Jan-Patrick Willmes

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.