Umit Gunay
Project Purchaser
Experience
May 2023 - Apr 2025
2 years Germany
Project Purchaser
Broetje Automation GmbH
Interim mandate in the engineering industry – building assembly lines in aerospace industry.
- Project purchasing for two different turnkey-projects in the aerospace industry with its end customers in Germany and P.R. 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 Worms, Germany
Interim Manager
Reifenhäuser Blown Film Co. Ltd.
Interim mandate in the engineering industry.
- Taskforcemanagement of drive technology, PLC, electrical components
- Strategic purchasing
- Tender and saving projects
Jun 2021 - Present
4 years 1 month Lampertheim, Germany
Owner
Umit Gunay – Purchasing Consultancy and Mediation
Purchasing Consultancy and Mediation in sideline, main occupation since February 2023.
Jan 2016 - Present
8 years 6 months Worms, Germany
Strategic Purchaser Electrotechnology and Deputy Head of Purchasing Department
Reifenhäuser Blown Film Co. Ltd.
Development and production of blown film plants. 120 EUR million sales/ 300 employees in 2022 BU Reifenhauser Blown Film, 750 EUR million sales/ 1750 employees in 2022 Reifenhauser Group. Reporting line: Head of Purchasing Department.
- Strategic purchasing of electrotechnical and mechanical material
- Project purchasing
- Supplier management
- Category management
- Implemantation of savings strategies
- Proclamation and new article setting
- In charge of tender for electrotechnical items
- Claim Management
- Member of task force management (missing parts management)
- Successfully implemented and led a cost-cutting measure which was not only unique for the BU in Worms, but also in the Reifenhauser Corporate Network – converted savings of 5% (purchasing volume of 60 mio EUR) in the financial year 2019/20
Jun 2011 - Dec 2016
5 years 7 months Laudenbach, Germany
Purchasing/ Logistics Manager
awetis engineering + manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Producer of plants and machines, mould design and construction. 16 million sales/ 102 employees in 2015. Reporting line: Commercial Manager.
- Disciplinal and technical leadership of the purchasing and logistics department
- Coordination, supervision and strategic advancement of the storage and issuing processes
- Improvement of the intralogistics
- Project purchasing for the special purpose machinery manufacture and the 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
- Supplier reduction
- Cost reduction of standard machines for main customers - Tier-1-Supplier (15% for the switch cabinets of the injection moulding and 30% for the oscillating tool of the turntable edgeband gluing machines)
- Error prevention at projects through interface management and coordination
- Error control at the incoming inspection procedure - standard procedure of commodity groups
- Risk minimization by establishing a sufficient supplier management
Jul 2008 - May 2011
2 years 11 months Stuttgart, Germany
Purchasing Manager
ewo - Hermann Holzapfel LLC
Compressed air, Compressed air accessories, garage equipment, autogenous and propane. 18 million sales/ 90 employees in 2011. Reporting line: Managing Director/ Owner.
- Leadership of the purchasing department
- Responsible for 4 employees, a purchasing volume of 7 million EUR, more than 10.000 articles and different warehouses – Stuttgart (main warehouse), Hannover und Munich
- Serial and project purchasing
- Implementation of a global sourcing strategy
- Supplier development
- Make-or-buy decision
- Inventory management
- Successful worldwide coordination and negotiation at ongoing orders and contracts during the economic crisis in 2008
- Successful global sourcing strategy: reduction of cost prices (15-60%) as well as a minimization of risk with new suppliers at LCCs
- Control of the warehouse inventory: through permanent communication with other departments as well as a transparent operation mode
Oct 2007 - Jun 2008
9 months İstanbul, Turkey
Procurement Specialist
Alp Engineering Co. Ltd.
Assembly of mobile base stations Turkey.
- Global sourcing of antennas, cables, fittings
- Serial and project purchasing
- Working on biddings
- Successfully sourced and closed a contract with a chinese manufacturer of RF cables – 16% cheaper price
Dec 2006 - Aug 2007
9 months İstanbul, Turkey
Market Research Specialist
Nanda Petroleum and Chemical Products Co. Ltd.
Trade with base oils and chemicals.
- Market Research
- Global sourcing of base oils and different chemicals
- Successfully sourced phenyl aceto-actonitrile in China CAS# 4468-48-8
Languages
German
Native
Chinese
Advanced
English
Advanced
Turkish
Advanced
Education
Oct 2002 - Jun 2003
Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
Beijing, China
Oct 2000 - Jun 2005
University of Applied Sciences in Constance
Business-Sinologist (FH) · Business Sinology · Konstanz, Germany
Oct 1998 - Jun 1999
Specialized Secondary School in Landau
Landau, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Diploma of Basic Studies
Leuphana University Luneburg
2nd Party Auditor
TUV
Waste Management Officer
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