Direction des Achats

Project Purchasing Director (Saverglass, glass industry, since 03/2021)

• Coordination, supervision and operational involvement both on-shore and off-shore in a both greenfield and brownfield industrial project (glass plant, Capex Budget > 100 M €) in Guadalajara (Mexico)
• Creation of the digitalization and automation roadmap for a lean Purchasing
• Coaching of buyers, flash audits et al.

Group Purchasing Director (Compte.R, biomass boilers, 12/2019 - 09/2020)

• Creation ex nihilo of the purchasing function
• Deployment of organization, processes, best practices and success stories to sustainably root the function and increase its legitimacy

Purchasing auditor and coach (Klaxcar, automotive spare parts, 10/2019 - 12/2019)

• Flash audit of the purchasing processes and function, recommendations
• Coaching of the newly appointed Purchasing Manager also on some cultural aspects (majority of sourcing in China)

Purchasing Director (Confidential, defense industry, 09/2018 - 06/2019)

• Member of an interim managers’ triumvirate to restart a company recently acquired by a foreign group
• Reshaping of the purchasing function through group inspired but adapted processes
• Supplier’s management to convince them to restart the collaboration despite significant unpaid debts

Purchasing Director (Arc Intl., glass and tableware, 10/2017 - 07/2018)

• Restructuring of an existing Purchasing departments of 25 persons, 275 M spend
• Building and deployment of new or revised Source to Pay processes
• Increase the power of the Purchasing function
• Teams and suppliers hands on management with personal lead on strategic negotiations (savings up to 30%)

Business Units Robot Systems and Robots & Applications

• Spend 400 MUSD on turnkey projects for robotized production lines
• Disciplinary and functional leadership of a multi-cultural Purchasing network (50 FTE worldwide)
• Development of relevant metrics for the savings calculation to reflect the real procurement performance on projects
• Contribution to the P&L improvement in routinely delivering savings of 6% p.a.
• Upstream integration of Procurement with Project Managers to secure a stronger contribution to the business
• Reversal of the Procurement function to the next level thru a new mind-set (collaborative, collegial, compliant)

Business unit Robots Production

• Spend 100 MUSD
• Creation, building, setup and management of the strategy for the Gearboxes and Gears commodity
• Introduction of new competitors within a highly oligopolistic suppliers market (reverse engineering)
• Transfer of suppliers to China
• Development of new Chinese suppliers
• LCC sourcing

• Turnaround assignment to boost the Procurement department performance and make it a profit enabler
• Restructuring of the Procurement
• Purchasing dept. (10 persons, spend 90 MUSD): recruitment of performing buyers and split between Sourcing and transactional tasks within the dept.
• Significant cost savings (30%) on numerous categories (European LCC and China sourcing)

• Disciplinary and functional lead of the worldwide network (20 Procurement professionals) for the commodity Stamping Parts (spend 260 MUSD)
• Development of a cost modelling methodology and of the related Cost Model strategic tool
• Definition of the strategy and of the suppliers' panel based upon the Cost Model scheme, significant cost savings of 15%

• Steering of the commodity for Metal Parts and sub-assemblies (10 people on 3 locations across Europe, spend 130 MUSD)
• Considerable cost savings (60% retroactive) on laser cut tubes
• Implementation of reverse auctions (30% of cost savings)

• Assignments in domestic appliances and automotive
• Leader for teams up to 8 persons and spend up to 120 MUSD