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Jan-Patrick Willmes

Procurement Excellence & Value Delivered!

Jan-Patrick Willmes
55 years old
Driving License
Rheinbach Germany
Professional Status
Freelancer
Available
About Me
personal profile & objectives
A positive, responsible & confident personality with a fine sense of humor and global mindset. Grown up in entrepreneurial family businesses in
Cologne, Germany. Great experience as breakthrough & strategic thinker who loves working on challenges. Resilient, persistent, focused on targets and get results. Self-­‐aware learner with leadership impact, customer and growth focussed, fostering teamwork and diversity. A senior Executive for innovative supply base management building & sustaining high performance organizations. Achieving results by collaborative procurement value creation. Driven and passionate buy-­‐side entrepreneur. Leadership actively driving global teams directly and influencing x­‐functionally. Capabilities include designing competitive value chains, …
• category management for direct, ICT & indirect spend and capex investments
• WTO and public procurement environments
• deep knowledge of M&A projects and related sourcing diligence & integrations
• expert project management for core/ non-­core and make vs. buy
• lean management expert with Six Sigma knowledge & experience
• leveraging supplier innovations and implementing growth initiatives
• networking skills, execution power and pioneering entrepreneurial character give me all-­rounder business acumen
• strives for quality with high delivery goals
• huge interest for people, building and leading organizations.

Now looking for a challenging leadership role preferably in an international, complex environment. The role could be part of an executive
committee: integrated CPO/ COO or a leading sales/ business development role. With the right scope a CEO or board challenge is also the aspiration.
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  • Transforming a 3 Bn CHF spend public corporate procurement organisation with 160+ FTE Delivering 50 Mio CHF additional EBIT effective savings and leading a C-Level Procurement Board to re-design and deliver a 3 year roadmap of digitization, cooperation, sustainability and innovation.

CEO & Founder

Soulman Enterprises
Since November 2016
  • Team Excellence
    Expert
  • Supplier Excellence
    Expert
  • Category Excellence
    Expert
  • (Re-)Structuring Organizations
    Expert
  • Making People Better to get results
  • non directional coaching
    Advanced
  • mentoring
    Advanced
  • Six Sigma Green Belt
    Expert
  • Lean Expert
    Expert
  • Advanced Negotiation Concepts
    application of game theory and advanced economics
    Expert
  • Cross-cultural Negotiation
    Expert
  • E-Auctions
    Expert

Dipl.-Kfm.

University of Cologne

October 1992 to December 1997
Home School: University of Cologne, Germany, Degree:
Diplom-Kaufmann Majors: Corporate Development & Organization,
Retailing & Customer Management, Economic & Social Psychology.

CEMS

Esade

June 1993 to December 1994
The CEMS MIM (Master of International Management): A pan European Masters Degree in
management taught jointly by twelve leading European management schools.

CEMS Host School: ESADE, Barcelona, Spain. Majors: International
Marketing, International organizational Design & Behavior,
Int. Financial Management
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  • worldwide understanding and knowing