Umit Gunay

Interim Project Purchaser

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Lampertheim, Germany

Experience

May 2023 - Apr 2025
2 years

Interim Project Purchaser

Broetje Automation GmbH

  • Project purchasing for two different turnkey projects in the aerospace industry with end customers in Germany and PR China
  • RFQs and awarding of steel construction trades, switch cabinets and services
  • Risk analysis
  • Supply chain management and purchasing coordination with the Chinese subsidiary
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
9 months

Interim Project Purchaser

Reifenhäuser Blown Film Co. Ltd.

  • Task force management of drive technology, PLC and electrical components
  • Strategic purchasing
  • Tender and savings projects
Jun 2021 - Present
4 years 8 months

Owner

Umit Gunay – Purchasing Consultancy and Mediation

  • Providing purchasing consultancy services and mediation
Jan 2017 - Present
9 years 1 month

Strategic Purchaser Electrotechnology and Deputy Head of Purchasing Department

Reifenhäuser Blown Film Co. Ltd.

  • Strategic purchasing of electrotechnical and mechanical material

  • Project purchasing

  • Supplier management

  • Category management

  • Implementation of savings strategies

  • Proclamation and new article setting

  • In charge of tender for electrotechnical items

  • Claim management

  • Member of task force management for missing parts management

  • Successfully implemented and led a cost-cutting measure unique for the business unit in Worms and the Reifenhäuser corporate network, converting savings of 5% on a purchasing volume of €60 million in the 2019/20 financial year

Jun 2011 - Dec 2016
5 years 7 months
Laudenbach, Germany

Purchasing/Logistics Manager

awetis engineering + manufacturing Co. Ltd

  • Disciplinary and technical leadership of the purchasing and logistics department

  • Coordination, supervision and strategic advancement of storage and issuing processes

  • Improvement of intralogistics

  • Project purchasing for special purpose machinery manufacture and mould design and construction

  • Supplier management and assessment

  • Contract management

  • Duties of the waste management officer according to § 60 of the recycling and waste law

  • Vehicle fleet management

  • Reduced number of suppliers

  • Achieved cost reduction of standard machines for main customers: 15% for switch cabinets of injection moulding machines and 30% for oscillating tools of turntable edgeband gluing machines

  • Prevented errors in projects through interface management and coordination

  • Controlled errors in incoming inspection procedures by standardizing commodity group procedures

  • Minimized risk by establishing sufficient supplier management

Jul 2008 - May 2011
2 years 11 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Purchasing Manager

ewo - Hermann Holzapfel LLC

  • Leadership of the purchasing department with responsibility for four employees, a purchasing volume of €7 million, over 10 000 articles and multiple warehouses (Stuttgart, Hanover and Munich)

  • Serial and project purchasing

  • Implementation of a global sourcing strategy

  • Supplier development

  • Make-or-buy decision making

  • Inventory management

  • Coordinated and negotiated worldwide orders and contracts during the 2008 economic crisis

  • Implemented global sourcing strategy, reducing cost prices by 15–60% and minimizing risk with new low-cost-country suppliers

  • Controlled warehouse inventory through permanent communication with other departments and transparent operations

Oct 2007 - Jun 2008
9 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Procurement Specialist

Alp Engineering Co. Ltd

  • Global sourcing of antennas, cables and fittings

  • Serial and project purchasing

  • Working on biddings

  • Successfully sourced and closed a contract with a Chinese manufacturer of RF cables at 16% lower cost

Dec 2006 - Aug 2007
9 months
İstanbul, Turkey

Market Research Specialist

Nanda Petroleum and Chemical Products Co. Ltd

  • Market research

  • Global sourcing of base oils and various chemicals

  • Successfully sourced phenyl aceto-acetonitrile in China (CAS 4468-48-8)

Skills

  • Ms-office
  • Sap S/4 Hana
  • Tacto: Supplier Onboarding
  • Allex Ai: Platform For Project Management
  • Onventis: Platform For All-in-one Procurement

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Turkish
Advanced
Chinese
Advanced

Education

Oct 2002 - Jun 2003

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)

Chinese Language · Beijing, China

Oct 2000 - Jun 2005

University of Applied Sciences in Constance

Business-Sinologist, Chinese Language, Intercultural Communication, International Economics, Project Management and Finance, · Konstanz, Germany

Oct 1998 - Jun 1999

Specialized Secondary School in Landau

Landau, Germany

...and 3 more

Certifications & licenses

2nd Party Auditor (TUV) According To ISO 9001, ISO 19011 And ISO/TS 16949

TUV

Waste Management Officer

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