Seasoned executive experienced in industrial Operations and Procurement
Industries: Food - Restaurant – FMCG – Packaging– Franchise businesses
International, multicultural executive who designs activities, deploys projects and adds value to business optimizing Value Chains, processes, investments and operational costs
In charge for creating a consolidated pan-European "Paper based" packaging purchasing for the 25 Mars Group factories across Europe, managing remotely a team of 4 corporate and 15 site buyers (spend: 200 M€)
Detailed Description
Some achievements:
• Creation of a centralized European corrugated carton purchasing organization (formerly locally purchased by the 25 European sites). Functional organization design and deployment. This initiative resulted in a continuous price decrease, initiated with circa 4 M€ savings out of an initial tendered spend of 30M€ as a first year "quick" win.
• Creation of a Pan-European purchasing organization covering paper based packaging: carton, corrugated, labels.
• Development of a 'European Paper Supplier Base' to deliver the most effective supplier competencies to support Packaging innovation and development teams in their projects. The supplier base was a mix of two different types of suppliers. The first category of selected suppliers was composed with major European packaging suppliers able to develop centrally packaging solutions and implement them across Mars European sites. The second category of suppliers was composed with local, skilled and performing companies selected to challenge the large pan European suppliers.
This supplier base delivered functional and qualitative improvements contributing to the reduction of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO: Beyond these benefits, this project also enabled to quickly deliver an additional average additional 3% price reduction between 2004 and 2005.
Trainer in Market Analysis for the Mars Purchasing internal university
