of six employees
  • Developed a systematic approach for series purchasing/disposition and implemented S&OP within supply chain management
  • Successfully increased service level and inventory turnover
Dec 1990 - Feb 1994
3 years 3 months
Vienna, Austria

Technical Buyer

Philips Business Electronics

  • Reported to the group leader for mechanical purchasing
  • Responsible for implementing strategic procurement projects and managing defined product groups (stamped & bent parts, tin, plastic injection molding, tools)

Summary

  • Leadership experience in line functions, project work, and global matrix organizations
  • Strong social skills, loyalty, and integrity
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and goal orientation

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Hungarian
Advanced

Education

May 2005 - May 2005

Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota / Executive Academy, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Master of Business Administration, Double degree · Business Administration · Vienna, Austria

Oct 1989 - Oct 1989

College for Plastics Technology at TGM, Vienna

Engineer in Plastics Technology · Plastics Technology · Vienna, Austria

Certifications & licenses

Purchasing Academy

ÖPWZ

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