Directeur des Achats

Glass industry, France & Mexico

• Off-shore and on-shore purchasing coordination and supervision of a greenfield industrial project (glass plant, Capex > 100 M €) in Guadalajara (Mexico)
• Operational involvement on strategic purchases (buildings, equipment, utilities et al.)
• Beside the project, participation to the purchasing digitalization and automation roadmap
• Construction of strategic tools (e.g. supplier's evaluation)
• Coaching of buyers, flash audits et al.

Biomass boilers, France

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

Automotive spare parts, France

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

(confidential)

• Member of an interim managers' triumvirate to restart a company acquired by a foreign group
• Reshape of the purchasing function through a new organization and revised processes
• Supplier's management to restart the collaboration despite significant unpaid debts

Glass and tableware, France

• Restructuring of an existing Purchasing departments of 25 persons, 275 M spend
• Construction 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%) and decisions (outsourcing, make-or-buy)

BU Robot Systems, worldwide

• 400 MUSD spend: purchases of all services and equipment for turnkey projects (robotized production lines for welding, painting and assembly)
• Disciplinary and functional leadership on 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% per project
• Upstream integration of the purchasing team with the Projects to secure the business win
• Reversal of the purchasing function taken to the next level thru a new mind-set (collaborative, collegial, compliant)

BU Robotics

• 100 MUSD spend on 3 plants (Sweden, Norway, China)
• Setting up and management of the strategy for the Gearboxes and Gears commodity
• Introduction of new competitors inside an oligopolistic suppliers market (reverse engineering)
• Support of European suppliers to create their footprint in China
• Development of new Chinese suppliers

• Turnaround assignment to boost the purchasing department performance and make it a profit enabler
• Restructuring of the procurement / purchasing dept. (10 persons, 90 MUSD spend) through the replacement of low performers, roles' split between sourcing and transactional tasks, complete redesign of the panel and construction of a transparent reporting
• Significant cost savings (30%) on numerous categories (European LCC and China sourcing)

• Disciplinary and functional lead of the worldwide network (20 purchasing professionals) for the commodity Stamping Parts (260 MUSD spend)
• 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 pattern, significant cost savings of 15%

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

(Brandt/Elfi, Benteler, MCC Smart (JV Mercedes – Swatch)

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